Rad Game Tools
| Filename extension | .bik, .bk2 |
|---|---|
| Internet media type | |
| Developed by | RAD Game Tools |
| Initial release | March 22, 1999; 21 years ago |
| Latest release | 2020.11 (November 30, 2020; 16 days ago[1]) |
| Type of format | Video file |
| Open format? | No |
| Website | www.radgametools.com/bnkmain.htm |
Bink Video is a proprietary file format (extensions .bik and .bk2) for video developed by RAD Game Tools.
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RAD GAME TOOLS R. RAD GAME TOOLS CLAIM THIS BUSINESS. 850 S MAIN ST SALT LAKE CITY, UT 84101 Get Directions (801) 322-4300. Founded 2010; Incorporated. Trademark applications show the products and services that Rad Game Tools is developing and marketing. Rad Game Tools's new tradmarks suggest it is investing in R&D and marketing, while expanding into new products or markets. Trademarks may include brand names, product names, logos and slogans. RAD Game Tools is a privately held company based in Kirkland, Washington. At least one of our products is built into almost every game shipped today. Rad Video Tools is a Bink(bik) and a Smacker(smk) video encoder. Bink Video - The Video Codec for Games. It can also convert your video to an exe file with builtin player and convert Quicktime MOV to AVI / DivX.
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It is bundled as part of the RAD Video Tools along with RAD Game Tools' previous video codec, Smacker video. It is a hybrid block-transform and waveletcodec using 16 different encoding techniques. The codec places emphasis on lower decoding requirements over other video codecs with specific optimizations for the different computer game consoles it supports.
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It has been primarily used for full-motion video sequences in video games, and has been used in games for Windows, Mac OS, Xbox 360, Xbox, GameCube, Wii, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, Dreamcast, Nintendo DS, and PSP.[2]
The format was reverse-engineered by the FFmpeg project and Bink decoding is supported by the open-source libavcodec library.[3]
Bink 2, a new version of the format, was released in 2013.[4] This new format is available for Windows (standard, Windows 8 Store and Windows 8 Phone), Mac OS, Linux, Sony PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and PS Vita, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Wii and Wii U, Nintendo Switch, Android and iOS.[5] Bink 2 is faster than Bink 1, and supports higher resolutions as well.[6]
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References[edit]
- ^'Bink Development History'. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
- ^'Bink Customer Page'. www.radgametools.com. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
- ^'FFmpeg cvs-log mailing list'. Archived from the original on 2017-03-03. Retrieved 2010-05-28.
- ^Freeman, Will (2013-04-11). 'Interview: Bink 2'. Develop. NewBay Media.
- ^RAD Game Tools' Bink section
- ^'Bink Video!'. RAD Game Tools. RAD Game Tools. Retrieved 25 February 2019.