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QMedia

Ch 146.8of 24AI Video Search Tools
  1. 1Runs onAPI, self-hosted, Web
  2. 2CostsFree plan
  3. 3Visual searchYes
  4. 4Audio searchYes
  5. 5Multimodal searchYes
  6. 6API accessYes
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Overview

QMedia is ranked #14 of 24 in AI video search tools on Specifiction. It runs on API, Self-hosted, Web. There is a free plan.

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QMedia Free Open-source software · MIT license github.com · 8 Oct 2026

Compared on AI video search tools

Visual search
Yesgithub.com
Audio search
Yesgithub.com
Multimodal search
Yesgithub.com
API access
Yesgithub.com

Facts

Product
QMedia is an open-source multimedia AI content search engine aimed at content creators.github.com · 8 Oct 2026
Content types
It supports searching and extracting information from text, images, and short videos.github.com · 8 Oct 2026
Multimodal Q&A
It combines text, image, and short-video information in a multimodal RAG system for content search and question answering.github.com · 8 Oct 2026
Content cards
The web service presents content and its sources as cards, including breakdowns of image, text, and short-video information.github.com · 8 Oct 2026
Local use
The project says it can be deployed locally for offline search and Q&A over private data.github.com · 8 Oct 2026
Deployment
Its web service, RAG search and Q&A service, and image/text/video model service can be deployed separately.github.com · 8 Oct 2026
Models
The project documents local Ollama model switching and lists CLIP, BGE, Qanything OCR, LLaVA, and Faster Whisper among its model options.github.com · 8 Oct 2026
Integration
The RAG service supports Google content search, which the installation guide says is configurable and disabled by default.github.com · 8 Oct 2026
API
The standalone multimodal model service can provide image and text encoding, video transcription, and image OCR through an API.github.com · 8 Oct 2026
Privacy deployment
The README describes local deployment for offline search and Q&A on private data; it does not state a security certification or compliance status.github.com · 8 Oct 2026
License
QMedia is licensed under the MIT License.github.com · 8 Oct 2026
Support and community
The README links to issue reporting and requests, and invites users to join its Discord and WeChat communities.github.com · 8 Oct 2026
Dependencies
The RAG service depends on the separate mm_server service to run.github.com · 8 Oct 2026
Video setting
Video service use is configurable and is off by default in the RAG server configuration.github.com · 8 Oct 2026

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