FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art

Posted by captain_bender 9/12/2025

FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art(ffglitch.org)

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mertleee 9/16/2025|

Is there any way to use this in conjunction with a mask overlay filter in ffmpeg if I just want to "glitch" part of a video?

ttoinou 9/13/2025||

My favorite datamoshing video is from 2010 before it was cool

Apres le feu de Jacques Perconte

https://www.jacquesperconte.com/oe?28

bawolff 9/12/2025||

You 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.

shit_game 9/13/2025||

Plenty of incredible works of art and story telling use glitch art to evoke feelings and notions of "brokenness" or surreality. Some pieces that come to mind are Adventure Time S5E15: A Glitch is a Glitch, created by artist David OReilly[0] and the music video for A$AP Mob - Yamborghini High made by editor Uncle Luc[1].

This of course doesnt even begin to touch on the influences glitch art has had on music and audio - it's arguable that glitch art has its origins in printing, photography/film, and in electronic music, but most deliberate uses of "glitches" as artistic vehicles tended to arise during the early eras of electronic music production. Rosa Menkman speaks in depth about the origins of glitch art in the music scene in her paper The Glitch Moment(um)[2].

0. https://rhizome.org/editorial/2013/apr/25/datamoshing-land-o...

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt7gP_IW-1w

2. https://mediarep.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/b16c898a-c6b...

epiccoleman 9/13/2025||

The quintessential example of glitch art, imo, is Adult Swim's Off the Air, which compiles various short animations and music cut together with various datamoshed transitions. While the glitch stuff isn't always the central focus it definitely goes a long way towards setting the trippy vibe they're going for.

There are too many excellent episodes to list but Animals is a great one to get a feel: https://youtu.be/59QBOO6m210

And the Dan Deacon USA special episode might be peak Off The Air:

https://youtu.be/9X4fYP9bqqw

mamonoleechi 9/13/2025|||

It can sound cool with music too:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitch_(music)

- group: the glitch mob http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frfs4tkN-AY

antegamisou 9/13/2025||

Yeah and while I can relate to your first sentiment, it's still infinitely better than some AI slop like this generative music shit that is currently at the top of the frontpage.

maxglute 9/13/2025||

Nice, watching too much datamosh / glitch art makes my brain tetris effect glitches in my dreams.

longt1melurker 9/15/2025||

simple in-browser javascript based mp4 glitch datamosher: https://free-online-app.com/glitch-vid-datamosh

pkdpic 9/13/2025||

this is beautiful, the video with the two guys in the urban landscape was especially inspiring, looking forward to experimenting with this someday

jedbrooke 9/13/2025||

cool art! seeing datamoshing like this always impresses me at how much motion is encoded in modern video codecs

Hamuko 9/13/2025||

Didn't we already have VLC for this?

mkl 9/12/2025|

Glitch art, not glitch arch. The main page https://ffglitch.org/ is a slightly better introduction to the project.

tomhow 9/13/2025|

Updated, thanks!