sphereflake Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 I was checking out the Video folder in Fallout 4 and comparing it to Skyrim and one of the first things that struck me was that all the video files were .bk2 files. After doing a check with RAD's tools (see: pictures below) I concluded that sure enough they were bink 2 files, quite unlike Skyrim's bink 1 files. This presents a nasty issue since currently there is no freely available bink 2 encoder. I tried some quick and dirty ways to get Fallout 4 to play bink 1 files by playing around with the extensions but no dice, it vehemently refuses to play them. I feel that this issue is quite relevant to modders since it can limit the possibilities for mods if left unresolved. Ideas, anyone? Here's some data from radinfo.exe as an example of the problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhegonus Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 you do know to make bk2 files all you need is the radtools, convert to bik (bk1) then just rename it with the extension .bk2, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sphereflake Posted December 8, 2015 Author Share Posted December 8, 2015 (edited) Like I noted above (maybe somewhat vaguely), I tried that and Fallout 4 just rejected it. The game may only be expecting bink 2 and it gives up when I give it bink 1. Edited December 8, 2015 by sphereflake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sphereflake Posted December 8, 2015 Author Share Posted December 8, 2015 (edited) Well I f***ed up... It turned out that maybe the reason why it wasn't playing wasn't that the game only accepted bink2 but maybe that I was giving too big a file (600MB). I tried with a tiny (230KB) one at it worked! Which raises the question what the limit for bink video files is. I also just realised that I used different settings when encoding it so that might be the reason it wasn't playing. Well I sure feel dumb right now. Edited December 8, 2015 by sphereflake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dhegonus Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 what settings did you use in the ecndoing that got it to work etc? and how did you get it to work? just rename it .bk2 post render or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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