Steve Heffernan

Co-founder and Product Architect

Creator of Video.js and co-founder of Zencoder. Semi-professional drummer and apparently drove a Civic lowered more than Mux's live latency in high school.

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 February 22, 2024 (10 months ago)

Why we [still] price in minutes for video

By Steve Heffernan • 8 min read • Company • Pricing

Over 14 years ago we pioneered minutes-based pricing for video infrastructure. Here's why we've doubled down on it with Mux Video.

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Published on August 24, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Cloud encoding APIs are a dying breed: lessons learned from building three cloud video startups

By Steve Heffernan • 8 min read • Engineering

It's becoming increasingly clear that cloud encoding APIs are on their way out. Read our perspective on where cloud video encoding is headed.

Published on June 1, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Media Chrome turns 1.0, huzzah!

By Steve Heffernan • 9 min read • Engineering, Product, & Video news

Media Chrome, the set of web components for video and audio players is now version 1.0. While it was production ready before, now we promise it is.

Published on February 15, 2023 (almost 2 years ago)

Our newest pricing lever: Resolution-based pricing for Mux Video

By Steve Heffernan • 7 min read • Product • Pricing

We lowered our pay-as-you-go pricing for video Encoding, Storage and Streaming at 720p or lower, giving you new ways to control your streaming costs!

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Published on December 14, 2021 (about 3 years ago)

Being a great developer product company is more than building products for developers

By Steve and 3 others • 6 min read • Company

Developer product companies, despite massive success in some cases, are still early, and the playbooks aren’t as developed.

Published on May 6, 2021 (over 3 years ago)

New lower, simplified pricing for Mux Video

By Steve Heffernan • 3 min read • Product • Pricing

We strive to make video simple to use and that applies to pricing too. Today, we’re rolling out updated pricing that removes a layer of complexity and makes it that much easier to use Mux.

Published on February 13, 2020 (almost 5 years ago)

How to Build Interactive Live Video (remember HQ Trivia?)

By Steve and Dylan • 10 min read • Video education

Steve and Dylan discuss how you might go about building a live interactive video solution that is scalable.

Published on November 11, 2019 (about 5 years ago)

Seeing double? Let your users simulcast (aka restream) to any social platform

By Steve Heffernan • 2 min read • Product

With the new Simulcast Targets feature, developers can now let their users publish live streams on social platforms.

Published on April 1, 2019 (over 5 years ago)

Is it recording yet? New Live Stream Webhook Events!

By Steve Heffernan • 3 min read • Product

We just added a few new events to Mux's Live Streams that let you build more helpful UIs for streamers and help debug issues when they happen. These include: CONNECTED (video.live_stream.connected) - ...

Published on April 6, 2017 (over 7 years ago)

Announcing Self-serve Pricing & Signup

By Steve Heffernan • 2 min read • Product • Pricing

We started Mux because we saw what the most advanced video companies had built to monitor their viewer experience, and we wanted to bring it to everyone.