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tonyleung
10th of July 2001 (Tue), 08:59
Anyone found that the AVI movie taken by Canon G1 is much poorer than mpeg movie taken by Sony DC?

Here are some examples

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CanonG1/files/Canon%20G1%20sample%20movie/
MARobertson
11th of July 2001 (Wed), 09:30
>Anyone found that the AVI movie taken by Canon G1 is much poorer than mpeg movie taken by Sony DC?
laurianttila
11th of July 2001 (Wed), 17:02
Is there somekind of crack available to remove the 30sec limitation of the AVI clip? =)
I would love to shoot long videos with my G1 since i have large memory capacity.
mcaldwell
12th of July 2001 (Thu), 02:00
I do not believe the size of your CF has anything to do with the 30 second limit. And surely Canon didn't impose the limit to limit the feature content of the camera. I expect that the CF cannot be written to fast enough to keep up with the movie frames, so there is bugger RAM which is much faster. The buffer RAM would hold the AVI, then "cook it" into the CF at the rate the CF can take it. So the 30 seconds is the limit to what the RAM can hold; different software would not change that.
laurianttila
12th of July 2001 (Thu), 02:37
You might be right.

But Ixus V has a capability to shoot 60sec movies. I would expect the same from G1.
Stenu
12th of July 2001 (Thu), 05:51
laurianttila wrote:
You might be right.

But Ixus V has a capability to shoot 60sec movies. I would expect the same from G1.

Ixus V is much newer model than G1. I am not exactly sure but I think that G1 have 8MB internal RAM buffer and when it gets full, it really gets full. Then it have to be flushed to CD/MD and that takes the time.

But this could anyway be solved with software! It just needs a new real time operating system for the chips of G1 ;-) It believe that it could do simultaneous CF and shooting operations.

There is allso another possible solution, open Your G1 and try to change the memory chip. If OS programmers have been smart enought it might work. In many cases it does (calculators, PIMs, phones and so on..). But this is something what I am not going to do unless I have enought cash to buy D30 :-)

Stenu
tonyleung
13th of July 2001 (Fri), 10:27
Even if you can crack, the movie is useless if the quality is poor.

Anyway I did not hear any news to make it more than 30 seconds.

Tony from Hong Kong
http://www.tonyleung.com

laurianttila wrote:
Is there somekind of crack available to remove the 30sec limitation of the AVI clip? =)
I would love to shoot long videos with my G1 since i have large memory capacity.