BIK Audio Problem

[Jay123210599]

Whenever I convert a .bik file by using RAD Games Tools, the audio was a little off, like it was slightly garbled. What should I do to fix the audio to make it sound like normal?

P.S. Can someone answer my last question too? https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/412138-bik-and-thp-Help

[davexnet]

Can you provide a sample source file?

[Jay123210599]

Can you provide a sample source file?

How? By using MediaInfo?

[davexnet]

Can you provide a sample source file?

How? By using MediaInfo?

You can do that too, but I'm talking about uploading one of the files so we can look at it.
Come on man, how do you expect any help? You gave zero useful info

[Jay123210599]

Can you provide a sample source file?

How? By using MediaInfo?

You can do that too, but I'm talking about uploading one of the files so we can look at it.
Come on man, how do you expect any help? You gave zero useful info

I played both the .bik and the converted files on KMPlayer and they both sounded off, but when I played the former on RAD Video Tools and it sounded normal. It turns out the video player was the problem.

Still, what video players other than RAD Games Tools can play .bik video files with the normal sounded audio? How do I get converted files to sound the same? And how do I remux .bik and .thp files to other formats?

Here is the MediaInfo for the converted files (sorry I don't know how to place videos here):
For MP4:

General
Complete name :clockwerk_intro.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media / Version 2
Codec ID : mp42 (mp41/isom)
File size : 16.0 MiB
Duration : 36 s 386 ms
Overall bit rate : 3 678 kb/s
Encoded date : UTC 2023-11-02 17:27:02
Tagged date : UTC 2023-11-02 17:27:02

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : Baseline@L5.1
Format settings, CABAC : No
Format settings, RefFrames : 2 frames
Format settings, GOP : M=1, N=60
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 36 s 367 ms
Bit rate : 3 485 kb/s
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 30.000 FPS
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.378
Stream size : 15.1 MiB (95%)
Encoded date : UTC 2023-11-02 17:27:02
Tagged date : UTC 2023-11-02 17:27:02
mdhd_Duration : 36367

Audio
ID : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile : LC
Codec ID : 40
Duration : 36 s 386 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 192 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel positions : Front: L R
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz
Frame rate : 43.066 FPS (1024 SPF)
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 853 KiB (5%)
Encoded date : UTC 2023-11-02 17:27:02
Tagged date : UTC 2023-11-02 17:27:02
mdhd_Duration : 36386


For AVI:
General
Complete name : clockwerk_intro.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 965 MiB
Duration : 36 s 367 ms
Overall bit rate : 223 Mb/s

Video
ID : 0
Format : RGB
Codec ID : 0x00000000
Codec ID/Info : Basic Windows bitmap format. 1, 4 and 8 bpp versions are palettised. 16, 24 and 32bpp contain raw RGB samples
Duration : 36 s 367 ms
Bit rate : 221 Mb/s
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 30.000 FPS
Bit depth : 8 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 24.000
Stream size : 959 MiB (99%)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings, Endianness : Little
Format settings, Sign : Signed
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 36 s 365 ms
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 411.2 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 kHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 6.12 MiB (1%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 983 ms (29.49 video frames)

[davexnet]

See here:

[Jay123210599]

See here:

Here you go. The bik was invalid and the avi was too large.

[ProWo]

See here:

Here you go. The bik was invalid and the avi was too large.

Pack the bik into a zip and post the zip

[davexnet]

See here:

Here you go. The bik was invalid and the avi was too large.

BIK is invalid because the site does not recognize the file extension. All you have to do is compress it to zip or 7z and
upload that. I'd like to take a look at the source

The file you posted seems perfectly fine. Is this suppsoed to illustrate something?

[Jay123210599]

See here:

Here you go. The bik was invalid and the avi was too large.

BIK is invalid because the site does not recognize the file extension. All you have to do is compress it to zip or 7z and
upload that. I'd like to take a look at the source

The file you posted seems perfectly fine. Is this suppsoed to illustrate something?

Did you play the video? What video player did you use? By the here's the other two files. https://files.videohelp.com/u/307977/videos.7z

[ProWo]

Did you play the video? What video player did you use? By the here's the other two files. https://files.videohelp.com/u/307977/videos.7z

Both play fine with VLC Player.
Here a properly cropped recoding with clever FFmpeg-GUI.

btw
your bik has 8 audiostreams, all the same.

[Jay123210599]

Did you play the video? What video player did you use? By the here's the other two files. https://files.videohelp.com/u/307977/videos.7z

Both play fine with VLC Player.
Here a properly cropped recoding with clever FFmpeg-GUI.

btw
your bik has 8 audiostreams, all the same.

So the problem was the video player that used to play the videos. Thanks!

By the way, do you know how to .bik and .thp files into other formats like mkv? I tried FFmpeg but that didn't work at all for both types of files. Any tools or software that can help?

[ProWo]

Bink video and audio goes only into the bik container.
ffmpeg isn't able to mux them. But ffmpeg can decode both, so you can recode video and audio with ffmpeg into any other format supported.
(g.e. my sample from post #11).

[Jay123210599]

Bink video and audio goes only into the bik container.
ffmpeg isn't able to mux them. But ffmpeg can decode both, so you can recode video and audio with ffmpeg into any other format supported.
(g.e. my sample from post #11).

What if I convert .bik and .thp files into lossless codecs like FFV1, FLAC, WAV, and H.264/H.265 lossless? Will that be the same as remuxing videos without reencoding them?