Smpeg (sdl mpeg player library) is a free mpeg1 video player library with sound support. video playback is based on the ubiquitous berkeley mpeg player, mpeg_play v2.2. audio is played through a slightly modified mpegsound library, part of splay v0.8.2. smpeg supports mpeg audio (mp3), mpeg-1 video, and mpeg system streams.

this package contains the libsmpeg shared library that is required by many mpeg-playing packages, including smpeg-xmms and smpeg-plaympeg.