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NX300 firmware hack to remove video recording limitations

Started Nov 9, 2015 | Discussions
ttbek Veteran Member • Posts: 4,869
Re: NX300 firmware hack to remove video recording limitations

The download of that link was failing for me, need to check if my disk was full, I know it was pretty close, when I get back to my desktop. Maybe it wasn't the fault of the link.

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ttbek Veteran Member • Posts: 4,869
Re: NX300 firmware hack to remove video recording limitations

I just wanted to say thanks for your work on this. Do we know if it runs into the same bug as the NX500 and NX1, or can it just keep on rolling as far as we know? Might be using my NX300 for a talk show type setup as b roll and it would be good to know ahead.

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tr13 Junior Member • Posts: 31
Re: NX300 firmware hack to remove video recording limitations

One of very useful things is to add bitrate increase to NX300 hack. May be not with GUI and such like on NX500, can be just few different variants of ready to flash firmware.

About memory leak - NX500 encoder is completely different, most probably leak is specific to it.

OP NewToCameras Junior Member • Posts: 31
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I haven't run into recording issues, nor has anyone reported any issues regarding recording, so I'll assume it's bug-free in that regard.

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tecnoworld Veteran Member • Posts: 7,232
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wow, welcome back after 8 months

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Artur - Brasil New Member • Posts: 9
Re: NX300 firmware hack to remove video recording limitations

Hey, man, many thanks for your efforts on hacking this firmware!

I'm using it in my NX300!

Artur - Brasil New Member • Posts: 9
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May I ask: the great work you did could be done for NX300M?

OP NewToCameras Junior Member • Posts: 31
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Hey, I had to stop working on this because other stuff came up in life, and honestly I was a little in over my head when it came to this. I was learning as I was going along, but spending hours in front of my screen trying to figure out how code worked didn't seem like a very productive use of my time. The NX500 and NX1 have been hacked since that time, so that's good to see at least.

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OP NewToCameras Junior Member • Posts: 31
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For some reason the NX300M firmware is packed differently than the firmware of the NX300, in such a way that I couldn't figure out exactly how to safely extract the filesystem. It probably could be done, but I couldn't figure it out.

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OP NewToCameras Junior Member • Posts: 31
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No problem, I did it mostly to fix a personal annoyance, and decided to share what I did. Unfortunately I wasn't able to do more, mostly due to my inexperience in reverse engineering assembly code. I had hoped to do other things, but oh well.

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