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 January 23, 2020 (about 5 years ago)
<video autoplay> Considered Harmful
The 'autoplay' attribute for HTML5 video is unreliable. In this post we explain its shortcomings and offer a better solution.
Published on January 17, 2020 (over 5 years ago)
Subtitles, Captions, WebVTT, HLS, and those magic flags 🤔
Join Phil on a journey exploring the modern technologies that underly captions and subtitles in online streaming, including HLS, WebVTT, and some magic flags you can set in your HLS manifest!
Published on November 25, 2019 (over 5 years ago)
Help Your Users be in 5 Places at Once: Your Guide to Simulcasting
Your guide to Mux Simulcasting. Learn how to help your users broadcast to Twitch, Youtube, Facebook, Periscope and more over RTMP.
Published on October 16, 2019 (over 5 years ago)
Introducing HowVideo.works
We’re excited to introduce HowVideo.works. It explains key concepts, and processes of modern online video plus, shows how all those pieces work together.
Published on September 26, 2019 (over 5 years ago)
A Quick Intro To Video From Somebody Who Knows Nothing About Video
A quick intro about working with video for the first time and figuring out how HLS streaming works.
Published on September 5, 2019 (over 5 years ago)
White Paper: 7 Tips to improve Live Streaming
Today alongside our friends at Touchstream, Datazoom, and Fastly, we’ve published a white paper packed full of tips to help you stream huge scale events successfully. Unfortunately, while writing the ...
Published on August 19, 2019 (over 5 years ago)
Phoenix LiveView: Build Twitch Without Writing JavaScript
Demo application like Twitch with Phoenix LiveView for live streaming
Published on July 25, 2019 (over 5 years ago)
Canvas: Do cool stuff with video in the browser
The `video` element is a thing of beauty except that beauty crumbles like dust through our fingers when you need to modify the content in any way.
Published on June 5, 2019 (almost 6 years ago)
Add video to your personal homepage with Mux PHP
Mux PHP is a lightweight wrapper around Mux’s APIs, which make it easy to integrate Mux-powered video experiences into your PHP apps.
Published on April 16, 2019 (about 6 years ago)
Building your own video platform: Personal CMS using Airtable and ZEIT Now
With ZEIT’s Now, we can easily build applications that interact with our Airtable database's API. We can wire them all together and build our own video CMS.