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    Thank you for this solution. Trying to tunnel RTSP over SSH using ffmpeg/ffplay or some other solution involving http servers, etc, is so much more complicated than encoding to matroska and using stdout/stdin for the connection! Commented Dec 21, 2021 at 19:43
  • For anyone getting the error message Unable to find a suitable output format for 'pipe:' pipe:: Invalid argument: when outputting to a Unix pipe, ffmpeg requires to have an output format explicitly specified, just as erik does in his answer: ... -f matroska - | ffplay ... Commented Mar 18, 2022 at 13:02
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    This one worked for me, but with a 10-second delay. Both computers are hard wired with cat5e to the same 1G switch. Commented Nov 12, 2022 at 21:38
  • @JayRugMan The delay comes from buffers being filled before playing. If you find a solution with smaller or zero buffers that have less delay you can comment here. Commented Nov 14, 2022 at 7:19
  • The mpv version doesn't work for me but the mplayer version does. mpv will complain about invalid input and exit while mplayer will wait a while and then play something with a huge delay. Commented Oct 22, 2023 at 23:57