The present invention is applicable to the field of digital home networks and provides a method and apparatus for media information access control, and a digital home multimedia system. The method includes aggregating media information and access rights information of the media information on a first media server. The method also includes returning, to a control device that sends a media access request, a media information list which the control device has rights to access. The media information list is returned according to the aggregated media information and the aggregated access rights information of the media information. The present invention ensures security of the media information in the digital home multimedia system when the media information in the digital home multimedia system is aggregated for browsing.