It sees us differently.

I can’t — it’s rewriting the video driver in real time.

No. Bug in the DVR firmware.

But think of the data we could collect. Ghost biometrics. Frequency analysis.

Or a properly formatted pull request.

Who is that?

ffmpeg -f lavfi -i "life=s=400x300:mold=10:r=60:ratio=0.1:death_color=red" -t 10 output.mkv That’s Conway’s Game of Life. It’s simulating ghost emergence. The camera thinks it’s a ghost now.

Analyzing interlacing artifacts. If the ghost moved during a frame write… (reads output) Whoa. There are extra fields. Metadata timestamps don’t match wall clock. Something wrote into the video stream after capture.