Lost: Via Domus .big files

[McCuñao]

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[McCuñao]

Usually when nobody replies there's something the topic creator has done wrong. What have I done wrong?

[Savage]

When nobody answer it's 'cos nobody know (yet) how do it
Ya contestaran

[JohnLocke]

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[Zench]

Too bad I didn't see this earlier. I wrote a program to extract the audio from UbiSoft streams. It can't parse the .BIG file, but by scanning it can get the audio out.

• DecUbiSnd version 0.52 (command line)
  DecUbiSndGui alpha 1 (graphical user interface)

Here is where we are discussing those programs.

[McCuñao]

And I was about to throw up on this site. GUI link is down.

[Zench]

And I was about to throw up on this site. GUI link is down.

Not any more. Apparently Openomy (the service I'm using for online file storage) was down for updates.

[McCuñao]

I managed to download the Command EXE, but the GUI is still not available.

[Zench]

I managed to download the Command EXE, but the GUI is still not available.

Works just fine with me. Keep trying.

[McCuñao]

Like 8 hours after that post I managed to get the file. Works fine with Lost Via Domus for PC, only that plenty of files are at 33000, when your GUI says something else. Also, everything gets cut a bit before the spot where they should have ended.

[Zench]

Works fine with Lost Via Domus for PC, only that plenty of files are at 33000, when your GUI says something else.

Unfortunately it can't automatically detect the sample rate. Use the Set Info button to change it.

Also, everything gets cut a bit before the spot where they should have ended.

That's a bug in the playback system. If you output a file it will be correct. I'm working to fix it.

[McCuñao]

Works fine with Lost Via Domus for PC, only that plenty of files are at 33000, when your GUI says something else.

Unfortunately it can't automatically detect the sample rate. Use the Set Info button to change it.

I meant that your list lacked the 33000, I had to enter that manually. That's nothing wrong, just asking for new versions to add that to the list, please.

[BashMuttons]

Sorry about bumping an old thread but I thought it'd be better to bring this request back rather than start a new thread entirely.

Like JohnLocke, I'm trying to extract files from the Yeti.big file for Lost. The game splits up the assets in kind of a weird way; all the cutscenes are .bik (Blink video) files separate from the compression archive, whereas the sound files have their own .big file. Lastly all the other assets - models, textures, scripts etc - are all stuffed into the main archive, Yeti.big

Since Zench did an amazing job of figuring out the compression scheme for the sound .big, I can imagine it wouldn't be too hard to do it for the other one. Apparently Ubisoft has used their Yeti engine for several other games, so is there some way to add support for Lost: Via Domus to an extractor? Or does a method already exist?

[Jackpumpkinhead]

hello
first post
i am thinking about working on the is just for my own personal education
i am new to all of this game exploring stuff and i would love to get into it
i am reading the DGEFF right now
but i welcome any help that i can get
i would love to break into this game
i tried to get the gui for DecUbiSnd but i could not find it
if some one could reup it that would be awesome
thanx

[aluigi]

in reference also to:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3697
and
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3873
I have decided to reply here because this is the only thread where have been provided some files

my doubt is about how much types of archives exist.
in the first post we have a head and tail file containing a classical "GEAR BigFile" archive (I have written a script for it) but in the 4th post we have a completely different file.

now I have been able to recover that second big file on another "source" and it's format is a complete chaos, but I don't understand why the file of the first post is different.
does someone know if the archives of the Yeti Engine are those starting with the "[ GEAR BigFile ]" signature or exist others?