SMK Converter

Convert Smacker videos (SMK) online for free


Drop or upload your .SMK file
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How to convert your SMK file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your SMK file.
  2. You'll see a preview.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.

Convert SMK to another file type

The converter easily converts your SMK videos to various formats - free and online. No RAD Video Tools or or other Video software needed.

  • SMK to MP4
  • SMK to AVI
  • SMK to MOV
  • SMK to WMV
  • SMK to FLV
  • SMK to WEBM
  • SMK to MKV
  • SMK to M4V
  • SMK to 3GP
  • SMK to OGV
  • SMK to ASF
  • SMK to RM

Convert a file to SMK

To convert other file formats to the "Legacy Game Video" file type, you need software like RAD Video Tools or a similar tool.


About SMK files

The .SMK file format contains a Smacker compressed video, created by RAD Game Tools. During the 1990s and early 2000s, game developers widely used this format to store full-motion video (FMV) cutscenes in PC games like StarCraft and Civilization II. The format provided excellent compression for low-color 2D animations running on older 486 and Pentium processors.

To play these files natively today, you typically need the legacy RAD Video Tools or a modern multi-format player like VLC media player.

The primary disadvantage of the .SMK format is its extreme obsolescence. It is a proprietary format that is entirely unsupported by web browsers, smartphones, or modern video editing suites like Adobe Premiere Pro. Trying to share, stream, or edit a Smacker file natively is impossible without running into missing codec errors. Furthermore, while a small minority of .SMK files belong to the Swedish e-ID system or prepress smart mark files, over 90% are legacy game videos that modern systems reject.

To make the video usable, conversion is mandatory. Just drag and drop your file here to convert it instantly in your browser. For web streaming and universal playback on phones, convert the file to MP4 (using the H.264 codec). If you want to archive the legacy pixel-art look without introducing modern compression artifacts, convert it to an uncompressed AVI or a lossless MKV file. Note that upscaling a standard 256-color Smacker video to HD will not magically recover lost 90s-era details.

Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your SMK file.

Users also converted OGV, BIK, MP4, MOV, CDW, DXR, SWF, APK, PDF and 360 files.


FAQ

If you want to convert SMK file to , you can use RAD Video Tools or similar software from the "Legacy Game Video Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert MTS, MOV, RMVB, DIVX, RM, H264, TS, WMV, VOB, MP4, XVID or AVI files to SMK, try RAD Video Tools or another comparable tool in the "Legacy Game Video Storage" category.



The SMK Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our SMK converter.