In multithreaded mode the loopfilter is running in its own thread (filter level
calculation and frame filtering). Filtering is mostly done in parallel with the
bitstream packing. Before starting the packing the loopfilter level has
to be calculated. Also any needed reference frame copying is done in the
filter thread.
Currently the encoder will create n+1 threads, where n > 1 is the number of
threads specified by application and 1 is the extra filter thread. With n = 1
the encoder runs in single thread mode. There will never be more than n threads
running concurrently.
Change-Id: I4fb29b559a40275d6d3babb8727245c40fba931b
The firstpass motion map consists of an 8-bit flag for
each MB indicating how strongly the firstpass code
believes it should be filtered during the second pass
ARNR filtering.
For long or large format material the motion map can
become extremely large and hamper the operation of
the encoding process.
This change removes the motion map altogether, leaving
the second pass to rely on the magnitude of the motion
compensated error to determine the filter weight to
use for the MB during ARNR filtering.
Tests on the derf set indicate that the effect of this
change is neutral, with some small wins and losses. The
motion map has therefore been removed based on
a cost/benefit evaluation.
Change-Id: I53e07d236f5ce09a6f0c54e7c4ffbb490fb870f6
The previous calculation of macroblock count (w*h)/256
is not correct when the width/height are not multiples of
16. Use the precalculated macroblock count from
cpi->common instead. This manifested itself as a divide
by zero when the number of pixels was less than 256.
num_mbs updated in estimate_max_q, estimate_q,
estimate_kf_group_q, and estimate_cq
Change-Id: I92ff98587864c801b1ee5485cfead964673a9973
Move the update of the loopfilter info to the same block where it
is used. GCC 4.5 is not able trace the initialization of the local
filter_info across the other calls between the two conditionals on
pbi->common and issues an uninitialized variable warning.
Change-Id: Ie4487b3714a096b3fb21608f6b0c74e745e3c6fc
1. Process 16 pixels at one time instead of 8.
2. Add check for both xoffset =0 and yoffset=0, which happens
during motion search.
This change gave encoder 1%~3% performance gain.
Change-Id: Idaa39506b48f4f8b2fbbeb45aae8226fa32afb3e
GCC 4.5 and 4.6 both issue a warning about the multi-line format
string introduced in bc9c30a0, which also changed the whitespace
in the associated stt file by line-wrapping the long format string.
Instead, use multiple string constants, which the compiler will
concatenate. This maintains the original formatting, but remains
legible within the standard line length.
Change-Id: I27c9f92d46be82d408105a3a4091f145f677e00e
Disable zbin boost in SPLITMV mode as intended. Was incorrectly looking
at vp8_ref_frame_order instead of vp8_mode_order when comparing against
SPLITMV. This condition should have always been false, as SPLITMV is
not in the range of valid reference frames.
Change-Id: I0408cc7595eff68f00efef6d008e79f5b60d14bf
In some cases where clips have been encoded with
borders (eg. some wide-screen content where there is a
border top and bottom and slide shows containing portrait
format photographs (border left and right)) key frames were
not being correctly detected.
The new code looks to measure cases where a portion of
the image can be coded equally easily using intra or inter
modes and where the resulting error score is also very low.
These "neutral" areas are then discounted in the key frame
detection code.
Change-Id: I00c3e8230772b8213cdc08020e1990cf83b780d8
This code extends what was previously done for GFs, to pick
cases where insertion of a key frame after a fade (or other
transition or complex motion) followed by a still section, will
be beneficial and will reduce the number of forced key frames.
Change-Id: If8bca00457f0d5f83dc3318a587f61c17d90f135
When the modified_error_left accumulator exceeds INT_MAX, an incorrect
cast to int resulted in a negative value, causing the rate control to
allocate no bits to that keyframe group, leading to severe undershoot
and subsequent poor quality.
This error was exposed by the recent change to the rolling target and
actual spend accumulators in commit 305be4e4 which fixed them to
actually calculate the average value rather than be re-initialized
on every frame to the average per-frame bitrate. When this bug was
triggered, the target bitrate could be 0, so the rolling target
becomes small, which causes the undershoot. The code prior to 305be4e4
did not exhibit this behavior because the rolling target was always
set to a reasonable value and was independent of the actual target
bitrate. With this patch, the actual target bitrate is calculated
correctly, and the rate control tracks as expected.
This cast was likely added to silence a compiler warning on a comparison
between a double (modified_error_left) and an int (0). Instead, this
patch removes the cast and changes the comparison to be against 0.0,
which should prevent the warning from reoccuring.
This fixes issue #289. Special thanks to gnafu for his efforts in
reporting and debugging this fix.
Change-Id: Ie5cc1a7b516c578a76c3a50c892a6f04a11621fe
This fixes an overflow problem in the frame error accumulators.
The overflow condition is extreme but did trigger when Frank B.
coded some high motion interlaced HD content.
The observed effect was a catastrophic breakdown of the rate
control leading to massive undershoot and poor bit allocation.
All the error values should really be unsigned but I will look at this
separately.
Change-Id: I9745f5c5ca2783620426b66b568b2088b579151f
Currently, when the video frame width is not multiples of 16, the
source buffer has a stride of non-multiples of 16, which forces
an unaligned load in SAD function and hurts the performance. To
avoid that, this change allocates source buffers to be multiples
of 16.
Change-Id: Ib7506e3eb2cea06657d56be5a899f38dfe3eeb39
In real-time mode, vp8_sad16x16 function is called heavily in
motion search part. Improvement of this function gives 1.2%
encoding performance gain (real-time mode, tulip clip).
Change-Id: I23c401fc40c061f732a9767e8d383737a179bd58
checks added to make sure that cpi->tplist
is freed correctly in vp8_dealloc_compressor_data
and vp8_alloc_compressor_data.
Change-Id: I66149dbbd25c958800ad94f4379d723191d9680d
Eliminated unnecessary calculations. Improved performance
by 10% on keyframes and 1.6% overall for the test clip used.
Change-Id: I87671b26af5e2cc439e81d0fee3b15c7cd2a3309
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
Applied better MV prediction in real-time mode, which improves
the encoding quality.
Used quarter-pixel search instead of iterative sub-pixel search
for speed >=5 to improve encoding performance.
Tests on the test set showed:
1. For speed=-5, quality improvement: 1.7% on AvgPSNR and 2.1%
on SSIM, performance improvement: 3.6% (This counts in the
performance lose caused by MV prediction calculation in "Improve
MV prediction in vp8_pick_inter_mode() for speed>3").
2. For speed=-8, quality improvement: 2.1% on AvgPSNR and 2.5%
on SSIM. but, 6.9% performance decrease because of MV prediction
calculation. This should be improved later.
Change-Id: I349a96c452bd691081d8c8e3e54419e7f477bebd
Created a new speed 1 which is in the middle of the old
speed 0 and speed 1. (for both quality and performance)
Change-Id: I4802133cdb43f359ca787646c090899679dd5d84
Use 0xFFF0 vice 240 (0xF0) for determining whether the sometimes
implicit bit 3 will be transmitted. This is consistent with the decoder
and encode_mvcomponent().
Change-Id: Ic1304d0ab56844bed8236edd1c5243a6767fc6b1
make reference version of bilinear_filters short.
use reference versions of bilinear_filters and sub_pel_filters when
possible.
recognize that Width was being passed into
filter_block2d_bil_first_pass multiple times. ARM version had already
fixed this. propegate to C.
change references to src_pixels_per_line to src_pitch and standardize on
src/dst (instead of input/output).
recognize that first_pass is only run in the verticle and second_pass
only horizontal. ARM version had already fixed this. propegate to C
Change-Id: I292d376d239a9a7ca37ec2bf03cc0720606983e2
it's difficult to mux the *_offsets.c files because of header conflicts.
make three instead, name them consistently and partititon the contents
to allow building them as required.
