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Old 18th December 2008, 22:23   #1  |  Link
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Deliberately Terrible Compression

First of all, I'd like to say thank you to the community at large - I've learned pretty much all I know about compression from this forum and I appreciate the enormous amount of time people here devote to helping out all the newbies like me.

Recently I've become really interested in "painting" with compression. By compressing bad source, encouraging generational artifacts and other methods I've created some interesting effects, but nothing I think has been really successful. There's an artist named Takeshi Murata who does incredible work and I've been trying to figure out how. Here's an example of his footage.

My first assumption was that he was simply choosing his source footage really carefully and then encoding it with few to no I or P frames and minimal scenecut detection. I tried this out and did get /some/ smearing, but nothing as colorful as what he created. This may be due to my source footage not being crappy enough, or perhaps the wrong codec. I can't tell what he's using, but it looks more like Xvid to me than anything else.

If anyone has ideas, I'd love to hear them. Thanks!
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Old 18th December 2008, 22:42   #2  |  Link
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You could also modify the encoder to intentionally make awful decisions...
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Old 18th December 2008, 22:50   #3  |  Link
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Oh! Not being much of a hacker I hadn't thought about that. Do you think that's what Murata has done (among other things)?
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Wow I am impressed I thought encoding couldn't get any worse then this comes up... Again I say wow...

You could try encoding at a super low bitrate if your looking to duplicate his results... Maybe M$ asf
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Thanks Ajax, I'll try it out. I don't fully understand "M$ asf"... could you help me out there?
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Try going crazy with x264's psychovisual options, and playing with deblocking.

Ajax means Microsoft's ASF format. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Systems_Format

Thanks for the link, looks very intriguing

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I really like Murata's work!

Amazing stuff.

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First of all, I'd like to say thank you to the community at large - I've learned pretty much all I know about compression from this forum and I appreciate the enormous amount of time people here devote to helping out all the newbies like me.

Recently I've become really interested in "painting" with compression. By compressing bad source, encouraging generational artifacts and other methods I've created some interesting effects, but nothing I think has been really successful. There's an artist named Takeshi Murata who does incredible work and I've been trying to figure out how. Here's an example of his footage.

My first assumption was that he was simply choosing his source footage really carefully and then encoding it with few to no I or P frames and minimal scenecut detection. I tried this out and did get /some/ smearing, but nothing as colorful as what he created. This may be due to my source footage not being crappy enough, or perhaps the wrong codec. I can't tell what he's using, but it looks more like Xvid to me than anything else.

If anyone has ideas, I'd love to hear them. Thanks!
That looks more like sophisticated image processing than purely severe compression to me.

It appears as if he's dynamically and selectively adjusting the pixelation in patterns and also dynamically adjusting the colours.

No idea how you'd achieve this but I suspect it's a lot more work than you'd assume.


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Yep, I rekon definately a case of image processing and not compression induced.

Kinda reminds me of the crazy images you used to be able to get by pointing a camera at a monitor that was displaying the camera's output.

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Wombler may me correct, but AVS video converter has an array of editing effects such as Gamma saturation, Color saturation, Tempature, Embossing... ad nuaseum as well as the ususal conversion of file types. NERO, 7 and up also offers some of the saturation and compression choices that might get close this result. Try overdriving the color if you have any such programs, then squish it down to a flash file and convert back to .avi. I once created a file that looked just that bizzare by accident, but in my frustration I I did not know I had created artwork
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If you want insane funky effects, nothing but AviSynth will do, no need for AVS or Nero, etc.

Try giving random filters insane options.
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If you want insane funky effects, nothing but AviSynth will do, no need for AVS or Nero, etc.

Try giving random filters insane options.
You mean like this?

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Is that actually the same source? Wicked, I didn't know WarpSharp could make such a pronounced effect.
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Is that actually the same source?
Indeed.
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Old 21st December 2008, 03:45   #15  |  Link
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I've done that kind of stuff using video production switchers and delay lines and feed back. Fun stuff when I was the engineer at the local Public Access TV station...
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You mean like this?

I think I broke it.

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You haven't seen true filtering until you have tried HaloMaker3000Deluxe()!

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You could use this as a starting source:

http://www.soundspectrum.com/g-force...T_windowsmedia
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Encode the video and then corrupt or somehow delete the data for an I frame.
I don't know any easy way of doing this, aside from downloading a file through a torrent, and only letting it finish about 50%.
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Another way is to a feedback loop consisting of:

Source with blurring/deblocking/smearing (avisynth)
encode from source and output as the input to the source.avs file using crappy settings (qp 35 anyone?)
Rinse, repeat.
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