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Mux is a video infrastructure platform that gives developers an end-to-end API for ingesting, encoding, storing, delivering, and analyzing video. The platform spans Mux Video (on-demand and live streaming), Mux Data (quality-of-experience analytics), Mux Robots (AI workflows for captions, chapters, summarization, and moderation), and Mux Player (drop-in playback components). Mux exposes a unified

Works with AI assistants 26 multi-step recipes

Recipes: multi-step jobs

AI Summarize Asset
Create a ready asset, queue an AI summarize job, and wait for it to complete.Account Delivery Usage Audit
Confirm the environment, then list delivery usage for a timeframe.Add Caption Track to Asset
Create a ready asset, add a text caption track, and wait for the track to be ready.Add Playback ID to Asset
Create an asset, wait for ready, add a playback ID, and verify it.Add Playback ID to Live Stream
Create a live stream, add a playback ID, and verify it resolves.Asset Library Drilldown
List assets, then read the first asset's detail and input info.Asset Tag and Cleanup
Create a ready asset, tag it with metadata, then delete it.Configure Playback Restriction
Create a playback restriction and apply referrer and user-agent rules.Create Asset From URL
Create an asset from a source URL, wait for ready, and read the ingested input info.Dimension Exploration
List dimensions, then enumerate a chosen dimension's values.Direct Upload to Ready Asset
Create a direct upload, wait for the asset to be created, and wait for it to become ready.Errors Impact Analysis
List playback errors and read the overall playback-failure rate.Generate Downloadable Static Rendition
Create a ready asset, request a static rendition, and wait for it to be downloadable.Incident Drilldown
List incidents, read the first one, and pull its related incidents.Live Stream Generated Subtitles
Create a live stream, enable generated subtitles, and confirm the config.Live Stream Lifecycle Control
Create a live stream, then disable, enable, and signal complete.Live Stream With Simulcast Target
Create a live stream and attach a simulcast target, then verify the target.Manage Data Annotation
Create, read, update, and confirm a Mux Data annotation.Metric Breakdown Analysis
Get a metric's overall value then break it down by a dimension.Metric Timeseries Trend
Get a metric's overall value then its timeseries trend.Monitoring Metric Breakdown
List monitoring dimensions, then break a monitoring metric down by a dimension.Real-Time Metric Breakdown
List real-time metrics and dimensions, then break a metric down now.Rotate Live Stream Key
Create a live stream, reset its stream key, and confirm the new key.Rotate System Signing Key
Create a new system signing key and retire the previous one.Rotate URL Signing Key
Create a new URL signing key and retire the previous one.Video View Drilldown
List video views and drill into the first view's full detail.

AI Model Services

Generate video chapters with AIGet chapters from a generate-chapters job

Asset Ingest & Quality Control

Create a direct upload URLCancel a pending direct uploadList direct uploadsCheck a direct upload's status

Content Protection & DRM Management

Create a URL signing key (deprecated)Delete a URL signing key (deprecated)List DRM configurationsGet one DRM configurationList URL signing keys (deprecated)Get a URL signing key (deprecated)

Localisation & Versioning Management

Translate a video's captions to another languageGet the result of a caption translation job

Media Asset Management

Create a video assetDelete a video assetUpdate a video assetAdd a playback ID to an assetRemove a playback ID from an assetChange MP4 support on an asset (deprecated)Enable temporary master file downloadCreate an MP4 static rendition for an assetDelete one static rendition of an assetAdd a subtitle or audio track to an assetRemove a text or audio track from an assetEdit an existing asset trackAuto-generate subtitles from an audio trackList video assetsGet a video asset's detailsSee the inputs used to create an assetGet an asset's playback ID details

OTT & Streaming Delivery

Create a live stream (live_streams path)Create a live streamDelete a live streamUpdate a live stream's settingsAdd a playback ID to a live streamRemove a playback ID from a live streamReset a live stream's stream keyMark a live stream as finishedDisable a live streamRe-enable a disabled live streamConfigure embedded closed captions on a streamConfigure auto-generated live subtitlesAdd a simulcast target to a live streamRemove a simulcast targetSet MP4 renditions for a stream's recordingsStop MP4 renditions for a stream's recordingsList live streams (live_streams path)Get a live stream (live_streams path)List live streamsGet a live stream's detailsGet a live stream's playback IDGet a simulcast target's detailsGet the HLS playlist for a videoDownload a static MP4 or M4A rendition

Observability Management

List live monitoring dimensionsList live monitoring metricsGet a live breakdown of a monitoring metricChart a live breakdown over timeGet a live histogram timeseries for a metricGet a live metric timeseries with concurrent viewers

Speech & Voice

Create a custom transcription vocabularyUpdate a transcription vocabulary's phrasesDelete a transcription vocabularyList transcription vocabulariesGet a transcription vocabulary

User-Generated Content Moderation

Check a video for inappropriate contentGet a moderation job's results

Video Platforms

Get a thumbnail image from a videoGet an animated GIF or WebP clip from a videoGet a storyboard image for hover previewsGet storyboard tile coordinates as WebVTTGet storyboard tile coordinates as JSONDownload a text track as a WebVTT fileDownload a plain-text transcript of a video

Viewership Data Capture

List individual video viewsGet the details of one video view

Other things you can do

Cancel a pending or running AI jobCreate a signing keyDelete a signing keyFind key moments in a video with AICreate a playback restrictionDelete a playback restrictionChange allowed referrer domainsChange user agent playback rulesAsk AI questions about a video assetAdd an annotation to analytics chartsDelete an annotationEdit an existing annotationCreate a playback ID for an assetGenerate a title, description and tags with AIEdit captions with replacements or censoringList AI robot jobsList analytics filters (legacy)List values of a filter (legacy)List the dimensions I can break views down byList values of a dimension with view countsList elements of a trace dimensionList signing keysGet a signing keyList real-time dimensions (deprecated)List real-time metrics (deprecated)Get a real-time breakdown (deprecated)Get a real-time histogram timeseries (deprecated)Get a real-time timeseries (deprecated)Get key moments found by a jobList playback restrictionsGet a playback restrictionBreak a metric down by a dimensionGet a metric's overall valueFind what hurts a metric mostChart a metric over timeCompare all metrics for one dimension valueList playback errors viewers hitList video quality incidentsGet an incident's detailsList incidents related to an incidentGet answers from an ask-questions jobList annotations on my video analyticsGet one annotation's detailsFind the asset or live stream behind a playback IDCheck which account an access token belongs toList view export links (legacy)List available video view exportsGet the result of a summarize jobGet the result of an edit-captions jobReport video delivery usageGet real-time view and viewer counts