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.]

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 ;-)