diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml
index 1f6aacae25..cc7142e4ae 100644
--- a/DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml
+++ b/DOCS/xml/en/mencoder.xml
@@ -373,6 +373,19 @@ mencoder <replaceable>input.avi</replaceable> -of mpeg -mpegopts format=mpeg1:ts
 </para>
 </informalexample>
 
+<note><title>Hint:</title>
+<para>
+  If for some reason the video quality of the second pass did not
+  satisfy you, you may re-run your video encode with a different target
+  bitrate, provided that you saved the statistics file of the previous
+  pass.
+  This is possible because the statistics file primary goal is to record
+  the complexity of each frames, which doesn't depend on bitrate.
+  You should note though that you'll get best results if all passes are
+  run with a target bitrate that does not differ too much.
+</para>
+</note>
+
 </sect1>
 
 <sect1 id="menc-feat-rescale">