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If you want to try this intro and menu, the files are located here.
Essentially all I did was replace the Bink video files with different ones. This isn't too difficult and you can convert your own videos using the RAD Video Tools available here.
The hardest part is getting the video in a format it can accept (AVI or MOV)(Or in the case of the menu an image works)
The menu is also able to be a video file, but I just replaced it with an image.
You can literally make them whatever you want.
A short how-to do this:
Step 1. Download the RAD Video Tools. http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm
Step 2. Convert a video to .bik using said tools.
Step 3. Place the file in ..\Eve Online\res\video\cq.
Step 4. Back up whatever video you want to replace (I've found that, with recommendations from other Redditors, the "CQ_TEMPLATE_PLEX_SALE.bik" works best as it comes on semi-frequently, and it has no overlays) and overwrite your video with the one you don't want anymore.
Step 5. Start EVE and enjoy!
For people who don't want the hassle of downloading and converting their own Nyan Cat, here is the Nyan Cat bik file in an archive: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2011101/Nyan%20Cat%20%5Boriginal%5D.7z (note, bandwith is not infinite)
Look for the installation folder and browse around until you find movies. The names should say if it's a startup logo thingy, though they're often not very clear. However, most games use the BINK video format. You can download the player and just take a look at the videos.
Then just rename the files, works in almost all cases without problems. E.g. add "DISABLED" at the end of the name.
Once I had treated Dishonored like this, it took about 5 to 10 seconds from triggering the start to being in the main menu screen. Great game.
Btw., what's quite infuriating (not just mildly) is that the fucking BINK player does not support drag&drop! You have to pick the video you want to watch explicitly via its file browser.
Other than renaming files, there are also sometimes skip settings even in the options menu or at least in the configuration files, but like ParadoxicGer said, that's a case for http://pcgamingwiki.com/
As far as I've gathered, you need to convert the video you want into .blk using some tool from http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm, then replace one of the .blk-files that can be found in a video folder in your eve installation. I have not tried it myself, though, so don't quote me if your machine blows up/you get banned/your CQ burns up.
FYI to the folks here who, like me, are interested in saving a copy. You can actually watch these bink files outside of the game using Rad video tools. http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm
Just tried it on the specific file discussed here, after opening the application. Worked fine.
Now to figure out how to associate the file,
If you go to
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Grand Theft Auto IV\GTAIV\movies
You'll see 5 files, 3 of them can be replaced. CNT, weazel and static.
You just have to convert what ever you want to use to .BIK format using the Rad Tool.
Once converted, rename your new file to 1 of the 3 names and replace.
(Gonna quote a few different points along the thread here to respond to, so this may get a bit confusing)
All of the game's cutscenes are stored in Bink & Smacker format, located in the \SMK folder on the game disk. You can use the RAD Video Tools to readily play them back.
> If you failed the last mission in the Luthien campaign, the last cutscene will have 1 less inner sphere mech and the Kodiak will win the final engagement.
Nope, sorry - mounting my ISO and checking the actual game files shows this is wrong =)
There's only one iteration of the "Luthien Battle" endgame cutscene, in \SMK\MEND.SMK . If you search through all of the SMK files and sort by file-size, you can also note that (given the compression available at the time) both MEND.SMK and MINTRO.SMK (the intro movie) are the only two large, lengthy movie files on the entire disc. There are no alternative variations of the endgame movie which have different results, as these would have required a complete re-render (and there's no point during the endgame cutscene where it "cuts" to load a branching endgame movie file midway through).
> I've honestly got no idea, I'm pretty sure it wasn't in a video file.
When you say it "wasn't in a video file", do you mean it wasn't a pre-rendered cutscene and was rather presented in-game? If so then this is incorrect - there were absolutely no in-engine cutscenes in any of the Mechwarrior 2-era games (unless you count other titles like Interstate '76 I guess). All cutscenes were pre-rendered.
> For some reason the "bad" version of this cinematic can't be found anywhere....
What you're likely thinking of is indeed the "rich" and "poor" endings to the game. MW2Mercs itself only had one actual pre-rendered ending - the only variation occurred depending on how many C-Bills you had at the end, which then played the "rich" or "poor" cutscenes after MEND.SMK.
