- Extension
- .smk
- .pam
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Video
- Raster Image
- Developer
- RAD Game Tools
- Bryan Henderson
- 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.
- The PAM image format is a lowest common denominator 2 dimensional map format. It is designed to be used for any of myriad kinds of graphics, but can theoretically be used for any kind of data that is arranged as a two dimensional rectangular array.
- MIME Type
- video/x-smacker
- image/x-portable-arbitrarymap[3]