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About MediaCMS

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

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MediaCMS

MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS. It is developed to meet the needs of modern web platforms for viewing and sharing media. It can be used to build a small to medium video and media portal within minutes.

It is built mostly using the modern stack Django + React and includes a REST API.

A demo is available at https://demo.mediacms.io

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Features

Complete control over your data: host it yourself!
Support for multiple publishing workflows: public, private, unlisted and custom
Modern technologies: Django/Python/Celery, React.
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
Easy media searching: enriched with live search functionality
Playlists for audio and video content: create playlists, add and reorder content
Responsive design: including light and dark themes
Advanced users management: allow self registration, invite only, closed.
Configurable actions: allow download, add comments, add likes, dislikes, report media
Configuration options: change logos, fonts, styling, add more pages
Enhanced video player: customized video.js player with multiple resolution and playback speed options
Multiple transcoding profiles: sane defaults for multiple dimensions (240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p) and multiple profiles (h264, h265, vp9)
Adaptive video streaming: possible through HLS protocol
Subtitles/CC: support for multilingual subtitle files
Scalable transcoding: transcoding through priorities. Experimental support for remote workers
Chunked file uploads: for pausable/resumable upload of content
REST API: Documented through Swagger

Example cases

Schools, education. Administrators and editors keep what content will be published, students are not distracted with advertisements and irrelevant content, plus they have the ability to select either to stream or download content.
Organization sensitive content. In cases where content is sensitive and cannot be uploaded to external sites.
Build a great community. MediaCMS can be customized (URLs, logos, fonts, aesthetics) so that you create a highly customized video portal for your community!
Personal portal. Organize, categorize and host your content the way you prefer.

Philosophy

We believe there's a need for quality open source web applications that can be used to build community portals and support collaboration.

We have three goals for MediaCMS: a) deliver all functionality one would expect from a modern system, b) allow for easy installation and maintenance, c) allow easy customization and addition of features.

License

MediaCMS is released under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 license. Copyright Markos Gogoulos and Yiannis Stergiou

Support and paid services

We provide custom installations, development of extra functionality, migration from existing systems, integrations with legacy systems, training and support. Contact us at info@mediacms.io for more information.

Hardware dependencies

For a small to medium installation, with a few hours of video uploaded daily, and a few hundreds of active daily users viewing content, 4GB Ram / 2-4 CPUs as minimum is ok. For a larger installation with many hours of video uploaded daily, consider adding more CPUs and more Ram.

In terms of disk space, think of what the needs will be. A general rule is to multiply by three the size of the expected uploaded videos (since the system keeps original versions, encoded versions plus HLS), so if you receive 1G of videos daily and maintain all of them, you should consider a 1T disk across a year (1G * 3 * 365).

Releases

Visit Releases Page for detailed Changelog

Installation / Maintanance

There are two ways to run MediaCMS, through Docker Compose and through installing it on a server via an automation script that installs and configures all needed services. Find the related pages:

Single Server page
Docker Compose page

Configuration

Visit Configuration page.

Documentation

Technology

This software uses the following list of awesome technologies: Python, Django, Django Rest Framework, Celery, PostgreSQL, Redis, Nginx, uWSGI, React, Fine Uploader, video.js, FFMPEG, Bento4

Who is using it

Cinemata non-profit media, technology and culture organization - https://cinemata.org
Critical Commons public media archive and fair use advocacy network - https://criticalcommons.org
Heritales International Heritage Film Festival - https://stage.heritales.org

How to contribute

If you like the project, here's a few things you can do - Hire us, for custom installations, training, support, maintenance work - Suggest us to others that are interested to hire us - Write a blog post/article about MediaCMS - Share on social media about the project - Open issues, participate on discussions, report bugs, suggest ideas - Star the project - Add functionality, work on a PR, fix an issue!