POE::Wheel::FollowTail to read binary records!?!

Folks-

In my environment there exists an application that creates a raw ascii  
data file on a given host in real time. I wanted to take this raw data  
and put it up in a GUI analysis window, so I wrote a POE-based Perl-Tk  
script, which uses POE::Wheel::FollowTail (Thanks Rocco, et. al.) as  
the data feed and uses Perl-Tk as the GUI. This works very well.

Now, the application has a "-binary" option, which will create a raw  
binary file on a given host in real time. I want my GUI analysis  
program to be able to work with this data as well. What should I do?

Being lazy, I was hoping I could just define a different filter for  
POE::Wheel::FollowTail, that instead of being line oriented, would be  
record oriented (each record begins with 0xfefefefe).

I currently have a binary parser that can parse the data. Assuming the  
binary data is slurped up into the scalar "$data", the following code  
works great:

while($data) {
	# Find next beginning-of-record flag & extract record...
	$data =~ s/^[^\xfe]*(\xfe\xfe\xfe\xfe[^\xfe]+)// || die "No luck";
	my $event=$1;

	# Send record to parser...
	$parser->parse( $event );

	# Print restult...
	print "events DUMP:\n", Dumper($parser->{events}), "\n";
}

Being very new to POE and filters, is there something already existing  
that I could use? I've toyed with modifying one of the following:

POE::Filter::RecordBlock
POE::Filter::Regexp
POE::Filter::Block

Do any of these make sense for what I want to do? Should I punt on  
using FollowTail and try something else?

Any advice is appreciated!

Thanks

-Craig