mediacms

MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django and React, featuring a REST API.

⭐ 4,886 stars on GitHub · 🍴 910 forks · 📜 License: agpl-3.0 · 💻 Language: JavaScript

What is mediacms?

A self-hosted media server — turn your NAS/VPS into a personal cinema. Stream movies & music to your household without subscription dependency.

Main components

• Complete control over your data: host it yourself!
• Modern technologies: Django/Python/Celery, React.
• Support for multiple publishing workflows: public, private, unlisted and custom
• Role-Based Access Control (RBAC): create RBAC categories and connect users to groups with view/edit access on their media
• Automatic transcription: through integration with Whisper running locally
• Multiple media types support: video, audio, image, pdf
• Multiple media classification options: categories, tags and custom
• Multiple media sharing options: social media share, videos embed code generation

The biggest strength is offline-first streaming + ad-free + unlimited library scaled by your disk size.

Best for families building home theaters, small hotels streaming internal media, creators archiving work.

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ audio
• 🏷️ cms
• 🏷️ django
• 🏷️ media
• 🏷️ mediacms
• 🏷️ open-source
• 🏷️ react
• 🏷️ rest-api
• 🏷️ self-hosted
• 🏷️ sharing

📸 Screenshots

Quick install

The project supports Docker Compose:

git clone https://github.com/mediacms-io/mediacms.git
cd mediacms
docker compose up -d

Check the README in the repo for required env variables.

Minimum system requirements

⚡ Deploy fast on VSIS

Use the VSIS VPS Standard 4GB RAM / 2 vCPU / 50GB SSD (~150k/tháng) plan from VSIS.NET — high-speed VN-based VPS, 24/7 support, ideal for running mediacms smoothly.

🎯 Benefits:

• One-command docker compose up -d deploy in 2 minutes
• Dedicated IPv4, root access, unmetered domestic bandwidth
• Daily snapshot backup
• Free install assistance from the VSIS team

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: mediacms-io/mediacms
• 🌐 Homepage: https://mediacms.io
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 05/05/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.