Trying to be cute

The internet is truly dying. There's more bots than people nowadays.

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Yes, it's my birthday today.

Why deep sea suit? Because I like it, it looks silly (and comfy).

Speaking about this:

If you're curious how digital corrupted video looks like.

TW: IT'S A BIT FLASHY!!!

This is an x264 encoded video that I purposefully corrupted by trashing it hexademically in some places. You can clearly see glitches and frame dropouts. This is not an editing effect, this is an actual corruption that H.264 decoder tries to interpolate into image.

NERD TIME.

The reason why it looks the way it does is because H.264 (as well as MPEG, MPEG-2, VP8 and many many other codes) only saves every other frame. Frames between them are NOT saved, and instead it saves MOTION of those frames. The colors and edges of the frame may be the same, but moving, which is what H.264 saves. This is called motion compensation.

When we trash the bits of this video, we may trash two things:

I-frames, A.K.A. keyframes, which is THE frame that codec expects to rely on, if we trash it then the video becomes completely messed up until we reach another keyframe; can be seen near the end of this sample;

P-frames, A.K.A. predicted frame, is the frame that only contains information about motion and color differences from the last keyframe, if we corrupt it then the video only gets partially messed up, since we only ruin the differences, and we can still somewhat see what's going on; can be seen throughout the entire sample.

There's also a third type not featured in this sample.

Guys, what just happened to @thatoctogirl ?