Method and apparatus for carrying out the method receiving packets, each of the packets comprising a header and a payload. For a particular packet among the packets, the method includes processing at least the header of the particular packet to determine a flow associated with the particular packet; attempting to determine a payload structure based on the flow, the payload structure associated with transport of coded video data in the payload of the particular packet; and if the attempting is successful, repackaging coded video data contained in the payload of the particular packet into a new packet and forwarding the new packet to an external system or storing the new packet in memory.