StatsReader v2.1 HowTo: New in 2.0: if setting target size to "0" you can use StatsReader to add keyframes in desired locations. Make sure to use a different filename for the target file and set that file up in xvid as first pass statsfile. Since the frametypes are gathered from the first pass file, setting them only in a 2nd pass file won't work. [Note that you need a special XviD dev-api-3 build for this when using bframes (with suxendrol's controlled mode), without bframes or in the stable build this should work out of the box.] New in 2.0a: merging stats files. If you somehow accidently abort a first pass and simply want to continue, you can now do a 2nd first pass (using another name for the target stats of course) and start at the next frame to the last frame from the first file. When you're done, simply open the first file as usual, then hit "merge". Open the 2nd file. Then another dialog pops up asking for a new target stats-file, choose a new name. This isn't perfect as on that cut the bitrate will go nuts for a second, but it produces still a valid output. I found it to be useful ;-) New in 2.1: Statsreader can now read dev-api-4 sats-files. There is no support for external scaling anymore in dev-api-4, so there's no need for all the functions of StatsReader for these xvid versions. It still helps getting some insights into the first pass though. Still missing: support to write dev-api-4-statsfiles for the "add keyframe" feature.