I've had a good experience with playing files in mpv via sshfs, both local and remote. Helps a bit to enable a generous cache in mpv also. (I let it take a few

I've had a good experience with playing files in mpv via sshfs, both local and remote. Helps a bit to enable a generous cache in mpv also. (I let it take a few GB so that the average episode of something can be entirely cached if I let it sit)