Sample app: vp9_spatial_scalable_encoder
vpx_codec_control extensions:
VP9E_SET_SVC
VP9E_SET_WIDTH, VP9E_SET_HEIGHT, VP9E_SET_LAYER
VP9E_SET_MIN_Q, VP9E_SET_MAX_Q
expanded buffer size for vp9_convolve
modified setting of initial width in vp9_onyx_if.c so that layer size
can be set prior to initial encode
Default number of layers set to 3 (VPX_SS_DEFAULT_LAYERS)
Number of layers set explicitly in vpx_codec_enc_cfg.ss_number_layers
Change-Id: I2c7a6fe6d665113671337032f7ad032430ac4197
Adds a new end-usage option for constant quality encoding in vpx. This
first version implemented for VP9, encodes all regular inter frames
using the quality specified in the --cq-level= option, while encoding
all key frames and golden/altref frames at a quality better than that.
The current performance on derfraw300 is +0.910% up from bitrate control,
but achieved without multiple recode loops per frame.
The decision for qp for each altref/golden/key frame will be improved
in subsequent patches based on better use of stats from the first pass.
Further, the qp for regular inter frames may also be varied around the
provided cq-level.
Change-Id: I6c4a2a68563679d60e0616ebcb11698578615fb3
mode_info_context was stored as a grid of MODE_INFO structs.
The grid now constists of a pointer to a MODE_INFO struct and
a "in the image" flag. The MODE_INFO structs are now stored
as a stream, eliminating unnecessary copies and is a little
more cache friendly.
For the test clips used, the decoder performance improved
by ~4.3% (1080p) and ~9.7% (720p).
Patch Set 2: Re-encoded clips with latest. Now ~1.7% (1080p)
and 5.9% (720p).
Change-Id: I846f29e88610fce2523ca697a9a9ef2a182e9256
Added some code to output normalized rd hit count stats.
In effect this approximates to the average number of rd
operations/tests per pixel for the sequence.
The results are not quite accurate and I have not bothered
to account for partial SB64s at frame edges and for key frames
However they do give some idea of the number of modes /
prediction methods being tested for each pixel across the
different partition sizes. This indicates how much scope their
is for further gains either by reducing the number of partitions
examined or the modes per partition through heuristics.
Patch 3 moved place where count incremented so partial rd
tests that are aborted with INT_MAX return are also counted.
Example numbers for first 50 frames of Akiyo.
Speed 0 ~84.4 rd operations / pixel
Speed 1 ~28.8
Speed 2 ~11.9
Change-Id: Ib956e787e12f7fa8b12d3a1a2f6cda19a65a6cb8
Incorporates a speed feature for fast forward updates of
coefficients. This feature takes 3 values:
0 - use standard 2-loop version
1 - use a 1-loop version
2 - use a 1-loop version with reduced updates
Results: derfraw300 +0.007% (on speed 0) at feature value = 1
-0.160% (on speed 0) at feature value = 2
There is substantial speed up at speeds 2 and above for low
resolution sequences where the entropy updates are a big part
of the overall computations.
Change-Id: Ie96fc50777088a5bd441288bca6111e43d03bcae
To the source buffer to be encoded as an alt ref frame. This is to fix
the problem of using uninitialized memory in encoder.
See https://code.google.com/p/webm/issues/detail?id=605
Change-Id: I97618a2fc207e08abcf5301b734aa9e3ad695e2c
Values now carried over frame to frame.
Change to algorithm for decreasing threshold after
a hit and to max threshold (now based on speed)
Removed some old commented out code relating to
VP8 adaptive thresholds.
The impact of these changes tested on Akiyo (50 frames)
and measured in terms of unit rd hits is as follows:
Speed 0 84.36 -> 84.67
Speed 1 29.48 -> 22.22
Speed 2 11.76 -> 8.21
Speed 3 12.32 -> 7.21
Encode speed impact is broadly in line with these.
