Golden apps?

[Joseph Garvin]

James Trotter wrote:

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AFAIK, all Blizzard games use Bink. In WoW the speed of video playback 
I've noticed is very dependent on audio performance. When the ALSA 
driver improved, the cinematics got noticeably less choppier for me 
(can't remember when that happened, back around 0.9.0). They're still 
not as smooth as they should be now though so I'm not sure.

http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm

Someone more curious about speeding things up can download the 
standalone windows bink player from there and put the war3/d2 cinematics 
through it (you may need to extract them from an MPQ first, google for 
mpq extractors). This way you could know if the video performance is due 
to something specific to the games.