We have renamed following Macros to avoid name confusion:
REFS_PER_FRAME --> INTER_REFS_PER_FRAME
(= ALTREF_FRAME - LAST_FRAME + 1)
MAX_REF_FRAMES --> TOTAL_REFS_PER_FRAME
(= ALTREF_FRAME - INTRA_FRAME + 1)
INTER_REFS_PER_FRAME specifies the maximum number of reference frames
that each Inter frame may use.
TOTAL_REFS_PER_FRAME is equal to INTER_REFS_PER_FRAME + 1, which
counts the INTRA_FRAME.
Further, at the encoder side, since REF_FRAMES specifies the maximum
number of the reference frames that the encoder may store, REF_FRAMES
is usually larger than INTER_REFS_PER_FRAME. For example, in the
ext-refs experiment, REF_FRAMES == 8, which allows the encoder to
store maximum 8 reference frames in the buffer, but
INTER_REFS_PER_FRAME equals to 6, which allows each Inter frame may
use up to 6 frames out of the 8 buffered frames as its references.
Hence, in order to explore the possibility to store more reference
frames in future patches, we modified a couple of array sizes to
accomodate the case that the number of buffered reference frames is
not always equal to the number of the references that are being used
by each Inter frame.
Change-Id: I19e42ef608946cc76ebfd3e965a05f4b9b93a0b3
This patch removed the experiment of BIDIR_PRED and merged the feature
into the experiment of EXT_REFS:
(1) Each frame now has up to 6 reference frames, namely
LAST_FRAME, LAST2_FRAME, LAST3_FRAME, GOLDEN_FRAME, (forward) and
BWDREF_FRAME, ALTREF_FRAME (backward);
LAST4_FRAME has been removed;
(2) First pass still keeps the 8 updates:
KF_UPDATE, LF_UPDATE, GF_UPDATE, ARF_UPDATE, OVERLAY_UPDATE, and
BRF_UPDATE, LAST_BIPRED_UPDATE, BI_PRED_UPDATE;
(3) show_existing_frame==1 is supported in the experiment of EXT_REFS;
(4) New encoding modes are added for both single-ref and compound cases,
through the use of the 2 extra forward references (LAST2 & LAST3)
and the 1 extra backward reference (BWDREF).
RD performance wise, using Overall PSNR: Avg/BDRate
Bipred only Prev EXT_REFS Current EXT_REFS with bipred
lowres: -3.474/-3.324 -1.748/-1.586 -4.613/-4.387
derflr: -2.097/-1.353 -1.439/-1.215 -3.120/-2.252
midres: -2.129/-1.901 -1.345/-1.185 -2.898/-2.636
If in vp10/encoder/firstpass.h, change BFG_INTERVAL from 2 to 3, i.e. to
use 2 bi-predictive frames than 1, a further improvement may be
obtained:
Current EXT_REFS with bipred
1 bi-predictive frame 2 bi-predictive frames
lowres: -4.613/-4.387 -4.675/-4.465
derflr: -3.120/-2.252 -3.333/-2.516
midres: -2.898/-2.636 -3.406/-3.095
Change-Id: Ib06fe9ea0a5cfd7418a1d79b978ee9d80bf191cb
This is for the bidir-pred experiment. Previously the length of the
bi-predictive frame group interval is fixed at 2, i.e. one
bi-predictive frame may be inserted every other frame. This patch
makes the length adjustable, i.e. any positive number may be
specified, but the use of the backward ref will be turned off if the
bi-predictive frame group interval is larger than the golden frame
group.
Further, an additional rate factor level has been added:
INTER_LOW
, which applies to LAST_BIPRED_UPDATE frames that are not used as
references.
Change-Id: I5514d34a64dd486bbb5756c2d0612946f598a789
This patch always compares the most recent show frames between
the encoder and the decoder to test the mismatch.
Change-Id: I68a91ad0996a598231450debfd616e24992419b5
Decoding superframes correctly requires computing the end of the
frame contents in the bitstream precisely. This patch enables
ext-tile to do so.
Also extended superframe_test to test with multiple tiles if using
ext-tile.
Change-Id: I04bb8cde8755a3d764ee3c36aa8b7a6c5c9db742
Use ANS for all entropy coded data in VP10 including the compressed header and
modes and motion vectors. ANS tokens continue to be used for DCT tokens.
Change-Id: Idf709a747150601e4d95d81ecfb3dc7253d349df
If --enable-ext-partition is used at build time, the superblock size
(sometimes also referred to as coding unit (CU) size) is extended to
128x128 pixels.
Change-Id: Ie09cec6b7e8d765b7555ff5d80974aab60803f3a
If configured with --enable-ext-tile, the codec uses an alternative
tile coding syntax in the bitstream. Changes include::
- The maximum number of tile rows and columns is extended to 1024
each.
- The minimum tile width/height is 64 pixels (1 superblock).
- A tile copy mode is added where a tile directly reuse the coded
data of a previous tile
- The meaning of the tile-columns and tile-rows codec parameters are
overloaded to mean tile-width and tile-height in units of 64
pixels.
- All tiles should now be independent, including rows within the
same columns, so large scale parallel, or independent decoding is
possible.
- vpxdec also gained the options to decode only a particular tile,
tile row, or tile column.
Changes without --enable-ext-tile:
- All tiles should now be independent, including rows within the
same columns, so large scale parallel, or independent decoding is
possible.
- vpxenc default tile configuration changed to use 1 tile column.
Change-Id: I0cd08ad550967ac18622dae5e98ad23d581cb33e
Make the RANS implementation operate on cumulative distribution
functions rather than individual probability distribution functions.
CDFs have shown themselves more flexible to work with.
Reduces decoding memory usage from scaling O(num_distributions *
symbol_resolution) to O(num_distributions).
No bitstream change. This is an purely implementation change.
Change-Id: I4e18d3a0a3d37a36a61487c3d778f9d088b0b374
Add palette mode for keyframe luma channel. Palette mode is enabled
when using "--tune-content=screen" in encoding config parameters.
on screen_content testset: +6.89%
on derlr : +0.00%
Design doc (WIP):
https://goo.gl/lD4yJw
Change-Id: Ib368b216bfd3ea21c6c27436934ad87afdaa6f88
