MUX support

[Vintotan]

Hi,

I would like to know if there is an integration of Vidstack into the MUX ecosystem planned. Due to the repo, MUX is a supporter of this project, isn't it?

Cheers,
Tin

[mihar-22]

Hey @Vintotan!

Ye we're huge fans of Mux and would love to see improved integration over time :) What would you like to see? What's missing today?

[Vintotan]

Integrated WebVTT support

Currently, I' using the Mux video player and a very nice feature is the Timeline hover preview which is autogenerated when encoding video files using Mux.

Mux Data integration

It would be very nice if there would be a Mux Data integration of the Vidstack player so that people can get analytics and metrics from the Mux Data console.

[mihar-22]

Thumbnails

We already support thumbnails via the media-slider-thumbnail component. Mux provides a simple URL to get the storyboard VTT file which looks something like this https://image.mux.com/{PLAYBACK_ID}/storyboard.vtt. All you need to do is paste it in the src of the thumbnail component like so:

<media-time-slider>
  <media-slider-thumbnail src="https://image.mux.com/{PLAYBACK_ID}/storyboard.vtt" />
</media-time-slider>

Mux Data

Ye we'd love to add a smooth Mux Data integration. I believe it already works on top of native video element today so you can connect it, but for a tighter and improved integration we'll need to talk to the team.

Mux Provider

We'll definitely look into adding a Mux provider which will simplify integration so all you'll need to do is provide a playback ID. This will most likely happen after 1.0.