Building an Advanced Audio Player and Analyzing Video Engagement

In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Dylan Jhaveri about his work at Mux, how Mux ingests and spits out video, and where Mux fits in a tech stack for developers working with video and audio.

• 00:36 Welcome
• 01:27 Who is Dylan Jhaveri?
• Dylan (@dylanjha)
• The Internet’s video infrastructure | Mux
• Mux Player
• 03:04 Why did you build Mux Player?
• FFmpeg
• FFmpeg WASM
• 06:19 How did you chose to go with web components?
• CanIUse Mediasource
• 09:36 What is Mux?
• 15:20 Can you stitch or clip video via the API with Mux?
• 18:07 Do you think hls will be supported in Chromium or Firefox?
• 21:56 How does Mux process videos into 5 versions?
• 26:35 Is Web assembly in use for video?
• 27:55 Has Mux researched AI for video?
• 31:13 Building a podcast transcription video
• 36:49 Do you have to use MP4? What about webM?
• 39:36 Media Chrome video player
• Elements for building media players
• 44:58 What’s Mux Data?
• Mux Data
• 49:33 Slick Mux website
• Mux.com
• 52:13 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

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