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Published on October 28, 2024 (about 2 months ago)

The case of the dropped views: New data metric for the QoE sleuth

By Ashley Cutler • 3 min read • Product

Introducing View Dropped Percentage — a new Mux Data metric to help you identify trends in unexplained dropped views.

Published on October 24, 2024 (about 2 months ago)

Instant clipping just got clippier: Now for any VOD asset

By Erik Peña • 3 min read • Product

Instant clipping is now available for all on-demand video assets, allowing quick clip creation without encoding or storage costs.

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Published on October 14, 2024 (2 months ago)

Your docs are aging (and so are you)

By Dave, Darius, and Rob • 11 min read • Product

When's the last time you audited your developer docs? We felt the pain that our customers were facing with our docs — and set off on an adventure to fix it.

Published on October 10, 2024 (2 months ago)

Cancel culture: When two sounds collide

By Alex de Chaves • 4 min read • Customers

The surprising cause behind our customer’s silent video – and how it took 133 messages to solve It

Published on October 9, 2024 (2 months ago)

Glassdoor + Mux: Video to engage community, built in a way developers love

By Lamia Chlala • 5 min read • Customers

Glassdoor partners with Mux to build video features that enable authentic community engagement for their users.

Published on October 8, 2024 (3 months ago)

Introducing Player.style — Video and audio player themes for every player

By Steve Heffernan • 3 min read • Product

Unlock creativity in video player customization with Player.style, a new open-source project by Mux.

Published on September 9, 2024 (3 months ago)

Mux Data now with long-ER term metrics

By Ashley Cutler • 4 min read • Product

Introducing long-term storage for Mux Data, giving customers more flexibility to analyze video performance over time. Now in private beta.

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Published on September 6, 2024 (4 months ago)

Look out, kids: PHP is the new JavaScript

By Dave Kiss • 9 min read • Engineering

What would it take to switch back to PHP after years of full-stack JavaScript? A boy and his AI-enabled IDE set off to find out.

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Published on September 6, 2024 (4 months ago)

AI chatbots are banned from our docs… for now

By Darius Cepulis • 7 min read • Engineering • AI

We can learn a lot about the current state of large language models by talking about why we chose not to use an AI chatbot on our documentation site.

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Published on September 4, 2024 (4 months ago)

What to talk with Mux about at IBC this year

By Jon Dahl • 2 min read • Events

The Mux team will be IBC 2024 in Amsterdam. Come chat with us about new features, Quality of Experience analytics, and premium video capabilities.

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