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.