MTS playback's working fine for me in the new VLC 2.0. It drops a few frames when the clip first starts but it's solid after that.

Just tried some shooting with my 32GB Transcend Class 10, got write speed errors after a few seconds in ETC and standard modes, 1080p/24H. This was using native m4/3 glass (the 20mm Pancake) so maybe manual lenses will fare better. My Sandisk 32GB Class 10 isn't giving any issues at all, so I will continue to use that.

@driftwood results are virtually identical with lumix(non x) 14-140 lens. Even with manual focus. Errored quicker if anything. Chart below with frame drops from 14-140lens. 95mb card in 720p 60

Quick test with voight 0.95- seems very stable over 1 min test. with 20mm lumix. stable also with mf and af. Changing light, moving camera.

all with 95mb.sec cards

I will test out HBR/25p in the city today.

Why is the frame and buffer limit so much smaller for the settings that affect HBR?

Brilliant reporting @chauncy, I'll get down to this tomorrow, thanks mate. I havent got an X lens yet to demo on so Im relying on you.

Just a note I've seen the shutter freeze on my x 14-45 when zooming in 720p. It's different than anything seen before. The display just freezes with no error and have to drop battery to get out of. Saw it twice in 50 tests.

I have tested the frame drop on a 30mb/sec card and saw it again.
I formatted all cards prior to use. The frame drop is not just one time but occurs randomly across the clip. In the pic you can see it happens twice, happened 4 times total over 20 sec clip. It never happens right at the exact end.

There were two clips out of ten that I saw no frame drop but they still write errored. So frame drop may be red herring.

I also could get a longer clip before fail time at lower isos.

with the 95mb/64gb card: Using 14-45 x lens With manual focus and no zoom. Just holding camera i went 45 seconds with no error. As soon as I changed focus(manual)- write error.

at 720/50 like a rock. no fails with 95mb card no fails with 30mb card. No frame drop seen.

GH2 user here. 24H just failed to span on a Transcend 16GB Class 10 card. (Wouldn’t play back in camera either.) Canon 50mm ƒ1.4. Trying 24L now.

24L spans without problems.

"I was waiting for this one... Name me one patch that doesnt do that? Indeed, most fail after a few seconds."

I don't want to bother you ;-) ... I am testing all your patches... everytime you release a new one. They are absolutely phantastic for 24H but the all fail in FSH (and HBR). Still waiting for an Inra patch from you that can do reliable, clean FSH/HBR.

Patches that do not fail in FSH (and therefore most likely also work in HBR mode)

cbrandin 44M

cbrandin 66M

zero adverse effect patches

Patches that definitely work troublefree in HBR at great quality:

Flowmotion

Sanity

@sid much cheaper than buying a slower mac. seriously.

@driftwood

wow sounds expensive pro stuff!

i was thinking just a mac with a i7 and 8gb ram would do me

i only do small stuff at the moment

"I would love someone to upload a top quality HBR mode video... any takers?"

I would love to do so ... but in HBR mode (25p) shooting the codec stress chart I-frames go down to around 360Kb. Lots of mosquito noise... and the codec is "pumping" (like noise on/off)

@driftwood

how powerful is your computer?

mines struggles... need to know what spec to invest in for better editing

@Driftwood: That shutter freeze is what I have been seeing when I use Clip Wrap to wrap the file as 25p. Files play back fine when imported as Psf. Weird but I am sure you're used to that :)