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Well, I can't figure out how to do this (or if it is indeed possible at all), but I found a solution for my usecase: sshfs. Just mount the remote directory with sshfs using the keyfile and voila - vlc can open the remote files as local via fuse.

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I'm not sure where to look for that - "libsftp" doesn't produce any useful results in google whatsoever (and neither does "lib sftp") and "gnome-vfs", which apparently provides the libsftp.so on my system doesn't have a good documentation either. But even if I was able ...

I'm looking for a way to open a stream via sftp using a keyfile (as opposed to the usual user:password prompt vlc opens by default), but can't seem to find any documentation about this whatsoever. I'm tring to do something like vlc -i .ssh/key "sftp://user@remote.host/path/to/file/" I know...