Hi,
This is my first post on this forum. I have a 600D and I've been using "Tragic Lantern" (if I may call it like that) for a few weeks and I've been doing a little test last night with different settings. With audio off, I've been able to achieve an average 130mbps while recording a city map, with a lot of details in it. The BR peak was around 160mbps. No problems of stability.
I've used different settings to try and see wich ones would give be the highest BR, and here's the result, finally, I ended up with theses settings :
CBR mode ALL I GOP 1
GOP factor 0 and 1 at 3.0x
GOP factor 3 and 4 at 0.1x
D1 and D2 factor at 0.1x (what exactly is this setting ? It seems that it doesn't influence BR much...)
JP Slice at 87 and locked
Min BR : 80
Max BR : 200
DblockA - 6
DblockB -6
PicPC -7
Buffer Warn 70%
ISO was 320, and audio was off. My SDHC card are Sandisk Extreme (45MB/s) and Extreme Pro (95MB/s) and both worked.
I don't know if this would be any help, but I figured "you never know"... I used the "422exmem" released. (at first I thought I would be able to record in 422 but I guess I'll to wait for mjpeg encoding if I understand this right ?)
I don't exactly understand what all those settings do, except I think for GOP and Slice, so would you be able to post quickly a little "what's what" about all the settings, like D1,D1, DblockA... Because I don't know if the BR or the encoding quality should be better with lower or higher values...
Thank you for all this amazing work, I think you are just creating, with your work on the 600d, the better HDSLR on the market, even if it's not a full frame.
Jeremy, a french fan of ML