@alcomposer: 4 gig limit can never be hacked, because the file format that GH2 uses, does not work with files larger than 4 gb. But anyway, why does it bother you? as long as file spanning works, theres nothing to worry about, right? :)
Any sort of info regarding max recording size? (4 gig limit) Is this still going to be an issue for MJPEG (I understand that 30min is fixed - but don't know if the 4gig limit is impossible to fix)
@EOSHD Just to re-roast that old chestnut, isn't fixing the banding on smooth tones (because of 8-bit depth) a function of dithering, not bitrate? I've done some experiments where the banding was much less on high-iso shots (because of sensor noise acting as dither, I believe).
However, I'm all for high bitrate if it gives a good quality increase in an efficient way...
>Btw, 422 patch do not work, so not so much use for big bitrates. Again, we need to look at whole MJPEG encoder to find change performed by Panasonic.
That'd be quite interesting, seeing the hardware-possibilities we have there...
Something else: HDMI-related questions are not only important because of external recording - for me, universal EX-tele availability is more relevant. So you may not need HDMI recording with ± 50 Mbit AVCHD; but I'd love to use EX-Tele mode, working with an external monitor, exactly this combination is really interesting for many purposes (like recording concerts in low light, where you want really fast telelenses, and a big screen, because it's hard to see in semi-darc scene anyway)
@Vitaliy_Kiselev "Again, we need to look at whole MJPEG encoder to find change performed by Panasonic."
MJPEG mode is disabled when HDMI monitor connected, that might give a clue... seems HDMI and AVCHD encoder chip closely linked, and MJPEG is separate feed. Or maybe they just did this for standards compliance reasons.
How is gradation, is there the same banding over smooth tones like in a blue sky we have with all 8bit AVC H.264 codec DSLRs or is that fixed by the higher bitrates?
Probably still an overload of visitors. That said, amazon S3 now supports domains. Upload a simple html website for it and the updated PTool there and you won't have to worry about too many visitors ever again.
As I said, it depends not on me only. New PTool will be released only after we'll move forum and domain to VPS. Otherwise it'll be extremely sluggish thing :-)