@Vitally_Kiselev
Yea, reducing quality... but improving the "look" for us picky cinema junkies. ;)

I'll keep it to the other forum, as not to confuse people...

so the reccommend settings were just to change the bitrate to 42?

Will the original firmware 24 H/L still be intact after the hack? Can I choose to shoot between 24H/L and the new hack 42 FSH/FH.

@Angry_C

You can try to play with video buffer. It defaults at 0x3000000 with bitrate patch active.
You can set it slightly higher. Ideally it must be at 0x4400000, but camera hangs if I remember correctly.
Other option is to play with other new settings in testers section.

Using the recommended high bitrate settings I'm getting a message saying motion recording has been cancelled because the camera could not write to the card fast enough - or something to that effect on SH 720p60. To get this error I'm focusing on and shooting the grilles of my speakers and the screens in my windows.

I can shoot normal scenes with 720p60 ok, but the screens/grilles with lots of detail everywhere kill it. I tried reducing the bitrate for SH down to 24 and I still got the "recording cancelled because card too slow" message.

I'm using a Patriot LX series 32GB class 10 SDHC card. Maybe this SD card is just crap? What are you guys using?

1080p30 (the 80% mode) usually works though when shooting the same thing.

BTW - when you guys say a "freeze" does that mean the camera locks up, or are you referring to the above message from the camera?

they are in Ptool - click the name of each patch and a little window pops up to the side :)

Did some testing and compared 24p/42mbps to the factory set 24p/16mbps. The average bit rate is doubled, but the footage is not improved at all. I was amazed to see that it is even worse (compared with the factory set 24L setting). Made some 200% crobs and the 42mbps footage is always slightly worse.

Here some examples:
16mbps: http://www.fotos-hochladen.net/uploads/116mbpsaqs3r0vd71.jpg
42mbps: http://img4.fotos-hochladen.net/uploads/142mbpsh6ep3s7fdk.jpg

16mbps: http://img4.fotos-hochladen.net/uploads/16mbpscepbsq3u1o.jpg
42mbps: http://www.fotos-hochladen.net/uploads/42mbps5ja7udvtsh.jpg

Whoever said the meaning of life is 42 was wrong. It is actually 32. Well at least that is the magic number that stops the 1st second of video from messing up. If you enter 32000000 for Video Bit rate FSH/FH and Video bit rate 24H you will get the maximum default bit rate that is possible.

I suspect it has something to do with the buffer being set to 30 by default. Vitaliy, do the bit rate settings change the buffer settings behind the scenes? I am going to try raising the buffer and bit rate above 30 now and see if that helps.

It is important to remember that just trying for the highest bit rate possible is not going to get us anywhere. We need everyone to systematically test one variable at a time. Make a change to one setting and test what happens. If it messes things up then see if a different value for that one setting fixes it. Systematic testing like this will get us to the promised land much sooner than everyone saying "I got XXX bit rate to record a partially jumbled picture".

First I frame on your screenshots is anyway very compressed, as well as few frames in first GOP.

@mpgxsvcd

Better tell me exact top bitrate number that do not result in very low bitrate.
Using binary search technique.

@PixCanFly
No not from MediaV
@arvidtp
Yes...Thanks for the reminder

@mpgxsccd that is nothing I am up at 8.30am! Ignite your passion dude!