Mux Video

Infrastructure

video streaming api

SHOW HN2018

124points
59comments
#342of 2,155 in 2018
Top 16%of 2018 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

11 positive, 28 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 10 critical, out of 49 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.

Idea: 3 for, 5 againstPricing: 3 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Low pricing compared to alternatives

    From 2 comments
    • Seems like an amazing service and very much needed by everybody that is not YouTube, because indeed video is too hard. Also very cheap. Video Stored: $0.007 per minute per month…
      fiatjaf on HN
    • This looks like a great alternative to Wistia for online course sites/platforms like Teachable. I believe many developer built and focused subscription video sites like…
      eliblock on HN
  • Good idea for developers needing simple video infrastructure

    From 2 comments

Objections

  • No signed or private playback yet, so paywalls are hard to build

    From 2 comments
    • It's likely a no go for us without domain based restriction. I'd rather do that then deal with signed urls, we wouldn't want them to expire. We deal with artists who have…
      clintavo on HN
    • Just signed up and looked at the api docs. Even the "signed" option for privacy says coming soon. I guess, at the moment, there is no way to secure a video on mux?
      clintavo on HN
  • Only HLS support, which lacks desktop Chrome support

    From 1 comment
    • Having had experience in streaming to many thousands of users myself I think what you're doing here is certainly interesting - having taken a look at your service it seems likely…
      tcd on HN
  • Dependence on third-party CDNs could be risky

    From 2 comments
    • Thanks for adding nothing to the discussion - the team page tells me nothing about the challenges they're going to face, and how they're going to overcome them. Even Google,…
      tcd on HN
    • The only one was Cloudflare on another project (file hosting) - and being fair, we did do 20tb of transfer in a single month on the free tier, which they weren't so pleased about…
      tcd on HN
  • Hotlinking and cost abuse of m3u8 URLs

    From 1 comment
    • The only one was Cloudflare on another project (file hosting) - and being fair, we did do 20tb of transfer in a single month on the free tier, which they weren't so pleased about…
      tcd on HN

Requests

  • Domain-based playback restriction

    From 2 comments
    • I'd be a +1 for domain-based restriction, just as it makes implementing a leaky paywall easier (I've got a series of chocolate making videos coming up that'll be behind a simple…
      wastedhours on HN
    • It's likely a no go for us without domain based restriction. I'd rather do that then deal with signed urls, we wouldn't want them to expire. We deal with artists who have…
      clintavo on HN
  • 360 video support

    From 1 comment
    • Do you have support for 360 videos? (Streaming from a Ricoh Theta S for instance)
      udia on HN
  • Live streaming

    From 1 comment
    • Can it mix livefeeds ? The first page really does not say much and I wonder if it's because all it does is streaming a feed, like many other players do in this space.
      simlevesque on HN

Questions

  • How does it compare to Vimeo's API and Wistia

    From 2 comments
    • My company is very interested in moving into this space (building a video community and charging for paid videos not hosting & processing like Mux). We might be very interested…
      clintavo on HN
    • This may be a dumb question, but would you describe the product as an alternative to something like Wistia? How does it compare to it?
      cicloid on HN
  • Which input video codecs are supported

    From 1 comment
  • How it relates to Azure Media Services

    From 1 comment
    • Great looking service, excited to check it out further. The company I work for builds lots of self service video portals for clients and we use Azure Media Services for…
      mt3ck on HN

Alternatives named

  • Vimeo API

    From 2 comments
    • My company is very interested in moving into this space (building a video community and charging for paid videos not hosting & processing like Mux). We might be very interested…
      clintavo on HN
    • OK, but I looked at Vimeo's api docs and they looked pretty feature complete for someone who wanted to build their own site and never use the vimeo CMS. It's possible (it looks…
      clintavo on HN
  • Wistia

    From 2 comments
    • This may be a dumb question, but would you describe the product as an alternative to something like Wistia? How does it compare to it?
      cicloid on HN
    • This looks like a great alternative to Wistia for online course sites/platforms like Teachable. I believe many developer built and focused subscription video sites like…
      eliblock on HN
  • Azure Media Services

    From 1 comment
    • Great looking service, excited to check it out further. The company I work for builds lots of self service video portals for clients and we use Azure Media Services for…
      mt3ck on HN
  • Amazon S3, EC2, CloudFront

    From 1 comment
    • Not a dumb question. We're lower-level - the biggest value Wistia brings is helping marketers be more effective with video. Mux Video is like the plumbing; we get the video from…
      jon_dahl on HN

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