Change-Id: I8f9768c09279f934f44b6c5b0ec363f7943bb796
preview_img d_w and d_h along with w and h
would not be updated for resized frames.
now uses sd.y_width and sd.y_height
Change-Id: I52241de4cc1de5e73f865e668bd70a7cbd954390
When the keyframe distance is fixed the first interval has the right
distance but, the next ones have kf_distance + 1.
Change-Id: I44f1190fe7146124bd07660a5e0ef08829e3ae07
common/arm/vpx_asm_offsets moves up a level. prepare for muxing with
encoder/arm/vpx_vp8_enc_asm_offsets
Change-Id: I89a04a5235447e66571995c9d9b4b6edcb038e24
The encoder was not correctly catching transitions in the quantizer
deltas. If a delta_q was set, then the quantizer would be reinitialized
on every frame, but if they transitioned to 0, the quantizer would
not be reinitialized, leading to a encode-decode mismatch.
This bug was triggered by commit 999e155, which sets a Y2 delta Q
for very low base Q levels.
Change-Id: Ia6733464a55ee4ff2edbb82c0873980d345446f5
Whe auto keyframe insertion is enabled and conditions are right (scene change)
the encoder can decide to insert a key frame and does a re-encoding. This can
introduce extra latency. In RT mode we do not do the re-encoding of the current
frame but force the next frame to key frame.
Change-Id: I15c175fa845ac4c1a1f18bea3676e154669522a7
Reduce the number of sync points by letting each thread
continue imediatly with a new MB row.
Better multicore scaling, improves performance by 5-20% on ARM multicore.
Change-Id: Ic97e4d1c4886a842c85dd3539a93cb217188ed1b
from vp8cx_encode_intra_macro_block. prediction_error is used when
deciding if a frame should be a keyframe. After reviewing this with
Yaowu, it was pointed out that vp8cx_encode_intra_macro_block
is only called for keyframes, so the accumulation is unnecessary.
Change-Id: Id79dc81b80d4f5d124f3a0dba1b923887e2e1ec8
vp8_pick_intra4x4mby_modes uses the passed in distortion
for an early breakout. The best distortion was never saved
and the distortion for TM_PRED was always used.
Change-Id: Idbaf73027408a4bba26601713725191a5d7b325e
Previously, the DC check is to make sure there is no code-able
DC shift for quantizer Q0, which has been verified rather
conservative. This commit changes the criteria to have two
components, DC and AC, to address the conservativeness. First,
it checks if all AC energy is enough to contribute a single
non-zero quantized AC coefficient. Second, for DC, the decision
to skip further considers two possible scenarios: 1. There is
no code-able 2nd order DC coefficient at all; 2 The residue is
relatively flat, but the uniform DC change is very small, i.e.
less than 1/2 gray level per pixel.
Comparing to previous criteria, the new criteria is about 10%
to 15% faster in encoding time with a very small quality loss.
(threshold ~1000 and quality range 33db-45db)
It should be noted that this commit enables "automatic" static
threshold for encodebreakout if a non-zero small value is passed
in to encoder.
Change-Id: I0f77719a1ac2c2dfddbd950d84920df374515ce3
The condition for using RD when selecting the intra coding mode
for a MB is that the RD flag is set AND we're not in real-time
mode.
Previously the code used RD if either the RD flag was set OR
we were not using real-time mode.
Change-Id: Ic711151298468a3f99babad39ba8375f66d55a08
This function was using a variance metric compared to and SSE metric in
other places (eg. vp8_rd_inter_uv)
Change-Id: I9109fcc5a13bca9db1d7ead500fe14999ab233eb
Adds following targets to configure script to support RVCT compilation
without operating system support (for Profiler or bare metal images).
- armv5te-none-rvct
- armv6-none-rvct
- armv7-none-rvct
To strip OS specific parts from the code "os_support"-config was added
to script and CONFIG_OS_SUPPORT flag is used in the code to exclude OS
specific parts such as OS specific includes and function calls for
timers and threads etc. This was done to enable RVCT compilation for
profiling purposes or running the image on bare metal target with
Lauterbach.
Removed separate AREA directives for READONLY data in armv6 and neon
assembly files to fix the RVCT compilation. Otherwise
"ldr <reg>, =label" syntax would have been needed to prevent linker
errors. This syntax is not supported by older gnu assemblers.
Change-Id: I14f4c68529e8c27397502fbc3010a54e505ddb43
vp8/encoder/rdopt.c:728: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 3
of 'macro_block_yrd' differ in signedness
vp8/encoder/rdopt.c:541: note: expected 'int *' but argument is of type
'unsigned int *'
distortion is signed when calling macro_block_yrd is both other cases,
as well as for RDCOST
Change-Id: I5e22358b7da76a116f498793253aac8099cb3461
Change-Id: I6ca2d89f355839c4c770773c09fc69dcea7c1406
warning: implicit declaration of function
'vp8_variance_halfpixvar16x16_[h|v|hv]_neon'
'vp8_sub_pixel_variance16x16_neon_func'
Improved the performance of the first pass only
(~6% on 720p test clip) by making use of LUT instead of the
float calculations. Might try a SIMD version later.
Also started to make use of int_mv instead of
MV.
Change-Id: If2a217c7d6b59cd2c25c5553e0ca7e0502403af8
Use the function macro_block_yrd() to calculate error and distortion
in keeping with what is done for inter frames.
The old code was using a variance metric for once case and an
SSE function for measuring distortion in the other case.
The function vp8_encode_intra16x16mbyrd() is no longer used.
Change-Id: Ic228cb00a78ff637f4365b43f58fbe5a9273d36f
The code previously tested cpi->common.refresh_alt_ref_frame
but there are situations where this flag may be set for viewable frames.
The correct test should be !cm->show_frame.
Change-Id: Ia1a600622992a4a68fe1d38ac23bf6b34b133688
This commit also removes artificial RDMULT cap for low quantizers.
The intention is to address some abnormal behavior of mode selections
at the low quantizer end, where many macroblocks were coded with
SPLITMV with all partitions using same motion vector including (0,0).
This change improves the compression quality substantially for high
quality encodings in both PSNR and SSIM terms. Overall effect on
mid/low rate range is also positive for all metrics, but smaller
in magnitude.
Change-Id: I864b29c4bd9ff610d2545fa94a19cc7e80c02667
Commit 336aa0b7da incorrectly
declared current_pos as and int, when it should have been
a FIRSTPASS_STATS pointer.
Change-Id: I0a51c7a86ebba8546c95dd5d9d1c1143d4613e40
Adjust checking points in motion vector prediction to better cover
possible movements, and get a better prediction. Tests on test
clips showed a 0.1% improvement in SSIM, and no change in PSNR
and performance.
Change-Id: Ifdab05d35e10faea1445c61bb73debf888c9d2f8
The old 2 pass code estimated error distribution when coding a
forced (by interval) key frame. The result of this was that in some
cases, when allocating bits at the GF group level within a KF
group there was either a glut of bits or starvation of bits at the end
of the KF group.
Added code to rescan and get the correct data once the position of
a forced key frame has been determined.
Change-Id: I0c811675ef3f9e4109d14bd049d7641682ffcf11
vp8cx_mb_init_quantizer was being called for every mode checked
in vp8_rd_pick_inter_mode. zbin_extra is the only value that
really needs to be recalculated. This calculation is disabled
when using the fast quantizer for mode selection.
This gave a small performance boost (~.5% to 1%).
Note: This needs to be verified with segmentation_enabled.
Change-Id: I62716a870b3c82b4a998bdf95130ff0b02106f1e
In sub-pixel calculation, xoffset and yoffset mostly take some
specific values. Modified sub-pixel filter functions according to
these possible values to improve performance.
Change-Id: I83083570af8b00ff65093467914fbb97a4e9ea21
Added code to scan ahead a few frames when we see what
we think is a static scene in the two pass GF loop to see if the
conditions persist.
Moved calculation of decay rate out into a fuunction.
