gh1 hack newbie question

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jonnydvx

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Hi, i have just hacked my gh1, what seems successful though i have a couple of questions.

I used a 1.32 bin file as my original file and did a simple patch to 1.33 bin (using 3.50d) adding native 24p and the A settings (there is no limiting bandwidth field in the latest ptool)

All seems to work but now i have firmware 0.00 displayed when i look at version number in camera. Is this normal?? Something to be concerned about?

Also when i come to hack this baby again (once i have a class 10 card), do i need to tick the first two boxes in ptool? I am a little confused over the file management of these bins, and the increment numbers etc.

Any advice greatly appreciated
thanks
 
0.0 is normal because it does not check versions increments anymore

always keep version compare ticked as described above
 
How to check the new bitrate?

How to check the new bitrate?

Alright, I just hacked mine. Great!
Another newbie question though: HOW DO I CHECK THE ACTUAL DATA RATE?

I always transcoded my GH-1 footage to ProResLT in FCP. When I then checked those *.mov files with my Quicktime Player (hit cmd+i) the Data Rate said something around 82Mbit/s. But I knew that its just my 17Mbit/s footage. I never knew how to check the real data rate. How do I do that? :)

Now I just want to check my bitrate with my GH-13, but I assume that as soon as I transfered it to ProResLT again I do not get the real data rate displayed when hitting cmd+i in the Quicktime player...

Any information on this is really apprecciated!
Thank you!

Oh, and I also wanted to ask if ProRes422LT is still "good enough" for the GH-13? Or would you recommend using the regular ProRes 422 or even the 422 HQ setting for transcoding?
 
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For reading information about raw footage you can either use QT or MediaInfo. Its free and useful app.
Prores 422 LT is good to use for transcoding especially if u shoot a lot. (LT uses a little disk space). Prores 422 standard is recommended.
 
thanks irfan! i just downloaded mediainfo. gonna check it out...
i was never able to open *.mts file in QT, but VLC does the trick. (right click on file > media information)
 
jonnydvx said:
Hi, i have just hacked my gh1, what seems successful though i have a couple of questions.

I used a 1.32 bin file as my original file and did a simple patch to 1.33 bin (using 3.50d) adding native 24p and the A settings (there is no limiting bandwidth field in the latest ptool)

All seems to work but now i have firmware 0.00 displayed when i look at version number in camera. Is this normal?? Something to be concerned about?

Also when i come to hack this baby again (once i have a class 10 card), do i need to tick the first two boxes in ptool? I am a little confused over the file management of these bins, and the increment numbers etc.

Any advice greatly appreciated
thanks
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Buddy I need some help please, I am new on hacking GH1, I've posted for help in another thread but seem to have no response, so please help me out. Below I've pasted of what I've posted in another thread.

"Hi guys I am new to dvxuser, I have just brought GH1 yesterday with 1.2 firmware. I did hear about the hack with ptool and I tried doing it myself but it seems like the hack is not working? (Or I am not doing it right!!). Though it's my first time using DSLR I am a quick learner, I did search on the net for step by step instructions on how to hack GH1 (I did lots of forum reading too but still was unsucessful)....

I hope by posting my question, it will help me solve my problems as well as many others that may or are facing similar issues.....So can somone please be kind enough to help me/us out by posting clear instructions here (I guess everyone once went through this, so you know what it's like guys, so help would be very much appreciated)..

Ok i will explain what I've done so far, I went to the following link for instructions http://wiki.eoshd.com/index.php/Begi...Firmware_Guide I've followed and done exact steps that were mentioned in this page and few additionals. Additionals were ticking the "Thrid-party battery" box, ticking the "30min limit removal" box and ticking the "Video Bitrate H" and changing the value to 50,000,000 from 16,000,000 under it (Even though ticking and changing the value for "Video Bitrate H" wasn't mentioned in that page, I done it simply because of the image shown there had a tick in it and some forum reading done before)......By the way lots of forum i read talks about using ptool v3.35 and v3.36 but the ptool I used was v3.40d...not sure if that makes any differences?

Then I saved the firmware naming it GH1_133.BIN (yes with double underscore). Then I copied the saved GH1_133.BIN to empty Class 10 Transcend 16GB memory card and inserted into my GH1. After that I clicked "Playback button" in GH1 and it automatically asked me if I wanted to update to version 1.3 which I selected "Yes" then it started to load and after loading, GH1 restarted (Now at this point, I assume that the hack has been already applied).....Piece of cake!! (that's what I thought!! But how wrong was I?)

I then started to record some videos (without changing any setting in the menu, maybe i have should have? If yes, please let us know what settings to change).....Then I took the memory card out of my GH1 and inserted into my card reader and plugged into USB port and extracted the recorded videos (Can I extract the videos from my GH1 straight using the usb cable that came with GH1? instead of taking the memory card out? If yes, how? Because I tried doing it, but my PC didn't find any USB connection, maybe because I should have installed the software that came with my GH1? (which I didn't) I simply didn't do it because I thought it was going to update the firmware version automatically and I dind't wanted to take the risk of having the latest firmware updated in my GH1 where I wouldn't be able to apply the hack if I am right?? and I did make sure that I only buy GH1 with specific firmware so I can apply the hack).....

After looking at the video shot from my GH1 I was sad :(....(because it had very similar quality comparing to my £200 camcorder where as I spent £800 for GH1).....I also compard the videos which I shot earlier without trying to apply hack and the quality were very similar??.....So guys this is my sad story (LOL)....please help me/us out :(

Thank you very much for taking your time to read this. Help and answers to all questions asked above would be very very very much appreciated.....

Now I helplessly wait for a super man :P...hahaha good day :D"

By the way, I set the increment to 1 as it was my first time and it was mentioned in the wiki guide too. Thanks.
 
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