The first time I saw the effect (the unintentional version), I was watching a video on a handheld digital-TV receiver. You also may have seen it occur while watching satellite TV during a thunderstorm, where there may be some interference with the video signal.Īs mentioned earlier, when errors occur with a compressed video’s i-frames or d-frames, datamoshing is the result. There are two distinct pixel effects this can create (or sometimes a mix between the two).
The first is if the video’s i-frames get removed.