Change-Id: I6e9c67e01ec9f555144deafc8ae67ef25bffb449
These changes are specifically targeted at fade transitions to
static scenes. Here we want to place a GF/ARF immediately
after the fade and prevent an ARF just before the fade.
Also some code lines and comment lines shortened to 80 chars
while I was there.
Change-Id: Iefdc09a4fa7b265048fc017246b73e138693950f
In both vp8_find_next_key_frame and define_gf_group,
motion_pct was initialised at the top of the loop before
next_frame stats had been read in.
This fix sets motion_pct after next_frame stats have
been read.
Change-Id: I8c0bebf372ef8aa97b97fd35b42973d1d831ee73
Prior to this change, VP8 min quantizer is 4, which caps the
highest quality around 51DB. This experimental change extends
the min quantizer to 1, removes the cap and allows the highest
quality to be around ~73DB, consistent with the fdct/idct round trip
error. To test this change, at configure time use options:
--enable-experimental --enable-extend_qrange
The following is a brief log of changes in each of the patch sets
patch set 1:
In this commit, the quantization/dequantization constants are kept
unchanged, instead scaling factor 4 is rolled into fdct/idct.
Fixed Q0 encoding tests on mobile:
Before: 9560.567kbps Overall PSNR:50.255DB VPXSSIM:98.288
Now: 18035.774kbps Overall PSNR:73.022DB VPXSSIM:99.991
patch set 2:
regenerated dc/ac quantizer lookup tables based on the scaling
factor rolled in the fdct/idct. Also slightly extended the range
towards the high quantizer end.
patch set 3:
slightly tweaked the quantizer tables and generated bits_per_mb
table based on Paul's suggestions.
patch set 4:
fix a typo in idct, re-calculated tables relating active max Q
to active min Q
patch set 5:
added rdmult lookup table based on Q
patch set 6:
fix rdmult scale: dct coefficient has scaled up by 4
patch set 7:
make transform coefficients to be within 16bits
patch set 8:
normalize 2nd order quantizers
patch set 9:
fix mis-spellings
patch set 10:
change the configure script and macros to allow experimental code
to be enabled at configure time with --enable-extend_qrange
patch set 11:
rebase for merge
Change-Id: Ib50641ddd44aba2a52ed890222c309faa31cc59c
Incorrect value loop_decay_rate used in GF loop.
The intent was to test the cumulative value decay_accumulator.
Change-Id: I62928c63eb09f4f6936a45ebd1c23784d1c9681b
A new vpx_codec_control called VP8D_GET_FRAME_CORRUPTED. The output
from the function is non-zero if the last decoded frame contains
corruption due to packet losses.
The decoder is also modified to accept encoded frames of zero length.
A zero length frame indicates to the decoder that one or more frames
have been completely lost. This will mark the last decoded reference
buffer as corrupted. The data pointer can be NULL if the length is
zero.
Change-Id: Ic5902c785a281c6e05329deea958554b7a6c75ce
In vp8_find_best_sub_pixel_step_iteratively(), many times xoffset
and yoffset are specific values - (4,0) (0,4) and (4,4). Modified
code to call simplified NEON version at these specific offsets to
help with the performance.
Change-Id: Iaf896a0f7aae4697bd36a49e182525dd1ef1ab4d
This code fixes a bug in the calculation of
the minimum Q for alt ref frames.
It also allows an extended gf/arf interval for sections
of clips that completely static (or nearly so).
Change-Id: I1a21aaa16d4f0578e5f99b13bebd78d59403c73b
Remove allocation/deallocation of stats storage.
Remove full search functions in machine specific encoder inits.
Remove last pass validation in validate_config.
Change-Id: I7f29be69273981a4fef6e80ecdb6217c68cbad4e
The CQ level was not using the q_trans[] array to convert
to a 0-127 range as per min and maxq
Experimental change to try and match the reconstruction
error for forced key frames approximately to that of the
previous frame by means of the recode loop. Though this
may cause extra recodes and the recode behavior has not
been optimized, it can only happen on forced key frames.
Change-Id: I1f7e42d526f1b1cb556dd461eff1a692bd1b5b2f
Previously when a frame was being overlaid on a previously coded
alt ref frame we only checked the alt ref 0,0 mode. Where there is
a possibility that the alt ref buffer is a filtered frame we should allow
the other prediction modes as normal or at the least allow use of
the last frame buffer.
Change-Id: I4d6227223d125c96b4f3066ec6ec9484fee7768c
In cases where the frame width is not a multiple of 16 the
ARNR filter would go wrong.
In vp8_temporal_filter_iterate_c when updating pointers
at the end of a row of MBs, the image size was
incorrectly used rather than using Num_MBs_In_Row
times 16 (Y) or 8 (U,V).
This worked when width is multiple of 16 but failed
otherwise.
Change-Id: I008919062715bd3d17c7aa2562ab58d1cb37053a
This change is designed to try and reduce pulsing effects when moving
with a complex transition like a fade, into an easy or static section in
an otherwise difficult clip in CQ mode.
The active CQ level is relaxed down to the user entered level for frames that
are generating less than the passed in minimum bandwidth.
Change-Id: Id6d8b551daad4f489c087bd742bc95418a95f3f0
Fixed discrepancy cpi->ni_frames vs cm->current_video_frame > 150.
Make one pass path explicit.
There is still scope for some odd behaviour around the transition
point at cpi->ni_frames > 150.
Change-Id: Icdee130fe6e2a832206d30e45bf65963edd7a74d
Where a key frame occurs because of a minimum interval
selected by the user, then these forced key frames ideally need
to be more closely matched in quality to the surrounding frame.
Change-Id: Ia55b1f047e77dc7fbd78379c45869554f25b3df7
Add a flag to always enable block4x4 search for speed=0 (good
quality) to guarantee no quality loss for speed0.
Change-Id: Ie04bbc25f7e6a33a7bfa30e05775d33148731c81
The maximum possible MV in 1/8 pel units is (1<<11), which could
cause mvcost out of its range that is 1023. Change maximum
possible MV in 1/8 pel units to (1<<11)-8 will fix this problem.
Change-Id: I5788ed1de773f66658c14f225fb4ab5b1679b74b
Further experiment with restriction of the Q range.
This uses the average non KF/GF/ARF quantizer, instead
of just relying on the initial value. It is not such a strong constraint
but there may be a reduced risk of rate misses.
Change-Id: I424fe782a37a2f4e18c70805e240db55bfaa25ec
The merge includes hooks to for CQ mode and other code
changes merged from the test branch.
CQ mode attempts to maintain a more stable quantizer within a clip
whilst also trying to adhere to a guidline maximum bitrate.
The existing target data rate parameter is used to specify the
guideline maximum bitrate.
A new parameter allows the user to specify a target CQ level.
For normal (non kf/gf/arf) frames, the quantizer will not drop BELOW the
user specified value (0-63). However, in some cases the encoder may
choose to impose a target CQ that is above that specified by the user,
if it estimates that consistent use of the target value is not compatible
with guideline maximum bitrate.
Change-Id: I2221f9eecae8cc3c431d36caf83503941b25e4c1
In two pass encoding each frame is given an active
Q range to work with. This change limits how much this
Q range can be altered over time from the initial estimate
made for the clip as a whole.
There is some danger this could lead to overshoot or undershoot
in some corner cases but it helps considerably in regard to
clips where either there is a glut or famine of bits in some sections,
particularly near the end of a clip.
Change-Id: I34fcd1af31d2ee3d5444f93e334645254043026e
cpi->target_bits_per_mb is currently not being used,
so delete it. Also removed other unused code in rdopt.c.
