ifstream.eof() - end of file is reached before the real end

Question

I have a roughly 11.1G binary file where stores a series of the depth frames from the Kinect. There are 19437 frames in this file. To read one frame per time, I use

Answer 1

You need to open the stream in binary mode, otherwise it will stop at the first byte it sees with a value of 26.

ifstream depthStream("fileName.dat", ios_base::in | ios_base::binary);

As for why 26 is special, it's the code for Ctrl-Z which was a convention used to mark the end of a text file. The history behind this was recorded in Raymond Chen's blog.