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 July 20, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
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 April 25, 2018 (over 6 years ago)
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 6 years ago)
"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...
Published on February 21, 2018 (almost 7 years ago)
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 (almost 7 years ago)
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 November 10, 2017 (about 7 years ago)
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 October 24, 2017 (about 7 years ago)
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 June 16, 2017 (over 7 years ago)
Video advertising is a complicated technology, with different systems and components working together to decide which ad to deliver. Mux is here to help
Published on March 24, 2017 (almost 8 years ago)
We're going to explore what Mux can do to alert you to poor video quality issues and how metrics can be used to optimize your video pipeline
Published on August 18, 2016 (over 8 years ago)
How do you quantify the performance of a video stream? What metrics should you use? Long after Andy Grove stressed the importance of metrics for decision-making, software companies are becoming more a...