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Allowing decoupling of decoding and demuxing for images

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Description

There are a number of container formats that can hold a variety of different codecs’ coded data as well as the possibility of the same coded data appearing in a variety of containers.

If a demuxing API is later considered (as it's not infrequently brought up during calls and discussions with developers, https://github.com/w3c/webcodecs/issues/24 for tracking, certainly less urgent than decoders!), this could be handled by desugaring the image decoding API maybe ?

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Research direction

No files, tests, or implementation entry points are named. Start by reviewing the current image decoding API and the linked demuxing discussion in issue 24; done would require an agreed API design that cleanly separates decoding from demuxing.

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Assessment

Tech stack
html
Domain
api, computer-graphics
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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