Get this: http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm
It's the tools that are used by game developers to compress video files. For compressing you need a license, but for a simple playback you're free to use it.
It's been over a decade since I've touched this subject, but this should still work as the source engine hasn't changed how it handles videos. To think 2008 was really that long ago...
In the past I used RAD Video Tools to convert the file into a .bik video. After conversion, it's just a normal video file just in a special format. From here you just need to place it in TF2.
You can place the video into tf/media/and name it valve.bik, launch the game and it should work. It should also work if you put it in your custom folder (ie tf/custom/MyMod/media/valve.bik).
Another option is instead of naming it valve.bik you can edit media/startupvids.txt and replace the media/valve.bik with media/yourvideo.bik. This txt file also supports multiple startup videos, just place it on a newline. So if you are an insane person and want multiple versions of valve startup videos to play on startup, you can use this.
You mean the cutscenes' audio? You'd need to rip it from the vids themselves. Since they're in Bink video format, easiest way IMO would be to use a Bink video player and record from Stereo Mix/What U Hear/however's called in your computer.
If you mean background music, greetings or anything else, they're already in handy MP3 format. Check out C:\Program Files (x86)\Bethesda Softworks\Morrowind\Data Files
Click here, Bink Download (archive.org) Download "The RAD Video Tools", install. Find a video you want to convert (preferably 640x480), run RAD Video Tools, browse to the video you want to convert, then click the "Bink It!" button on the bottom left corner, dont touch the settings (I didnt need to at least), and click "Bink" on the right side. Should output a bik file. Make sure it's named intro.bik and replace the one in your NR2003 folder.
Any videos that become non-existent (say from being deleted) get called to load then silently fail and the game moves on as if they played. (as it's been for all Bethesda games related to these engines)
FYI: Intro.bk2 is the long spiel with "war never changes" and the troops in the desert or whatever.
MainMenuLoop.bk2 is the background for the main menu, GameIntro_V3_B.bk2 is the "Please wait-vault symbol" 5 second loading thing when you first launch the game [so before main menu], so it has something for you to look at instead of a blank loading screen.
For anyone interested in watching them separately, you can play them all with the RAD Video Tools located here: http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm (The RAD Video Tools [1.2 MB]) (download, install, open from start menu, select video)
~~For some reason the only video with audio integrated is the 5 second PLEASE WAIT intro, and I assume the actual audio for these videos is in a BSA somewhere; RAD Video Tools lets you sync up audio to play alongside them, but I haven't looked into it yet.~~
Edit: I lied. Just highlight one and use Advanced Play>Play.
Interesting side note: Assuming your computer is reasonably quick, and you remove GameIntro and MainMenuLoop, you'll be at "Press any button to start" basically instantly after clicking Play in the launcher.
You could actually make this! Off the top of my head;
Get RAD Video Tools
Convert to a bink file
Rename the file extension to .b2k
Replace FMS_MainMenu_v2.bk2 in Steam > steamapps > common > Halo etc > MCC > Content > Movies
The video in question is VIDEO_GLOBA_000.bk2 in the Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands/videos folder. If you download Bink (installer is in a .7z file so you'll need 7-Zip or similar to extract it) and install it you can play the file, pause it, and screenshot as much as you want. It's a 1920x1080 format with black bars to make it cinematic ratio, so the actual picture part of the video is 1920x810.
The files use Bink2 video format, which is proprietary and hasn't been reverse engineered (as far as I know), so finding tools to convert it can be difficult. The only free tool I've managed to find to convert them is part of the RAD Video Tools package and it's a major pain in the ass to use.
The audio is also stored separately in the game data files, so you have to do some data mining to get the audio, and then use some tool like ffmpeg to mux the video and audio together into a single file.
It can be done, but it's a lot easier to just download the videos from YouTube (with a browser extension or some other tool, like youtube-dl).
