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 28, 2024 (over 2 years ago)
A clear look at blurry image placeholders on the web
Algorithms like BlurHash and ThumbHash are popular ways to render small, blurry images while the full-size images load, but are they necessary on the web?
Published on October 18, 2023 (about 3 years ago)
Video is too expensive
We'll be the first to admit it: video is too expensive. Mux is working hard to solve that problem and give you the levers for affordable and flexible pricing.
Published on August 1, 2023 (about 3 years ago)
Approaches to building video into your app
Whether you’re a solo dev or you’re part of a team guided by executive leadership, here’s what you need to know about getting video working in your app.
Published on October 10, 2022 (about 4 years ago)
Gone in a Flash: a brief history of HTTP Adaptive Streaming
HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) is unquestionably and by orders of magnitude the dominant way of streaming media on the internet. Part history, part “hindsight is 20/20” revisionist history, and part tec...
Published on September 14, 2022 (about 4 years ago)
An HLS.js cautionary tale: QoE and video player memory
Your viewers’ Quality of Experience (QoE) can be enhanced by understanding and optimizing memory in the client application
Published on March 15, 2022 (over 4 years ago)
So you want to build a real-time start up?
We are in the Golden Age of Real-Time Video. There are multiple options for building a real-time video application, all with varying levels of complexity.
Published on February 28, 2022 (over 4 years ago)
Enter the third dimension -- and bring your video with you
Come check out how you can map a video texture to a 3D surface in WebGL using three.js and react-three-fiber.
Published on June 15, 2021 (over 5 years ago)
Streaming video to Mux.com from an ATEM Mini Pro switcher
Blackmagic Design's ATEM Mini Pro switcher offers a built-in hardware streaming engine used for live streaming high quality video over an Ethernet connection.
Published on March 15, 2021 (over 5 years ago)
In The Beginning There Was Static: A Brief History of Video, Pt. 1
A discussion about seventy-five years of history in the video space, from around 1927 to 2003, up until the rise of H.264
Published on January 11, 2021 (almost 6 years ago)
A Beginner's Guide to Video File Formats: MP4s
One of my first projects as an engineer at Mux was to add a bit of validation logic to stream.new to block uploads of videos with extremely long durations (1+ hours). stream.new is a simple web applica...