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.

A promo image for Mux fall launch week 2024. It features a jack-o-lantern with a purple steam rising from its cap. A pair of green hands with long black fingernails cups the pumpkin in their palms. A spooky bat flies nearby.

Published on November 5, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

Here's everything we launched in Fall 2024

By Dave Kiss • 3 min read • Company

Relive the terror of Mux Fall Launch Week: new Dropped Views metric, player themes, premium video quality options, and MP4 support for basic assets.

Image reads basic video quality and it's connected to MP4

Published on October 31, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

The most requested feature for basic assets is here: MP4 support

By Mike Smith • 3 min read • Product

MP4 support for basic assets has just been unlocked. MP4s are perfect for offline playback, social embeds, and more. Learn how you can start using them today.

Radio buttons with Premium video, plus video, and basic video. Premium is selected with with the text NEW! next to it.

Published on October 30, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

One size does not fit all: Introducing premium video quality for Mux Video

By Phil Cluff • 7 min read • Product • Video quality

Introducing premium quality video level for live and on-demand videos. It optimizes quality for your premium content using AI-driven per-title encoding.

Published on October 24, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

Instant clipping just got clippier: Now for any VOD asset

By Erik Peña • 3 min read • Product

Instant clipping is now available for all on-demand video assets, allowing quick clip creation without encoding or storage costs.

A skeleton hand grips a pink quill. Aware of its finite time, it scribes code onto a black surface.

Published on October 14, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

Your docs are aging (and so are you)

By Dave, Darius, and Rob • 11 min read • Product

When's the last time you audited your developer docs? We felt the pain that our customers were facing with our docs — and set off on an adventure to fix it.

Published on October 10, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

Cancel culture: When two sounds collide

By Alex de Chaves • 4 min read • Customers

The surprising cause behind our customer’s silent video – and how it took 133 messages to solve It

Published on October 9, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

Glassdoor + Mux: Video to engage community, built in a way developers love

By Lamia Chlala • 5 min read • Customers

Glassdoor partners with Mux to build video features that enable authentic community engagement for their users.

Published on October 8, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

Introducing Player.style — Video and audio player themes for every player

By Steve Heffernan • 3 min read • Product

Unlock creativity in video player customization with Player.style, a new open-source project by Mux.

A person holding a skateboard with various tech-related stickers on it. The skateboard features the Mux and Laravel logos prominently, along with other stickers such as "JS" and a smiley face. The person's hands, colored in pink, are gripping the board, and they are dressed in a black outfit with a purple shirt. The background consists of a grid-like pattern.

Published on September 6, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

Look out, kids: PHP is the new JavaScript

By Dave Kiss • 9 min read • Engineering

What would it take to switch back to PHP after years of full-stack JavaScript? A boy and his AI-enabled IDE set off to find out.

A deeply confused, yet well-intentioned robot, throwing up his arms in confusion

Published on September 6, 2024 (almost 2 years ago)

AI chatbots are banned from our docs… for now

By Darius Cepulis • 7 min read • Engineering • AI

We can learn a lot about the current state of large language models by talking about why we chose not to use an AI chatbot on our documentation site.

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