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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.
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.
RAD makes Bink Video, the Telemetry Performance Visualization System, and Oodle Data Compression - all popular video game middleware.
Sep 26, 2011 · Bink videos have been used for other nifty things other than just simply playing a CG cutscene. For example, some games use Bink as animated textures.
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.
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!
Aug 24, 2022 · Bink vs MPEG4 in Unreal Engine 5 - video codec comparison and tutorial. Benchmark: playing 30 SD videos and 4 UHD videos at the same time. Results: ...more.
