If a reference frame is forced because of low dissimilarity, then
shut off the search of intra modes. This change has mixed results. On
one clip (QVGA), it hurt quality by ~1.5% with negligible speed impact.
On another (VGA) it had negligible affect on quality, but a ~0.2% speed
impact.
Change-Id: Ic8b07648979d732f489de5f094957e140f84d2eb
Rather than overloading the parent_ref_frame value to shut off the
search in some cases, add a new validity flag. This cleans up some
of the duplicated mr_encoder_id && mr_low_res_mv_avail checks as
well, for readability.
Change-Id: Iddad93a27066c3d85ff2f25a361ac113b288ab7b
In some situations, believed to be an interaction between temporal
scalability and dropped frames, the references available to an
encoder may not be the same references available to its parent.
Previously, the code tried to force the reference frame chosen by
the parent to be used on this frame, even if it was disabled. This
was preventing the pick mode loop from running even once, which led
to a crash.
Attempts to reproduce this bug locally were unsuccessful, so it is
still undetermined what the underlying cause of this issue is. In
the specific case that was failing, the application did not set
any flags which influenced the reference selection on that frame.
ref_frame_flags indicated that the golden frame was disabled,
believed to be because the last frame updated the last and golden
frames, so golden was shut off by default. It's not clear why this
wouldn't have also been true in the lower res encoder, ie, why the
lower res encoder decided to use and/or was allowed to use the
golden frame. We weren't able to debug into the non-crashing
lower res encoder as the crash couldn't be reproduced locally.
Change-Id: Ifb265253d26963ac2afde0e20cf6792788be6af7
If a parent mb is available but is intra coded, then parent_ref_mv is
invalid. Check that the parent is inter coded before trying to access
the parent_ref_mv. Previously the parent_ref_mv was being read from
an uninitialized stack allocation, causing potential OOB reads and
other undefined behavior.
Change-Id: I0c93cd412a19c3a184bcf6decaa145b3a036a6c0
For videos with big static background(such as video conferencing
clips), the mode decision was biased to ZEROMV in order to
obtain a stable background. The percentage of ZEROMV on last
frame was used to predict if there is static area in current frame,
and checking already-encoded neighboring macroblocks' motion
vectors to make sure the local area has low motion.
Change-Id: I05b3241d3a56a0bda88b6681e5646c1c8baf2e57
predict_d has become canonical. Remove previous helper function.
Disable ARM assembly pending update.
Change-Id: Idd84ac8a28f9b0221ea97904a77de1e705d06a7d
Added drop_frame support in multi-resolution encoder.
If one frame is dropped at a lower-resolution level, the next
upper-resolution level encoder needs to encode that frame
independently without any lower-resolution level motion
information.
Another issue is that if one frame is dropped at some but not all
resolution levels, a frame after that one may use different set
of reference frames at different resolution levels. This reference
frame asynchronization could degrade motion search precision in
upper-resolution level encoding, which uses lower-resolution level
motion result. This change compares the lower-resolution and upper-
resolution level's reference frames. If they are not the same, the
upper-resolution level encoder can not use lower-resolution level
motion result.
Change-Id: I61afa4f313630e75b7cbdd5742e230e8724a988a
Allows building the library with the gcc -pedantic option, for improved
portabilty. In particular, this commit removes usage of C99/C++ style
single-line comments and dynamic struct initializers. This is a
continuation of the work done in commit 97b766a46, which removed most
of these warnings for decode only builds.
Change-Id: Id453d9c1d9f44cc0381b10c3869fabb0184d5966
This extends the denoiser to work for temporally scalable
coding.
I believe this also fixes a very rare but really bad bug in the original
implementation.
Change-Id: I8b3593a8c54b86eb76f785af1970935f7d56262a
In multi-resolution encoding, frame_type decision for each frame
is made by the lowest-resolution encoder. For all other higher-
resolution encoders, kf_mode is always set to VPX_KF_DISABLED,
and they are forced to use the same frame_type picked by the
lowest-resolution encoder.
