- Extension
- .smk
- .aac
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Audio
- Developer
- RAD Game Tools
- Bell Labs, Fraunhofer Institute, Dolby Labs, Sony and Nokia
- Description
- Smacker Video (.smk) is a video file format developed for use in video games, designed to deliver synchronized audio and video with efficient compression on low-end hardware. It was especially popular in the 1990s and early 2000s for cutscenes and in-game full-motion video. The format supports multiple audio tracks and palette-based video compression optimized for CPU playback without dedicated hardware acceleration.
- Compressed audio file similar to an .MP3 file, but offers several performance improvements; examples include a higher coding efficiency for both stationary and transient signals, a simpler filterbank, and better handling of frequencies above 16 kHz; maintains quality nearly indistinguishable from the original audio source.
- MIME Type
- video/x-smacker
- audio/x-aac
