You could use the sshfs-fuse port to mount the remote and play the video via mpv or whatever client you like.
That way you get proper ssh and everything runs in a separate processes. On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 09:25:09PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > 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. > >
