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 February 21, 2018 (over 7 years ago)
An API to Video: Why Abstraction Matters
This is the third in a series of blog posts about Mux Video. The first, Video is Too Hard, outlined the problem. The second, Announcing Mux Video, announced the new product. Abstractions are important...
Published on February 2, 2018 (over 7 years ago)
[Webinar]: The five Encoding mistakes everyone makes
Online video is growing exponentially. A recently published study indicates that by 2021, 82% of all consumer internet traffic will be video. In a recent interview, Mark Zuckerberg signaled that “Video...
Published on January 12, 2018 (over 7 years ago)
How We Used Machine Learning to win at HQ Trivia
For the past three months, half of us at Mux have been obsessed with HQ Trivia, while the other half silently regretted their Android purchases. When that HQ push notification hits at 12, the iPhones s...
Published on December 22, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Using Percentiles To Identify Outliers and the Typical Experience
The most overused measurement is the arithmetic mean (average). In nearly all cases you're better served by using percentiles instead of averages.
Published on November 14, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Announcing Mux Video: a simple API to powerful video streaming
Online video is growing exponentially, but still it's too hard to stream video. Video is too hard (as we discussed last week). Every area of video infrastructure - encoding, playback, delivery, workfl...
Published on November 10, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Video is too hard.
Online video is growing quickly, but it's still way too hard to stream video. Video has actually gotten harder to work with, not easier, over the last seven years. It takes a video expert to publish v...
Published on November 1, 2017 (almost 8 years ago)
Announcing full data exports
A quality of experience analytics platform like Mux does three things. Accurately measure what happens when someone watches a video, across different platforms and devices. Collect those measurements...
Published on October 24, 2017 (almost 8 years ago)
Captions on the web and FCC compliance
Here at Mux, we’re always trying to make sure we build products that make our customers better able to understand their video, and how to improve it. One of the common questions we get is how folks can...
Published on August 31, 2017 (almost 8 years ago)
Real-time CDN switching with Mux and Cedexis
Video publishing sometimes feels like a Rube Goldberg machine. To get a single video to play back successfully, a dozen different systems need to play nicely together: websites, players, browsers, ISPs...
Published on August 25, 2017 (almost 8 years ago)
Video View Page Revisited
We recently redesigned our aggregate metric charts and decided to take another look at how we help customers make sense of individual video views. Previously, the top portion of our video view page br...