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+mediaextract (extract media files that are embedded in other files)
+
+mediaextract extracts known media types such as RIFF, Ogg, etc,
+from various 'resource' or 'archive' format files. files. It works
+by looking for 'magic' byte sequences (like the file(1) command
+does). A typical use case would be extracting resources from a
+game. mediaextract does not support compression (zip/rar/7z/etc), so
+uncompress the file first, if necessary.