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- StatsReader v2.0 HowTo:
-
- - do a "usual" first pass
- - open the resulting stats file with statsreader (e.g. Auto Load)
- - enter your desired size
- (When not using autoload:
- - enter your credits ranges. Currently works only with
- fixed quant. credits, you have to use them in first pass
- as well! )
- - verify your settings, just to be sure ;)
- - hit "Save..", choose a filename different from the
- original file
- - when StatsReader is finished, it spits out some information
- like scaled size reached (due to rounding errors usually
- in a 100kb range of desired size) etc.
-
- Now in XviD, select "2pass - 2nd pass external". The easiest
- way to do it properly would be: set "old", "regular" curve
- compression high/low to 0 and disable altCC.
- OR set altCC to automatic min. relative quality, set strength
- to 0. OR set min. realtive quality to manually and set it to
- 100. (Quite a lot of choices ;) ).
- Below the first pass stats file in the GUI you can now choose
- a second statsfile. Use the new generated statsfile in this
- place.
-
- That's it, if you tried it you'll notice that it's not much
- of a difference to usual 2pass encoding, you simply "disable"
- curve compression within the codec and feed it the new
- stats file.
-
- 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.]
-