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Setting relationship status in Facebook to In an open (source) relationship

Published on May 3, 2024 (12 months ago)

Facebook just updated its relationship status with web components

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri5 min readEngineering

Learn about React 19 introducing support for web components and what that means for React developers and web component authors.

video player with lock icon in the center

Published on May 1, 2024 (12 months ago)

If someone can watch it, they can steal it: securing video content on the internet

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri16 min readEngineeringStream security

Understand how attackers steal video content and what you can do to prevent downloading, unauthorized playback, screen recording with signed URLs and DRM

A graphic image with a black background featuring stylized flowers in bold colors, one in yellow and one in red, both with large circular centers. The text 'SPRING 2024 LAUNCH WEEK' is prominently displayed above the flowers. The Mux logo is displayed in the bottom left corner.

Published on April 26, 2024 (12 months ago)

Here's everything we launched in Spring 2024

Dave Kiss
By Dave Kiss5 min readProduct

Looking to get caught up on the latest features, releases, and content from Mux? Say no more fam. This blog post has you covered.

On a blue background, a box with a black background featuring the Warner Bros. Discovery logo connected to a box with a white background featuring the Mux logo connected by 2 lines

Published on April 24, 2024 (12 months ago)

How Warner Bros. Discovery puts viewer experience first with Mux

Lamia Chlala
By Lamia Chlala5 min readCustomers

From smart TVs to the Apple Vision Pro, learn how Warner Bros. Discovery uses Mux to ensure their leading with innovation and exceeding viewers’ expectations.

Image of a laptop on a black background. On the laptop is the SRT logo. A badge is on the corner of the laptop that reads "now available".

Published on April 23, 2024 (12 months ago)

Making the first mile as reliable as the last mile: SRT support is now GA

Phil Cluff
By Phil Cluff8 min readProduct

Now in general availability -- Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) live ingest for Mux Video. SRT on Mux also supports HEVC. Learn more.

An image of a video player player with live in the upper left-hand corner. The player is broken up into 8 sections and around the player are 3 symbols: one of a globe, one representing a server stack, and one of a camera.

Published on April 16, 2024 (about 1 year ago)

Which live stream ingest protocol is right for you?

Bobby Peck
By Bobby Peck10 min readVideo education

SRT? RTMP? The choice of live ingest protocol has a meaningful impact on all areas of your stream. Learn about modern protocols and which is right for you.

A Swiss Army knife with various video player symbols (and a banana?) floating near each tool

Published on April 15, 2024 (about 1 year ago)

Why are video players so big? A trip down the rabbit hole of video playback engines

Christian Pillsbury
Darius Cepulis
By Christian and Darius17 min readVideo education

A video playback engine enables more complex video use cases like adaptive bitrate streaming and DRM, but at the cost of bundle size. Is it worth it?

Graph representing the newest ad metrics to track ad playing time, failures, and startup time.

Published on April 12, 2024 (about 1 year ago)

Don’t press skip: Introducing new ad QoE metrics

Steven Lyons
By Steven Lyons8 min readProduct

Improve revenue and retention with your streaming video by ensuring your ad Quality of Experience. Learn how the latest Mux Data ad metrics can help.

Building blocks in the style of LEGO stacked together. The blue building block has a player symbol with a graph above it.

Published on April 11, 2024 (about 1 year ago)

Off with our head: How we're making Mux Data play nice with everything

Eric Elia
By Eric Elia4 min readProduct

For data products to be fully utilized across an organization, they need to be interoperable and standards-based. Learn how we make this possible with Mux Data.

Mux logo with Javascript logo

Published on April 10, 2024 (about 1 year ago)

Keeping up with the Node-ish ecosystem

Dylan Jhaveri
By Dylan Jhaveri9 min readEngineering

How we updated our legacy Node SDK to work with new JS runtimes like Cloudflare Workers, Bun, Deno and Vercel Edge functions.