Mux Video

This example uses Mux Video, an API-first platform for video. The example features video uploading and playback in a Next.js application.

Demo

https://with-mux-video.vercel.app/

This project was used to create stream.new

Deploy your own

Deploy the example using Vercel:

How to use

Execute create-next-app with npm, Yarn, or pnpm to bootstrap the example:

npx create-next-app --example with-mux-video with-mux-video-app

yarn create next-app --example with-mux-video with-mux-video-app

pnpm create next-app --example with-mux-video with-mux-video-app

Note

Important: When creating uploads, this demo sets cors_origin: "*" in the pages/api/upload.js file. For extra security, you should update this value to be something like cors_origin: 'https://your-app.com', to restrict uploads to only be allowed from your application.

This example uses:

• SWR — dynamically changing the refreshInterval depending on if the client should be polling for updates or not
• /pages/api routes — a couple endpoints for making authenticated requests to the Mux API.
• Dynamic routes using getStaticPaths and fallback: true, as well as dynamic API routes.

Configuration

Step 1. Create an account in Mux

All you need to set this up is a Mux account. You can sign up for free and pricing is pay-as-you-go. There are no upfront charges, you get billed monthly only for what you use.

Without entering a credit card on your Mux account all videos are in “test mode” which means they are watermarked and clipped to 10 seconds. If you enter a credit card all limitations are lifted and you get \$20 of free credit. The free credit should be plenty for you to test out and play around with everything before you are charged.

Step 2. Set up environment variables

Copy the .env.local.example file in this directory to .env.local (which will be ignored by Git):

cp .env.local.example .env.local

Then, go to the settings page in your Mux dashboard set each variable on .env.local, get a new API Access Token and set each variable in .env.local:

• MUX_TOKEN_ID should be the TOKEN ID of your new token
• MUX_TOKEN_SECRET should be TOKEN SECRET

Step 3. Deploy on Vercel

You can deploy this app to the cloud with Vercel (Documentation).

To deploy on Vercel, you need to set the environment variables using Vercel CLI (Documentation).

Install the Vercel CLI, log in to your account from the CLI, and run the following commands to add the environment variables. Replace the values with the corresponding strings in .env.local:

vercel secrets add next_example_mux_token_id <MUX_TOKEN_ID>
vercel secrets add next_example_mux_token_secret <MUX_TOKEN_SECRET>

Then push the project to GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket and import to Vercel to deploy.