[Script request]: mediacms

[frontend-report[bot]]

Application

• Name: mediacms
• Website: https://mediacms.io/
• Source Repository: https://github.com/mediacms-io/mediacms

Requested by: @Ivann136

Description

MediaCMS is a modern, fully featured open source video and media CMS, written in Python/Django and React, featuring a REST API. It lets you build a small to medium self-hosted video and media portal within minutes, with complete control over your data. It supports multiple publishing workflows (public, private, unlisted, custom), Role-Based Access Control, automatic transcription through a local Whisper integration, and multiple media types: video, audio, image and PDF. In short, it's a self-hostable YouTube-style alternative for communities, organizations or education.

Why should this be added?

Homelabbers frequently want a private, self-hosted media/video portal (family videos, internal documentation, course recordings, archives) without relying on cloud platforms. Today MediaCMS officially ships only as a Docker Compose stack or a single-server bash installer, so a dedicated helper script would let users deploy it as a lightweight native Debian LXC in one command — no Docker layer required — which fits the project's typical pattern of clean per-app LXC installs. It pairs well with the kind of self-hosted stack many of these users already run.

Installation Notes

Stack / services: Django/Python/Celery backend + React frontend. Runtime services are Django (app server) behind Nginx, PostgreSQL (database), Redis (broker/cache), and Celery workers + Celery beat for asynchronous transcoding. FFmpeg is required for video processing/HLS. GitHub
Optional: OpenAI Whisper for automatic transcription — not enabled by default; it uses a much larger image (≈4 GB "full" vs ≈400 MB base). GitHub
Ports: HTTP on port 80 by default; HTTPS (443) is optional via a Let's Encrypt setup. (Internally Postgres 5432 / Redis 6379.) GitHub
Install methods: an automated script that installs and configures all needed services on a single server, or Docker Compose. Base image is python:3.13.5-slim-bookworm and the project now uses uv instead of pip. GitHubGitHub
Resource sizing: for a small-to-medium install, 4 GB RAM / 2–4 CPUs is a reasonable minimum. For disk, budget roughly 3× the size of expected uploads, since originals, encoded versions and HLS are all kept. GitHubGitHub
License: GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL-3.0). GitHub
Known limitations: transcoding is CPU-heavy (FFmpeg); storage grows fast due to the keep-everything model; Whisper transcription is resource-intensive and off by default.

Due Diligence

• Searched existing scripts, no duplicates: Yes
• Searched existing discussions, no duplicate requests: Yes
• Has official public source repository: Yes
• Self-hosted and suitable for Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts: Yes
• Actively maintained with official releases/tags/tarballs: Yes
• Understands requests outside scope may be closed: Yes

[sandwitcherz]

Hello, MediaCMS have stopped bare metal installs since 8.0... We are only on docker now. Sadly.

8.0.1 : removes local single server setup, as it's impractical to maintain anymore. And last version is v8.3.2 ...