killer7 FMV Audio Quality Restoration

The October 2024 update for killer7 introduced bug fixes, and new Quality of life improvements like new button prompts, however the same update replaced the FMV cutscenes (and textures) in the game with AI upscaled variants converted from GC sources. This decision was quickly reversed, and the following hotfix patch added an "Enable Remastered Videos" toggle to revert to Original GC videos.

However, these 'Original' videos had a new issue: 

The Sampling rate for the original GC cutscene files was 32.0 kHz, while the new cutscenes are in 24.0 kHz, resulting in the audio being more "compressed". This mod addresses that problem by keeping the Video stream of the 'Original' videos while replacing it with higher quality 32.0 kHz taken from GC sources. The resulting videos are much higher quality conversions than what was used in the game prior to the 2024 updates as the videos were sourced from the PS2 version (which were in turn screen recordings of the GC cutscenes combined with more compression and other file format/video player limitations).

The included readme contains installation instructions.

Credits:

Engine Software - Developers of the killer7 PC port and the 2024 AI upscale update.

antcan - Remuxed the current original videos with the higher quality 32kHz audio stream taken from GameCube Cutscene Ports mod.

(29♂)Mona ..DUSMANULdinSANITAR (Steam) - Author of the GameCube Cutscene Ports mod.

Paul B Mahol (richardpl) - Author of HVQM4 decoder that was used for the original GameCube Cutscene Ports mod. 

eibols - For making ffmpeg_batch, which was used to remux the audio and the video files together.

The Smith Modding Community Discord - for hosting this mod among many others.