I've been looking at the video-situation and see that it hasn't changed. 

It's pretty annoying, so ..

I would like to investigate the possibility to read raw bytes from an uncompressed video-file.

One should expect difficulty if trying to make sense of the raw bytes from a compressed jpg still-image. But not from a plain .bmp (bitmap). 

So, I thought that it would be equally straightforward .. given the binary of an uncompressed video-file .. to read 'frames' right from that file. 

I havn't tried yet, but want to see if any of you can dismiss my proposal right away.

The video format in question is wmf (windows media file). That's got an ominous sound to it ;o/

Would a filetype like .div be better?

I can guess that the sound-bytes might get me in trouble.

I'll go googl the formats while you read this, and see if something sensible about the formats comes up.

The practical setting is, that I've managed to get a video (laser-line-scan of an object) in a good resolution and framerate. Fine outset for getting to the next step of deciphering the pixels in each frame.