Somewhat related: who is using MUX successfully?<p>We connected it with our Rails app (main reason was that we jse inertia-rails and React on the frontend).<p>With MUX you give it a URL to create videos. That doesn’t work with google drive, so we do some hacks in a background job and click download, then store it in activestorage. Then provide MUX with our url.<p>API and backend is good. Pricing also cheaper than S3 in most cases. We are not live yet, but it works reliably so far.
From the article:<p><i>> Your turn: can you think of a worse player UX?</i><p>Require the user to continually spin a vintage rotary controller from an old Arkanoid machine at a rotational speed in RPMs roughly matching the video's frame rate in order to maintain smooth playback.
When I have made custom video players, the key is to replicate all the expected behaviors (space bar pauses, etc) and then add bells n whistles from there. The <video> API is (I think) always the ultimate arbiter, so respect the user expecting it to be so.