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6 Years Building Video Players. 9B Requests. Starting Over

https://www.mux.com/blog/6-years-building-video-players-9-billion-requests-starting-over
17•bolp•4d ago

Comments

dixie_land•16m ago
Great engineering work but as a user I don't get why we need these: I just want the OS native widget that allow me to play pause seek and maybe choose captions. Especially on iOS 99% of these web players behaves awkwardly when you tried to pinch to zoom to full screen (usually it zooms the whole webpage, iOS native player just works)

The main incentive to have these custom controls I see is anti adblocking

Dachande663•12m ago
I want to like Mux. We use Mux. But everything feels half done.

- No 2FA support, at all. Support says it's not on their roadmap. Not acceptable in 2026.

- Editing subtitles requires a series of API calls, meaning I had to make a mini editor for our staff to change a word.

- Same with editing anything really. Playback restrictions, glossaries etc. There's no UI for doing it in-app. I understand that the majority of traffic is via the API, but having nothing in-app feels like an omission rather than a choice.

- Every video has multiple keys; uploads, assets, playbacks. And it's a pain moving from one to another.

Overall we use them, but I wouldn't choose to use them again.

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274•user5994461•6h ago•153 comments

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183•mattjhall•6h ago•95 comments

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116•lukas346•6h ago•63 comments

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47•written-beyond•59m ago•19 comments

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163•blacktulip•3h ago•126 comments

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95•tosh•5h ago•75 comments

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233•zdw•3d ago•68 comments

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142•consumer451•4d ago•115 comments

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403•tosh•20h ago•188 comments

6 Years Building Video Players. 9B Requests. Starting Over

https://www.mux.com/blog/6-years-building-video-players-9-billion-requests-starting-over
17•bolp•4d ago•2 comments

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437•rocauc•22h ago•290 comments

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76•nand2mario•10h ago•26 comments

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96•clarus•4d ago•10 comments

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119•NaOH•13h ago•33 comments

Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale

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366•pavel_lishin•1d ago•383 comments

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195•signa11•5d ago•118 comments

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37•todsacerdoti•8h ago•20 comments

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31•rintrah•4d ago•6 comments

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78•recursion•5d ago•25 comments

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212•szmarczak•20h ago•196 comments

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1•sebselassie•9h ago

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139•io_eric•3d ago•53 comments

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214•dsrtslnd23•1d ago•54 comments

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281•sarreph•22h ago•154 comments

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956•bookofjoe•22h ago•598 comments

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337•yesturi•1d ago•113 comments

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118•hahahacorn•19h ago•18 comments

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18•athrowaway3z•2h ago•22 comments