FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
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FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
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Re: FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
#2This page doesn't explain what FFglitch does, or how it's different to ffmpeg. For instance, what's Glitch? I'm guessing it's an architecture, but the post doesn't explain what it is or contextualize the term "architecture."
Re: FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
#3This page doesn't explain what FFglitch does, or how it's different to ffmpeg. For instance, what's Glitch? I'm guessing it's an architecture, but the post doesn't explain what it is or contextualize the term "architecture."
The clearly labeled "What?" button at the top of the page explains everything.
Re: FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
#4This page doesn't explain what FFglitch does, or how it's different to ffmpeg. For instance, what's Glitch? I'm guessing it's an architecture, but the post doesn't explain what it is or contextualize the term "architecture."
From what i understand "glitch art" is using compression artifacts and encoding errors as art.
Presumably ffglitch is ffmpeg with code to fudge the file checksums so that encoding errors are allowed to accumulate instead of triggering an error.
Re: FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
#5This page doesn't explain what FFglitch does, or how it's different to ffmpeg. For instance, what's Glitch? I'm guessing it's an architecture, but the post doesn't explain what it is or contextualize the term "architecture."
The clearly labeled "What?" button at the top of the page explains everything.
The what button doesn't explain much.
As far as I know, "glitching" is opening a jpeg file with a text editor then deleting random ranges of characters, saving it again and then letting image viewers try to open the file, resulting in artifacts being added to the image.
This project seems to do the same for video files, but generating a valid video at the end.
Re: FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
#6Not a lot of info on the page about the process, etc, but this is also called "datamoshing." If you're curious, there's a great talk from Demuxed '21 on some of the details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qtia43DGSrY
Re: FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
#7Glitch art, not glitch arch. The main page https://ffglitch.org/ is a slightly better introduction to the project.
Re: FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
#8You know, i was all ready to be dismissive of this, using encoder errors for art sounds silly.
But i watched the video and it really was cool and artistic.
Re: FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
#9Awesome! I remember seeing Datamosh 2 plugin for After Effects, but didn't know it used this open source project. Turns out there is a whole bunch of GUIs for ffglitch: https://ffglitch.org/frontends/
Re: FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The clearly labeled "What?" button at the top of the page explains everything.
The what button doesn't explain much. As far as I know, "glitching" is opening a jpeg file with a text editor then deleting random ranges of characters, saving it again and then letting image viewers try to open the file, resulting in artifacts being added to the image. This project seems to do the same for video files, but generating a valid video at the end.
That is “data bending” (borrowed from “circuit bending”; e.g. opening a toy that makes sound and using ‘a moist finger’ probing the pcb for changes in sound). Glitching is the intentional act of introducing errors in hardware or software, to expose the inner workings (in the case of Glitch art, this was the original aim, to expose ‘the ghost in the machine’). Rosa Menkman wrote extensively about Glitch Art here: https://beyondresolution.info/Glitch-Studies-Manifesto