[BorisAngelis]

Is there any hacking being done in the video side of things? Because it would be epic to at least have focus peaking enabled while filming. And Congrats to all the progress everyone involved in this has made.

[bootcoder]

I have extended svenpeter tool for unpacking new firmware binary types.

[wwortel]

great effort! Thanks @svenpeter and @bootcoder.
To make it compile under linux had to make just a few edits because of type warnings in printf statements and the lack of the /sys/types.h header file import. Without it it doesn't know the off_t types.

[bootcoder]

@wwortel
My fault, you should change "#define DEBUG" to "#define noDEBUG". This define is only need for someone debuging decompressor and most people do not need.

EDIT: you changes might work for 64-bit Linux, but produces warnings for 32-bit. Also using once %lu and at another place %l is confusing. So multiplatform solution need.

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[bachmx]

Hey guys;

I have K5 with firmware version 1.16. I have tried 00077430.505 but coud'n enable debug menu. Any help? Thanks!

[Duc-Driver]

that file is correct, but you need a file named DEVELOP.MOD too,
then leave storage door open and turn on you camera.

....have a look in the link (Lensrom Database) in my signature, there is a how-to

[richandfleur]

Is there any hacking being done in the video side of things? Because it would be epic to at least have focus peaking enabled while filming.

It seems several K-3 users are reporting that this is happening already, though unfortunately the focus peaking is being written to their files and not displayed on the screen
As always it would be nice if Pentax actually addressed these firmware requests themselves...

Congrats to all the progress everyone involved in this has made.

Fully agree, top marks all round

[logomancer]

@wwortel
My fault, you should change "#define DEBUG" to "#define noDEBUG". This define is only need for someone debuging decompressor and most people do not need.

EDIT: you changes might work for 64-bit Linux, but produces warnings for 32-bit. Also using once %lu and at another place %l is confusing. So multiplatform solution need.

Something weird is definitely going on. I compiled it and tried running it on a K-01 firmware file under 64-bit Arch and it segfaulted. If I have time later, I might poke at this with a debugger, but figured you should know.

[bootcoder]

It was not supported yet. I have updated my source in post above for this issue.

[madbrain]

What I really want is get rid of the 25-30 minute limit on video clips . Do one of the hackers here think it's possible ?

[bootcoder]

String resources found in firmware and decoded.

[RayeR]

Hehe, seems to be simply shifted by 0x1e (30) lower against standard ASCII code. Is it some specific string or you just pick a random? So if we shift entire FW we coul find much more strings? Maybe that only GUI strings are encoded this way, AFAIK there are also normal coded strings.

[bootcoder]

Hehe, seems to be simply shifted by 0x1e (30) lower against standard ASCII code. Is it some specific string or you just pick a random?

What means "specific" ? There are two huge areas containing such strings in many languages. Font of latine languages starts with character '_' (or ASCII 0x1E) that explains encoding.

So if we shift entire FW we coul find much more strings?

Sure, but these strings are not referenced directly in firmware code.

[RayeR]

Sure, but these strings are not referenced directly in firmware code.

Yes, back in time when I localized firmware of Canon Powershot A70 and A95 there was also block of language strings (normal ASCII) and at the beginning of block there was a pointer table to each string. So if you make some mesage longer and the following was shifted a few bytes further then you have to fix also the pointer in the table (that was pretty anoying to keep track both). I guess it may be similar here - the strings would be referenced by some intex that is then translated to selected language...

[bootcoder]

So if you make some mesage longer and the following was shifted a few bytes further then you have to fix also the pointer in the table (that was pretty anoying to keep track both).

Unfortunately, strings are here part of data segement and in the middle of other constants. So you can't insert something. But there is already support for many languages.

the strings would be referenced by some intex that is then translated to selected language...

GUI component resource embed pointer into string table that in turn contain pointers to string (english). I suppose different "language" is coded by constant offset to "english" string in a table. But not interested for me.