diff --git a/mkvstream.cc b/mkvstream.cc
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+// Copyright (c) 2012 The WebM project authors. All Rights Reserved.
+//
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license
+// that can be found in the LICENSE file in the root of the source
+// tree. An additional intellectual property rights grant can be found
+// in the file PATENTS.  All contributing project authors may
+// be found in the AUTHORS file in the root of the source tree.
+
+#include "./mkvstream.h"
+#include <algorithm>
+#include <cassert>
+#include <cstdlib>
+#include <cstring>
+
+MkvStream::MkvStream() : file_(NULL) {
+}
+
+MkvStream::~MkvStream() {
+  Close();
+}
+
+int MkvStream::Open(const char* filename) {
+  if (filename == NULL || file_ != NULL)
+    return -1;
+
+  file_ = fopen(filename, "rb");
+  if (file_ == NULL)
+    return -1;
+
+  total_ = -1;  // means "end-of-file not reached yet"
+  avail_ = 0;
+
+  // Establish invariant
+
+  cache_.push_back(Page());
+  Page& page = cache_.back();
+  page.off_ = 0;
+
+  const int e = page.Read(this);
+
+  if (e < 0) {
+    Close();
+    return -1;
+  }
+    
+  return 0;
+}
+
+void MkvStream::Close() {
+  if (file_) {
+    fclose(file_);
+    file_ = NULL;
+
+    cache_.clear();
+  }
+}
+
+int MkvStream::Read(long long pos, long len, unsigned char* buf) {
+  if (file_ == NULL)
+    return -1;
+
+  assert(!cache_.empty());  // invariant
+  assert(avail_ >= cache_.back().off_);
+
+  // For now, we only support sequential reading of streams, with no
+  // jumps backwards in the stream.  Were this a real network cache,
+  // we would have to purge the cache then reissue another fetch over
+  // the wire.  (To be precise, this operation would report a cache
+  // miss to the parser, which would be reported back to the caller as
+  // an underflow.  The caller would then call PopulateCache directly,
+  // then re-try the parse.)
+
+  if (pos < 0)
+    return -1;  // bad arg
+
+  if (pos < cache_.front().off_)
+    return -1;  // attempt to read non-sequentially
+
+  if (total_ >= 0 && pos > total_)
+    return -1;  // attempt to read beyond end-of-stream
+
+  if (len < 0)
+    return -1;  // bad arg
+
+  if (len == 0)
+    return 0;
+
+  const long long end = pos + len;
+
+  if (total_ >= 0 && end > total_)
+    return -1;  // attempt to read beyond end of stream
+
+  // Over a wire, network reads are slow, or block completely, which
+  // is not acceptable (e.g. it would leave you unable to pump windows
+  // messages).  Hence the need for a cache.  If we won't have enough
+  // data in the cache to service this read call, we report underflow
+  // to the parser, which in turn reports it back to the caller.  The
+  // caller is then expected to populate the cache, using whatever
+  // mechanism is appropriate for the application (e.g. post an async
+  // read and wait for completion), and then re-try the parse.  This
+  // is a simulator, so all the caller needs to do here is call
+  // PopulateCache, but in a real application with real network I/O,
+  // populating the cache can get very complex (especially when
+  // seeking is supported).
+  
+  if (end > avail_)  // not enough data in the cache
+    return mkvparser::E_BUFFER_NOT_FULL;
+
+  if (buf == NULL)
+    return -1;
+
+  typedef cache_t::const_iterator iter_t;
+
+  const iter_t i = cache_.begin();
+  const iter_t j = cache_.end();
+
+  const iter_t kk = std::upper_bound(i, j, pos, Page::Less());
+  iter_t k = --iter_t(kk);
+
+  while (len > 0) {
+    assert(pos + len == end);
+
+    const long long page_off = k->off_;
+    assert(page_off <= pos);
+
+    long long page_end = page_off + Page::kSize;
+    if (page_end > end)
+      page_end = end;
+
+    const unsigned char* const src = k->buf_ + (pos - page_off);
+
+    const long long count_ = page_end - pos;
+    assert(count_ <= len);
+
+    const size_t count = static_cast<size_t>(count_);
+    memcpy(buf, src, count);
+
+    pos += count;
+    len -= count;
+    buf += count;
+  }
+
+  assert(pos == end);
+    
+  return 0;
+}
+
+int MkvStream::Length(long long* total, long long* avail) {
+  if (file_ == NULL || total == NULL || avail == NULL)
+    return -1;
+
+  *total = total_;
+  *avail = avail_;
+
+  return 0;
+}
+
+int MkvStream::PopulateCache(long long pos, long requested_len) {
+  if (file_ == NULL)
+    return -1;
+
+  assert(!cache_.empty());
+  assert(avail_ >= 0);
+  assert(total_ < 0 || total_ == avail_);
+
+  if (pos < 0)
+    return -1;
+
+  if (pos < cache_.front().off_)
+    return -1;  // attempt to read non-sequentially
+
+  if (requested_len < 0)
+    return -1;
+
+  if (requested_len == 0)
+    return 0;  //TODO(matthewjheaney): ensure pos in cache?
