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Been wanting to figure out how to do this for a while, ended up being pretty easy once I spent a few years in the shell with ffmpeg...
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On-the-fly video converting and streaming with ffmpeg and netcat.md

On-the-fly Video Converting and End-to-End Streaming With FFMPEG and netcat

Transcoding & Sending:

ssh -R <port>:localhost:<port> <host_with_content> ffmpeg -i <input_file> -c:v libx264 -q 1 -c:a libmp3lame -f avi pipe:1 | nc localhost <port>

Playing:

nc -l <port> | ffplay -
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