bluenviron

    bluenviron/mediamtx

    Ready-to-use Media-over-QUIC / SRT / WebRTC / RTSP / RTMP / LL-HLS / MPEG-TS / RTP live media server and media proxy that allows to read, publish, proxy, record and playback real-time video and audio streams.

    20.6K stars
    2.4K forks
    20.6K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 3, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 9 days ago, with 140 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #31 in the weekly ranking the week of Jul 19, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a zero-dependency real-time media server and proxy for publishing, reading, proxying, recording, and playback of live video and audio streams.
    • Enables seamless protocol conversion and hot configuration reloading without disconnecting clients, simplifying media stream management across diverse protocols.
    • Use for building live streaming platforms that require multi-protocol input and output support like RTSP, RTMP, WebRTC, and SRT.
    • Use for recording and archiving live media streams in fMP4 or MPEG-TS formats for later playback or analysis.
    • Use for integrating media routing and proxying capabilities into existing infrastructure with authentication and control API support.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

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    • README: present

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    From the README

    MediaMTX is a ready-to-use and zero-dependency real-time media server and media proxy that allows to publish, read, proxy, record and playback video and audio streams. It has been conceived as a "media router" that routes media streams from one end to the other.

    Excerpt from the bluenviron/mediamtx README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    2.4K+127

    Open issues

    219+19

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