having your ssh credentials in the same address space as image/video decoding seems suboptimal?
On 2026/02/18 20:47, Joel Carnat wrote: > Hello, > > It is not currently possible to display videos through SSH using ffmpeg > based-software, mpv for example. The attached patch enables libssh > within ffmpeg. With this, I can for example browse a remote server using > sftp URL in Thunar and select mpv to display the video. > > I briefly tested it using ffmpeg versions from 7.8 and -snapshot ports > tree. The attached patch is for ffmpeg 8 on the -snapshot branch. I can > also provide the patch for ffmpeg 6 on the -7.8 branch if needed. > > Hope it helps, > Joel C.
