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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. 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.