Most of this is slightly gratuitous for now, we have no need internally,
but especially since the enums are non-exhaustive it will probably be
appreciated that you can interact with the buffer at a byte-level.
Additionally we make the extra promise that all sample types correspond
to some supported SampleType tag value. This prepares using the same
buffer for a runtime version of `Encoder::write_image`.
A. Molzer
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