Mux Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Video site with 800GB of >512MB videos and 900GB Cloudfront bandwidth costs too much ($800/mo). Cloudflare? R2?

  How are you storing/serving the videos? You might look at a service like mux.com which both hosts files behind a CDN but optimizes video delivery with adaptive bitrate streaming. If you are serving whole/raw video files off Cloudfront that could impact your costs. Source: 10 months ago

• Low cost live stream providers? My clients always request facebook, but as I branch out, I'd like to be able to offer something that looks more professional.

  Vimeo is a solid platform. Most alternatives you'll find searching for "vimeo vs." are just marketing / billing wrappers around the mux.com streaming platform. If you are somewhat technically inclined you can use mux.com directly and embed it on your website yourself. Source: about 1 year ago

• Curtain pulled back: Cover pdf on business methodology, growth opportunities and strategies into the future.

  Feels like there's no real alternative to Youtube since they have large enough capital to run the site to be barely able to break even. Feels like something like https://mux.com would meet the purpose jut feels like free streaming is way too costly. Source: about 1 year ago

• Need help with building a CEA/CTA-708 closed captions encoder for MPEG-TS video streams

  The repo is unmaintained, ever since Matt moved from Twitch to mux.com, so the library does need a maintainer. There are some bugs and PRs that could do with merging to head, but it is generally functional, with some quirks. The code is used in both OBS and Gstreamer Rust bindings. Source: about 1 year ago

• I built Senja, a tool to collect testimonials and turn them into marketing material with Sveltekit.

  So Senja uses Mux under the hood for video storage and streaming. It's an amazing solution! Source: over 1 year ago

• Terminated

  So it's not that hard to do a good job of it, but it is work, and it's work with diminishing returns if you're not comfortable managing the lift and it might require some experimentation here and there to get exactly what you want out of it. The HLS spec is readily available and ffmpeg can, given a video input, emit an HLS manifest with a set of renditions. (For research purposes, the magic words are... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Creating a Video Streaming App with Strapi

  In this article, you’ll learn what a headless CMS is and how to build a video streaming application using Next.js as your frontend, Strapi as your headless CMS, and a service called Mux that allows you to serve up videos via an API to your application. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

• Victims of Vimeo

  Surprised nobody mentioned Mux yet, who are really great at providing a video platform for all sorts of apps and businesses: https://mux.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Building a Live Streaming app in Clojure

  Rewriting a project is never a good approach considering the opportunity cost. I evaluated a few offerings: mux.com, Cloudflare Stream, Amazon IVS. On paper, they have all the building blocks we need. In addition, some have features like video analytics, policing/signing playback URL, which would be useful for us. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

• Saving over 100x on egress switching from AWS to Hetzner

  This could be an interesting competitor to Mux (https://mux.com/). - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Uploading / Retrieving Videos

  Api.video and mux.com are both solutions for streaming. I have experience with both and which to pick comes down to your long-term use case because they handle encoding differently. Source: over 2 years ago

• I'm building a media heavy, where should I put the media.

  I use Cloudinary for images and Mux for video, in some cases Vimeo (more for brochure websites that want their promo video smack in the middle of their website. Hey it's money.). Source: over 2 years ago

• How Video Streaming Processing Works

  We actually built How Video Works as a side project at Mux [1] (inspired by How DNS Works [2]) - there's a note about it at the top of the page. We have contributions from our own team as well as others in the industry. Our main motivation is to try to educate on the complexities and intracies of streaming video. Despite streaming video representing 80+% of the internet, it's all underpinned by a fairly small... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Can someone please give me some guidance for HLS?

  From what I know implementing HLS on the backend is really difficult, and when I have implemented HLS I've used https://mux.com/ or https://cloudinary.com/ to process the source mp4s to the correct HLS video format and serve it. Both have guides to setting up HLS on their platform, but in my experience mux was less painful. Source: over 2 years ago

• How to build webRTC m:m audio/video live-streams/calls like discord does? client to client via gateway for IP protection

  Hi, mux.com is a great service, but very expensive since it's a server solution. I can't use that. Source: over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Vimeo for Your App?

  Nothing against Vimeo, but was Mux (https://mux.com) also a consideration? - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Host videos in private app

  I was looking at video on demand with mux.com or AWS but it seems like overkill. Source: over 2 years ago

• Getting video to autoplay using Next.js and Tailwind

  I wanted to do better and after some research discovered Mux. I liked their developer-centric model and their pricing plan comes with $20 free credit. Considering I only have one video, it was effectively free for me. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

• How would you enable your users to upload videos to your app? What are the best practices, what are some services that are relatively easy to use and affordable?

  Yes, the best API I know of for handling more than just a simple upload is from https://mux.com/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Is Firebase Storage ideal for a video streaming app?

  What about something like https://mux.com ? Source: over 2 years ago

• Tool for no code video streaming & playback ?

  I recently come acros mux from what I can tell this API is going to make it super easy for no code tools to able to support video upload and playback ? Source: over 2 years ago