Datamosh

Datamosh is a python script for datamoshing MPEG4-encoded AVI videos.

Here's an example of a datamoshed video I found on the internet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAAMYkcZqkE

Getting Started

These instructions will get you the project up and running on your local mac. See Running Datamosh for notes on how to datamosh a video.

Python3

Follow these next set of instructions if your mac does not have Python 3 installed.

If you dont have hombrew installed, open your terminal and run:

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null

Then install Python3 using:

$ brew install python3

ffmpeg

Follow these next set of instructions if your mac does not have ffmpeg installed.

If you dont have hombrew installed, open your terminal and run:

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" < /dev/null 2> /dev/null

Then install ffmpeg, by running the following in the terminal:

$ brew install ffmpeg

Running Datamosh

To datamosh a video, run the following command in your terminal once you cd into the directory

$ python3 datamosh.py [video file name]

The datamoshed video will be in a new directory: datamoshed_videos/