Can you throw up a download link on Mega? Without the credits part. I think you can just replace BIK_End01_SaveChloe.bik in the Episode 5 files to mod this ending into the game if you convert it to .bik with http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm
The volume slider currently not affects the cutscenes. The easiest way to do it is to turn up your volume slider and handle the whole audio via the windows one that should help. If you have some time and are a bit more techsavy you can look at this http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm it should have a command line tool to disable audio on the video format DD2 uses. You would have to replace all the cutscenes. I would explain it in more detail but I'm on mobile.
The RAD Game Tools company that makes the bink format has a download on their own site that says it includes the compressor. I'm on mobile so I can't check it out but I'd assume that should work.
Not sure why all the downvotes. To answer my own question. You can find the files in C:\Program Files (x86)\Electronic Arts\BioWare\Star Wars - The Old Republic\ Movies\en-us\ and if you download the RAD Video Tools you can play them.
You could try installing Bink from this link (the top one):
http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm
If that doesn't help download the binkw32.dll file from somewhere and place it in the same directory where game's executable is. Should work.
I downloaded it from here: http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm
Password works for me. Make sure you open it with 7zip and type it in exactly (uppercase and no spaces).
i used a program to turn it into a bik file. i had to convert the root vid using the mp4 and turn it into a mov file (honestly that was easy due to me just searching up mp4 to mov lol) and got this program called rad video tools bink video (thelink:http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm )
This was all easy becuase i just had to press the bink it button and that took long due to the root video being much higher quality and my pc being crap so yay. And i found out that portal 2 doesn't use the normal valve head. as you can remember the valve head turns instead of it being still. So the actual bik was in the portal2_dlc2 folder and since of me finding this out i replaced the bik and boom! There it was! and thats how i did it.
I havent found a good guide
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http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm
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download the bink video player
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then download Apple's QuickTime program as Rad Video need it to function
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then get a video in a format that can work with rad video, .mp4 and .wmv i found works
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highlight a video then press BINK IT!
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the video will convert to a .bik
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then you will have to rename the file extension to .bk2; ei: video.bik to video.bk2
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to get it to work in mcc, you have to rename the .bk2 file to FMS_MainMenu_v2.bk2
To convert a video file into a background video you need the RAD Game Tools to convert it to a *.bk2 file. Once you've got that, just replace the FMS_MainMenu.bk2 file found in MCC\Content\Movies.
These are unlocking video files for original operators and its names are just a placeholder name or a working title
And the video file can be playable by RAD Video Tools which allow you to play .bik files.
> i know the original files are there but, they are encrypted, because my MPC and VLC can't play it properly..
You can play them with Bink player (RAD Video Tools):
I made a post here about it : https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/4ranwr/sgdq_bioshock_windows_10_prank/d4zw5sp
I showed BT how to set it up.
If you get RadTools you can convert a video file into a .bik and then rename it to the cutscene you wanna replace.
This works for most games that use bink video.(Haven't ran into one that doesn't.)
If you want to revert to another menu background, you can do so by renaming the one you want to "l4d_crashcourse_bg.bik" in the game files. The files are in steamapps\common\left 4 dead\left4dead\media, in a .bik format. If you want a preview, you can use RAD Video Tools.
I don't think there's a way to have them on shuffle.
I tried it earlier and it worked after I converted the downloaded .mp4 to a .bik file using this converter: RAD Video Tools. Just select the video to convert and click 'Bink it' and you're done. If you just use the .mp4 without converting it first then it will only play the audio.
The other media files are in tf/media iirc, so I put it in there and then modified the contents of the startupvideo.txt (or similarly named file in the same folder) to the name of the new .bik file that I put in there.
The video played fine except the audio stopped before the entire clip finished playing... Unless that was an issue with the conversion process, so I may have to double check that later when I get the chance.
I just went back to -novid afterward though since I don't want an intro vid playing everytime but it was interesting to play around with.
http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm
You'll need the RAD Compressor to encode the video into Bink (.bik) format. Selecting the file and then pressing "Bink it" has worked for me so far.
Then go to C:\Program Files\CCP\EVE\res\video\cq (or whatever file path you used).
You can watch and replace the files as needed. Different ones play at different stations and with varying frequency but you stand good odds by replacing LOGO_CONCORD.bik
Enjoy. Not sure about the audio component. I've never tried to get audio to play in the station.