half life 2 bink video problem

[3dvisioner]

alright, i got the ati radeon 9700 pro. downloaded some of the half life 2 bink videos. i ran one of them once, it worked fine, but when i try to run the others, the thing opens, i can hear sound, but i can't see the picture, all i see is a little black box at the top of my screen. Anyone else having this problem? in win xp.

[3dvisioner]

wat's the deal with these bink videos. are they realtime 3d demos or are they insanely high quality mpegs? do they demonstrate the capabilities of your video card?

[RAY16]

They are just extremley high quality videos. The bink format is very good.

[3dvisioner]

just curious. I know the game Mafia uses bink video, but in the cutscenes, are those done in bink video format or are they rendered by your 3d card? I have a feeling their realtime rendered.

[Yian]

Yep, most of the cut scenes are rendered with your game engines, but Bink video doesnt necessary have to be in-game looking. They can slam a 640x480 video at the intro of the game, but still use Bink format. It's up to the developer how to use them.

[Chimera[NL]]

As far as I know Bink is pre-rendered. But it's also very versatile. Blizzard used to work a lot with bink until they started using REALLY high quality DIVX cutscenes (WC3 for instance).....aaah man sweeet shit!....DIVX...ggaaaaggh