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RTMP broadcasting apps for iOS

Published on March 27, 2020 (about 5 years ago)

Guide to RTMP live streaming apps for iOS

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri7 min readVideo education

This is a guide to RTMP streaming. The post will show the review of the top 11 iOS to RTMP server streaming apps including Wirecast Go, Broadcast Me, and more.

Published on March 20, 2020 (about 5 years ago)

A year on the road

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff14 min readEvents

Phil chronicles his year talking at video streaming conferences, and talks about what's in store for the coming year.

online conference diagram

Published on March 2, 2020 (about 5 years ago)

How to Host Your Own Online Conference

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri8 min readEngineering

How you can host your own online conference. Broadcast a Zoom call to thousands of viewers using Mux.

Live interactive video like hq

Published on February 13, 2020 (over 5 years ago)

How to Build Interactive Live Video (remember HQ Trivia?)

Steve Heffernan
Dylan Jhaveri
By Steve and Dylan10 min readVideo education

Steve and Dylan discuss how you might go about building a live interactive video solution that is scalable.

Published on February 3, 2020 (over 5 years ago)

An interview with DatoCMS

Matthew McClure
Dylan Jhaveri
By Matthew and Dylan4 min readCustomers

See how DatoCMS uses Mux to power video for customers using their headless CMS product.

Illustration of open byte range behaviour in LL-HLS

Published on January 30, 2020 (over 5 years ago)

Low Latency HLS 2: Judgment Day

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff12 min readVideo news

Phil explains the latest changes in the Low Latency HLS specification from Apple.

I will find you and I will pause you

Published on January 23, 2020 (over 5 years ago)

<video autoplay> Considered Harmful

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri4 min readVideo education

The 'autoplay' attribute for HTML5 video is unreliable. In this post we explain its shortcomings and offer a better solution.

Ticker message

Published on January 21, 2020 (over 5 years ago)

No BART terminals were hacked in the making of this ad

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich4 min readCompany

In the process of creating a BART ad for the first time, we had some learnings that we thought we would share that could hopefully help someone else on their out-of-home ad buying journey.

A selection of video frames from "Tears of Steel" showing subtitles in a variety of languages.

Published on January 17, 2020 (over 5 years ago)

Subtitles, Captions, WebVTT, HLS, and those magic flags 🤔

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff17 min readVideo education

Join Phil on a journey exploring the modern technologies that underly captions and subtitles in online streaming, including HLS, WebVTT, and some magic flags you can set in your HLS manifest!

Published on January 15, 2020 (over 5 years ago)

We now support subtitles and closed captions! [Crowd cheers]

Bonnie Pecevich
By Bonnie Pecevich3 min readProduct

When you’re streaming video over the Internet, there are many reasons to support subtitles and closed captions.