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