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

[KaktoR]

Baldurs Gate 3

Bink2 videos just stored as plain text.


Unfortunatelly the XTool Bink video plugin will not work here for "GUS_CGI01_Part2.bk2". I tested both versions of the plugin and get extraction errors, not matter what settings I use (c/--diff).

  0000000000000028 513393104  Mods\Gustav\Localization\English\Video\GUS_CGI01_Part1.bk2
  000000001e99c228 1169576856 Mods\Gustav\Localization\English\Video\GUS_CGI01_Part2.bk2
  00000000645015e8 35526400   Video\Splash_Logo_Larian.bk2

For "GUS_CGI01_Part2.bk2" you can go the old way of manually patching. The diff file is 15.1mb.

You can unpack the file with the above modified bms script. Just make sure you null the entire stream in "Data\Gustav_Video.pak" before making the repack and don't forget to patch the file back after installing with either xtool or quickbms.

So basically extract "GUS_CGI01_Part2.bk2" out of the file and patch the entire stream out. Manually make a diff file for it and for the modified "Gustav_Video.pak" use XTool bink plugin.

As for the audio files, they contain wem's, but wemtool can't do anything here.

Edit:
bg3.xtl

Streams: 15486 / 15486
Time: 00:00:23 (CPU 00:00:30)

Size: 1.21 GB >> 1.86 GB

Done!!!

zlib

Streams: 189 / 314
Time: 00:00:10 (CPU 00:00:49)

Size: 1.86 GB >> 1.99 GB

Done!!!

[Masquerade]

Originally Posted by KaktoR

For "GUS_CGI01_Part2.bk2" you can go the old way of manually patching. The diff file is 15.1mb.

How big is the original video file?

Please may you set the --diff parameter to 100p to hypothetically see if the XTool plugin version will accept the stream at all? I'm thinking XTool may just be seeing how large the patch is and skipping - from your descriotion, bink pack seems to handle it alright.