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  • UlisseUlisse
    "... but save it as latest firmware increment."
    Version increment must be cecked.
  • pchristophpchristoph
    Hi guys. I've been patching my hacked GH13 for a year and now I've hacked the GH2...but something's gone wrong. I installed 1.0E firmware to camera without checking anything. Left the name GH2__V10. This would be my 'base' firmware.
    Then I waited for some testers to make something stable. Vitaliy came out with 3.61 patch that looked stable and I decided to install it, checking off version increment and the few settings 'hints' he recommended. I successfully loaded it up, saved it as GH2__V11.bin and put it on my GH2. So far so good...then I saw Kae's 3 GOP patch and decided to give it a try. THIS is where things went weird.
    I can't re-install original firmware?? So then I looked at my menu Version Disp. and it still reads Body Firmware 1.0??? Shouldn't it say 0.0? On my GH1 every time I loaded up a patch my Body Firmware would say 0.0 - so I could revert back to the original firmware and load up a new patch.
    So what can I do? Any ideas? I feel like a noob, but I'm not.

    UPDATE : Discovery...Seems I cannot go 'back' to original firmware but I can go 'forward' to each new firmware I name. This means that if you want the original 1.0E firmware again, just load the GH2__V10.bin into ptool and don't check anything, but save it as latest firmware increment. This is different than GH13 as you could always load original firmware back to camera (1.32) Works for me. Hope this can helps anyone else.
  • belfrymanbelfryman
    @eyeBOX
    Hi, they were kindly written by OSGondar and testicle enhancement was out of context! Wouldn't 30->24 just mean that? Changes the 30 frames per second to 24, though there is obviously the cinema mode available that is 24 fps?
  • eyeBOXeyeBOX
    belfryman,
    Thanks for the noob proof instructions.. anyone have an idea of what the "720p30-> 720p24" option under mjpeg fps category does?
  • belfrymanbelfryman
    @feha
    I know I'm being dumb here, hence the topic! but I set the 720p as normal in the menu. I have the monitor out set to auto, but when I connect the monitor the record setting option greys out and becomes inaccessible. I need to test if I set the monitor out to 720p rather than auto if that would over ride whatever I've set as recording format, I know it makes no sense, that the monitor out would dictate the recording format but that's what seems to be happening. Someone bringing non-hacked GH2 round tomorrow to see what happens with theirs when I plug in monitor.
  • belfrymanbelfryman
    @OSGondar
    There's never a bad time to grow balls, gender dependent I guess! I didn't read through it I'm afraid, just knew I'd seen something useful. Didn't include the how much time you've been wasting bit!
  • AriaAria
    I know it sounds crazy, but wouldn't higher bitrate use less compression thus less strain on Processor?
  • No_SuRReNDeRNo_SuRReNDeR
    OK here's a stupid question but I was wondering , if you raise the bit-rates/hack etc...will the camera's potentially overheat like the other DSLR's do?
  • koolkool
    why nikon can do the mjpeg 24fps?
  • OSGondarOSGondar
    @belfryman thanks for giving me credit on my instructions "Noob Version / fool proof" =(, out of context the whole grow some balls step seems really strange on here to post it that way! I would have reworded on request, It was for a particular user guys! i'm not just mean in general, i promise.
  • MrAnthonyMrAnthony
    @aperturae: It seems to me that AVCHD is very processor intensive to create and while the camera should have ASICs to do this, the write speed error may be to the buffer in the camera not being emptied quickly enough by the ASICs or even that the camera cannot handle the intensive processing needs of creating an AVCHD conversion from the RAW signal AND writing to the SD card simultaneously.
  • aperturaeaperturae
    I have successfully, consistently gotten my MJPEG settings to give me
    125megabit/s(~15.5MB/s) peaking to even over 160megabit/s (20MB/s) @ 720P/30FPS
    on my Sandisk Extreme III 30MB/s card.
    (Example attached)

    Yet,
    I cannot manage to get even a mere 40megabits/s in AVCHD mode.
    I've used every patch there is out there for the GF1.
    AVCHD at those higher rates almost always causes a card speed write error.
    But why? If I can consistently record upwards of 160 megabit/s in MJPEG?

    Is this just that no AVCHD patch has been quite perfected enough...
    Perhaps due to the high amount of variables versus MJPEG's number of variables?

    I apologize in advance if this is the wrong place for an inquiry of this type.
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  • fehafeha
    There are two different settings one for recording and one for monitor, they do no relate ...
  • belfrymanbelfryman
    @feha

    The odd thing I have is that if I set the camera to 720p before I plug in the monitor it still records at 1080i after I plug in the monitor.
  • belfrymanbelfryman
    @eyeBOX

    from PTools topic....

    Noob Version / fool proof.
    1.is your battery fully charged? ok mount camera on your pc. (use the provided cable)
    2, Run Ptools and load the firmware GH2 1.0E that you downloaded (looks like GH2__V10 after unziping)
    3. Now you have options... just check the first box for version increment and then under Patches for end users ... click on avchd compression and from that drop down check all of 4 options there while your at it. when you highlight each option it literally pops up and tells you type in this number instead of current number. it tells... you.. what to type in. type in that number for each of these 4 options.
    4.SAVE firmware. use same file name as original except change the last digit to anything else.
    5.Drag or copy and paste or w.e you want, you're new firmware that you made over to camera's card patiently waiting for you grow some balls, now unplug and restart that camera once its on the card.
    6. Once camera is back on, wait a second and push play/preview button. it asks you, would you like to update? hit yes!! DO NOT touch anything or mess with camera during update, that's the only danger... so press update and watch don't touch and guess what? Hardly a minute later you're set
  • eyeBOXeyeBOX
    @Vitaliy_Kiselev:

    What does the "720p30-> 720p24" option under mjpeg fps category do? I am interested in shooting in mjpeg mode rather than avchd because my computer is an older powerPC that does not handle mts files so friendly..

    Where can I find a beginner's guide to hacking the gh2?

    Thank you in advance and for your hard work..

    eyeBOX
  • Vitaliy_KiselevVitaliy_Kiselev
    >Does the hack include support for mjpeg @ 24p 1080 or 720?

    No.
  • eyeBOXeyeBOX
    Does the hack include support for mjpeg @ 24p 1080 or 720?
  • v10tdiv10tdi
    Disregard my question. I found the answer.

    I had used Winebottler to create a prefix. The Settings files were buried in the Users directory:
    \\Library\Application Support\Wine\Prefixes\\drive_c\winebottler\*.ini
  • v10tdiv10tdi
    Question for Ptools users on Mac with Wine: Where are the Ptools settings files stored (e.g., seta.ini)?
  • belfrymanbelfryman
    Sorry, just meant 1080p, rather than 25p, have done my crying already. So assume people discussing 1080 50p.
  • last_SHIFTlast_SHIFT
    As far as 25p goes - there is an 'Evita' thread here:

    http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/391/25p-official-topic-aka-dont-cry-for-me-argentina#Item_86

  • B3GuyB3Guy
    Just to expand on ExTele, If I understand correctly, it records from the center of the sensor, pixel-for-pixel (1:1) in full HD, 16:9. Result? No Moir and significantly minimized rolling shutter :)

    Obviously, digital "grain" will be bigger, and from my experience, it is not always as "sharp" as a result.
  • fehafeha
    I think you must select before as camera detects monitor than detected resolution will be lockt.
    I suppose it is a normal procedure ...
  • belfrymanbelfryman
    Also very glad you were reading! Thanks again, for the torch in the dark!
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