Oh wow, I did not expect a response by the chief himself so fast - thanks! And by the way: thanks for your work in general. I did already use PTool for G2 Hack long tiome ago, that helped me a lot to use this camera in a resonable way (full manual movie controls, 30min removal, better qualitiy). Now I did donate, what I actually wanted to do long time ago already ...

To the topic: I'm quite sure that I was updating (as I'm familiar with ptool). I did experiment a lot with settings all the time. New firmware was always installed by the camera, version number was always 0.0 (as expected with "prevent version compare"), and so it showed up version number 1.3 when I installed the official firmware again. Beside that the 30min restriction was activated again. Before that the restiction was removed, as I did always remove it with my tests. That should be enough to proove that the expected firmware is installed propperly, no?

Now the crazy thing is that it doesn't matter any more what bitrate settings I change with ptool, nor if I run the official firmware, my camera does not stop to boost bitrates up to sometimes more than 100.000 kbit/s.

Is it possible that I changed some settings stored with ROM in camera? I did play around with "patches for testers" as well, I did use the three "AVCHD Research" patches and the "video buffer" among the "AVCHD Research" once.

Any ideas? I really need to restrict the bitrate to a resonable amount to make the camera reliable again ...

Thanks and all best, Michael