What is obs-distort-filter?

OBS Glitch / Distortion Filter is a plugin for OBS Studio, the popular free software used by streamers and content creators to capture and broadcast video. This plugin adds a visual filter that makes any video source, your webcam, a screen capture, or a media file, look like a malfunctioning camera or a degraded video transmission. The effect is entirely cosmetic, the stream still works, it just appears broken in a stylized way. The filter layers about sixteen individual effects, each controlled by its own slider that can be adjusted in real time while watching a preview. Pixelation breaks the image into blocky chunks. RGB channel shift separates the red and blue color planes to create a chromatic aberration look. Wave distortion warps the image with a sine wave ripple. Scanlines and interlacing add an old CRT television aesthetic. Packet loss simulates corrupted macroblocks, the rectangular artifacts that appear when video compression fails. Freeze frames randomly pause the animation to mimic a stuck video decoder. Additional effects include flicker, random brightness pulses, ghost, a faint trailing echo, horizontal hold, old TV jitter, and a rolling dark interference bar. Most effects also have per-effect randomizers that make them vary unpredictably frame to frame rather than looping smoothly. The plugin is written in C and installs as a native OBS plugin with automatic installer scripts provided for Windows, Linux, and macOS. After installation, users apply it through OBS Studio's built in filter menu by right clicking any source. The project is free and open source. The full README is longer than what was shown.