BK2 format support

[bugme]

Summary of the bug: FFMpeg can't handle new RAD video tools format - BK2.

How to reproduce: example ​http://www.datafilehost.com/d/022aac05

Issue 2070 did't match with this request I suppose.

[Elon Musk]

Samples are gone.

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

James, could you point us to the sample?

[James]

​https://www.sendspace.com/file/m70wus

Good thing i didn't delete it back then, i guess.

[sodanakin]

bump

[PCUser]

Here is the new sample:
​https://www.mediafire.com/file/9vl37eo4jdmnutx/dossier_ember.bik/file

[Marton Balint]

This is not critical, but an enhancement request, therefore wish. It also affects git master. Also the code component for decoding video is avcodec, ffplay is the player only (which relies on the core component).

[PCUser]

Replying to Marton Balint:

This is not critical, but an enhancement request, therefore wish. It also affects git master. Also the code component for decoding video is avcodec, ffplay is the player only (which relies on the core component).

Why don't you add Bink 2 to FFmpeg after 6 years!?

[mirh]

​http://forum.doom9.net/showthread.php?t=156191&page=1235#post1958579
​https://lists.ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2020-March/258764.html
There are many progresses. Too bad talent doesn't seem proportional to empathy.

[Elon Musk]

Your biased and sinister criticism is certainly not going to help.

[biast12]

Hey, so it looks like some of Apex Legends .bik files are Bink2 so i was wondering if that maybe could be added or if there's at least a plan to do it, would be really useful if we actually could decode them

if you guys needs some of the videos to test then here: ​https://videndjurs-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/tobi6281_videndjurs_net/EvUvnWGg8MRAggjH3MSiC-gBLPQ3kg9s-z7CRcW0qMzljQ?e=gQTl3z

[Nightingale]

Really wanting bk2 support. Any way I can help? Kinda sad it's been 8 years...

[Cigaes]

Sure there is a way you can help: start your favorite code editor, implement it and send the patch to the mailing-list. Do not forget to read the guidelines for formatting code and for writing on the mailing-list.

[Nightingale]

Replying to Cigaes:

Sure there is a way you can help: start your favorite code editor, implement it and send the patch to the mailing-list. Do not forget to read the guidelines for formatting code and for writing on the mailing-list.

Alright, so the community is a bit toxic... I understand.

I've uploaded a .bk2 file that has multiple audio tracks here. It's from the Halo 2 Remaster:
​https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_-Sw1XVqoCAAWvhVvpt3G4ZVRDzBRVF8/view?usp=sharing
I'll leave this link up permanently if anyone needs a file to test with. Thank you!

[Elon Musk]

There are only toxic users that want free lunch.

[mirh]

There's nothing negative into underlining that manpower is the only limitation (conversely, I apologize for mistaking the same problem, as a lack of "sociability")

​https://git.nihav.org/?p=nihav.git;a=blob;f=nihav-rad/src/codecs/bink2.rs;hb=HEAD
​https://github.com/richardpl/FFmpeg/commit/7ab92509994dac1dc181cc5f99c45e3e80cd13bf
Somebody just has to take the (not negligible) bother of making any of this code fit into master.

[Elon Musk]

Both links are not complete and bug-free decoders.

[intermediary]

Is ​https://patchwork.ffmpeg.org/project/ffmpeg/patch/20220524133650.18299-1-onemda@gmail.com/#72100 incomplete or why hasn'T it been merged yet?