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BINK video
File type: Game file, Digital video and movie file
Files with bik extension can be most often encountered as video files encoded using the special Bink and Smacker codec. Typically encountered in older computer games.
File type category:
Game file
Digital video and movie file
Date updated: July 13, 2025
File extension bik is used for files created by Bink and Smacker game video file codec. Its used by great number of games. A free viewer is available at the RAD Game Tools site.
Bink is video codec - it compresses at higher quality than DVD at up to three times the playback speed! Bink uses up to 16 MB less memory at runtime than other codecs. It has been licensed for over 3,800 games since 1999.
Bink is a hybrid block-transform and wavelet codec that can encode your video using 16 different compression techniques (wavelet, DCT, motion compensation, a variety of vector quantizers, Smacker-style, etc). With all of these techniques in one codec, Bink can handle any type of video.
Use BSPlayer, or VLC Player to playback .bik files.
You can use The RAD Video Tools or MediaCell Video Converter to convert .bik files to another video file format.
Software applications that can open bik files:
Microsoft Windows
Apps designed for playing bik files:
Microsoft Windows
Apple macOS / Mac OS X
Software apps that create bik files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that convert bik files:
Microsoft Windows
Software apps that export bik files:
Microsoft Windows
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