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Title: Program To Encode .bik Files
Post by: X-eQteR on April 10, 2003, 02:32:00 PM

hi, i'm sorry if this is not the rite place to ask for this type of help, but i'll like to know if anyone knows what program i could use to encode this files to .wmv files, i own a lot of xbox dvd demos and i have lots of video files on them, but all of them are in .bik format and my interest is to convert them to windows media player files so i can use them on the new MediaXMenu dash. Hope someone knows. thanks in advance for the help.

Title: Program To Encode .bik Files
Post by: LepPpeR on April 10, 2003, 02:37:00 PM

RAD GAME TOOLS or RAD VIDEO TOOLS. can convert the .bik to Mpg or Avi then you can use windows media encoder to convert them to .wmv

http://www.radgametools.com/
http://www.MS.com/

Enjoy

Title: Program To Encode .bik Files
Post by: X-eQteR on April 10, 2003, 04:47:00 PM

thanks a lot for the help! : )

Title: Program To Encode .bik Files
Post by: LepPpeR on April 10, 2003, 04:50:00 PM

Title: Program To Encode .bik Files
Post by: BenJeremy on April 10, 2003, 05:23:00 PM

Doh.... I thought I had written a complete tutorial, but it seems this is what I had actually written.


However, converting from BIK to AVI is rather trivial with the free tools available for Bink video.

Title: Program To Encode .bik Files
Post by: BenJeremy on April 11, 2003, 09:12:00 AM

QUOTE (rastaman @ Apr 11 2003, 10:57 AM)

Ok, I encoded a .mov to .bik, then to .avi then to .wmv, loaded it on the same folder as mxm, edited the xml file to point to the file <media>video.wmv</media> but when I load up mxm and go to the menu seletion it freezes up.  I am runing mxm .9g, what do I need to do to get this to work?

Are you using WM8 tools? Do you have a soundtrack?

The WMV file **MUST** be version 8 (though some have said 7.1 works as well) and it must have an audio track.

These are limitations in the decoder M$ provides.

BTW: There is a guide to directly converting MOV to WMV files on my tutorials page.

Title: Program To Encode .bik Files
Post by: BenJeremy on April 12, 2003, 08:22:00 AM

QUOTE (rastaman @ Apr 12 2003, 11:12 AM)

nevermind

So you got it working?

Title: Program To Encode .bik Files
Post by: BenJeremy on April 12, 2003, 08:54:00 AM

QUOTE (rastaman @ Apr 12 2003, 11:43 AM)

is media player just a command line program or is there an interface like version 9?  I have been trying to use the command line but it says that the compressed audio is not supported or something of that nature.

I use the command line app to encode my movies. Like somebody else said, Vegas Video 4 seems to work as well (I haven't tried it).

As for the audio, it's likely the audio in the source file is encoded into something non-standard. I usually try to make it a 'standard' like PCM or ADPCM when creating AVIs before the final encode to WMV.

Title: Program To Encode .bik Files
Post by: sticky on April 12, 2003, 09:13:00 AM

FWIW (in my attempt to add something here) I used WM8 and afaik it only exists as a command line utility (unlike 7 or 9) and was unable to use the resulting files w/MXM.  I then switched to using Vegas Video and having that export to WM8 format and it worked smashingly!

Sticky