put this patch in my GF1 & won't go over 20mbits/sec in "SH" mode no matter what i'm filming..don't know what's going wrong...anyone help??...and what is FHD mode?

Wow! Just updated my old GH1 with this patch and I have never had this little banding and macroblocking in low light (see screen grab), although the bitrate is rather low (but on the other hand the shot is almost static, so this is perfect).

Thanks a million for making my B-cam a rather brilliant one!

Moved my initial comment to the right thread.

@krxz I think this is explained in the first post of this thread

@krxz This patch is not reliable with Native 24p checked. If Native 24p is what you want, I recommend the 100Mbps Max Latitude Patch:

http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/162/100mbps-max-latitude-patch-v2-updated-for-ptool-3.55d#Item_35

After renewing the page 3 times in Firefox I got it working, too - thanks

75Mbps Peak Reliability Patch Settings File:
the download link for this .ini-file is broken for me in Safari and in Firefox - please renew

Thanks for the confirmation re the Mjpeg mode, it is fine for what i use it for, low light events like the Kava Ceremony i did with 50mm 1.4 Canon FD and it plays back in camera. Also i did revert the resolution to 1280 x 720, this size suits me better.

Now onto the AVCHD modes, i tested both NTSC and PAL with my sharpest lenses, 20mm pancake and 14 - 140 kit with Sandisc 30MB/s Extreme in some brutal high contrast outdoor scene that i've used in the past and the PAL SH 720p mode is unbreakable. I would go as far to say as reliable as the reliable patch and returned av bitrates 5 - 10Mps higher than it, but also smoother motion (lower GOP setting..26 vs 30 ..??). The NTSC SH 720p was not quite as reliable in the same scenario as above, with the occasional card error but importantly the clips were not lost, just the recording stopped (very significant) This only happened in full auto mode (focus, aperture, ISO). I could control this easily as i knew when it was going to happen, so i would just lock exposure but still run auto focus.

I'm guessing the lower GOP in NTSC mode might be the difference in reliability here (GOP 25 vs the PAL GOP 26)
(actually in your first post you say the GOP is 20 for NTSC, the INI file shows it as 25 may be a typo in your first post)

For outdoor Run and Gun work, if slight aperture changes are not an issue, i would enable auto ISO, it greatly reduces any mud in shadows and dull areas that the extra bitrate can't fix. This results in, the bitrate staying almost constant as does the exposure so mud is further eliminated.

Awesome result for the V2 75Mbps PAL SH 720p, it is a new standard and now replaces the reliable patch on one of my GH1's.

Thank you Mr Powell.

UPDATE - I also meant to include that i also did these tests with an ND filter attached so that my lenses were operating at their sharpest f stop. (makes the patch and result all the more impressive)

lpowell, just checked the Mjpeg E1, - E4 etc and the resulting video is only 30Mbps not 75Mbps. So it looks like it's standard setting.
E1 Quality=225
E1 Table=96
E2 Quality=195
E2 Table=48
E3 Quality=170
E3 Table=16
E4 Quality=150
E4 Table=4

Should they not be ??

E1 Quality=280
E1 Table=4
E2 Quality=250
E2 Table=10
E3 Quality=225
E3 Table=24
E4 Quality=200
E4 Table=48

Reliable 720p60 75Mbps!!! Thanks LPowell.