Best Compression Methods for 'Specific' Games. Q&A

[Ele]

Originally Posted by Snapppr6

by using ffmpeg commandline or use free video commprassor google it

Thank you very much. It took a few days to test it because of the exam headache.
Meanwhile, I was able to reduce the video size of a MP4 file from 3.86GB to 390MB by changing the video bitrate using ffmpeg.exe. Interestingly, the video / audio quality does not drop that much (note that, In my case) and I'll do a few more tests to confirm..


Original Video Properties:

Size: 3.86 GB
Length: 01:49:54
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Video Bitrate: 4894 KB/S
Audio Bitrate: 136 KB/S
Video format: H264
Audio format: AAC

However, is there anything to reconstruct the video in its original form? because I think to compress my movie collection.


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[oo7]

Originally Posted by Ele

Thank you very much. It took a few days to test it because of the exam headache.
Meanwhile, I was able to reduce the video size of a MP4 file from 3.86GB to 390MB by changing the video bitrate using ffmpeg.exe. Interestingly, the video / audio quality does not drop that much (note that, In my case) and I'll do a few more tests to confirm..


Original Video Properties:

Size: 3.86 GB
Length: 01:49:54
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Video Bitrate: 4894 KB/S
Audio Bitrate: 136 KB/S
Video format: H264
Audio format: AAC

However, is there anything to reconstruct the video in its original form? because I think to compress my movie collection.


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So you are trying to compress video lectures.
leave it and stay focused in online class.
and that is best way to save disc space.

[lugard]

Hello

What's the best method to compress Life is Stranger 2 .pak files ?

[Hexagon123]

Originally Posted by lugard

Hello

What's the best method to compress Life is Stranger 2 .pak files ?

I guess you have to try XTool?

[Ele]

Is there a possible way to use FreeArc 'Next when repacking? I meant to replace the general FreeArc.


Thanks.

[Masquerade]

Start size: 2.7GB

Compress using following method:

• *.saf
  

  srep+lolz

• Everything else:
  

  srep+razorx

Final Size: 1GB

[Masquerade]

Took a little look, here's my conclusion to what is what:

(these sizes come from my game which is v3.10.0)

• chunk0.rpkg - chunk7.rpkg = Hitman 3 Content = 25.2GB
  
• chunk8.rpkg = Unknown = 2.08GB (this file is simply adressed as Legacy)
  
• chunk9.rpkg - chunk20.rpkg = Hitman 2 Content = 14.7GB
  
• chunk21.rpkg - chunk27.rpkg = Hitman 1 Content = 12.7GB

Ofc srep+lolz isn't going to get you far here, huge waste of time. Compare these sizes to previous Hitman games and it's obvious the data is compressed. I was putting my bets on use of oodle, but it's clearly not!!

Oh and when an unpacking script finally comes available, the VR stuff is contained in the game files, so it can be ripped...

[KaktoR]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

Oh and when an unpacking script finally comes available, the VR stuff is contained in the game files, so it can be ripped...

Yep I'm waiting too

[Ele]

Medal of Honor 2010 Limited Edition - English Only


* Original Size: 4.91GB
* Repack Size: 2.95GB



method:

*.upk, *.tfc  =  xtool 2020 (zlib+reflate) + srep + lolz
*.xxx, *.vp6  =  srep + nz
*.exe, *.dll  =  srep+delta+nz
other files   =  srep + nz

[biotec2k8]

Originally Posted by Masquerade

Start size: 2.7GB

Compress using following method:

• *.saf
  

  srep+lolz

• Everything else:
  

  srep+razorx

Final Size: 1GB

Game: Shady Part of Me

I would like to package this game effectively. With which attributes is stated above.

The problem is now:

I get 2 BIN files when I compress the SAF with LOLZ and the rest with razorx.

Is there a possibility to create a self-extracting file from the two bin files?

Or can someone give me a tip on how to create an installer from the game?

[KaktoR]

It would be nice to see how long the process is.

I think because it is lolz, it took about 24 hours?

[Masquerade]

@KaktoR

I reckon from 1PM yesterday to 8AM this morning (very very rough estimate). Having to run xtool without stdio really slowed things down.

However, the file VEHICLEUPGRADES.bff is corrupt after being decompressed with bdt, meaning all the time was wasted so I deleted my post.

[KaktoR]

Oh that's bad. RIP brother

I think xtool still needs fine-tuning for oodle codec.

[JustFun]

LOL, yeah, I hate it too, when decompression fails after long compression time

Though, even worse, once I compressed the game, made installer and everything, and somehow forgot to test installation lol, and I happily burned it to disc˙s.
Some time after, I decided to install that game and play it, and boy was I dissapointed when I got decompression error at 72%

[Masquerade]

Going through picking up what clearly isn't going to work with bdt and go from there. The Shanghai file is also cannot be re-encrypted