diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 62bd5b9aa..e2244a6cb 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "viam-sdk"
-version = "0.21.0"
+version = "0.21.1"
 description = "Viam Robotics Python SDK"
 authors = [ "Naveed <naveed@viam.com>" ]
 license = "Apache-2.0"
diff --git a/src/viam/media/utils/pil.py b/src/viam/media/utils/pil/__init__.py
similarity index 91%
rename from src/viam/media/utils/pil.py
rename to src/viam/media/utils/pil/__init__.py
index 6f5103df3..ccc047475 100644
--- a/src/viam/media/utils/pil.py
+++ b/src/viam/media/utils/pil/__init__.py
@@ -2,9 +2,8 @@
 
 from PIL import Image
 
-from viam.media.video import CameraMimeType, ViamImage
-
-from ..viam_rgba_plugin import RGBA_FORMAT_LABEL
+from ....media.video import CameraMimeType, ViamImage
+from .viam_rgba_plugin import RGBA_FORMAT_LABEL
 
 # Formats that are supported by PIL
 LIBRARY_SUPPORTED_FORMATS = ["JPEG", "PNG", RGBA_FORMAT_LABEL]
diff --git a/src/viam/media/viam_rgba_plugin.py b/src/viam/media/utils/pil/viam_rgba_plugin.py
similarity index 85%
rename from src/viam/media/viam_rgba_plugin.py
rename to src/viam/media/utils/pil/viam_rgba_plugin.py
index 620701328..75d1711d0 100644
--- a/src/viam/media/viam_rgba_plugin.py
+++ b/src/viam/media/utils/pil/viam_rgba_plugin.py
@@ -4,16 +4,7 @@
 from PIL.ImageFile import ImageFile, PyDecoder, PyEncoder, _safe_read  # type: ignore -- (njooma) this exists, manually checked
 from PIL.ImageFile import _save as image_save  # type: ignore -- (njooma) this exists, manually checked
 
-# Viam uses a special header prepended to raw RGBA data. The header is composed of a
-# 4-byte magic number followed by a 4-byte line of the width as a uint32 number
-# and another for the height. Credit to Ben Zotto for inventing this formulation
-# https://bzotto.medium.com/introducing-the-rgba-bitmap-file-format-4a8a94329e2c
-
-RGBA_MAGIC_NUMBER = bytes("RGBA", "utf-8")
-
-RGBA_FORMAT_LABEL = "VIAM_RGBA"
-
-RGBA_HEADER_LENGTH = 12
+from ...viam_rgba import RGBA_FORMAT_LABEL, RGBA_HEADER_LENGTH, RGBA_MAGIC_NUMBER
 
 
 def _accept(prefix: str):
diff --git a/src/viam/media/viam_rgba.py b/src/viam/media/viam_rgba.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c11ebe483
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/viam/media/viam_rgba.py
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# Viam uses a special header prepended to raw RGBA data. The header is composed of a
+# 4-byte magic number followed by a 4-byte line of the width as a uint32 number
+# and another for the height. Credit to Ben Zotto for inventing this formulation
+# https://bzotto.medium.com/introducing-the-rgba-bitmap-file-format-4a8a94329e2c
+
+RGBA_MAGIC_NUMBER = bytes("RGBA", "utf-8")
+
+RGBA_FORMAT_LABEL = "VIAM_RGBA"
+
+RGBA_HEADER_LENGTH = 12
diff --git a/src/viam/media/video.py b/src/viam/media/video.py
index 0d3a4dd7f..56b3e86a8 100644
--- a/src/viam/media/video.py
+++ b/src/viam/media/video.py
@@ -7,10 +7,7 @@
 from viam.errors import NotSupportedError
 from viam.proto.component.camera import Format
 
-from .viam_rgba_plugin import RGBA_FORMAT_LABEL, RGBA_HEADER_LENGTH, RGBA_MAGIC_NUMBER
-
-# Formats that are supported by PIL
-LIBRARY_SUPPORTED_FORMATS = ["JPEG", "PNG", RGBA_FORMAT_LABEL]
+from .viam_rgba import RGBA_HEADER_LENGTH, RGBA_MAGIC_NUMBER
 
 
 class CameraMimeType(str, Enum):