MediaMTX
MediaMTX is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Media Servers category, licensed MIT and written mainly in Go. It ships a Docker image. It has 20,517 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 20,517
- Forks
- 2,430
- Open issues
- 170
- Commits, last 12 months
- 752
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- v1.21.3Oct 25, 2026
- Created
- Dec 28, 2019
- License
- MITOpen source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 752 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 752 |
| Latest release | v1.21.3 (Oct 25, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 199 |
| Open issues | 170 |
| Open pull requests | 45 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | No |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Dec 28, 2019 |
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About MediaMTX
Ready-to-use, zero-dependency real-time media server and proxy to publish, read, record, playback and route video/audio streams over SRT, WebRTC, RTSP, RTMP, HLS, MPEG-TS, RTP.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/bluenviron/mediamtx.
Topics
- rtsp
- rtp
- rtcp
- streaming
- golang
- go
- rtsp-server
- rtsp-proxy
- rtmp
- rtmp-server
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Is MediaMTX free and open source?
Yes. MediaMTX is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run MediaMTX with Docker?
Yes. MediaMTX provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to MediaMTX?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to MediaMTX include Jellyfin, SRS and Invidious.
Is MediaMTX actively maintained?
The most recent commit to MediaMTX was on Oct 25, 2026 with 752 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v1.21.3, published Oct 25, 2026. It had 170 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.