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.

Two boxes, one labeled server and the other labeled client, are closely connected by two lines.

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

React 19 lets you write impossible components

By Darius Cepulis • 13 min read • Engineering

What can you do with Server Components and Actions in React 19? Let’s talk about how React 19’s features are a big deal, even for a simple marketing site.

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

Published on May 3, 2024 (about 1 year ago)

Facebook just updated its relationship status with web components

By Dylan Jhaveri • 5 min read • Engineering

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 (about 1 year ago)

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

By Dylan Jhaveri • 16 min read • Engineering • Stream security

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

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

Keeping up with the Node-ish ecosystem

By Dylan Jhaveri • 9 min read • Engineering

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

A mockup of an application where a thumbnail of a snowboarder is blurry, then replaced with a full-resolution image.

Published on March 28, 2024 (about 1 year ago)

A clear look at blurry image placeholders on the web

By Wesley Luyten • 7 min read • Engineering & Video education

Algorithms like BlurHash and ThumbHash are popular ways to render small, blurry images while the full-size images load, but are they necessary on the web?

Image of a phone with 2 people talking and captions at the bottom of the screen. To the left of the phone is a line connecting the phone to a box with the closed caption symbol.

Published on January 31, 2024 (over 1 year ago)

AI models on CPUs: accurate audio transcriptions without breaking the bank

By Colton Karoses • 7 min read • Engineering • AI

AI models like Whisper and OpenCLIP are making image tagging and speech-to-text transcription, two tasks that once required a team of PhDs, seem trivial — but, whew, are they expensive! …Or are they? ...

A partnership design featuring the Mux and Shotstack logos

Published on January 2, 2024 (over 1 year ago)

Render video templates on demand with Shotstack and Mux

By Jeff and Eric • 10 min read • Engineering

Learn how to build complete video workflows and combine uploads and edits, fully branded, inside an app or product.

Published on December 5, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Practical Client-side Rust for Android, iOS, and Web

By Emily Dixon • 12 min read • Engineering

Can you use Rust to write your CPU-intensive code once and ship it everywhere — iOS, Android, and the web? Follow along to find out.

The image is a graphic design with a browser window showing a concert scene on the left and a screen with "NEXT.js" on the right, connected by a green line, against an orange background.

Published on November 27, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

How to add a background video in Next.js

By Adam Jaggard • 4 min read • Engineering

Learn how to add a responsive background video to a landing page using Next.js and Mux in this step-by-step tutorial. Grab the code and start building

An illustration of an area map appearing in a video player window

Published on November 10, 2023 (over 1 year ago)

Track video playback progress and display a video heatmap with React

By Dave Kiss • 6 min read • Engineering

In this article, we’ll go over one way you can set up viewer playback tracking and generate a video heatmap to display in a React app.

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