Engineer AlphaTwentyThree Posted February 17 Engineer Share Posted February 17 Does anyone know of a different tool than VGMToolbox that is able to demultiplex bink video files? The videos from V-Rally 3 fail, probably due to an unsuported audio codec or otherwise differetly structured bink files. I've attached an example. Thanks for your input. demo.7z Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wssdude Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 (edited) I'm pretty sure you can do it with original tools, you can for sure replace just audio or just video with them (I did multiple times in the past). If there is muxer, there should be demuxer also. https://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm Download RAD Video Tools, these are official tools by the Bink devs. Edited February 17 by wssdude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer AlphaTwentyThree Posted March 4 Author Engineer Share Posted March 4 On 2/17/2024 at 9:19 PM, wssdude said: I'm pretty sure you can do it with original tools, you can for sure replace just audio or just video with them (I did multiple times in the past). If there is muxer, there should be demuxer also. https://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm Download RAD Video Tools, these are official tools by the Bink devs. Have you ever downloaded or used their tools? They didn't ever offer a demuxer, only ever a decoder to plain wav. So no, this doesn't help in the slightest, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wssdude Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 (edited) If you read what I wrote, yes I did use them and not once... Did you try Bink Converter? With only audio output and selecting output file type and such? It should output you .wav or such you select. Edited March 4 by wssdude Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wssdude Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 (edited) Only problem is I suppose if you need literal demux I just realised. Unsure what would be the benefit of it but sure, I guess it cant do that. But it can get you audio out with the same params in format you want. You can modify it how you want and mux it back in with Bink Audio Mixer without any issues, it should even preserve format of the old .bik files. ffmpeg may be able to demux it if you need raw audio from it, it can surely play it at least and has cmdline options for such things. But I'm a bit unsure of the benefit of pure demux as mentioned, as you would end up with a .wav file of sorts anyway during playback, can't get it more lossless than that. And you can do that with RAD tools. Even mux it back in in original format. Edited March 4 by wssdude 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer AlphaTwentyThree Posted March 5 Author Engineer Share Posted March 5 It's about preserving the original, unaltered data. So yeah, I really need a demuxer, not a decoder. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKDave Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 It's fairly easy to demux standard .BIK files to get the raw audio data, but I'm not sure if there's anything that can play it by adding a simple header. VGMToolbox can demux the audio, but only back into a BIK container without the video. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer AlphaTwentyThree Posted March 6 Author Engineer Share Posted March 6 11 hours ago, DKDave said: It's fairly easy to demux standard .BIK files to get the raw audio data, but I'm not sure if there's anything that can play it by adding a simple header. VGMToolbox can demux the audio, but only back into a BIK container without the video. Well sure, it can demux Bink videos with regular audio, but it crashes with the attached sample files., try it out I thought it might be because of the 32bit audio. Is VGMToolbox still actively expanded nowadays? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKDave Posted March 6 Share Posted March 6 I don't think VGMToolbox is being updated these days. I've had a closer look at your demo file. The reason it crashes out is because the data is corrupt. The file will play with Media Player Classic, but only for about 10-15 seconds before it stops. It seems like the first 297 blocks are standard, but then the block offsets are wrong, so it can't pick up the data correctly. The audio seems like standard Bink audio as well. So either the file is somehow corrupt or they've messed with it for some reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution DKDave Posted March 6 Solution Share Posted March 6 Update: I extracted the same file as your example from the GameCube version and it works perfectly with no issues, so I think maybe your file was just extracted incorrectly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Engineer AlphaTwentyThree Posted March 8 Author Engineer Share Posted March 8 Huh, interesting! Thanks for checking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Sheldon Cooper Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 I am adding this just in case it may be useful, allegedly it can bink and unbink the files both old and new, to what extent i do not know, i never tried it. https://github.com/marcussacana/Bink2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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