TOD is a file format that is not widely used. TOD videos are usually captured by JVC cameras. It is a high-definition format that uses transport stream for video data. TOD files cannot be directly played on consumer video equipment. They must be converted or repacked into one of the widely adopted distribution format.

SPHERE (SPeech HEader Resources) is a file format defined by NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) and is used with speech audio. SoX can read these files when they contain μ-law and PCM data. It will ignore any header information that says the data is compressed using shorten compression and will treat the data as either μ-law or PCM. This will allow SoX and the command line shorten program to be run together using pipes to encompasses the data and then pass the result to SoX for processing.