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
Keep track of the best and second best full pixel motion vector
candidates, and do subpel search around both of them.
Compression improvement:
lowres 0.22% midres 0.23% hdres 0.18%
No noticeable encoding speed changes observed on lowres test clips.
Change-Id: I5f4df2a03d1db061cfdfdba6138b27e9ea91f089
1. Add "best_mv" in MACROBLOCK to store the best motion vector
during motion search, so that we don't need to pass its pointer
to various motion search functions.
2. Declare some functions as static when possible.
3. Fix some indents.
Change-Id: I0778146c0866cbc55e245988c59222577ea8260e
Commit 0d6980d7a1caa592058f8d5d618b012c160772f7 removed some use
of the skip_txfm optimization, and the rest are not productive.
The current use of this optimization is only used with --good
and --cpu-used >= 3, however the overhead of this is higher than the
speedup it yields.
Removing this, and subsequently simplifying model_rd_for_sb yields
a net encoder speedup:
--cpu-used=0 ~1.5% faster
--cpu-used=3 ~2.0% faster
The code simplification is also significant.
Change-Id: I1dd668c32de15a2e912c59c42379d0f9e1032ff8
Add the ability to pick between 3 quantization profiles.
The profile is chosen based on the entropy context at the
block level.
Change-Id: Iaea0485798441b7d635962c2563f3a477f582dac
This experiment implements non-uniform quantization where
the width of the bins increases gradually to more closely
match a laplacian distribution of the coeficcients.
Performance Gain:
derflr: 0.15%
hevcmr: 0.675%
Change-Id: I25234244e3bcd94b87c1f77cf682190b61c8ef94
The assumption doesn't hold true in the current codebase. Remove
this speed feature to simplify the codebase.
Change-Id: I9b69f484c9b7cd612b825047cc5b2fce63ee0af7
Seperate prediction mode and tx type search for inter
modes. Enabled for speed >=1.
baseline:
speed increase 40%
compression drop 0.30%/0.29% on lowres/midres
ext-tx:
speed increase 160%
compression drop 1.08%/0.95% on lowres/midres
Change-Id: Ieb34b1ee80df6980d16e26a5783e08cc0deae55b
Add a speed feature to seperate prediction mode and tx type search
for intra modes: search for best intra prediction mode with fixed
default tx type first, then choose the best tx type for the
selected mode.
Coding performance drop:
baseline
lowres 0.10% midres 0.08% hdres 0.14%
with ext-tx
lowres 0.14% midres 0.25% hdres 0.20%
Speed improvement is 20% for baseline and 17% for ext-tx.
It is turned on for speed >= 1.
Change-Id: Ia5e8d39e8a4e2e42c521bfde938f8b6a98ab24f9
This commit handles the zero motion vector residuals for single
and compound reference modes, respectively. It improves the coding
performance by 0.13% with no additional encoding complexity.
Change-Id: I16075a836025bd2746da2ff4698fb9261e4b08c1
Rename MI_BLOCK_SIZE.* -> MAX_MIB_SIZE.* (MIB is for MI Block).
Rename MI_MASK.* -> MAX_MIB_MASK.*
There are no functional changes.
This is in preparation for coding the superblock size at the frame
level, which will require some of these constants to become variables.
The new names better reflect future semantics, and hence make the code
clearer.
Change-Id: Iee08d97554cf4cc16a5dc166a3ffd1ab91529992
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
This patch fixes 2 issues in Palette mode:
1. More memory is needed in PALETTE_BUFFER for 444 video format.
2. A merge issue caused by
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/#/c/333940/7
Change-Id: I2aedc7dfdfb6b66fbd600189ec6e1e2cc6120d40
This commit fixes an encoding issue related to var-tx and ref-mv
experiments that causes the codec to use random values for transform
block skip flag.
Change-Id: I8daa6d6b88ea45b5bbeb81b43dd0eeff545c8e5a
Instead of using model_rd_for_sb() to estimate the cost and make the
decision on bmc/obmc, we use super_block_yrd/uvrd() to calculate and
compare the real rd costs of bmc and obmc.
Average bit-rate reduction(%) of obmc experiment:
derflr/derfhd/hevcmr/hevchd
2.353/TBD/TBD/TBD
Before the optimization, the coding gain was:
1.582/1.109/1.600/1.164
Note: there is still some mysterious bug because that compared to
the previous version, the performance at low bit rate drops a lot.
