How to generate and parse a bitpack in .Net?

Question

.NET

There is a task in which it is required to transfer packets over the network.
The packets themselves are a set of bits not aligned to bytes.

For example, here is a packet: 4 bytes of offset, 1 bit - status, 23 bits - latitude, 24 bits - longitude, 12 bits - height, 7 bytes skip, 11 bits - speed relative to the north-south axis, 11 bits - speed relative to the axis West East.

The question arises, how to create such a package using modern .Net and parse it?
If the data were aligned to a multiple of 8, then the same BitArray could be used, but in this situation it swears when you try to call CopyTo() on some byte[] in this situation.
Also, with "flat" data, it would be possible to use SequenceReader and, in principle, System.Buffers, but in SequenceReader it cannot read a given number of bits.

I don't want to use bit masks. Maybe I'm missing something from the available options? How to implement work with such packages?

Answer 1

I don't want to use bit masks.

And that's the only thing left to use.

Answer 2

Mb I’ll say stupidity, but why not collect these bits into bytes (with the missing bits added to the last byte) and overtake these bytes into a string like "00110011" and not pick each bit like a char from a string? And it is easy to form such a packet if the bits are converted to hex and exactly hexes are transmitted.