Change-Id: I5b886efee3077a11553fa950d796fd6d00c8cb19
Most of the focus so far has been on inter frames.
At high speed settings the key frame is now taking a high %
of the cycles.
This patch puts in some masking to reduce the number
of INTRA modes searched during key frame coding (as already
happens for inter frames) at higher speed settings
TODO: Develop this further with either adaptive rd thresholds
when choosing which intra modes to consider or some other
heuristic.
Impact.
At high speed settings on some clips the key frame was starting
to dominate. In a coding of the first 50 frames of AKIYO at speed
2 limiting the key frame intra modes to DC or TM_PRED resulted in
~30% overall speedup. For Bus the number was lower at ~4-5%.
Change-Id: I7bde68aee04995f9d9beb13a1902143112e341e2
remove duplicate allocation from vp9_create_compressor, it was added to
vp9_alloc_frame_buffers in:
d5bec52 Added resizing & initialization of last frame segment map
Change-Id: I996723226a16a62aff8f9a52ac74e0b73cc98fdf
This commit changes the partition search order of superblocks from
{SPLIT, NONE, HORZ, VERT} to {NONE, SPLIT, HORZ, VERT} for
consistency with that of sub8x8 partition search. It enable the use
of early termination in partition search for all block sizes.
For ped_area_1080p 50 frames coded at 4000 kbps, it makes the runtime
goes down from 844305ms -> 818003ms (3% speed-up) at speed 0.
This will further move towards making the in-search partition types
configurable, hence unifying various speed-up approaches.
Some speed 1 and 2 features are turned off during the refactoring
process, including:
disable_split_var_thresh
using_small_partition_info
Stricter constraints are applied to use_square_partition_only for
right/bottom boundary blocks. Will bring back/refine these features
subsequently. At this point, it makes derf set at speed 1 about
0.45% higher in compression performance, and 9% down in run-time.
Change-Id: I3db9f9d1d1a0d6cbe2e50e49bd9eda1cf705f37c
Adds a couple of minor fixes, which may be absorbed in Jingning's
patch. Thanks to Guillaume for pointing these out.
Also adjusts the thresholds for speed 1 and 2 to 16 and 32
respectively, to keep quality drops small.
Results:
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derfraw300: threshold = 16, psnr -0.082%, speedup 2-3%
threshold = 32, psnr -0.218%, speedup 5-6%
stdhdraw250: threshold = 16, psnr -0.031%, speedup 2-3%
threshold = 32, psnr -0.273%, speedup 5-6%
Change-Id: I4b11ae8296cca6c2a9f644be7e40de7c423b8330
Cleans up the switchable filter search logic. Also adds a
speed feature - a variance threshold - to disable filter search
if source variance is lower than this value.
Results: derfraw300
threshold = 16, psnr -0.238%, 4-5% speedup (tested on football)
threshold = 32, psnr -0.381%, 8-9% speedup (tested on football)
threshold = 64, psnr -0.611%, 12-13% speedup (tested on football)
threshold = 96, psnr -0.804%, 16-17% speedup (tested on football)
Based on these results, the threshold is chosen as 16 for speed 1,
32 for speed 2, 64 for speed 3 and 96 for speed 4.
Change-Id: Ib630d39192773b1983d3d349b97973768e170c04
Changes to code to auto select a partition size range
based on data from spatial neighbors.
Now looks at the sb_type in each 8x8 block of above
and left SB64.
The effect on speed 1 is now weaker giving better
quality but less speed gain. Now also used in speed 2.
Change-Id: Iace33a97d5c3498dd2a9a8a4067351941abcbabc
VP9_COMMON is the right place to segmentatation struct because it has
global segmentation parameters, not something specific to macroblock
processing.
Change-Id: Ib9ada0c06c253996eb3b5f6cccf6a323fbbba708
Adds a speed feature to disable split partition search based on a
given threshold on the source variance. A tighter threshold derived
from the threshold provided is used to also disable horizontal and
vertical partitions.