Change-Id: Ic4d52ec65bbc012ca9c2d236210e28a295591eaf
RD costs were local to MACROBLOCK data and had to be copied all the
time to each thread's MACROBLOCK data. Tables moved to a common place
and only pointers are setup for each encoding thread.
vp8_cost_tokens() generates 'int' costs so changed all types to be
int (i.e. removed unsigned).
NOTE: Could do some more cleaning in vp8cx_init_mbrthread_data().
Change-Id: Ifa4de4c6286dffaca7ed3082041fe5af1345ddc0
Reworked the code to use vp8_build_intra_predictors_mby_s,
vp8_intra_prediction_down_copy, and vp8_intra4x4_predict_d_c
functions instead. vp8_intra4x4_predict_d_c is a decoder-only
version of vp8_intra4x4_predict. Future commits will fix this
code duplication.
Change-Id: Ifb4507103b7c83f8b94a872345191c49240154f5
Sometimes, a user doesn't have enough bandwidth to send high-resolution
(i.e. HD) video even though the camera catches HD video. This change
allowed users to skip highest-resolution encoding by setting that level's
target bit rate to 0.
To test it, modify the following line in vp8_multi_resolution_encoder.c.
unsigned int target_bitrate[NUM_ENCODERS]={1400, 500, 100};
To skip the highest-resolution level, change it to
unsigned int target_bitrate[NUM_ENCODERS]={0, 500, 100};
To skip the first and second highest resolution levels, change it to
unsigned int target_bitrate[NUM_ENCODERS]={0, 0, 100};
This change also fixed a small problem in mapping, which slightly helped
quality and performance.
Change-Id: I977bae9a9fbfba85c8be4bd5af01539f2b84bc81
This commit continues the process of converting to the new RTCD
system. It removes the last of the VP8_ENCODER_RTCD struct references.
Change-Id: I2a44f52d7cccf5177e1ca98a028ead570d045395
Commit e06c242ba introduced a change to call vp8_find_near_mvs() only
once instead of once per reference frame by observing that the only
effect that the frame had was on the bias applied to the motion
vector. By keeping track of the sign_bias value, the mv to use could
be flip-flopped by multiplying its components by -1.
This behavior was subtley wrong in the case when clamping was applied
to the motion vectors found by vp8_find_near_mvs(). A motion vector
could be in-bounds with one sign bias, but out of bounds after
inverting the sign, or vice versa. The clamping must match that done
by the decoder.
This change modifies vp8_find_near_mvs() to remove the clamping from
that function. The vp8_pick_inter_mode() and vp8_rd_pick_inter_mode()
functions instead track the correctly clamped values for both bias
values, switching between them by simple assignment. The common
clamping and inversion code is in vp8_find_near_mvs_bias()
Change-Id: I17e1a348d1643497eca0be232e2fbe2acf8478e1
Add new get_predictor_pointers() and get_reference_search_order()
functions for code shared between the two implementations.
Change-Id: I1ebe76aa8f168b1f5cfabc00d05d8f19a0d4d207
The code had a number of constructs like (condition)?1:0,
which is redundant with C's semantics. In the cases where a boolean
operator was used in the condition, simply remove the ternary part.
Otherwise adjust the surrounding expression to remove the condition
(eg, for rounding up. See pickinter.c and rdopt.c)
Change-Id: Icb2372defa3783cf31857d90b2630d06b2c7e1be
Merged multi-resolution motion estimation with regular motion
estimation function in order to remove duplicated part. This
caused slight changes in multi-resulotion encoder quality &
performance.
Change-Id: Ib4ecc7acfebfe5eea959b5b91febae6db7b95fd1
While doing motion search on a macroblock, we usually call
vp8_find_near_mvs once per reference frame. Actually, for
different reference frames, the only difference in calculating
these near_mvs is they may have different sign_bias, which
causes a sign change in resulting near_mvs. In this change, we
only do find_near_mvs for the first reference frame. For other
reference frames, only need to adjust the near_mvs according to
that reference frame's sign_bias value.
