3.How it works?

We need to understand the internal steps before using the software. It mainly contains 3 steps:

First Step

The first step is to convert the video to a raw format like avi or mpg. Mainly libx264 and mpeg2video codecs work in datamosher pro. The raw format is necessary because that file can easily be edited as their data structure is very simple. Like an avi file just have 3 parts, the header tag, movie tag (middle portion) and the Index tag. Doing operations in those are very easy and can also be done manually with hex editors. But we want automated stuff, that's why we are here.

Second Step

Here is where all the magic happens, I have researched and collected lots of data corruption techniques and tools and merged all of them to one application. Here the effect start working in the background with the raw file and it corrupts the file automatically. Then it exports the corrupted file which we needed.

Third Step

We got a corrupted file after second step, but why we need another converting step? Its because the file that we got is very unstable. Most of the time it will not work and play normally. Neither you can import that in video editors. So we need an usable file so the corrupted file is converted to a viewable form where it fixes lots of frames and stuff.

Datamosher pro uses ffmpeg to convert videos and fix corrupted the corrupted files back to stable version.

One important Tip: Press 'q' key whenever you want to end a ffmpeg conversion process so that it don't leave any temp files.