SMPEG is short for the SDL MPEG library originally developed by Loki Software. Since both it and SDL are free software under the LGPL, it uses the MPEG-1 standard as a video display library, rather than MPEG-2, since only the MPEG-1 standard is unencumbered with software patents in the United States.

External links

• Old SMPEG Website
• Current SMPEG Website
• dumpmpeg - a program to dump frames from mpeg movies (still in beta state)

Application programming interfaces