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- 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.
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