Introduction

Welcome to the MediaMTX documentation!

MediaMTX is a ready-to-use and zero-dependency live media server and media proxy. It has been conceived as a "media router" that routes media streams from one end to the other, with a focus on efficiency and portability.

Main features:

• Publish live streams to the server with SRT, WebRTC, RTSP, RTMP, HLS, MPEG-TS, RTP, using FFmpeg, GStreamer, OBS Studio, Python , Golang, Unity, Web browsers, Raspberry Pi Cameras and more.
• Read live streams from the server with SRT, WebRTC, RTSP, RTMP, HLS, using FFmpeg, GStreamer, VLC, OBS Studio, Python , Golang, Unity, Web browsers and more.
• Streams are automatically converted from a protocol to another
• Serve several streams at once in separate paths
• Reload the configuration without disconnecting existing clients (hot reloading)
• Serve always-available streams even when the publisher is offline
• Record streams to disk in fMP4 or MPEG-TS format
• Playback recorded streams
• Authenticate users with internal, HTTP or JWT authentication
• Forward streams to other servers
• Proxy requests to other servers
• Control the server through the Control API
• Extract metrics from the server in a Prometheus-compatible format
• Monitor performance to investigate CPU and RAM consumption
• Run hooks (external commands) when clients connect, disconnect, read or publish streams
• Compatible with Linux, Windows and macOS, does not require any dependency or interpreter, it's a single executable

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