Change-Id: I98449f9030bcd2f15451d9b7a3b9b93dd1409923
count can be reduced to short because the max number of filtered frames
is set to 15. the max value for any frame is 32 (modifier = 16,
filter_weight = 2). 15*32 = 480 which requires 9 bits
this function goes from about 7000 us / 1000 iterations for the C code
to < 275 us / 1000 iterations for sse2 for block_size = 16 and from
about 1800 us / 1000 iters to < 100 us / 1000 iters for block_size = 8
Change-Id: I64a32607f58a2d33c39286f468b04ccd457d9e6e
Commit 0ce3901 introduced a change in the frame buffer copy logic where
the NEW frame could be copied to the ARF or GF buffer through the
copy_buffer_to_{arf,gf}==1 flags, if the LAST frame was not being
refreshed. This is not correct. The intent of the
copy_buffer_to_{arf,gf}==1 flag is to copy the LAST buffer. To copy the
NEW buffer, the refresh_{alt_ref,golden}_frame flag should be used.
The original buffer copy logic is fairly convoluted. For example:
if (cm->refresh_last_frame)
{
vp8_swap_yv12_buffer(&cm->last_frame, &cm->new_frame);
cm->frame_to_show = &cm->last_frame;
}
else
{
cm->frame_to_show = &cm->new_frame;
}
...
if (cm->copy_buffer_to_arf)
{
if (cm->copy_buffer_to_arf == 1)
{
if (cm->refresh_last_frame)
vp8_yv12_copy_frame_ptr(&cm->new_frame, &cm->alt_ref_frame);
else
vp8_yv12_copy_frame_ptr(&cm->last_frame, &cm->alt_ref_frame);
}
else if (cm->copy_buffer_to_arf == 2)
vp8_yv12_copy_frame_ptr(&cm->golden_frame, &cm->alt_ref_frame);
}
Effectively, if refresh_last_frame, then new and last are swapped, so
when "new" is copied to ARF, it's equivalent to copying LAST to ARF. If
not refresh_last_frame, then LAST is copied to ARF. So LAST is copied to
ARF in both cases.
Commit 0ce3901 removed the first buffer swap but kept the
refresh_last_frame?new:last behavior, changing the sense since the first
swap wasn't done to the more readable refresh_last_frame?last:new, but
this logic is not correct when !refresh_last_frame.
This commit restores the correct behavior from v0.9.1 and prior. This
case is missing from the test vector set.
Change-Id: I8369fc13a37ae882e31a8a104da808a08bc8428f
The following features don't make sense for the first
pass in its current form and have a significant impact on its
speed (up to 50%).
Slow quantizer, slow dct and trellis optimization.
Change-Id: Id9943f6765ffbd71fc0084ec7dfbc9d376fd6fcd
Calculate a minimum intra value to be used in determining the
IIratio scores used in two pass, second pass.
This is to make sure sections that are low complexity" in the
intra domain are still boosted appropriately for KF/GF/ARF.
For now I have commented out the Q based adjustment of
KF boost.
Change-Id: I15deb09c5bd9b53180a2ddd3e5f575b2aba244b3
Scott pointed out that last_frame_type only gets updated while
loopfilter exists. Since last_frame_type is also needed in
motion search now, it needs to be updated every frame.
Change-Id: I9203532fd67361588d4024628d9ddb8e391ad912
Use the fast quantizer for inter mode selection and the
regular quantizer for the rest of the encode for good quality,
speed 1. Both performance and quality were improved. The
quality gains will make up for the quality loss mentioned in
I9dc089007ca08129fb6c11fe7692777ebb8647b0.
Change-Id: Ia90bc9cf326a7c65d60d31fa32f6465ab6984d21
1. Search for block8x16/block16x8 uses block8x8's search results.
2. Check block4x4 only if block8x8 is chosen. (This hurts quality,
which will be improved in another check-in.)
3. In block4x4 search, the previous block's result is used as
MV predictor for next block.
This change improves performance.
Change-Id: I9dc089007ca08129fb6c11fe7692777ebb8647b0
Re-calibrated sad_per_bit16 and sad_per_bit4 tables to linearly
correlated to quantizer values, these two variables are used in
motion search for costing motion vectors. This change has an small
positive effect on compression.
Change-Id: Ic9b5ea6fb8d5078ef663ba4899db019cc51f4166
the lookup table is based on floating point calculations (see source)
by moving the *3 before the downshift and adding the rounding bit, the
delta (LUT - integer) goes from:
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it's important to be able to use the integer version because the LUT
more or less precludes SIMD optimizations
Change-Id: I45a81127dc7b72a06fba951649135d9d918386c0
allow for optimized versions of apply_temporal_filter
(now vp8_apply_temporal_filter_c)
the function was previously declared as static and appears to have been
inlined. with this change, that's no longer possible. performance takes
a small hit.
the declaration for vp8_cx_temp_filter_c was moved to onyx_if.c because
of a circular dependency. for rtcd, temporal_filter.h holds the
definition for the rtcd table, so it needs to be included by onyx_int.h.
however, onyx_int.h holds the definition for VP8_COMP which is needed
for the function prototype. blah.
Change-Id: I499c055fdc652ac4659c21c5a55fe10ceb7e95e3
The pointer passed in the user_priv argument to vpx_codec_decode()
should be propagated through to the corresponding output frame and
made available in the image's user_priv member. Fixes issue #252
Change-Id: I182746a6882c8549fb146b4a4fdb64f1789eb750
Add a new encoder control, VP8E_SET_TUNING, to allow the application
to inform the encoder that the material will benefit from certain
tuning. Expose this control as the --tune option to vpxenc. The args
helper is expanded to support enumerated arguments by name or value.
Two tunings are provided by this patch, PSNR (default) and SSIM.
Activity masking is made dependent on setting --tune=ssim, as the
current implementation hurts speed (10%) and PSNR (2.7% avg,
10% peak) too much for it to be a default yet.
Change-Id: I110d969381c4805347ff5a0ffaf1a14ca1965257
Inform the caller of the decoder if a decoded frame updated last,
golden, or altref frames, required for realtime communication
proposed in document VP8 RTP payload format.
Added a new vpx_codec_control called VP8D_GET_LAST_REF_UPDATES, to be
called after vpx_codec_decode. The control will indicate which of the
reference frames that were updated by setting the 3 LSBs in the input
int (pointer).
Change-Id: Iac9db60dac414356c7ffa0b0fede88cb91e11bd7
In SPLITMV, the 8x8 segment will be checked first. If the 8x8 rd
is better than the best, we check the other segments. Otherwise
bail. Adjustments to the thresh_mult were necessary to make
up for the initial quality loss.
The performance improved by 20% (average) for good quality,
speed 0 and speed 1, while the overall quality remained the same.
Change-Id: I717aef401323c8a254fba3e9777d2a316c774cc3
vp8_rd_pick_best_mbsegmentation looks at y only. The new
breakout does not include the frame cost, the prob_skip_false
cost, or the uv rate. Performance improved by a few percent
and the quality remained the same.
Change-Id: I94ff013998ac51e8ecce7130870f7b6600758e15
This fix added MV range checks for NEWMV mode as suggested by Jim.
To reduce unnecessary MV range checks, I tried Yaowu's suggestion.
Update UMV borders in NEWMV mode to also cover MV range check.
Also, in this way, every MV that is valid gets checked in diamond
search function.
Change-Id: I95a89ce0daf6f178c454448f13d4249f19b30f3a
The MV's range is 256. Since the new motion search uses a different
starting MV than the center ref MV, a MV range checking needs to
be done to avoid corruption.
Change-Id: I8ae0721d1bd203639e13891e2e54a2e87276f306
Per John's previous change, shrink TOKENEXTRA from 20 to 8 bytes
original: b7b1e6fb
reverted: 41f4458a
Also drop unused field from vp8_extra_bit_struct
Update ARM ASM to deal with this change. In particular, Extra is signed
and needs to be sign-extended when loaded.
Change-Id: Ibd0ddc058432bc7bb09222d6ce4ef77e93a30b41
This code is unused, as the current preproc implementation uses the
same spatial filter that postproc uses.
Change-Id: Ia06d5664917d67283f279e2480016bebed602ea7
Change the size of structure elements to reduce memory utilization.
Removed the 'section' member entirely, as it is set but never read.
