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 December 18, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Subtitles by DEFAULT
Mux now supports setting the DEFAULT flag so you can enable captions on autoplaying video that is muted.
Published on December 17, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Program Date Time: Open Beta Launch!
Updated 8/5/21: This feature is now Generally Available and enabled by default! 🎉 Check out our guide for details. Have you ever wondered how you can synchronize video playback with other components o...
Published on December 4, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Reconnect Windows and Clean Stream Exits
The Internet is not always the most reliable thing in the world, and live streaming inherits a lot of that. When running a live event, production teams often have to take into account the vagaries of w...
Published on November 23, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Mux Data, now twice as helpful!
Earlier this year, we undertook a big project to replace the data backend Mux Data uses for our metrics, views, and errors. It was a “replacing the engines on the airplane while flying” project and lar...
Published on November 11, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
It’s Tricky: Storyboards and Trick Play
Announcement of Storyboards with the Mux Video API
Published on October 8, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Monitor Viewer Experience Problems with new Customizable Alerts
When Mux adds new features to any of its products, we try hard to make sure that the feature is easy to use and valuable by default. This led us to develop our existing anomaly-detection-based alerting...
Published on October 7, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
New Integration Announcement: Strapi CMS
Enabling upload of video content to Mux through Strapi CMS so that custom collection types can be tied to assets for a holistic metadata model.
Published on September 25, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Mux API: With GraphQL Powered by OneGraph
Mux Video API can now be used with GraphQL (powered by OneGraph).
Published on September 10, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
Survive CDN failures with Redundant Streams
Learn how you can use Mux's Redundant Streams feature to make your events more resilient to larger, internet wide service outages, such as CDN failures.
Published on August 20, 2020 (over 4 years ago)
New bitrate data to optimize viewing experience across devices
One of the important factors in viewing experience is the bitrate that is played on a device. Mux Data now provides a few different ways to view bitrate data collected from viewer streams.