MediaCMS

A Django and React video and media portal for hosting, organizing and sharing video, audio, images and PDFs on your own server.

5.2k stars, 984 forks Python On GitHub since December 2020

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MediaCMS at a glance

Open sourceYes, AGPL-3.0No paid parts in the repository
Health63 of 100Actively developed
Self-hostingDockerCompose file, 6 services
Interface56 languagesIncluding English, German and French
Issue repliesWithin ~11 hoursMedian first reply; 50% of recent issues answered

What is MediaCMS?

MediaCMS builds a small to medium video portal for an organization. Media can be public, private, unlisted or follow custom workflows, and role-based access control groups users with view or edit rights. It transcribes video automatically with a locally run Whisper model, trims clips, offers playlists, categories and tags, live search and embed codes. SAML handles single sign-on, and LTI 1.3 plus a Moodle plugin bring media into learning platforms. A REST API is included, and the interface ships in 56 languages.

Good fit if

  • Your school or company needs an internal video library with permissions instead of a paid video host.
  • You want media embedded in Moodle or another LMS.

Look elsewhere if

  • You want public video channels that federate with other servers: PeerTube.
  • You want a personal library for films and shows: Jellyfin.

Before you adopt it

MediaCMS is AGPL-3.0 and contains no paid parts. One developer writes nearly all the code, with two others helping. Docker Compose runs it with PostgreSQL, Redis and Celery workers, and transcoding needs adequate CPU.

Drafted with AI from the project's README and repository data, then checked against that data on 31 October 2026. Report a correction

How to run MediaCMS yourself

Docker
Dockerfile or compose file in the repository
Compose file
docker-compose.yaml: 6 services (postgres, redis)
Setup effort
3 of 5, judged from the compose file
Kubernetes
No Helm chart in the repository
Desktop and mobile
No app builds in GitHub releases
Interface languages
56 languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian and Turkish
Show all 56

Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Divehi, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Irish, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh

Install instructions: mediacms.io or the README on GitHub.

MediaCMS health: is it still maintained?

63 of 100, actively developed

Release rhythmEvery ~3 daysLatest: v9.4.0, 26 October 2026
Issue repliesWithin ~11 hoursMedian first reply; 50% of recent issues answered
Bus factorHigh riskThe most active of 3 authors wrote 88% of recent commits
  • Activity
    27 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 26 October 2026.
    18 / 30
  • Contributors
    3 people wrote the 27 commits of the last 90 days; the most active wrote 88% of them.
    5 / 20
  • Releases
    15+ releases in the last 12 months; the latest, v9.4.0, on 26 October 2026.
    19 / 20
  • Replies to issues
    Maintainers answered 50% of recent issues, with a median first reply after 11 hours.
    16 / 20
  • Security practices
    No OpenSSF Scorecard for this repository yet, so this part gets a neutral score.
    5 / 10

Read from GitHub on 6 November 2026. How the score works

MediaCMS license: is it open source?

MediaCMS uses AGPL-3.0, an open-source license approved by the OSI.

  1. December 2020First published on GitHub.
  2. TodayAGPL-3.0.

MediaCMS for developers

Written in

  • Python 36%
  • JavaScript 27%
  • TypeScript 21%
  • SCSS 5%
  • CSS 5%
  • Other 6%

Getting involved

Contributing guideNot foundNo CONTRIBUTING file in the repository
Open issues144On GitHub
Authors, 90 days3Of 27 commits
DonationsGitHub SponsorsListed on GitHub

Language shares are GitHub’s count of the code in the repository.

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Questions about MediaCMS

Is MediaCMS open source?

Yes. MediaCMS is published under AGPL-3.0, an OSI-approved open-source license.

Is MediaCMS still maintained?

Its health score is 63 of 100 (actively developed). It had 27 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 26 October 2026, and its latest release came out on 26 October 2026.

How do I run MediaCMS?

You can run it with Docker. The README on GitHub has the exact steps.

What is MediaCMS written in?

MediaCMS is written in Python (36% of the code), with JavaScript (27%) and TypeScript (21%), by GitHub’s count of the repository.

What languages is MediaCMS available in?

The repository has interface translations for 56 languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish and Russian.

What are the alternatives to MediaCMS?

Close alternatives in the Media servers & streaming category include SRS, Owncast, PeerTube.