Change-Id: I661394b49c6ad79fed7d0f2eb2be239b9c56f149
The example encoder down-samples the input video frames a number of
times with a down-sampling factor, and then encodes and outputs
bitstreams with different resolutions.
Support arbitrary down-sampling factor, and down-sampling factor
can be different for each encoding level.
For example, the encoder can be tested as follows.
1. Configure with multi-resolution encoding enabled:
../libvpx/configure --target=x86-linux-gcc --disable-codecs
--enable-vp8 --enable-runtime_cpu_detect --enable-debug
--disable-install-docs --enable-error-concealment
--enable-multi-res-encoding
2. Run make
3. Encode:
If input video is 1280x720, run:
./vp8_multi_resolution_encoder 1280 720 input.yuv 1.ivf 2.ivf 3.ivf 1
(output: 1.ivf(1280x720); 2.ivf(640x360); 3.ivf(320x180).
The last parameter is set to 1/0 to show/not show PSNR.)
4. Decode:
./simple_decoder 1.ivf 1.yuv
./simple_decoder 2.ivf 2.yuv
./simple_decoder 3.ivf 3.yuv
5. View video:
mplayer 1.yuv -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=1280:h=720 -loop 0 -fps 30
mplayer 2.yuv -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=640:h=360 -loop 0 -fps 30
mplayer 3.yuv -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=320:h=180 -loop 0 -fps 30
The encoding parameters can be modified in vp8_multi_resolution_encoder.c,
for example, target bitrate, frame rate...
Modified API. John helped a lot with that. Thanks!
Change-Id: I03be9a51167eddf94399f92d269599fb3f3d54f5
There was an implicit reference frame test order (typically LAST,
GOLD, ARF) in the mode selection logic, but this doesn't provide the
expected results when some reference frames are disabled. For
instance, in real-time mode, the speed selection logic often disables
the ARF modes. So if the user disables the LAST and GOLD frames, the
encoder was always choosing INTRA, when in reality searching the ARF
in this case has the same speed penalty as searching LAST would have
had.
Instead, introduce the notion of a reference frame search order. This
patch preserves the former priorities, so if a frame is disabled, the
other frames bump up a slot to take its place. This patch lays the
groundwork for doing something smarter in the frame test order, for
example considering temporal distance or looking at the frames used by
nearby blocks.
Change-Id: I1199149f8662a408537c653d2c021c7f1d29a700
Added ARM optimized intra 4x4 prediction
- 2x faster on Profiler compared to C-code compiled with -O3
- Function interface changed a little to improve BLOCKD structure
access
Change-Id: I9bc2b723155943fe0cf03dd9ca5f1760f7a81f54
Instead of using the predict buffer, the decoder now writes
the predictor into the recon buffer. For blocks with eob=0,
unnecessary idcts can be eliminated. This gave a performance
boost of ~1.8% for the HD clips used.
Tero: Added needed changes to ARM side and scheduled some
assembly code to prevent interlocks.
Patch Set 6: Merged (I1bcdca7a95aacc3a181b9faa6b10e3a71ee24df3)
into this commit because of similarities in the idct
functions.
Patch Set 7: EC bug fix.
Change-Id: Ie31d90b5d3522e1108163f2ac491e455e3f955e6
Added the ability to create rate-targeted, temporally
scalable, VP8 compatible bitstreams.
The application vp8_scalable_patterns.c demonstrates how
to use this capability. Users can create output bitstreams
containing upto 5 temporally separable streams encoded
as a single VP8 bitstream.
(previously abandoned as:
I92d1483e887adb274d07ce9e567e4d0314881b0a)
Change-Id: I156250a3fe930be57c069d508c41b6a7a4ea8d6a
vp8_find_near_mvs() is being called on all possible reference frames
but the data computed may be used if the loop exits early, which can
be due to x->skip beign set to 1.
Optimize this by call vp8_find_near_mvs() laziy only if it is going
to be used and not computed yet.
