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...leave the packets and let the player guess based on the headers which codec to try? I suppose that works so long as the spec for the multimedia files has a well-defined list of what is to be supported. Practical motivation: MNG is open, free, unencumbered and seems to have a clue in terms of well designedness so it's a good match. While it doesn't provide high compression ratios for video sources, it supports both completely lossless and motion-jpeg encoding. In my mind that makes it an excellent source or editing format for digital video. This would probably also require an option for uncompres...