Change-Id: Iad043830392fb4168cb3cd6075fb0eb70c7f691c
Added the initialization of the pointer to active map. Also added the
same logic for cyclic refresh in mbrow encoding threads.
Change-Id: Ic48d0849dc706b27fba72d07dcc498075725663d
Changed the end of block computation to use pmaxw. Removed
additional pushing and popping of registers that was not needed.
Change-Id: I08cb9b424513cd8a2c7ad8cea53b4e2adc66ef98
Change I3430820 performed an uninitialized read when
encode_breakout == 0, since the sum and sse wouldn't be set:
if(x->encode_breakout)
VARIANCE_INVOKE(..., get16x16var)(..., &sum, &sse);
if (cpi->active_map_enabled && x->active_ptr[0] == 0) {
...
} else if (sse < x->encode_breakout)
Change-Id: I915eb76d1227b4b6d1137a0dedf2c143860098a2
Corrected the initial Q range limits for the recode loop
to reflect the current allowed range for the frame.
In experimental work on constrained quality this bug was
causing unnecessary recodes.
Change-Id: I7e256fbfa681293b0223fe21ec329933d76c229f
This patch adds a weighting factor on RDMULT for UV blocks. The change
has an overall gain about 0.5% based on ssim, between 0.1 and 0.2% by
psnr numbers.
Change-Id: I97781b077ce3bb7e34241b03268491917e8d1d72
Deallocating the buffers before re-allocating them.
The fix passed James Berry's test program for memory
leak check.
Change-Id: I18c3cf665412c0e313a523e3d435106c03ca438d
Moved the code from the segmentation loop into a function
which is now called for each segment. This will allow us
to change the segment order checking more easily.
Change-Id: I9510d26f0acae5a73043fcca8f1984b121d3e052
When auto_golden wasn't set it forced all frames to be a golden
frame. Now the manual configured frequency is adhered to.
Change-Id: I360acac9bc487db0d9c4d4da6ee41f70c227c539
The inter_minq table controls the range of quantizers available
for a particular frame in two pass relative to a max Q value.
The changes reduces the range somewhat. The effect of this
was a small increase (0.3% average) in psnr for the test set
but it should also help encode speed somewhat for higher
quality modes as it will reduce the number of iterations in the
recode loop.
The change damps the range of quantizers available locally
within a section of a clip and should therefore help keep quality
more uniform. If there is systematic overshoot or undershoot the
range can shift gradually to accommodate. However, there is
some increased risk of overshoot or undershoot against the target
bit rate in VBR mode and this risk will be more pronounced for short
clips.
The change damps the range of quantizers available locally
within a section of a clip and should therefore help keep quality
more uniform. If there is systematic overshoot or undershoot the
range can shift gradually to accommodate. However, there is
some increased risk of overshoot or undershoot against the
target bit rate in VBR mode and this risk will be more
pronounced for short clips.
Change-Id: I84465567d49ae767c6c73ff2a2aac30c895adb52
Add vp8_mv_pred() to better predict starting MV for NEWMV
mode in vp8_rd_pick_inter_mode(). Set different search
ranges according to MV prediction accuracy, which improves
encoder performance without hurting the quality. Also,
as Yaowu suggested, using diamond search result as full
search starting point and therefore adjusting(reducing)
full search range helps the performance.
Change-Id: Ie4a3c8df87e697c1f4f6e2ddb693766bba1b77b6
On a keyframe alt ref and golden are refreshed. The flag was
not being set and so on the frame after a keyframe, motion
search would occur on the alt ref frame. This is not necessary
because the alt ref frame identical to the last frame in this
scenario.
Handle corner case where a forward alt-ref frame is put
directly after a keyframe.
Change-Id: I9be4cf290d694f8cf2f9a31852014b5ccf1504d3
remove warning comment in vpxenc.c: in case of 1x1 picture,
detect_bytes will be equal to '3' and we'll fall back to
RAW_TYPE.
fix read_frame() by tracking the pre-read buffer length
in the struct detect
Change-Id: If1ed86ee5260dcdbc8f9d10da6cbb84a4cc2f151
The baseline bits per MB prediction tables have been
re calibrated based on the assumption that bits per mb
is inversely proportional to the quantizer level.
Change-Id: Ibd355c7acac4b8053dda1baf1032fe35f11da7f7
In the process of developing new intra prediction modes, tests have
shown removal of the low pass filtering from B_HE_PRED and B_VE_PRED
has an overall minor positive impact in both PSNR and SSIM metric.
Overall difference is about 0.1%. The change shall also have a small
positive impact on speed. Intuitively, this change should also reduce
some of the tendency of "flattening"
Change-Id: I3c43b0daca833c6eff77d00f19c811f9ef9368a3
Changing the MAX_PSNR to 100 to allow testing of further experiments
on extending quantizer range to near lossless. With an effective
quantizer of 1, encoder achieves ~68DB, which is consistent with
fdct/idct round trip error.
Change-Id: I7b6d0e94a8936968ef42e82e63ebb13999c36832
Extending the value range of tokens allows further experiments on
extending quantizer range. Encoder and decoder were verified to
produce matching reconstructed buffers by tests with forced
quantized value of 1.
Change-Id: I12faf92832867870b6f71ddeafbf643f1040086d
Replaced existing code to decide if a frame recode is required
with a function call. This is to simplify addition of extra clauses
that may be needed for the planned constrained quality mode.
Also fixed a bug where by alt ref not considered in the test.
Change-Id: I3d40bb21abe3e19f8456761e6849deb171738b60
This function was never called in a context expecting a return value,
the return value was always a constant, and the !CONFIG_MULTITHREAD
path didn't have a return statement, which caused a compiler warning.
This patch changes the function to return void instead.
Fixes issue #231
Change-Id: I9ef7f56e54418b7265026c54fc4ed5660c1418d1
The ERROR macro collides wiith the MS SDK on Windows. Since we're not
making any win32 calls in this function, just #undef it first to take
ownership.
Change-Id: Ic18c60dfa3a33c52e6c49d3f4f8d3e7e3ac3341d
x86-64 passes arguments in registers. There is no need to push
them to the stack before using them.
This fixes 15acc84f10 where ebx
was not getting preserved on x86.
Change-Id: I1214b5f818a0201f75ab6ad7d5c6f448e09b16c2
The use of incorrect mv costing tables in the ARNR sub-pel
filtering code led to corruption of the altref buffer in some cases,
particularly at low data rates.
The average gain from this fix is about 0.3% but there are a few
extreme cases where nasty and visible artifacts manifested and
for these few data points the improvement is > 10%.
PGW and AWG
Change-Id: I95cc02b196a433e71d0d2bd2b933fe68ed31e796
This intends to correct the tendency that VP8 aggressively favors rate
on intra coded frames. Experiments tested different numbers in [0, 1]
and found 9/16 overall provided about 2-4% gains for all-intra coded
clips based on vpx-ssim metric. The impact on regular encoded clips
is much smaller but positive overall. Overall impact on psnr is also
positive even though very small.
Change-Id: If808553aaaa87fdd44691f9787820ac9856d9f8a
The fast quantizer assembly code has not been updated to match the new
exact quantizer, which was made the default in commit 6adbe09.
Specifically, they are not aware of the potential for the coefficient
to be scaled, which results in the quantized result exceeding the range
of the DCT. This patch restores the previous behavior of using the
non-shifted coefficients when in the fast quantizer code path, but
unfortunately requires rebuilding the tables when switching between the
two.
Change-Id: I0a33f5b3850335011a06906f49fafed54dda9546
- Used three probability approach for temporal context as follows:
P0 - probability of no change if both above and left not changed
P1 - probability of no change if one of above and left has changed
P2 - probability of no change if both above and left have changed
In addition, a 1 bit/frame has been used to decide whether to use temporal context or to encode directly. The cost of using both the schemes is calculated ahead and the temporal_update flag is set if the cost of using temporal context is lower than encoding the segment ids directly.
This approach has given around 20% reduction in cost of bits needed to encode segmentation ids.
