Has anyone here figured out a good workflow in Zed for working on remote servers when your projects regularly involve .mp4 files?

A lot of my work is over SSH, and one thing I keep running into is that I can’t directly view .mp4 files inside the editor. That makes it a bit awkward when I’m debugging or iterating on things that generate videos as outputs.

I’m curious how people here handle this in practice:

  • Do you just keep a separate local video viewer open?
  • Are you copying files back locally each time?
  • Do you use some kind of remote mount / sync setup?
  • Is there a plugin, extension, or workflow I’m missing that makes this smoother?

Would especially love to hear from people doing robotics, ML, vision, simulation, or anything else where video outputs are a normal part of the loop.

Right now it feels like Zed is great for the coding side, but I’m not sure what the cleanest workflow is once media files are part of the process.

Posted Apr 6, 2026, 10:20 PM UTC

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