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Originally Posted by pakrat2k2

quite a few of the biks have no sound to them at all. If you select the bik file ( in rad video tools, the click on file info. ) This will show you video details & sound track ID #'s ( I found track ID#3 - seems to be English, in some of the biks. Files with legal*, placeholder*, mainmenu*, have no sounds in them, logo*, and a few others only have 1 audio track so, just recompress those as they are.

Still fooling around with this recompressing bik's, wish peter would post back explaining in more detail how-to recompress properly with the right audio track. Pain trying to figure out which is which, when multiple audio tracks, and NOT knowing IF the game will play the recompressed biks properly, or no sound at all.

After trial and error I finally managed to do the conversion.
I used batch in RAD video tools. These are my steps are:
1. Recompress using Rad Video Tools of each BIKs, this step could take 12-14 hours and is CPU intensive so I recommend you to leave it by night. I use data rate compression 45% of original file size
2. Make extraction of each audio tracks from original BIKs to WAV (Convert a file), except files with legal*, MB_placeholder, RF4_mainmenu* (those have no sounds in them), logo* only have 1 audio track so, these don't need to be extracted.
3. Mix each audio tracks to the recompressed BIKS (Mix in sound)
4. Click Batch to copy paste the commands for each BIK, and click START

Below is an example of batch command for step 2 and 3 for file Q08_CS_12_5.bik:

cd L:\build\pc\cache
BinkConv Q08_CS_12_5.bik G:\Games\Red Faction Armageddon\build\pc\cache\Q08_CS_12_50.wav  /o /v /n0 /z1
BinkConv Q08_CS_12_5.bik G:\Games\Red Faction Armageddon\build\pc\cache\Q08_CS_12_51.wav  /o /v /n1 /z1
BinkConv Q08_CS_12_5.bik G:\Games\Red Faction Armageddon\build\pc\cache\Q08_CS_12_52.wav  /o /v /n2 /z1
BinkConv Q08_CS_12_5.bik G:\Games\Red Faction Armageddon\build\pc\cache\Q08_CS_12_53.wav  /o /v /n3 /z1

cd G:\Games\Red Faction Armageddon\build\pc\cache
BinkMix Q08_CS_12_5.bik Q08_CS_12_50.wav Q08_CS_12_5.bik  /o /l4 /t0 /i0
BinkMix Q08_CS_12_5.bik Q08_CS_12_51.wav Q08_CS_12_5.bik  /o /l4 /t1 /i1
BinkMix Q08_CS_12_5.bik Q08_CS_12_52.wav Q08_CS_12_5.bik  /o /l4 /t2 /i2
BinkMix Q08_CS_12_5.bik Q08_CS_12_53.wav Q08_CS_12_5.bik  /o /l4 /t3 /i3

Replace L:\build\pc\cache with your original image location, and G:\Games\Red Faction Armageddon\build\pc\cache\ with game installation folder

I did not convert the audio bitrate and freq, and I compressed the videos to 45% of original file size.
Use good text editor such as Notepad++ for writing batch commands.
With this I got 4.24 GB size of image (1x DVD5).
Arc size = 3.00 GB
Movies folder size = 1.21 GB

Tested the audio and working flawlessly on Win 7 x64!

Thank you for the nice job Peter!