Results on derfraw300:
threshold = 16, psnr = -0.057%, speedup ~1% (football)
threshold = 32, psnr = -0.150%, speedup ~4-5% (football)
threshold = 64, psnr = -0.570%, speedup ~10-12% (football)
Results on stdhdraw250:
threshold = 32, psnr = -0.18%, speedup is somewhat more than derf
because of a larger number of smoother blocks at higher resolution.
Based on these results, a threshold of 32 is chosen for speed 1,
and a threshold of 64 is chosen for speeds 2 and above.
Change-Id: If08912fb6c67fd4242d12a0d094783a99f52f6c6
Loop filter configuration doesn't belong to macroblock, so moving it from
MACROBLOCKD to VP9_COMMON. Also moving the declaration of loopfilter struct
from vp9_blockd.h to vp9_loopfilter.h.
Change-Id: I4b3e34be9623b47cda35f9b1f9951f8c5b1d5d28
Adds a new subpel motion estimation function that uses a 2-level
tree-structured decision tree to eliminate redundant computations.
It searches fewer points than iterative search (which can search
the same point multiple times) but has the same quality roughly.
This is made the default setting at speeds 0 and 1, while at
speed 2 and above only a 1-level search is used.
Also includes various cleanups for consistency and redundancy removal.
Results:
derf: +0.012% psnr
stdhd: +0.09% psnr
Speedup of about 2-3%
Change-Id: Iedde4866f5475586dea0f0ba4cb7428fba24eee9
The low precision 32x32 fdct has all the intermediate steps within
16-bit depth, hence allowing faster SSE2 implementation, at the
expense of larger round-trip error. It was used in the rate-distortion
optimization search loop only.
Using the low precision version, in replace of the high precision one,
affects the compression performance by about 0.7% (derf, stdhd) at
speed 0. For speed 1, it makes derf set down by only 0.017%.
Change-Id: I4e7d18fac5bea5317b91c8e7dabae143bc6b5c8b
Removes some unused code and speed features, and organizes the
interfaces for fractional mv step functions for use in new speed
features to come.
In the process a new speed feature - number of iterations per
step during the subpel search - is exposed.
No change when this parameter is set as the original value of 3.
Results:
subpel_iters_per_step = 3: baseline
subpel_iters_per_step = 2: psnr -0.067%, 1% speedup
subpel_iters_per_step = 1: psnr -0.331%, 3-4% speedup
Change-Id: I2eba8a21f6461be8caf56af04a5337257a5693a8
Adds a few pattern searches to achieve various tradeoffs
between motion estimation complexity and performance.
The search framework is unified across these searches so that a
common pattern search function is used for all. Besides it will
be easier to experiment with various patterns or combinations
thereof at different scales in the future.
The new pattern search is multi-scale and is capable of using
different patterns at different scales.
The new hex search uses 8 points at the smallest scale
and 6 points at other scales.
Two other pattern searches - big-diamond and square are
also added. Big diamond uses 4 points at the smallest scale and
8 points in diamond shape at the larger scales.
Square is very similar conceptually to the default n-step search
but is somewhat faster since it keeps only one survivor across
all scales.
Psnr/speed-up results on derf300:
hex: -1.6% psnr%, 6-8% speed-up
big-diamond: -0.96% psnr, 4-5% speedup
square: -0.93% psnr, 4-5% speedup
Change-Id: I02a7ef5193f762601e0994e2c99399a3535a43d2
Adds a speed feature to skip all intra modes other than
DC_PRED if the source variance is small. This feature is
made part of speed 1 and up.
Results on derf300: psnr -0.07%, speedup about 1-2%
Also uses the source variance to fine-tune the early
termination criteria when FLAG_EARLY_TERMINATE is on.
This feature is made part of speed 2 and up.
Results on derf300: psnr -0.52%, speedup about 5-7%
Change-Id: I59e38aa836557cfa5405ae706fc64815cbfe4232
