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.
> 
>