While working on IPTV product for Geodesic, we came across this peculiar problem our video data was shifted by 3 bytes from what we expected, throwing our decod

While working on IPTV product for Geodesic, we came across this peculiar problem our video data was shifted by 3 bytes from what we expected, throwing our decoder into fits. It took us three months of debugging, and delay of product launch , to fix the problem. A renegade "&" in C++ code, instead of value of pointer we were accessing its address . Why it caused only 3 bytes is beyond me, I was just very very happy to have fixed the issue. ( It was back in 2009 so some details are little hazy )