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

[Dragonis40]

Good morning! I'm compressing "Alan Wake" and i'd like to know which is the best compression method for .avi and .wmv files. As far as I know, MSC doesn't compress too much. Thank you in advance!

[L33THAK0R]

Originally Posted by Dragonis40

Good morning! I'm compressing "Alan Wake" and i'd like to know which is the best compression method for .avi and .wmv files. As far as I know, MSC doesn't compress too much. Thank you in advance!

Best you can do is recode them at a slightly lower bit rate, I've only ever repacked the original two titles, which both used BInk1 videos, if the new ones are using H.265 for the ".avi" files you can probably get some pretty decent lossy gains, as for the WMV9s recoding them can be a bit hit or miss, you can usually get away with 5000kbps AVB, really depends on the source though, matter of fact is lossy is your only route for any significant gains.

[Hexagon123]

Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered, info:

These files are packed inside the game file resources.

Structure is similar to Sunset Overdrive, another Insomniac game.

Tried edge_of_nowhere.bms, didn't work. In some files, BPK failed during compression.

Audio have .bnk [BKHD], .wem [RIFF]

Video have .bk2 with KB2j magic [4B 42 32 6A] size info at 0x4, data at 0x8, width at 0x14, heigh at 0x18. Plenty of resolutions like FHD, QHD, and 4K.

dag, and toc have some zlib

Most extensionless files have LZ4, use plugin.

0x0 first with KB2j magic, then 0x4 size in decimal, 0x8 rest of data.