Vercel Community Session: Video on the Web made easy with Mux

Hello, welcome to this week's Versel community live session. I'm Amy. I'm on the community team here at Verscell. I'll be one of your moderators for today's session about making video on the web easier. Um, if you don't see the chat, make sure that you're signed in and click going on the event listing and then you'll be able to see the chat and join in the conversation with us. Um, if you feel comfortable sharing where you're listening from, we love to see where people are all over the world. So, please share that in the chat. Um, and

of course, feel free to share any comments or questions. We'll save those and ask them all at the end. Um, but we'll collect them as we go. So, ask whenever you want. I'm also joined here by Jacob. Welcome, Jacob. Hey, thanks Amy. Yeah, I'm Jacob, also on the Verscell community team. I'd like to remind everyone our community code of conduct. So, please be respectful in the chats. Uh for anyone listening on the socials, um please come into our community. You can chat and you can ask questions um with our with our guests

here who are Dave and Darius from MX uh working in the MX community and developer experience. Hi, thanks for having us. Hello. All right, I'll hand it over to you. Wonderful. First of all, yeah, uh Versell is an awesome partner of us uh of ours. We we use uh Nex.js and

Verscell all over our codebase on our side. So, we're super stoked to just be here and chat with you all today. Um my name is Dave. I am the community lead over at MX and that generally just means I do a little bit of education, blog posts, writing tutorials, uh video, that kind of thing. And I'm here with uh my good friend Darius. How you doing today, Dar? Hi Dave. I'm Darius. I'm uh doing developer experience at MX. So uh lots of overlap with Dave. Really worried about making sure our docs are good, our

components are good, and uh stuff like our Versell integration is good. Yeah. And if it's not good, tell us because we want to make it better. It's the truth. And I'm not the one working on it. So Dar, you're gonna you're gonna have some late nights here coming up. Hey, uh we're here to talk to you all about video today. Um the the whole headline for this this live stream is that video, how do we make video easier on the internet? And I think a lot of the time uh when folks are Dar, I'm talking to

you here too. When folks are starting off with video, they're like, "What do you mean easier? Video is easy." Video is easy. Like you just an MP4, right? It's it's it's not even that. Like not even that. Like you could take your your phone out and point it at something just like a picture and take a video and now it plays back and like I can take and yeah, there's there's the MP4 underneath, but you don't even think about that as like a as a user. You're just like it's a video. It's like a picture. I don't know. Who cares about the format? And uh there's some truth to that. Let's let's be straightforward. like the the way that a video is

recorded and contained in a single file and played back on a local device. It's I mean there's a lot of complicated things happening under there, but it the user experience of it all pretty easy, pretty smooth. It all it all plays back and kind of just for the most time it kind of works. And the tricky part really comes in with video on the internet uh and how it gets to you over from one machine to another machine and how how you can watch things that are hosted elsewhere on different servers dealing with a lot of the complexities

of you know devices the different devices that are all over the board and the different network conditions and and all these little user experience moments that you have to optimize for that you don't really think about when you think about watching a video on your phone, right? That's all that's all pretty simple. Um, but video video is just kind of this web of complexity. Uh, and you don't really learn about it until you learn about it until you start to hit some of those different pain points. And Darius, you came into MX before, I think, having any video experience. Did you what was your impression of video