#vlc really be the goat

[likehalfofuswillmakeitidk]

Shuffle your favorite playlist and post the first five songs that come up. Then copy/paste this ask to your favorite mutuals. 💌💜

❀ Foliage ❀ - Take Your Time, I Don't Mind The Oh Hellos - O Sleeper The Mountain Goats - Commandante The Hotelier - Your Deep Rest GEL - No Warning

I hope it's ok that i just loaded up all my music in vlc and used shuffle cause I dont really have any playlists

Thanks for the ask! ^_^

[connorchen-saddog8]

datamoshing tests :3

hey guyssss its been a while

the goat rudy recently taught me how to databend videos using avidemux and audacity and im no gatekeeper so heres some experiments I did and yep thats the yep.

(most photos and videos are from an upcoming doomslut project so be prepared for that yaya yayayayyaya subscrie and smash that like button and smash and smash)

photos~

these r just made by opening a jpeg in text edit and altering shitttt yeahhhh... (i haven't figured out how to do that on a windows system yet, i assume different file type requirements are needed? or text edit on os system operates differently to windows....)

also not sure if these images will upload correctly given they are all sorts of fucked data wise. I also found that (especially with video) the databending shows up differently on every device, not just across operating systems.)

I found that when messing with the data its best to leave the most beginning and end untouched. I know nothing about data but im assuming thats where the more important information of the image is kept, so messing with those corrupts the file entirely and makes it unable to open. Same applies to messing with the data in audio form.

Videoooos

Here's how it goessss:

Open up your video in Avidemux and change your settings to these and save it as an mp4

2. import that video into audacity (import -> raw data) with these settings

3. mess with the audio track (a little bit) be sure to not fuck with the very beginning or end, just select a small chunk in the middle. (i found using the effects of change pitch or tempo to be the most reliable.) Also try this out with small changes because it is very easy to completely decimate the information and you will have no video.

4. export out of audacity as audio, using this file type.

5. once you have the video as a .raw, rename it and change it to a .mp4. It's a bit annoying in windows as you have to go into file explorer settings and change the setting to not hide file extension types for this to work.

6. open up the mp4 in vlc (it works a bit better i find) and yeahhh thats it.

on selecting the source video: datamoshing is basically looking at the pixels? stuff in the video file itself and looking at movement, so for results of the typical weird movement meshing kind you'd want a video filmed from a stable angle where the only movement is the subject of the video. But using videos where the camera moves as well also produce some interestin effects! i am not at all knowledgeable on this so do whatever yknow.)

these are from video tests... tom being consumed by the digital universe at university of sydney 4k.

this is an example where i think i used pitch shift -0.1. I found when doing this it has good results at the start and end, but the middle of the video just seems to pause? I screen recorded replaying it in VLC.

In this example i used pitch shifting up and down in little sections. +0.1 and -0.1

Some videos and files are hard to upload in their original files since the data is so distorted... my best idea to solve these problems would just be to screen record them to get them back to a blank slate data-wise.

an experiment on a different video. (forgot what effects i applied but it is most likely pitch shift) Produced some interesting pixel effects. It's pretty standard distortion until about 10 seconds into the video where it just becomes a wall of blue with a really jarring sound! eek! aagh! aaagh! im gonna kill myself!

yeah thats about it.