(XviD) Statsreader

Ahoy, I needed a little distraction (right word? dunno...), so I coded yet another stats file viewer. And as I always wanted to go back to the roots again, I built in an amazing feature: _linear curve compression for external xvid compression mode_! Just enter your target filesize in MB, hit the "save as" button, give that baby a name and press "ok". After that, you'll get the stats file for "2nd pass - external" mode in XviD. Sure, you can use GKnot. But this is a) my first trial of doing that and b) just 11kb big (zipped 8kb). No huge 7MB downloads just for a curve scaler... ;) I hope you like it and send me plenty bug reports! (Until now it's not at all tested. maybe it totally messes up. But the curve is nicely scaled at least ;) ) Best regards, koepi

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@Koepi Great news :). Gonna test it right away with Fight Club (as usual ;)). BTW, are you using default altCC in your Matrix test with the external stats file? thanks, iago

@Koepi, Thank you for the tool, even _xvid_ is stopped atm, but the tool is still on going. ;)

@Koepi I get this error message in VirtualDub when initializing the second pass, both in fast recompress and full processing mode. (Using avisynth 2.05, btw.) regards, iago

Strange error, dunno where it comes from. I manually start both passes and didn't check the job control on that... how are you going to compress the stats file, output it to another filename (!important! XviD doesn't forgive if the first pass and external compressed stats file are identical ;) ) and in the same time start the second pass? ;) Try entering that manually and start the jobs by hand, see if that helps it please! And yes, I use all the rest my default settings. I did the credits at constant quant. 8 in the first pass, in the second pass it's not selectable - and that is a good sign :) I still have ~4hrs to wait from now to see the results, but I'm already impatient. I testet it on the first 2000 frames of matrix and those were the best results I got that far.... Thanks for finding the tool useful :) Best regards, Koepi

@Koepi That's the exact procedure I follow: I open the first pass stats file in statsreader, enter my desired filesize (634mb in this case), then I hit "save as" and save the file under another file name. Also, the tool doesn't automatically give the .stats extension so I type it as well: eg. "fightclb-ext.stats". (I also get the "scaled down to ...." confirmation.) Then I go to XviD 2pass-2ndPass Ext. for the second pass and select the scaled file as my stats file, etc. The usual procedure I follow everytime ;). Anything wrong with that procedure? thanks, iago

uhm. nope, that's absolutely correct :-( I have no idea where this comes from. Did you check the file, if it's the same size as the first pass stats file? But if you do it that way, I don't know why vdub complains about job control. Please delete your *.jobs file in your virtualdub directory and see if this helps! Regards, Koepi EDIT: I just saw that you wrote "..and I choose that file as my stats file" - you have to just _add_ it as the file at the bottom which defaults to "\videogk.stats". The other field still has to contain your "original" first pass stats file!

@Koepi, I don't know how but it's OK now :). I think I messed up something before. Anyway, never mind ;), since it's working with no problem now! I'm looking forward to see the results too :). best regards, iago EDIT: yes you're absolutely right, that's where I went wrong! ;) Stupid me...

[1096] Quantizer distribution for 2nd pass: [1096] Q:2:449 [1096] Q:3:76435 [1096] Q:4:96210 [1096] Q:5:12124 [1096] Q:6:949 [1096] Q:7:16 [1096] Q:8:3 [1096] Q:9:1 [1096] Q:10:1 Looks good to me... the "weapons rack" scene looks ok for my taste, but I have to check the whole movie. I'm amazed as there's still some noise of the source to see :) EDIT: ouch. the credits stuff didn't work out, file is 9 MB oversized.... hrmpf. Regards, Koepi