+
+  // Simulate a network read, which might not return all
+  // requested bytes immediately:
+
+  const long actual_len = 1 + rand() % requested_len;
+  const long long end = pos + actual_len;
+
+  long long off = cache_.back().off_;
+  assert(off % Page::kSize == 0);
+  assert(off <= avail_);
+
+  while (total_ < 0 && avail_ < end) {
+    cache_.push_back(Page());
+    Page& page = cache_.back();
+
+    off += Page::kSize;
+    page.off_ = off;
+
+    const int e = page.Read(this);
+
+    if (e < 0)  // error
+      return -1;
+
+    assert(e == 0 || total_ >= 0);
+  }
+
+  return 0;
+}
+  
+int MkvStream::PurgeCache(long long pos) {
+  if (file_ == NULL)
+    return -1;
+  
+  if (pos < 0)
+    return -1;
+
+  assert(!cache_.empty());
+
+  if (pos < cache_.front().off_)
+    return 0;
+
+  typedef cache_t::iterator iter_t;
+
+  iter_t i = cache_.begin();
+  const iter_t j = cache_.end();
+  const iter_t kk = std::upper_bound(i, j, pos, Page::Less());
+  const iter_t k = --iter_t(kk);
+
+  while (i != k)
+    cache_.erase(i++);
+
+  return 0;
+}
+
+int MkvStream::Page::Read(MkvStream* stream) {
+  assert(stream);
+  assert(stream->total_ < 0);
+  assert(stream->avail_ >= 0);
+  assert(off_ % kSize == 0);
+  assert(off_ == stream->avail_);
+
+  FILE* const f = stream->file_;
+  assert(f);
+
+  unsigned char* dst = buf_;
+
+  for (int i = 0; i < kSize; ++i) {
+    const int c = fgetc(f);
+
+    if (c == EOF) {
+      if (!feof(f))
+        return -1;
+
+      stream->total_ = stream->avail_;
+      return 1;
+    }
+
+    *dst++ = static_cast<unsigned char>(c);
+    ++stream->avail_;
+  }
+
+  return 0;
+}  
diff --git a/mkvstream.h b/mkvstream.h
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+++ b/mkvstream.h
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+// Copyright (c) 2012 The WebM project authors. All Rights Reserved.
+//
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license
+// that can be found in the LICENSE file in the root of the source
+// tree. An additional intellectual property rights grant can be found
+// in the file PATENTS.  All contributing project authors may
+// be found in the AUTHORS file in the root of the source tree.
+
+#ifndef MKVSTREAM_H_
+#define MKVSTREAM_H_
+
+#include <cstdio>
+#include <deque>
+#include "./mkvparser.hpp"
+
+class MkvStream : public mkvparser::IMkvReader {
+ public:
+  MkvStream();
+  virtual ~MkvStream();
+
+  // Open the file identified by |filename| in read-only mode, as a
+  // binary stream of bytes.  Returns 0 on success, negative if error.
+  int Open(const char* filename);
+
+  // Closes the file stream.  Note that the stream is automatically
+  // closed when the MkvStream object is destroyed.
+  void Close();
+
+  // Fetches |len| bytes of data from the cache, started at absolute
+  // stream position |pos|, reading into buffer |buf|.  Returns
+  // negative value if error (including mkvparser::E_BUFFER_NOT_FULL,
+  // to indicate that not all of the requested bytes were in the
+  // cache), 0 on success (all requested bytes were returned).
+  virtual int Read(long long pos, long len, unsigned char* buf);
+
+  // The |total| argument indicates how many total bytes are in the
+  // stream.  This network simulator sets |total| to -1 until we reach
+  // end-of-stream, at which point |total| is set to the file size.
+  // The |available| argument indicates how much of the stream has been
+  // consumed.  Returns negative on error, 0 on success.
+  virtual int Length(long long* total, long long* available);
+
+  // Read |len| bytes from the file stream into the cache, starting
+  // at absolute file position |pos|.  This is a network simulator
+  // so the actual number of bytes read into the cache might be less
+  // than requested.  Returns negative if error, 0 on success.
+  int PopulateCache(long long pos, long len);
+
+  // Notify this reader that the stream up to (but not including)
+  // offset |pos| has been parsed and is no longer of interest,
+  // hence that portion of the stream can be removed from the cache.
+  // Returns negative if error, 0 on success.
+  int PurgeCache(long long pos);
+
+ private:
+  MkvStream(const MkvStream&);
+  MkvStream& operator=(const MkvStream&);
+
+  struct Page {
+    int Read(MkvStream*);
+    
+    enum { kSize = 1024 };
+    unsigned char buf_[kSize];
+    long long off_;
+
+    struct Less {
+      bool operator()(const Page& page, long long pos) const {
+        return (page.off_ < pos);
+      }
+
+      bool operator()(long long pos, const Page& page) const {
+        return (pos < page.off_);
+      }
+
+      bool operator()(const Page& lhs, const Page& rhs) const {
+        return (lhs.off_ < rhs.off_);
+      }
+    };
+  };
+
+  FILE* file_;
+
+  typedef std::deque<Page> cache_t;
+  cache_t cache_;
+
+  long long total_;
+  long long avail_;
+};
+
+#endif
diff --git a/netparse.cc b/netparse.cc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..52203d4
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+++ b/netparse.cc
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+// Copyright (c) 2012 The WebM project authors. All Rights Reserved.
+//
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license
+// that can be found in the LICENSE file in the root of the source
+// tree. An additional intellectual property rights grant can be found
+// in the file PATENTS.  All contributing project authors may
+// be found in the AUTHORS file in the root of the source tree.
+
+//#include <cstdio>
+//#include <cstdlib>
+#include "./mkvparser.hpp"
+#include "./mkvstream.h"
+
+namespace {
+  int ParserEbmlHeader(long long* pos);
+}
+
+int main(int argc, const char* argv[]) {
+  if (argc != 2) {
+    fprintf(stdout, "usage: netparse <mkvfile>\n");
+    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+  }
+
+  MkvStream reader;
+  const char* const filename = argv[1];
+
+  int e = reader.Open(filename);
+  if (e) {
+    fprintf(stdout, "open failed\n");
+    return EXIT_FAILURE;
+  }
+
+
+  return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+}
+
+namespace {
+
+int ParserEbmlHeader(long long* pos) {
+}
+
+}