Here are some good introductions to Avidemux: You can also do basic video editing with it, though many people edit the original videos in some other software (e.g. Datamoshing AvidemuxĪvidemux is a free tool commonly used for datamoshing.
I'd love to hear suggestions for additions or changes. I'm keeping an updated version of these notes, along with examples of running command-line scripts, here: I've written up my notes below in hopes they might be helpful for others trying to figure this out. I recently started learning about datamoshing and other video art techniques.