Change-Id: Iccdbd4c962a670c9f2c99b8aca8096042ca5dc98
There were some situations that the start motion vectors were
out of range. This fix adjusted range checks to make sure they
are checked and clamped.
Change-Id: Ife83b7fed0882bba6d1fa559b6e63c054fd5065d
Do mvp clamping in full-pixel precision instead of 1/8-pixel
precision to avoid error caused by right shifting operation.
Also, further fixed the motion vector limit calculation in change:
b748045470
Change-Id: Ied88a4f7ddfb0476eb9f7afc6ceeddbf209fffd7
Motion vector limits are calculated using right shifts, which
could give wrong results for negative numbers. James Berry's
test on one clip showed encoder produced some artifacts. This
change fixed that.
Change-Id: I035fc02280b10455b7f6eb388f7c2e33b796b018
I got this idea from Pascal (Thanks). Before encoding a macroblock,
copy it to a 16x16 buffer, and then read source data from there
instead. This will help keep the source data in cache, and help
with the performance.
Change-Id: Id05f4cb601299150511d59dcba0ae62c49b5b757
The BPRED mode selection uses SSE as a distortion metric, but the early
breakout threshold being used was a variance value.
Change-Id: I42d4602fb9b548bf681a36445701fada5e73aff1
Small decode performance gain (~1%) on keyframes. No
noticeable gains on encode. Also changed pick_intra4x4mby_modes()
to read the above and left block modes for keyframes only.
Change-Id: I1f4885252f5b3e9caf04d4e01e643960f910aba5
Since BPRED will be tested at most once, and SPLITMV is not enabled,
there's nothing to clobber the subblock modes, so there's no need to
save and restore them.
Change-Id: I7c3615b69190c10bd068a44df5488d6e8b85a364
This change is analogous to I0b67dae1f8a74902378da7bdf565e39ab832dda7,
which made the move for the non-RD path.
Change-Id: If63fc1b0cd1eb7f932e710f83ff24d91454f8ed1
This commit moves the intra block mode selection from encodeframe.c
to pickinter.c (in the non-RD case). This allowed pick_intra_mbuv_mode
and pick_intra4x4mby_modes to be made static, and is a step towards
refactoring intra mode selection in the main pickinter loop. Gave a
small perf increase (~0.5%).
Change-Id: I0b67dae1f8a74902378da7bdf565e39ab832dda7
In real-time mode motion search, there is no need to calculate
variance. This change improved encoding speed by 1% ~ 2%(speed=-5).
Change-Id: I65b874901eb599ac38fe8cf9cad898c14138d431
Currently, hex search couldn't guarantee the motion vector(MV)
found is within the limit of maximum MV. Therefore, very large
motion vectors resulted from big motion in the video could cause
encoding artifacts. This change adjusted hex search bounds
checking to make sure the resulted motion vector won't go out
of the range. James Berry, thank you for finding the bug.
Change-Id: If2c55edd9019e72444ad9b4b8688969eef610c55
Declared the bmi in BLOCKD as a union instead of B_MODE_INFO.
Then removed B_MODE_INFO completely.
Change-Id: Ieb7469899e265892c66f7aeac87b7f2bf38e7a67
this commit makes the usage errorperbit and sadperbit consistent for
encoding modes and passes. Removed all different magic weight factors
associated with errorperbit. Now 1/2 is used for both sadperbit16 and
sadperbit4, the /2 operation is merged into initializations of the 2
variables.
Tests on cif set show .23%, 0.18% and 0.19% gain by avg psnr, overall
psnr and ssim respectively.
Change-Id: Ifa285c3e065ce0a5a77addfc9f95aabf54ee270d
sad_per_bit has been used for a number of motion vector search routines
with different magic weights: 1, 1/2 and 1/4. This commit remove these
magic numbers and use 1/2 for all motion search routines, also reformat
a number of source code lines to within 80 column limit.
