@kent: Using what settings? And on HBR?

You can't push HBR that high simply, it will not respond well, even though your card is capable of 176m and more in 24H. It's not a write speed error, it's some problem to do with HBR, you can't push it up too high, either small bitrate with very large I-frame it'll handle (like the bottom link), or larger bitrate with more modest I-frame sizes, you can't get both large frames and large bitrate so far in any way I've been able to find.

It's funny because I've had modded Q9b settings running up to around 110mbps in a test scene.. but nothing will ever pass a complex detailed scene (outdoors, wide DOF, wide FOV, movement) or a death chart, even the same stuff scaled back that should provide 90 or 80mbps max on the deathchart and complex scenes.. just won't play nice.

I've tried Flowmotion, and it simply isn't stable, it crashes deathcharts with speed errors (Even though it's not really a speed issue with the card). Plus the bitrate is very low, under half of what I get with my own patch in many circumtances.

IIRC, my patch currently has the highest stable HBR settings @ 60mbps, I've only been able to test it on 25p though. http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/2416/icarus-patch-just-for-hbr-current-0.0.6-60mbps-25p#Item_13

There is another HBR specific patch, though lower bitrate and longer GOP. http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/2409/24p25p-nine-gop9-hack-for-friendly-co-existance-of-24p-and-25p-for-pal-users#Item_35

@kent, Seriously - doubt that there would be a difference between Chinese and Japanese units... they even have the same high ISO line present!

I tried using the Spanmybitchup patch that people told me to try for 720p footage, it still stops rec. after about 3-4 seconds. I like the bitrates tho 100-150+mbps on other formats. any help would be great!

@JCLMedia @ARvidtp

I had problems with SpanMyBitchUp v1 (even with a Delkin 633X 16GB card) but not with V2. I had V2 working fine in SH 720P on just a Transcend Class 10 if memory serves correctly.

I also definitely used Sanity V3.1 extensively on Transcend cards in SH 720P mode in December for 20+ minutes at a time.

Wine 1.2.3 is not working with ptool 3.64d, I've downloaded ptool, original 1.1 firmware, reinstalled wine and it gives me this error notice when I load firmware1.1. anyone knows what the problem is? i'm on mac os 10.6.7

I don´t know xquartz or xorg-server, are this needed, because a previous version of wine was working fine with ptool

I have a simple yet possibly stupid question. I haven't been able to find the answer yet. I have tried several of the patches and they seem to work fine. My question is, when you create a modded firmware and save it as a higher number (like version 1.5), is it supposed to show this on the camera as version 1.5 or does it stay at 1.1? My camera still shows version 1.1 but it has the changes I saved as version 1.5.

Thanks for anyone who answers this without making fun of me! LOL

@kavadni Cinema at 25fps? Progressive? Where do I sign in for that?

Looks like this site has the most competent Lumix hackers I've found. So maybe you can help me. I just got the GX1 and was convinced it could shoot video just as good as my friends GF2, but no. No manual controls!

Any hacks for this?

Thanks / Pierre

See my video tutorial for gh2 ptool firmware 1.1 installing. sorry it is in Italian, but we understand anyway!!!

tx. Andyvia68