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 October 3, 2018 (about 8 years ago)
How Our New Mux Data Scoring Works
We were recently excited to announce our new scoring update for Mux Data. Here is an in-depth look into how and why we decided to change our Viewer Experience Score for the better. Score... what is it...
Published on October 1, 2018 (about 8 years ago)
Changes to the Mux Viewer Experience Score
One of our goals with Mux Data is to provide meaningful data about video performance at a quick glance, while also providing the ability to drill deep when needed. We created the Viewer Experience Sco...
Published on September 10, 2018 (about 8 years ago)
Introducing our Live Streaming API
If you’ve been trying to build live streaming into your application—whether it’s “Twitch for X”, online classrooms, a news & sports broadcasting platform, or something the world’s never seen before—you...
Published on August 20, 2018 (about 8 years ago)
“What is Mux Video?” and nine other questions, answered
When you’re a startup, one of the most common questions you have to answer is: “What exactly do you do?” We’re answering this question all the time - on our website, on customer calls, at conferences. ...
Published on August 16, 2018 (about 8 years ago)
Instant GIFs! For animated video thumbnails and...whatever
Our nifty new feature can instantly create a GIF from video. Just GET a URL and you can create a 5-10 second animated GIF from any part of a video.
Published on August 14, 2018 (about 8 years ago)
Per-title encoding @ Scale
The venerable Nick Chadwick spoke at Facebook's Video @Scale about Mux's approach to per-title encoding using machine learning. If you missed @ Scale, here's a recording of the talk along with a transc...
Published on July 20, 2018 (about 8 years ago)
Guide to Mobile Video Streaming with HLS
HTTP Live Streaming, also known as HLS, is the most common format used today for streaming video. If you're building a video streaming application today, you should probably use HLS. Apple created the ...
Published on May 10, 2018 (over 8 years ago)
Securing Video Content with Signed URLs
“Our video streams have been hacked.” That was the rumour floating around the office of my past employer in February 2008. I was a software engineer working on the video encoding pipeline for a mobile...
Published on April 25, 2018 (over 8 years ago)
Better Video Quality through Deep Learning
Updated 8/4/21: We hit pause on audience-adaptive encoding. Read more. When people watch videos online, their video quality is mostly dependent on their internet connection. Faster internet means bett...
Published on April 17, 2018 (over 8 years ago)
Instant Per-Title Encoding
"How did you decide on your bitrate ladder?" We've asked this question to 50 video publishers over the last 6 months. With almost no exceptions, the answer has been: "I have no idea." "Some engineer...