Change-Id: I44a5509599eded215ae5be9554314280d3d35405
Debugging in postproc needs more flags to allow for specific
block types to be turned on or off in the visualizations.
Must be enabled with --enable-postproc-visualizer during
configuration time.
Change-Id: Ia74f357ddc3ad4fb8082afd3a64f62384e4fcb2d
VBR rate control can become very noisy for the last few frames.
If there are a few bits to spare or a small overshoot then the
target rate and hence quantizer may start to fluctuate wildly.
This patch prevents further adjustment of the active Q limits for
the last few frames.
Patch also removes some redundant variables and makes one small bug fix.
Change-Id: Ic167831bec79acc9f0d7e4698bcc4bb188840c45
Small changes to the default zero bin and rounding tables.
Though the tables are currently the same for the Y1 and Y2 cases
I have left them as separate tables in case we want to tune this later.
There is now some adjustment of the zbin based on the prediction mode.
Previously this was restricted to an adjustment for gf/arf 0,0 MV.
The exact quantizer now marginal outperforms and is the default.
The overall average gain is about 0.5%
Change-Id: I5e4353f3d5326dde4e86823684b236a1e9ea7f47
The check '(user_data_end - partition < partition_size)' must be
evaluated as a signed comparison, but because partition_size was
unsigned, the LHS was promoted to unsigned, causing an incorrect
result on 32-bit. Instead, check the upper and lower bounds of
the segment separately.
Change-Id: I6266aba7fd7de084268712a3d2a81424ead7aa06
Change Ice204e86 identified a problem with bitrate undershoot due to
low precision in the timestamps passed to the library. This patch
takes a different approach by calculating the duration of this frame
and passing it to the library, rather than using a fixed duration
and letting the library average it out with higher precision
timestamps. This part of the fix only applies to vpxenc.
This patch also attempts to fix the problem for generic applications
that may have made the same mistake vpxenc did. Instead of
calculating this frame's duration by the difference of this frame's
and the last frame's start time, we use the end times instead. This
allows the framerate calculation to scavenge "unclaimed" time from
the last frame. For instance:
start | end | calculated duration
======+=======+====================
0ms 33ms 33ms
33ms 66ms 33ms
66ms 99ms 33ms
100ms 133ms 34ms
Change-Id: I92be4b3518e0bd530e97f90e69e75330a4c413fc
Change color reference frame to blend the macro block edge.
This helps with layering of visualizations.
Add block coloring for intra prediction modes.
Change-Id: Icefe0e189e26719cd6937cebd6727efac0b4d278
Split motion vectors were all being treated as 4x4
blocks. Now correctly handle 16x8, 8x16, 8x8, 4x4
blocks.
Change-Id: Icf345c5e69b5e374e12456877ed7c41213ad88cc
Now draw 16 vectors for SPLITMV mode.
Fixed constrain line to block divide by zero issues.
Blend block was not centering the shaded area correctly.
Change-Id: I1edabd8b4e553aac8d980f7b45c80159e9202434
(test clip: tulip)
For good quality mode with speed=1, this gave the encoder
a small (2 - 3%) performance boost.
Change-Id: I8a1d4269465944ac0819986c2f0be4b0a2ee0b35
Unlike GCC, Visual Studio compiler doesn't allocate SAD output
array 16-byte aligned, which causes crash in visual studio.
Change-Id: Ia755cf5a807f12929bda8db94032bb3c9d0c2362
This eliminates a large set of warnings exposed by the Mozilla build
system (Use of C++ comments in ISO C90 source, commas at the end of
enum lists, a couple incomplete initializers, and signed/unsigned
comparisons).
It also eliminates many (but not all) of the warnings expose by newer
GCC versions and _FORTIFY_SOURCE (e.g., calling fread and fwrite
without checking the return values).
There are a few spurious warnings left on my system:
../vp8/encoder/encodemb.c:274:9: warning: 'sz' may be used
uninitialized in this function
gcc seems to be unable to figure out that the value shortcut doesn't
change between the two if blocks that test it here.
../vp8/encoder/onyx_if.c:5314:5: warning: comparison of unsigned
expression >= 0 is always true
../vp8/encoder/onyx_if.c:5319:5: warning: comparison of unsigned
expression >= 0 is always true
This is true, so far as it goes, but it's comparing against an enum, and the C
standard does not mandate that enums be unsigned, so the checks can't be
removed.
Change-Id: Iaf689ae3e3d0ddc5ade00faa474debe73b8d3395
Turned down the blending level to make colored blocks obscure
the video less.
Not blending the entire block to give distinction to macro
block edges.
Added configuration so that macro block blending function can
be optimized.
Change to constrain line as to when dx and dy are computed.
Now draw two lines to form an arrow.
Change-Id: Id3ef0fdeeab2949a6664b2c63e2a3e1a89503f6c
Use mpsadbw, and calculate 8 sad at once. Function list:
vp8_sad16x16x8_sse4
vp8_sad16x8x8_sse4
vp8_sad8x16x8_sse4
vp8_sad8x8x8_sse4
vp8_sad4x4x8_sse4
(test clip: tulip)
For best quality mode, this gave encoder a 5% performance boost.
For good quality mode with speed=1, this gave encoder a 3%
performance boost.
Change-Id: I083b5a39d39144f88dcbccbef95da6498e490134
This patch fixes the system dependent entries for the half-pixel
variance functions in both the RTCD and non-RTCD cases:
- The generic C versions of these functions are now correct.
Before all three cases called the hv code.
- Wire up the ARM functions in RTCD mode
- Created stubs for x86 to call the optimized subpixel functions
with the correct parameters, rather than falling back to C
code.
Change-Id: I1d937d074d929e0eb93aacb1232cc5e0ad1c6184
This allows multiple post processor debug levels to be overlayed.
i.e. can show colored reference blocks and visual motion vectors.
Change-Id: Ic4a1df438445b9f5780fe73adb3126e803472e53
ARM used to explicitly remove this file from the build. With the RTCD
changes, that's no longer possible. These errors also exist for x86 w/o
RTCD, but that's not the default configuration
Change-Id: I3e10e5553ddf3278e8d3c9365ca6fb84f52f5066
NEON has optimized 16x16 half-pixel variance functions, but they
were not part of the RTCD framework. Add these functions to RTCD,
so that other platforms can make use of this optimization in the
future and special-case ARM code can be removed.
A number of functions were taking two variance functions as
parameters. These functions were changed to take a single
parameter, a pointer to a struct containing all the variance
functions for that block size. This provides additional flexibility
for calling additional variance functions (the half-pixel special
case, for example) and by initializing the table for all block sizes,
we don't have to construct this function pointer table for each
macroblock.
Change-Id: I78289ff36b2715f9a7aa04d5f6fbe3d23acdc29c
Post process option to color the block for either the mode
of the macro block, or the frame that the macro block references.
Change-Id: Ie498175497f2d20e3319924d352dc4ddc16f4134
ARM NEON has a platform specific version of vp8_recon16x16mb, though
it's just a stub to extract the various parameters from the
MACROBLOCKD struct and pass them to vp8_recon16x16mb_neon(). Using
that function's prototype directly will be a better long term solution,
but it's quite an invasive change.
Change-Id: I04273149e2ade34749e2d09e7edb0c396e1dd620
The ARM version of vp8_hex_search() is a faster implementation
of the same algorithm. Since it doesn't use any ARM specific
code, it can be made the default implementation. This removes
a linking error.
Change-Id: I77d10f2c16b2515bff4522c350004e03b7659934
Some of the ARM functions differed from their generic counterparts
only by unrolling their loops. Since this change may be useful
on other platforms, or might even supercede the looped version
in the generic case, move it back to the generic file.
This code is left under #if ARCH_ARM for now, but it may be worth
considering a different (possibly new) conditional for these. If
it turns out that this should be runtime selectable, these
functions will have to move to the RTCD infrastructure. Don't want
to take that step at this time without more profile data.
