[therealwardo]

Matt Ward - engineer at Mux here. I'll address a few of your concerns. First off, I worked on building YouTube's video infrastructure for years and now I'm working on Mux's with people that built Zencoder. So our team has seen a few things, and rest assured my friend we know video is hard. That is actually part of why we started simple with just HLS which does get decent browser coverage and its works well on Android with ExoPlayer and iOS as well which a lot of our customers care about. What would you have started with?

Curious where you saw we were using the nginx rtmp module given that we don't have a public live streaming offering yet, but it is coming soon! Oh and yes nginx rtmp is probably the best open source offering on the market now so we will be using that. We've got plenty more coming as well so stay tuned.

If you want to select the quality you want to view at, that's a player decision. You can bring your own player to Mux. We think that's pretty neat. You can't bring your own CDN though, because we've taken that part of out of the equation for you. We've actually started integrating with multiple CDNs and have a Cedexis integration as well which helps us pick the optimal CDN for each playback. Hopefully handling all that configuration helps make things easier for developers just getting started with video and enables better smoother playbacks for everyone.

Finally, we are hiring so if you know some things about video and want to join us please reach out!