Video (CA_VP8)

.ca_vp8 is a Creative Assembly–specific container around a VP8 video stream — used for movies, intros and similar. RPFM has full read/write support and can convert to and from the standard .ivf container.

What you can do

• Inspect stream metadata: width, height, frame count, framerate, codec version (v0 or v1).
• Convert to and from IVF — can convert CA_VP8 files to and from IVF files, editable with ffmpeg.
• Check video integrity — verify the stream parses cleanly. Useful when debugging a video the game refuses to play.

Editing a video

There’s no in-app video editor. To re-encode a CA_VP8:

1. Convert the file to IVF (button in the editor toolbar).
2. Open the IVF in your video tool of choice and produce a new VP8 stream. FFmpeg works:

   ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v vp8 -b:v 2M output.ivf
   

3. Convert back from IVF in the editor to bake the new stream into the .ca_vp8.