Well I know that you can launch an exe with Internet Explorer by assigning a protocol to the exe Insert the following into the registry:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\notepad]
@="URL:notepad Protocol"
"URL Protocol"=""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\notepad\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\notepad\shell\open]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\notepad\shell\open\command]
@="\"c:\\notepad.exe\" \"%1\""

Your link will then need to be notepad:parameters where parameters are the parameters you wish to pass. Change notepad above to whatever name you wish for your protocol.

Thanks for all your replies. I've read up on it a bit and have tried both pragma pack(1) before the struct and pragma pack(push, 1) ... pragma pack(pop) around the struct and both have not worked. This[^] also verifies what you have said. I havent disable padding though. I've look for how to do this but cant find it for either GCC of Visual Studio. I've also had a look at this[^] to no avail. The header was incorrect. I've removed payload_data_exists:1 and made adaptive_field_exists:2 http://www.erg.abdn.ac.uk/research/future-net/digital-video/mpeg2-trans.html[^]

Hi Guys, I've been searching extensively over the past couple of days but still have trouble reading bits from a file. I'm trying to read the header of an MPEG ts file. Here is what I have: // header structure struct TS_PACKET_HEADER { unsigned int sync_byte:8; unsigned int payload_unit_start_indicator:1; unsigned int transport_error_indicator:1; unsigned int transport_priority:1; unsigned int PID:13; unsigned int scrambling_control:2; unsigned int adaptive_field_exists:2; unsigned int payload_data_exists:1; unsigned int continuity_counter:4; }; ... // the code to read from file into structure int size; unsigned char* buffer; std::ifstream inputFile("mpeg.ts", std::ios::in | std::ios::binary); if (inputFile.is_open()) { size = 4; buffer = new unsigned char[size]; inputFile.seekg(0); inputFile.read( reinterpret_cast(buffer), size); TS_PACKET_HEADER header = * (TS_PACKET_HEADER*) buffer; } The first byte reads fine but the next two bytes (payload_unit_start_indicator, transport_error_indicator, transport_priority and PID) read incorrectly. Where am i going wrong and is there a better way to do this? Packet header information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_stream#Important_elements_of_a_transport_stream[^]