Test on cif set shows overall effect is neutral on all metrics. <=0.01%
Change-Id: I8a382821fa4cffc9c0acf8e8431435a03df74885
While profile=3, there is no sub-pixel search. Distortion and SSE
have to calculated using get_inter_mbpred_error().
Change-Id: Ifb36e17eef7750af93efa7d0e2870142ef540184
Declared the bmi in MODE_INFO as a union instead of B_MODE_INFO.
This reduced the memory footprint by 518,400 bytes for 1080
resolutions. The decoder performance improved by ~4% for the
clip used and the encoder showed very small improvements. (0.5%)
This reduction was first mentioned to me by John K. and in a
later discussion by Yaowu.
This is WIP.
Change-Id: I8e175fdbc46d28c35277302a04bee4540efc8d29
The partition_info struct contains info just for SPLITMV,
so it should be used instead of BLOCKD. Eventually, I want
to reduce the size of B_MODE_INFO struct found in BLOCKD, so
this is the first step toward that goal.
Also, since SPLITMV is not supported in vp8_pick_inter_mode(),
the unnecessary mem copies and checks were removed. For rt
encodes, this gave a slight performance improvement.
Change-Id: I5585c98fa9d5acbde1c7e0f452a01d9ecc080574
The compiler produces better assembly when using int_mv
for assignments. The compiler shifts and ors the two 16bit
values when assigning MV.
Change-Id: I52ce4bc2bfbfaf3f1151204b2f21e1e0654f960f
The dc_diff flag is used to skip loopfiltering. Instead
of setting this flag in the decoder/encoder, we now check
for this condition in the loopfilter.
Change-Id: Ie2b9cdf9e0f4e8b932bbd36e0878c05bffd28931
Passed SSE from sub-pixel search back to pick_inter_mode
function, which is compared with the encode_breakout to
see if we could skip evaluating the remaining modes.
Change-Id: I4a86442834f0d1b880a19e21ea52d17d505f941d
In vp8_pick_inter_mode(), for NEWMV mode, use the error result got
from motion search as distortion. This helps performance in real-
time mode.
Change-Id: I398c4e46cc5381f7d874e748cf78827ef0e0860c
The value of distortion2 returned by vp8_pick_intra4x4mby_modes
was being overwritten by the value returned by get16x16prederror
before it was tested.
Change-Id: If00e80332b272c5545c3a7e381c8041e8319b41a
Index i is used to detect early breakout from the first loop, but
its value is lost due to reuse in the second for loop. I moved
the position of the second loop and did some format cleanup.
Change-Id: I02780eae1bd89df4b6c000fb8a018b0837aac2e5
Previous to commit de4e9e3, there was an early return in the alt-ref
case that was inadvertantly removed when the function was refactored
to return void. This patch restores the prior behavior.
Change-Id: I783ffd594a4690297e2742f99526fd7ad67698b2
The error accumulator stats values cpi->prediction_error and
cpi->intra_error were being populated with rd values not
distortion values.
These are only "currently" used in a limited way for RT compress
key frame detection.
Change-Id: I2702ba1cab6e49ab8dc096ba75b6b34ab3573021
MV sad cost error is only used in full-pixel motion search,
which only need full-pixel resolution instead of quarter-pixel
resolution. This change reduced mvsadcost table size, and
removed unneccessary pamameter passing since this table is
constant once it is generated.
Change-Id: I9f931e55f6abc3c99011321f1dfb2f3562e6f6b0
The vp8_build_intra_predictors_mby and vp8_build_intra_predictors_mby_s
functions had global function pointers rather than using the RTCD
framework. This can show up as a potential data race with tools such as
helgrind. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640935
for an example.
Change-Id: I29c407f828ac2bddfc039f852f138de5de888534
As mentioned in check-in "Improve motion search in real-time mode",
MV prediction calculation causes speed loss for speed 7 and above.
This change added a flag to turn off this calculation for speed>6
in real-time mode.
Change-Id: I9f4ae5a8bf449222d1784b54e7d315fc8347b2d1
