He's already doing the IE thing. Problem is it blows for displaying images quickly and efficiently. It makes my mouse flash like some piece of crap non-interrupt-driven software cursor.

Best solution is to do your own thing with the raw image. So any code to help out in this respect will probably get Fastrack a long way. I don't have any VB code of any kind lying around. I used to have links to C sources for both parsing different formats as well as some generalized display routines.

I'd imagine that there should be some other existing support in VB for blitting a region from one area of memory to the display.

Bruno