HQ FMV Project

The problem.

very

The problem. Again.

The solution (?)

Finally,

[github.com]

no subtitles

What about the Japanese videos?

[i.imgur.com]

Downloads

[i.imgur.com]

\STEINS;GATE\USRDIR\movie\

This is something I have been working on for some time now, but oh boy, the results were worth it.When the Steam version of Steins;Gate was produced, the developers decided to use a very well known and often reliable video codec - Bink.Bink can be an amazing compressor, but whoever is encoding videos has to becareful, otherwise Bink will destroy the video in order to achieve a small file size.Suffice to say, Steins;Gate's bink videos are really, really, horribly compressed.As someone who played the Steam version before any other port, I was shocked when I booted a copy of Steins;Gate on ps3 and watched it's versions of the videos.Here are some comparisons:So, clearly something went very wrong when these videos were encoded for the Steam release.Then I decided to re-encode new Bink videos using the ps3 videos as the source.Bink, again.Only Bink 1 is free to use. One can only encode Bink 2 videos if they buy a commercial license, so Bink 1 is my only option.As expected, Bink 1 is terrible, outdated and bloated. Bink 2 is the "new" and improved version of the encoder.Steins;Gate's videos were encoded using Bink 2, but without proper settings, the results are terrible.My project aims to "port" and improve the videos by using VapourSynth as a way to filter the videos and Bink 1 as the file format.Now, to get Bink 1 videos to "look good", the encoding basically has to be very "bloated". The file size can be seen as "huge" to some people.With all of these limitations in mind, this project's clearly not perfect.However, I tried my best to retain as much quality as possible while keeping the videos at a "reasonable" size.Also, I tried to correct the only problem with the ps3 videos: Aliasing on sprites when a "transition" video is playing.Comparison:Sound wise, Bink 1 is also pretty bad. However, there is workaround for that.This project was designed to work with Committee of Zero's improvement patch . Mainly the HQ audio portion. I have forked its source code and used its "file redirection" feature to replace the Bink 1 audio with the ps3 sound files extracted from the same videos I used as a source for this project.If you don't use the aforementioned improvement patch, the videos will displayand you will hear noticeable lossy audio. Do as you please, but I do recommend using the improvement patch.Committee of Zero's improvement patch has optional instructions guiding you to switch the the hard-subbed English videos to the Japanese videos. The Japanese videos do look better than the English ones, but they are plagued by the same problems. In fact, the images I used for comparison in this thread are from the Japanese videos. Their English counterparts look even worse.You can skip downloading the Japanese videos if you are going to use the ones from this project. Please remember that the videos from this project have no hardsubs and are a mix from both English and Japanese ps3 videos. Subtitles have to be enabled on the improvement patch.The downloads are split into three parts:You probably won't need both video packs.1080p videos are used when the movie quality is set to high , 720p videos are used when the quality is set to low.Copy the new files to:The HQ Audio pack should be installed "on top" of the improvement patch , replacing existing files.