November 2004 Entries

OS Maps

If you're in the UK you probably know what OS maps are. As part of my increasingly varied tasks at work I've been thinking about rendering the UK using their high resolution bitmap maps for a new mapping tool. When your source data comes on twelfty CDs you really begin to fear CD loading times.

I should blog more

I've been rather negligent with my blogging recently but it's because I've been learning how to do nasty things in DirectShow and so haven't felt like I'm sure about what I'm talking about enough to blog about it. I'm doing some interesting things with low latency playback from an MPEG2 file contained inside another file. Think along the lines of game resource files (.pak etc), which probably warrants a post or two for it's usefulness. I'm currently working out problems with the default MPEG2 support in Windows not being able to seek accurately enough for what we need. Lucky for...