LanguageBIK
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.
What is bik file?
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.
How to open bik file?
Use BSPlayer, or VLC Player to playback .bik files.
How to convert bik file?
You can use The RAD Video Tools or MediaCell Video Converter to convert .bik files to another video file format.
Suggested software to open bik file:
Associated software actions with the bik file
Software applications that can open bik files:
The RAD Video Tools (Microsoft Windows)
Apps designed for playing bik files:
BS.Player (Microsoft Windows)
The RAD Video Tools (Microsoft Windows)
VLC media player (Microsoft Windows)
Bink Video Player for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
VLC media player for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Bink Video command line Player for x86 GNU/Linux (Linux/Unix)
VLC media player for Linux (Linux/Unix)
Software apps that create bik files:
The RAD Video Tools (Microsoft Windows)
Software apps that convert bik files:
Freemake Video Converter (Microsoft Windows)
Software apps that export bik files:
The RAD Video Tools (Microsoft Windows)