Although most codecs are written to compress and decompress a given format, many actually support additional formats that may not be publicised. To found out which formats a codec supports, Paschal Bekke has written a tool called VCSwap which he tells me will do the job. You can find the tool at:
http://members1.chello.nl/~p.bekke/index.html
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