This was first reported on the mailing list in an earlier revision of this
encoder but was forgotten from the final commit.
Signed-off-by: Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnuker@gmail.com>
This commit adds a new encoder capable of creating BBC/SMPTE Dirac/VC-2 HQ
profile files.
Dirac is a wavelet based codec created by the BBC a little more than 10
years ago. Since then, wavelets have mostly gone out of style as they
did not provide adequate encoding gains at lower bitrates. Dirac was a
fully featured video codec equipped with perceptual masking, support for
most popular pixel formats, interlacing, overlapped-block motion
compensation, and other features. It found new life after being stripped
of various features and standardized as the VC-2 codec by the SMPTE with
an extra profile, the HQ profile that this encoder supports, added.
The HQ profile was based off of the Low-Delay profile previously
existing in Dirac. The profile forbids DC prediction and arithmetic
coding to focus on high performance and low delay at higher bitrates.
The standard bitrates for this profile vary but generally 1:4
compression is expected (~525 Mbps vs the 2200 Mbps for uncompressed
1080p50). The codec only supports I-frames, hence the high bitrates.
The structure of this encoder is simple: do a DWT transform on the
entire image, split it into multiple slices (specified by the user) and
encode them in parallel. All of the slices are of the same size, making
rate control and threading very trivial. Although only in C, this encoder
is capable of 30 frames per second on an 4 core 8 threads Ivy Bridge.
A lookup table is used to encode most of the coefficients.
No code was used from the GSoC encoder from 2007 except for the 2
transform functions in diracenc_transforms.c. All other code was written
from scratch.
This encoder outperforms any other encoders in quality, usability and in
features. Other existing implementations do not support 4 level
transforms or 64x64 blocks (slices), which greatly increase compression.
As previously said, the codec is meant for broadcasting, hence support
for non-broadcasting image widths, heights, bit depths, aspect ratios,
etc. are limited by the "level". Although this codec supports a few
chroma subsamplings (420, 422, 444), signalling those is generally
outside the specifications of the level used (3) and the reference
decoder will outright refuse to read any image with such a flag
signalled (it only supports 1920x1080 yuv422p10). However, most
implementations will happily read files with alternate dimensions,
framerates and formats signalled.
Therefore, in order to encode files other than 1080p50 yuv422p10le, you
need to provide an "-strict -2" argument to the command line. The FFmpeg
decoder will happily read any files made with non-standard parameters,
dimensions and subsamplings, and so will other implementations. IMO this
should be "-strict -1", but I'll leave that up for discussion.
There are still plenty of stuff to implement, for instance 5 more
wavelet transforms are still in the specs and supported by the decoder.
The encoder can be lossless, given a high enough bitrate.
Signed-off-by: Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnuker@gmail.com>
The type of the option has been changed but the limit was apparently forgotten.
Some video codes can handle bitrates of over ~2.2 Gbps (like VC-2).
Signed-off-by: Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnuker@gmail.com>
Up to ~4 times faster on x86_64, ~8 times on x86_32 if compiling using x87 fp math.
Reviewed-by: Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Almer <jamrial@gmail.com>
Using rNm and x86inc's stack allocation with a negative value at the same
time isn't supported, and caused the original stack pointer to be clobbered
when using a compiler that doesn't support stack alignment.
The parser only parses the core, and thus has a duration relative
to the core sample rate only, not the actual stream sample rate.
FATE references changed due to now correct timestamps.
This fixes retrieving a valid profile for many of the FATE conformance samples,
allowing them to be properly decoded by the HWAccel after adding a profile check.
The configure detection is bumped to X265_BUILD >= 68,
since API version 68 corresponds with the x265 1.8
release tarball. The warnings inside x265 about
12-bit being experimental were removed prior to API
version 72 a short time later. At this time of
writing, X265_BUILD is at version 80.
12-bit support in the HEVC standard was approved in
October 2014 as part of HEVC Version 2 and published
in January 2015:
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/recommendations/rec.aspx?rec=12296http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-H.265-201410-Shttps://hevc.hhi.fraunhofer.de/rext
Reveiwed-by: Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenhuis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
