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Bink is essentially the defacto video codec for games. It has been licensed for over 15,000 games on 14 different platforms! Most game developers are shocked to find that they can get Bink videos playing in less than an hour - including tricky stuff like pixel shaders.
RAD makes Bink Video, the Telemetry Performance Visualization System, and Oodle Data Compression - all popular video game middleware.
Bink Video is a proprietary file format (extensions .bik and .bk2) for video developed by Epic Games Tools (formerly RAD Game Tools), a part of Epic Games.
Bink 2 is the perfect video codec for games - it's tiny, easy-to-use, self-contained, and crazy, crazy fast. Bink now has HDR support! Compress and playback high color-depth video in your HDR game. Bink also has optional GPU decoding for even faster decoding!
Bink is a proprietary file format, codec and middleware to play videos in games. It is the successor to the Smacker video format. Two major versions exist: Bink 1 - released on March 22, 1999 with RAD Video Tools v0.8a. Bink 2 - released on December 10, 2012 with RAD Video Tools v2.1a.
Aug 29, 2022 · Make video playback inside Unreal Engine much faster with Bink video codec. See how it compares to MPEG-4 AVC (H.264). Learn how to set it up in your project and how to convert files to Bink format.
Jun 8, 2021 · Bink Video is a cross-platform performance-oriented video codec that was used in roughly 500 games in 2020. Bink Video can decode 4K video frames in less than one millisecond with GPU assist on modern PCs, usually using 1/8th to 1/20th of the runtime memory.
The Bink Media plugin for Unreal Engine natively supports multithreaded decoding. It uses up to four threads during decompression, depending on the runtime CPU count. By default, Bink 2 Encoder for Unreal Engine uses four video slices for best multithreaded performance.
Jan 7, 2021 · Here’s how it works. Epic now owns Bink Video maker RAD Game Tools. RAD Game Tools' technology has been used in nearly 25,000 videogames. You may not know the RAD Game Tools name off the top of...
Bink Video is a proprietary file format (extensions .bik and .bk2) for video developed by RAD Game Tools. The format includes its own proprietary video and audio compression algorithms (video and audio codecs) supporting resolutions from 320×240 up to high definition video.
