MediaMTX
The facts below are what the maker publishes about MediaMTX, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From MediaMTX's own pricing page, checked 4 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| MediaMTX | Free | No paid plans or usage limits stated on the pages reviewed · Free, open source |
The facts
Each one read from MediaMTX's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- 24/7 looping
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- API and metrics
- The server provides a Control API and exposes metrics in a Prometheus-compatible format.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Authentication
- Credentials can be checked against an internal configuration-file database, an external HTTP server, or an external JWT provider.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Cloud recording
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
- Custom RTMP destinations
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- MediaMTX is available as a standalone binary, Docker image, Arch Linux package, FreeBSD package, and OpenWrt binary.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The documentation names FFmpeg, GStreamer, OBS Studio, Python, Go, Unity, web browsers, Raspberry Pi cameras, and VLC among compatible publishing or reading tools and sources.checked 4 Oct 2026
- License
- The main MediaMTX repository code is released under the MIT License.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Multistreaming
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Product
- MediaMTX is a ready-to-use, zero-dependency live media server and proxy for publishing, reading, proxying, recording, and playing back real-time audio and video streams.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Protocol conversion
- Streams are automatically converted from one supported protocol to another.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Protocols
- It supports Media-over-QUIC, SRT, WebRTC, RTSP, RTMP, HLS, MPEG-TS, and RTP for publishing, with several protocols also supported for reading.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Recording
- MediaMTX can record streams to disk in fMP4 or MPEG-TS format and play recordings back from disk.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Security
- Release binaries have public SHA256 checksums whose attestations can be verified through Sigstore, and vulnerabilities can be reported privately using GitHub Security Advisories.checked 4 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Browser-based studio
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Supported desktop platforms
- The documentation says MediaMTX is compatible with Linux, Windows, and macOS, and runs as a single executable without dependencies or an interpreter.checked 4 Oct 2026
The company
- Company
- The pages reviewed identify the project and GitHub repository but do not state a maker name, headquarters, or founding date.checked 4 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
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