Change-Id: I4612fdbc606fbebba4971a690fb743ad184ff15f
These functions were true duplicates of functions present in the
generic code. This fixes some of the link errors when building
with --enable-shared --enable-pic.
Change-Id: Idff26599d510d954e439207883607ad6b74df20c
These functions made global references but did not set up the GOT,
causing compilation failures in PIC mode.
Change-Id: Iac473bf46733f87eb2e001cd736af4acf73fa51d
Postproc level that uses Bresenham's line algorithm
to draw motion vectors onto the postproc buffer.
Change-Id: I34c7daa324f2bdfee71e84fcb1c50b90fa06f6fb
cppcheck found a leaked file descriptor in the debugging code
enabled by defining ENTROPY_STATS. Fixes issue #60.
Change-Id: I0c1d0669cb94d44fed77860f97b82763be06b7cb
there were four versions for the regular and
macroblock loopfilters:
horizontal [y|uv]
vertical [y|uv]
this moves all the common code into 2 functions:
vp8_loop_filter_neon
vp8_mbloop_filter_neon
this provides no gain in performance. there's a bit
of jitter, but it trends down ~0.25-0.5%. however,
this is a huge gain maintenance. also, there is the
potential to drop some stack usage in the macroblock
loopfilter.
Change-Id: I91506f07d2f449631ff67ad6f1b3f3be63b81a92
The primary goal is to allow a binary to be built which supports
NEON, but can fall back to non-NEON routines, since some Android
devices do not have NEON, even if they are otherwise ARMv7 (e.g.,
Tegra).
The configure-generated flags HAVE_ARMV7, etc., are used to decide
which versions of each function to build, and when
CONFIG_RUNTIME_CPU_DETECT is enabled, the correct version is chosen
at run time.
In order for this to work, the CFLAGS must be set to something
appropriate (e.g., without -mfpu=neon for ARMv7, and with
appropriate -march and -mcpu for even earlier configurations), or
the native C code will not be able to run.
The ASFLAGS must remain set for the most advanced instruction set
required at build time, since the ARM assembler will refuse to emit
them otherwise.
I have not attempted to make any changes to configure to do this
automatically.
Doing so will probably require the addition of new configure options.
Many of the hooks for RTCD on ARM were already there, but a lot of
the code had bit-rotted, and a good deal of the ARM-specific code
is not integrated into the RTCD structs at all.
I did not try to resolve the latter, merely to add the minimal amount
of protection around them to allow RTCD to work.
Those functions that were called based on an ifdef at the calling
site were expanded to check the RTCD flags at that site, but they
should be added to an RTCD struct somewhere in the future.
The functions invoked with global function pointers still are, but
these should be moved into an RTCD struct for thread safety (I
believe every platform currently supported has atomic pointer
stores, but this is not guaranteed).
The encoder's boolhuff functions did not even have _c and armv7
suffixes, and the correct version was resolved at link time.
The token packing functions did have appropriate suffixes, but the
version was selected with a define, with no associated RTCD struct.
However, for both of these, the only armv7 instruction they actually
used was rbit, and this was completely superfluous, so I reworked
them to avoid it.
The only non-ARMv4 instruction remaining in them is clz, which is
ARMv5 (not even ARMv5TE is required).
Considering that there are no ARM-specific configs which are not at
least ARMv5TE, I did not try to detect these at runtime, and simply
enable them for ARMv5 and above.
Finally, the NEON register saving code was completely non-reentrant,
since it saved the registers to a global, static variable.
I moved the storage for this onto the stack.
A single binary built with this code was tested on an ARM11 (ARMv6)
and a Cortex A8 (ARMv7 w/NEON), for both the encoder and decoder,
and produced identical output, while using the correct accelerated
functions on each.
I did not test on any earlier processors.
Change-Id: I45cbd63a614f4554c3b325c45d46c0806f009eaa
The code was not checking for frame sizes smaller than 3 bytes, and the
partition size checks might have failed if the input buffer was within
16MB of the top of the heap.
In addition, the reference count on the current frame buffer was not
being decremented on error, so after a small number of errors, no new
frame buffer could be found and it would run off the list of them.
Change-Id: I0c60dba6adb1e2a29df39754f72a56ab6c776b46
Most of the code that actually uses these matrices indexes them as
if they were a single contiguous array, and coverity produces
reports about the resulting accesses that overflow the static
bounds of the first row.
This is perfectly legal in C, but converting them to actual [16]
arrays should eliminate the report, and removes a good deal of
extraneous indexing and address operators from the code.
Change-Id: Ibda479e2232b3e51f9edf3b355b8640520fdbf23
Change the pts of the altref frame to be as close as possible to the
pts of the preceding frame and still be strictly increasing.
Change-Id: Iae3033a4c89ae5a9d0e5c4198e9196e5f3ee57c7
The first implementation of the firstpass motion map for motion
compensated temporal filtering created a file, fpmotionmap.stt,
in the current working directory. This was not safe for multiple
encoder instances. This patch merges this data into the first pass
stats packet interface, so that it is handled like the other
(numerical) firstpass stats.
The new stats packet is defined as follows:
Numerical Stats (16 doubles) -- 128 bytes
Motion Map -- 1 byte / Macroblock
Padding -- to align packet to 8 bytes
The fpmotionmap.stt file can still be generated for debugging
purposes in the same way that the textual version of the stats
are available (defining OUTPUT_FPF in firstpass.c)
Change-Id: I083ffbfd95e7d6a42bb4039ba0e81f678c8183ca
x86-64 passes most arguments in registers. There is no need to
push them to the stack before using them.
Change-Id: I13c683f1358782682ecafaf1df3fb0af23b978ea
This rewriting reflects changes made in commit "Improve the
accuracy of forward walsh-hadamard transform". Since this function
is not called much, only a small encoder performance gain (~0.5% )
is seen.
Change-Id: Ie9df58a43028a11fd5b115c4bbe3141f7596578b
Instead of doing 8-bit data unpack and 16-bit subtraction, use
psubb to do 16 8-bit subtractions and pcmpgtb to preserve the
sign information. This does not bring noticable gain since
these functions are not called frequently.
Change-Id: I90a0dfaa3db9d422e4ada324076596ffb178548e
generic version got fixed, but not the arm version. fixes:
vp8/encoder/arm/mcomp_arm.c: In function 'vp8_full_search_sadx3':
vp8/encoder/arm/mcomp_arm.c:1208: warning: pointer targets in passing
argument 5 of 'fn_ptr->sdx3f' differ in signedness
vp8/encoder/arm/mcomp_arm.c:1208: note: expected 'unsigned int *' but
argument is of type 'int *'
and another unsigned change to keep the files similar
Change-Id: I1b6255dc3a03b90394a791ee0d15d8167d9454db
vp8_diamond_search_sadx4 isn't used in arm because there is no
corrosponding sdx4df as in x86. rather than keep it in sync with
../mcomp.c, delete it
vp8_hex_search had the original, more readable/understandable code if`d
out. it's also available in ../mcomp.c, so remove the dead copy
Change-Id: Ia42aa6e23b3a2e88040f467280befec091ec080e
when a subsequent frame is encoded as an alt reference frame, it is
unlikely that any mb in current frame will be used as reference for
future frames, so we can enable quantization optimization even when
the RD constant is slightly rate-biased. The change has an overall
benefit between 0.1% to 0.2% bit savings on the test sets based on
vpxssim scores.
Change-Id: I9aa7bc5cd573ea84e3ee655d2834c18c4460ceea
../libvpx/vp8/encoder/bitstream.c: In function ‘pack_inter_mode_mvs’:
../libvpx/vp8/encoder/bitstream.c:1026: warning: array subscript has type ‘char’
Change-Id: Ic77491e0a172fa1821e5b3e914d0dc41fe87c00f
In order to know if all 4/8 neighbor points are within the bounds,
4 bounds checking are enough instead of checking 4 bounds for
each points (16/32 checkings). This improvement reduces cost of
vp8_diamond_search_sadx4() by 30%, and gives encoder a 1.5%
performance gain (test options: 1 pass, good, speed=4).
