The Mux Blog
We're a team of engineers, marketers, designers, all passionate about video and the work we create together. Welcome to our blog about video.
Published on March 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
That's no video — it's an array
Video is becoming more than content or features — it's data. Read what that shift means and how AI helps unlock use cases you can build.
Published on March 11, 2026 (3 days ago)
‘It's so much better’: Why Punchpass switched from Vimeo to Mux
After Punchpass switched from Vimeo to Mux they got faster uploads, per-client analytics, and client support tickets dropped to zero.
Published on March 10, 2026 (4 days ago)
Video.js v10 Beta: Hello, World (again)
Video.js v10 is a ground-up rewrite combining four open source players into one modern framework — 88% smaller default bundles, first-class React and TypeScript support, composable architecture, and beautiful new skins designed by Plyr's creator.
Published on March 10, 2026 (4 days ago)
Mux joins the OSS Pledge
Mux pledges allegiance, to OSS, and to the...uh...software for which it stands. For real, Mux promises to pay open source maintainers on a consistent base.
Published on March 3, 2026 (11 days ago)
React is changing the game for streaming apps with the Activity component
Learn how to use React 19.2's Activity component to prevent video playback from resetting or playing in the background when users hides and shows a video player.
Published on March 2, 2026 (12 days ago)
What we learned from a 22-Day storage bug (and how we fixed it)
Between Jan 8 and Feb 4, a stack of small behaviors produced unexpected corrupted video segments. Here's exactly what went wrong and how we fixed it.
Published on January 28, 2026 (about 2 months ago)
Agentic screen recording in the browser
Learn how you can use agent-browser and a custom MCP to direct agentic screen recordings with commentary and upload them to Mux for distributed playback.
Published on January 27, 2026 (about 2 months ago)
Five players, one future: How we're building Video.js v10
Video.js v10 brings together the engineers behind Media Chrome, Plyr, Vidstack, and Mux Player to rebuild the web's most-used video player from scratch. Fifteen years of production insights from the web's most important player projects, now being combined into a single architecture.
Published on January 21, 2026 (about 2 months ago)
Mux Player: Five years of learning, now evolving into Video.js v10
Mux Player made video effortless by tightly coupling to Mux infrastructure — drop in a playback ID and thumbnails, captions, and security just worked. Five years of production insights are now shaping Video.js v10 to deliver the same simplicity with greater flexibility.
Published on January 15, 2026 (about 2 months ago)
6 Years Building Video Players. 9 Billion Requests. Starting Over.
Vidstack brought Radix-like composition and framework-native components to video players. Now its developer experience and API design principles are helping to shape Video.js v10.