Mux Blog - Video technology and more

When CraftingTable’s YouTube account was suddenly banned, every course video on its site disappeared — leaving schools and students without access.

Founder Austin Eckman shares how he used Claude Code and Mux to recover the videos, replace every embed in just a few prompts, and build a smarter learning experience with searchable transcripts and richer analytics.

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Summarizing a video is easy, right? Just chuck the transcript to an LLM and ask for a title, description, and tags.

To be honest with you, yes, pretty much. That will give you something, but it’s likely going to smell like AI and when you actually look at the output, you’ll ask yourself: Do I want to show this to my users? Is this title actually a ...

Confession: I did not care much about football as recently as May. But by the time España lifted the trophy last month, I was watching matches I had no stake in, still unable to explain offside.

Somewhere in one of those matches, I noticed what the pict...

TL;DR
Which CDN is best?" is the wrong question the right one is "which CDNs are good enough right now?" This is the story of four attempts at CDN selection at Mux and the solution we finally built to answer it in 9.9ms.

CDN selection sounds simple: pick the best CDN for each viewer. But “best” is where it gets tricky. What does best even mean? Ch...