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in 1997 I saw Linus Torvalds speak at UC Berkeley following his move to California to work at Transmeta. I was a computer science undergrad at UC Davis, and took Amtrak to Berkeley…

Another important feature: HEVC playback on Mac OS X. An increasing amount of video content, especially content recorded on mobile phones, uses HEVC. Inconsistent playback support …

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Author here, would love to discuss!

I'm amazed that their architecture doesn't include a CDN. These days I expect nearly all high traffic websites to make use of a CDN for all kinds of content, even content that's no…

This literally cost me sleep last night, paging me for new Kubernetes nodes that failed to transition to 'Ready' because they were unable to pull Calico images during bootstrapping…

At Mux we use Cedexis Openmix to dynamically select between Fastly and Highwinds (now Stackpath) CDNs to stream a lot of video. The end-user experience with a CDN is going to vary …

> As of 2012, videos that didn’t load in two seconds had little hope of going viral. This finding aligns with the results of a survey of users of the Mux video analytics service. W…

Very short segment durations are effective only when latency is more important than quality. Each TS segment must start with a key-frame, and the GOP size can't exceed the duration…

Periscope developed a Low-Latency HTTP Live Streaming (LHLS) technique that relies on HTTP chunked transfer-encoding to stream video bytes as they are encoded at the origin. This i…

The breach notice indicates that hashed passwords were compromised but doesn't mention whether a salt was used when computing the hashes. Use of a salt makes all the difference, gu…

Watch the "Pentagon Wars - Bradley Fighting Vehicle Evolution" video: https://youtu.be/aXQ2lO3ieBA It's a great example of how trying to design a product that works well for every …

Crawlers & scrapers that rely on headless browsers like Chrome often initiate playback of video on the pages they access. The company I work for (Mux) has a product that collects u…

Great question! There was a fairly even distribution of slow-performing requests across the many user-agent strings coming from the Facebook ASN. My hunch is that the Facebook craw…

Post author here: this post was written in June 2017, and the subject has become increasingly relevant since the MySpace video advertising bot fraud reported by BuzzFeed on October…