Mux
mux.comBuild Difficulty: 5/5
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Video infrastructure for developers
How to Replace MuxOverview
Features
45 features across 16 categories
API(3)
Batch operations for managing multiple videos and assets efficiently.
Pass custom metadata through the encoding pipeline for tracking purposes.
RESTful API for managing video playback and streaming policies.
Accessibility(2)
AI-powered automatic caption generation for video content.
Support for multiple subtitle formats including VTT, SRT, and CEA-608.
Analytics(6)
Filter analytics by custom properties, viewer segments, and metadata.
Real-time tracking of concurrent viewers watching live streams.
Define and track custom metrics relevant to your application.
Metrics tracking buffering ratio, mean time to first frame, and playback stability.
Real-time insights into video performance, viewer engagement, and streaming quality metrics.
AI-powered analysis of video content for automatic tagging and recommendations.
Audio(1)
Optimized transcoding for audio-only streams and podcasts.
Delivery(2)
Stream videos from your own custom domain instead of Mux CDN domain.
Worldwide content delivery network ensuring fast video playback globally.
Integration(2)
Real-time event notifications for video processing, encoding, and playback events.
Configure webhook triggers for specific events and video properties.
Live Video(7)
Control live streams and broadcasts programmatically via REST API.
Configure stream resolution, bitrate, frame rate, and other ingest parameters.
Automatically record live streams as on-demand videos.
Real-time video broadcast with low-latency RTMP/SRT ingest.
LL-DASH and LL-HLS protocols for sub-second streaming latency.
Scalable RTMP servers for live streaming with automatic failover and redundancy.
Broadcast simultaneously to multiple platforms and RTMP destinations.
Management(3)
Define automatic deletion schedules for videos and analytics data.
API rate limiting controls and fair-use policies for managing usage.
Full-text search across video metadata, transcripts, and custom fields.
Monitoring(1)
Live dashboard monitoring of encoding jobs, bandwidth usage, and platform health.
Player(2)
Open-source HTML5 video player with advanced analytics integration.
Interactive timeline UI component for Mux Player with heatmaps.
Processing(6)
Automatic generation of multiple quality tiers for adaptive bitrate streaming.
Automatic extraction of keyframes for video previews and thumbnails.
Create clips from source videos without re-encoding using precise timestamps.
Automatic extraction of video duration, resolution, codecs, and frame rate.
Automatic detection and extraction of scene boundaries and content segments.
Add burn-in text or image watermarks to video content during encoding.
Reporting(1)
Export video analytics reports as PDF documents.
Security(6)
Fine-grained access control for video playback using JWT tokens.
Digital Rights Management with Widevine, PlayReady, and FairPlay support.
Restrict API access to specific IP addresses for enhanced security.
Time-limited URLs for secure video access without authentication systems.
Restrict video playback based on viewer geographic location.
Cryptographically signed webhooks for secure event verification.
Streaming(1)
Native support for HTTP Live Streaming and MPEG-DASH adaptive protocols.
Upload(1)
Direct video file uploads via API with progress tracking and resumable uploads.
Video Processing(1)
Automatic transcoding to multiple formats and bitrates for adaptive streaming.
Pricing
Free
- ✓Up to 1
- ✓000 minutes/month of video delivered
Pay As You Go
Popular- ✓$0.015 per minute of video delivered
Volume Discounts
- ✓Custom pricing for high-volume usage
Cost Calculator
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Build vs Buy
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Buying Mux saves ~$36,960 over 3 years vs building.
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Integrations
30 known integrations