The anomaly happens within one second before the camera cuts to another angle. This tells me it's probably an artifact because most codecs such as mpeg4 use a series of keyframes, usually one per second, to refresh the compression on a regular basis. Lossy codecs will try to save space by tracking the movement of pixels or groups of pixels over time rather than encoding data for every pixel for every frame, hence you will sometimes see little artifacts like this in the frames leading up to or following a drastic image change.
The reason all feeds cut at the same moment was probably because the court was streaming the live feed and news networks were tapped into that for their broadcast.
The anomaly happens within one second before the camera cuts to another angle. This tells me it's probably an artifact because most codecs such as mpeg4 use a series of keyframes, usually one per second, to refresh the compression on a regular basis. Lossy codecs will try to save space by tracking the movement of pixels or groups of pixels over time rather than encoding data for every pixel for every frame, hence you will sometimes see little artifacts like this in the frames leading up to or following a drastic image change.
The reason all feeds cut at the same moment was probably because the court was streaming the live feed and news networks were tapped into that for their broadcast.
Agree, it's likely just a compression issue. You can also see the prosecutor's mouth glitch out on the same frame. (~2:22:02)
https://youtu.be/7XOsgY5pYsI?t=8522