Editing Smacker video (section)

{{Short description|Digital video file format}}
{{Infobox file format
| name          = Smacker
| icon          = [[File:Bink Smacker Video logo.png]]
| extension     = .smk
| mime          = 
| owner         = [[RAD Game Tools|Epic Games Tools]]
| type code     = Smk2
| genre         = [[Video codec]]
| container for = Smacker
| contained by  = 
| extended from = 
| extended to   = 
}}
'''Smacker video''' is a [[video file format]] (with the ''.SMK'' [[Filename extension|file extension]]) developed by [[RAD Game Tools|Epic Games Tools]], and primarily used for [[full-motion video]] in [[video games]].<ref name=radsmacker>{{cite web |url=http://www.radgametools.com/smkmain.htm |publisher=RAD Game Tools |access-date=4 May 2013 |title=Smacker video Technology}}</ref> Smacker uses an adaptive 8-bit [[RGB]] palette. RAD's format for video at higher color depths is [[Bink Video]]. The Smacker format specifies a [[digital container format|container format]], a video compression format, and an audio compression format.<ref name=multimediawiki>{{cite web |url=http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Smacker |title=Smacker |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=11 April 2007 |work=MultimediaWiki |access-date=4 April 2013}}</ref> Since its release in 1994, Smacker has been used in over 2300 games.<ref name=radsmacker/> Blizzard used this format for the cinematic videos seen in its games ''[[Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness|Warcraft II]]'', ''[[StarCraft]]'' and ''[[Diablo (video game)|Diablo I]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zezula.net/en/mpq/main.html |title=MPQ Archives - Overview |author=Ladislav Zezula |year=2010 |access-date=4 May 2013}}</ref> 

The format has been reverse engineered and implemented in [[libavcodec]].<ref name=ffmpeg>{{cite web |url=http://ffmpeg.org/general.html |title=FFmpeg Documentation |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |work=FFmpeg |access-date=4 April 2013}}</ref><ref>FFmpeg: [http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob;f=libavcodec/smacker.c;hb=HEAD Smacker video and Smacker audio decoder]</ref><ref>FFmpeg: [http://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg.git;a=blob;f=libavformat/smacker.c;hb=HEAD Smacker container demuxer]</ref> A non-commercial [[SourceForge]] project ''libsmacker'' released an open source decoder in 2013.<ref>[[SourceForge]] project [http://libsmacker.sourceforge.net libsmacker]</ref>