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Re-Recording Artefact

Definition

A visual or statistical signature introduced by pointing a camera at a screen playing back footage. Includes moiré patterns, screen reflections, temporal aliasing, and double-compression signatures.

Related terms

Bitrate Anomaly
A departure from the expected relationship between scene complexity and compressed file size. Sudden drops, plateaux, or spikes in the per-second bitrate...
Double Compression
The condition in which a video has been encoded at least twice through a lossy codec. The term is also used loosely...
Hash Verification
The process of computing a cryptographic hash (SHA-256 or equivalent) of the exhibit file and comparing it against a previously recorded value...
I-Frame (Intra-Coded Frame)
A video frame that is encoded entirely from its own pixel data, without reference to any other frame. I-frames mark the start...
P-Frame (Predictive Frame)
A frame encoded as a set of changes relative to a preceding reference frame. P-frames are smaller than I-frames because they only...

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