Change-Id: I8dbee04a272190f10516a3953c1ae690f8136766
This commit unifies the motion vector cost buffers for full pixel
and sub-pixel motion search. The new motion vector coding system
provides 0.5% coding gains for 720p and above sequences and 0.2%
for lower resolution sets.
Change-Id: I927ec81eadc39d11a3c12b375221a1ddd2e8bf24
This commit accounts for the context based probability model for
motion vector cost estimate in rate-distortion optimization.
Change-Id: Ia068a9395dcb4ecc348f128b17b8d24734660b83
Brings the following commits to vp10:
269428e Tie the bit cost scale to a define.
d13385c Switch to 9-bit rate cost constants built on a 256 probability denominator.
ad43a73 Fix a signed overflow in vp9 motion cost.
1c9b091 Fix some interger overflow errors
fac947d Restore previous motion search bit-error scale.
Change-Id: I598ba7ee7efcde18439c31dfa96b86cbf297a580
Combinations of different mv modes for two reference frames
are allowed in compound inter modes. 9 options are enabled,
including NEAREST_NEARESTMV, NEAREST_NEARMV, NEAR_NEARESTMV,
NEAREST_NEWMV, NEW_NEARESTMV, NEAR_NEWMV, NEW_NEARMV, ZERO_ZEROMV,
and NEW_NEWMV.
This experiment is mostly deported from the nextgen branch.
It is made compatible with other experiments
Coding gain of EXT_INTER(derflr/hevcmr/hevchd): 0.533%/0.728%/0.639%
Change-Id: Id47e97284e6481b186870afbad33204b7a33dbb0
This commit allows the codec to add motion vector pairs into
the candidate list. It further improves the compression performance
by 0.1% across derf, hevcmr, stdhd, and hevchr sets without adding
encode/decode time.
Change-Id: I88d36da25a2a89bb506d411844af667081eba98b
This commit allows the codec to analyze the reference motion vector
candidate list and adaptively reduce the size of inter prediction
mode set.
Change-Id: Ied6a403843b860d66f26ed485c1825c05c71bdfc
This change has been imported from VP9 and
alters the nature and use of exhaustive motion search.
Firstly any exhaustive search is preceded by a normal step search.
The exhaustive search is only carried out if the distortion resulting
from the step search is above a threshold value.
Secondly the simple +/- 64 exhaustive search is replaced by a
multi stage mesh based search where each stage has a range
and step/interval size. Subsequent stages use the best position from
the previous stage as the center of the search but use a reduced range
and interval size.
For example:
stage 1: Range +/- 64 interval 4
stage 2: Range +/- 32 interval 2
stage 3: Range +/- 15 interval 1
This process, especially when it follows on from a normal step
search, has shown itself to be almost as effective as a full range
exhaustive search with step 1 but greatly lowers the computational
complexity such that it can be used in some cases for speeds 0-2.
This patch also removes a double exhaustive search for sub 8x8 blocks
which also contained a bug (the two searches used different distortion
metrics).
For best quality in my test animation sequence this patch has almost
no impact on quality but improves encode speed by more than 5X.
Restricted use in good quality speeds 0-2 yields significant quality gains
on the animation test of 0.2 - 0.5 db with only a small impact on encode
speed. On most natural video clips, however, where the step search
is performing well, the quality gain and speed impact are small.
Change-Id: Iac24152ae239f42a246f39ee5f00fe62d193cb98
1) Add facade to quantize b/fp/dc version so that their interface
are the same.
2) Merge vp10_xform_quant b/fp/dc version to one function so that
the code flow in encodemb.c is clear
Change-Id: Ib62d6215438fc2d07f4e7e72393f964832d6746f
This commit ports the motion vector stack from motion field
analyzer to the encoding and decoding pipeline.
Change-Id: Ie283c1e1a15b4c17a1c7c175ce322bf053bb7840
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
This commit removes mbmi_ext_base pointer from MACROBLOCK struct.
Its use case can be fully covered by cpi->mbmi_ext_base pointer.
Change-Id: I155351609336cf5b6145ed13c21b105052727f30
