Codec Melt
Play the melt of a dying video codec: every key hammers a real hardware VideoEncoder into starvation so its DCT macroblocks explode into blooming, color-banded slabs that heal as the note decays.
it melts & sings on its own · press Start to unlock sound and the keys
Read the design notes
A Canvas2D scene of drifting violet blobs is fed frame-by-frame into a real VideoEncoder (VP8) at a deliberately starved bitrate, decoded straight back with VideoDecoder, and upscaled nearest-neighbour so the compression artifacts are the render. Datamosh as an instrument.
After Takeshi Murata’s Monster Movie, Rosa Menkman’s glitch work, Nino Filiu’s SuperMosh, and Sven König’s aPpRoPiRaTe! See README.md.