Kodi vs MediaMTX

Both are self-hosted media streaming - multimedia streaming projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Kodi scores 95 against MediaMTX's 84, putting it ahead on the strength of a higher commit volume. That measures project health, not feature fit — MediaMTX may still be the right choice if it does what you need.
KodiMediaMTX
Health score 95/100 84/100
Commits (11 mo) 3191 555
Commits (last 3 mo) 1138 219
Stars 21k 20k
Latest release 27 Sept 2026 20 Sept 2026
Licence GPL-2.0 MIT
Built with C++, deb Go, Docker
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Kodi

Multimedia/Entertainment center, formerly known as XBMC. Runs on Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS and Windows.

95/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 38/40
Releases 25/25
Community 18/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 94% of tracked projects; popularity more than 88%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 202 commits 2025-11: 244 commits 2025-12: 209 commits 2026-01: 232 commits 2026-02: 321 commits 2026-03: 249 commits 2026-04: 258 commits 2026-05: 338 commits 2026-06: 172 commits 2026-07: 336 commits 2026-08: 630 commits

MediaMTX

Ready-to-use, zero-dependency real-time media server and proxy to publish, read, record, playback and route video/audio streams over SRT, WebRTC, RTSP, RTMP, HLS, MPEG-TS, RTP.

84/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 27/40
Releases 25/25
Community 18/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 66% of tracked projects; popularity more than 88%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 0 commits 2025-11: 0 commits 2025-12: 39 commits 2026-01: 51 commits 2026-02: 75 commits 2026-03: 55 commits 2026-04: 70 commits 2026-05: 46 commits 2026-06: 56 commits 2026-07: 60 commits 2026-08: 103 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted media streaming - multimedia streaming.