📺 Friendly multilateral video toolkit

Break, bend, repair & automate video.

Videobeaux turns focused command-line programs into an artist-led video-processing system—from controlled datamoshing and frame stutter to conversion, extraction, compositing, and chainable workflows.

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Built for artists by artists. Feed it an MP4, choose a program, and let the television do something useful—or wonderfully incorrect.

Not one effect. A whole strange workshop.

A real toolkit behind the mascot.

60+

documented effects and utilities

1

consistent command-line interface

A→B

chainable processing workflows

MP4

input-focused, practical operation

What does Videobeaux do?

Creative damage meets practical processing.

The documentation spans playful image destruction, repeatable editorial operations, media inspection, and automation. The landing page groups those programs by the outcome a user wants—not by a wall of filenames.

The process

Input. Program. Output. Chain it again.

Videobeaux uses a consistent global command structure, while individual programs can expose their own arguments when a process needs more control.

How it works: landscape video input, Videobeaux program television, psychedelic landscape output, and a chain-it-again processing loop

Featured programs

Pick a machine.

These cards use descriptions and command structures from the project documentation.

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Getting started

The shortest route from file to altered file.

Install

Run the project install script on macOS or Linux, or configure the documented Windows prerequisites.

Choose

Use videobeaux --help to inspect available program modes and global options.

Process

Pass the program, input, and output. Add program-specific arguments only when needed.

Chain

Use chain_builder to pass one processed output directly into the next effect.

videobeaux --program PROGRAM --input INPUT_FILE --output OUTPUT_FILE [program options]

Working examples

See the command. See what came back.

The documentation includes a basic effect, a parameterized stutter process, and a three-stage chain. Select an example to switch the command and video.

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Installation

Put the toolkit in your terminal.

Use the documented shell installer for macOS/Linux. The Windows tab preserves the prerequisites currently listed in the project docs.

Full installation docs 
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/schwwaaa/videobeaux/refs/heads/main/install.sh)"

Run this from the directory where you want the project to live. The installer explains its actions before continuing.

Feed it a video. See what comes back.

Creative effects, practical utilities, and repeatable processing chains in one friendly toolkit.

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