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Published on March 22, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)

Adam Jaggard
By Adam Jaggard5 min readEngineering

Cloud infrastructure has made streaming video content to millions of people easier than ever. However, developers looking to add live video creation into their products have limited choices. Live vide...

An AI generated render of a futuristic shield

Published on March 8, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)

Justin Sanford
By Justin Sanford11 min readEngineering

Vercel's Edge Config can come in handy in many different ways. See how we used it to cut down on the amount of spam we were dealing with from our forms.

Published on March 3, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)

Phil Cluff
Wasee Malik
By Phil and Wasee2 min readEngineering & Product

When we announced Mux Real-Time Video, we incorporated broadcasting functionality to allow you to livestream your real-time sessions to larger audiences and to store them as on-demand videos for future...

An illustration of two walkie-talkie handheld radios communicating with each other

Published on March 2, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)

Mike English
By Mike English14 min readEngineering

In this post, you'll learn how WebRTC-HTTP ingest protocol (or WHIP) provides the convenience of RTMP while maintaining the benefits of WebRTC.

A documentation icon and the letters M, U, and X in an isometric grid

Published on January 20, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)

Darius Cepulis
By Darius Cepulis15 min readEngineering

Great documentation is the backbone of a great API company. How do you scale it and keep a good experience? Learn about information architecture, Next.js 13, React Server Components, and Tailwind.

Big Buck Bunny in Winamp

Published on January 6, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)

Dave Kiss
Wietse Hage
By Dave and Wietse11 min readEngineering

In this post, we break down how you can rebuild the classic Winamp player using modern web components with media-chrome.

Published on December 5, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

Gary Katsevman
By Gary Katsevman12 min readEngineering

I’ve seen a lot of captions over the years, and there’s one thing I can tell you with certainty: The way that custom controls and the HTML video element interact right now is inadequate, and I think th...

A screenshot of a real-time video call with many participants

Published on December 1, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

Bobby Peck
By Bobby Peck6 min readEngineering

In this post, you'll discover ways that you can simulate a video call with many participants–without having to invite many participants at all!

An illustration of a robot standing amongst a forest of tall trees. The robot looks lost and confused. Don't worry, robot. We're here to help you.

Published on November 4, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss3 min readEngineering

At the risk of sounding like an old man, I can barely keep up with the JavaScript landscape. Between server components, islands architecture, incremental static regeneration, code optimization, and the...

A browser showing Mux Player loading

Published on November 1, 2022 (about 2 years ago)

Darius Cepulis
By Darius Cepulis6 min readEngineering

With lazy-loading and a blurhash placeholder, we make the loading experience of Mux Player feel great in our Next.js app