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

[FitGirl]

Originally Posted by darkwolves

converted bk2 to bik with a .bk2 file extension to resolve bpk crash issues kept same bitrate so the video is lossless and identical to the original

What? Any conversion with bink tools is lossy. And you've converted modern BINK2 videos to much older BINK1 format. Even having the same bitrate degraded the quality noticeably, trust me.

[doofoo24]

precomp:c64mb,t100p:zlib+lolz:mtt0:d384:mtb192:fba 4096:mc1023:ldl5.
*using the new lolz test22c4b without srep only xtool+lolz
*note that with d384:mtb192 you need a lot of ram like 20gb.
when decompress add to cls.ini :
ldmfTempPath={app}
ldmfMaxMemoryUsage=1024m
ldmfDeleteTmp=0

[darkwolves]

Originally Posted by FitGirl

What? Any conversion with bink tools is lossy. And you've converted modern BINK2 videos to much older BINK1 format. Even having the same bitrate degraded the quality noticeably, trust me.

as far as i see i can see there is no noticable difference so...
then again i did not do it to reduce quality i did so to prevent crashes with bpk..
as far as the debate anyone can try it and judge for themselves

[K4miKaZe]

Originally Posted by darkwolves

as far as i see i can see there is no noticable difference so...
then again i did not do it to reduce quality i did so to prevent crashes with bpk..
as far as the debate anyone can try it and judge for themselves

Yeah, im doing the same on all games where bk2 videos wont work with bpk. If you do it in good way there is no visible quality loss but its still lossy. Also its good to check if all bk2 videos are having trouble with bpk because on some games like AC Unity, only 1 video has problems with it, so there is really no need to recompress them all.

[darkwolves]

Originally Posted by K4miKaZe

Yeah, im doing the same on all games where bk2 videos wont work with bpk. If you do it in good way there is no visible quality loss but its still lossy. Also its good to check if all bk2 videos are having trouble with bpk because on some games like AC Unity, only 1 video has problems with it, so there is really no need to recompress them all.

i don't do all of them unless the crashes are constant if they are
i am like the heck with it and do them all..lol

[darkwolves]

Method
nothing removed or recoded
Xtool was used
xzlib+srep+lolz:dt1:dtp1:dto1:dtm1:dtw1:dtd1:mtt0: mt6:d100m:tt4
initial size 43.3 gb
repack size 16.9 gb

20 to 25 minute install time on my 6 core processor