Change-Id: Ie8da29d18a6ecfc9829e74ac02f6fa70e042331a
This patch moves the scattered updates to the mb skip state
(mode_info_context->mbmi.mb_skip_coeff) to vp8_tokenize_mb. Recent
changes to the quantizer exposed a bug where if a macroblock
could be coded as a skip but isn't, the encoder would run the
loopfilter but the decoder wouldn't, causing a reference buffer
mismatch.
The loopfilter is controlled by a flag called dc_diff. The decoder
looks at the number of decoded coefficients when setting this flag.
The encoder sets this flag based on the skip state, since any
skippable macroblock should be transmitted as a skip. The coefficient
optimization pass (vp8_optimize_b()) could change the coefficients
such that a block that was not a skip becomes one. The encoder was
not updating the skip state in this situation for intra coded blocks.
The underlying issue predates it, but this bug was recently triggered
by enabling trellis quantization on the Y2 block in commit dcd29e3,
and by changing the quantizer range control in commit 305be4e.
Change-Id: I5cce5da0dbc2d22f7d79ee48149f01e868a64802
This uses MB variance to change the RDO weight for mode decision
and quantization.
Activity is normalized against the average for the frame, which is
currently tracked using feed-forward statistics.
This could also be used to adjust the quantizer for the entire
frame, but that requires more extensive rate control changes.
This does not yet attempt to adapt the quantizer within the frame,
but the signaling cost means that will likely only be useful at
very high rates.
Change-Id: I26cd7c755cac3ff33cfe0688b1da50b2b87b9c93
These functions should never change their input, and there's no
reason not to declare that.
This allows them to be passed static const data.
Change-Id: Ia49fe4b01e80e9afcb24b4844817694d4da5995c
There is currently no inexact version of this function, so do not
even compile it without EXACT_QUANT.
This will prevent someone from inadvertently trying to use it without
the proper EXACT_QUANT setup.
Change-Id: Ia13491e0128afb281c05c9222ee5987101e4010d
This is just eliminating some cruft.
Although a number of variables are declared only when INTRARDOPT
is defined, they are used elsewhere without that protection, and
no longer just for intra RDO.
The intra_rd_opt flag was hard-coded to 1 and never checked.
Change-Id: I83a81554ecee8053e7b4ccd8aa04e18fa60f8e4f
Moved vp8_fast_quantize_b_sse from quantize_mmx.asm into
quantize_sse2.asm and renamed. Updated the assembly code to
match the C version.
Change-Id: I1766d9e1ca60e173f65badc0ca0c160c2b51b200
As the zbin and rounding constants are normalized, rounding effectively
does the zbinning, therefore the zbin operation can be removed. In
addition, the memset on the two arrays are no longer necessary.
Change-Id: If39c353c42d7e052296cb65322e5218810b5cc4c
Filed for nasm as:
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=106208&aid=3081103&group_id=6208
nasm just does not accept any size parameter for movhps:
1.asm:2: error: mismatch in operand sizes
Some parts of libvpx already use MMWORD for movhps and MMWORD is
defined-out so it is compatible both with yasm and nasm.
Provide nasm compatibility. No binary change by this patch with yasm on
{x86_64,i686}-fedora13-linux-gnu.
Change-Id: I4008a317ca87ec07c9ada958fcdc10a0cb589bbc
nasm does not support `label wrt rip', it requires `rel label'. It is
still fully compatible with yasm.
Provide nasm compatibility. No binary change by this patch with yasm on
{x86_64,i686}-fedora13-linux-gnu. Few longer opcodes with nasm on
{x86_64,i686}-fedora13-linux-gnu have been checked as safe.
Change-Id: I488773a4e930a56e43b0cc72d867ee5291215f50
nasm requires the instruction length (movd/movq) to match to its
parameters. I find it more clear to really use 64bit instructions when
we use 64bit registers in the assembly.
Provide nasm compatibility. No binary change by this patch with yasm on
{x86_64,i686}-fedora13-linux-gnu. Few longer opcodes with nasm on
{x86_64,i686}-fedora13-linux-gnu have been checked as safe.
Change-Id: Id9b1a5cdfb1bc05697e523c317a296df43d42a91
Raised by Lei Yang, the Y plane stride was used for UV blocks.
This is clearly a typo. But as the comments in the code suggested
that this port of code has not been used yet, so the typo should
not have created any damage yet.
Change-Id: Iea895edc17469a51c803a8cc6d0fce65a1a7fc2f
This code adjust the impact of the amount and speed of motion
on GF and KF boost.
Sections with lots of slow motion will tend to have a
somewhat bigger boost and sections with fast motion may
have less.
There is a knock on effect to the selection of the active
quantizer range.
This will likely require further tuning but helps with a couple
of particularly bad edge cases.
Change-Id: Ic2449cda7305672b69acf42fc0a845b77ac98d40
Experimented with different value for Y2_RD_MULT ranging f[1, 32],
without adapting the value to MB coding mode/frame type/Q value,
4 works out best among all values, providing overall 0.1% coding
gain on the test set.
Change-Id: I6b2583a8aa5db5e7e5c65c646301909c0c58f876
If temporal filtering is enabled but a filter type is not specified
centered filter mode is used by default.
Change-Id: I87306f267c1390074c806c506a69b4ba914d92a2
Modified the range checking of parameters used in the
AltRef temporal filter (arnr-max-frames, arnr-strength,
arnr-type) and default values for each of them.
Change-Id: Ib261028d501b9523f6e44cb4790cc52167b6e92b
This function graduated from being a test func to something that's on
by default. Rename it and remove some spurious comments that confuse
its status.
Change-Id: I689695a3ad29c35e9a72a43ec93766733ac6c20b
Loopfilter deltas are initialized to zero on keyframes in the decoder.
The values then persist from the previous frame unless an update bit
is set in the bitstream. This data is not included in the entropy
data saved by the 'refresh entropy' bit in the bitstream, so it is
effectively an additional contextual element beyond the 3 ref-frames
and the entropy data.
The encoder was treating this delta update bit as update-if-nonzero,
meaning that the value would be refreshed even if it hadn't changed,
and more significantly, if the correct value for the delta changed
to zero, the update wouldn't be sent, and the decoder would preserve
the last (presumably non-zero) value.
This patch updates the encoder to send an update only if the value
has changed from the previously transmitted value. It also forces the
value to be transmitted in error resilient mode, to account for lost
context in the event of lost frames.
Change-Id: I56671d5b42965d0166ac226765dbfce3e5301868
Create look up tables for controlling the active quantizer range.
Some initial tuning to improve quality circa 0.5% on test set.
Clean up of some stats output code
Change-Id: Ia698a8525f8b8129a503cadace3ee73fe888f543
- Scheduling for Atom processors
- Combining of macros to allow for better interleaving
- Change from multiplies to adds for main filter
- Use of movhps/movlps to fill xmm registers without
shifting and orring
Change-Id: I0b3500a5f58abf7085253ec92d64c8a96723040b
Modified AltRef temporal filter to adapt filter length based
on macroblock coding modes selected during first-pass
encode.
Also added sub-pixel motion compensation to the AltRef
filter.
The existing code applied a 6-tap filter with 0's on either end.
We're already paying the branch penalty to avoid computing the two
extra columns needed as input to this filter.
We might as well save time computing the filter as well.
This reduces the inner loop from 21 instructions to 16, the number
of loads per iteration from 4 to 1, and the number of multiplies
from 7 to 4.
The gain in overall decoding performance, however, is small (less
than 1%).
This change also means we now valgrind clean on ARMv6, which is
its real purpose.
The errors reported here were valgrind's fault (it does not detect
that 0 times an uninitialized value is initialized), but Julian
Seward says it would slow down valgrind considerably to make such
checks.
Speeding up libvpx rather, even by a small amount, seems a much
better idea if only to enable proper valgrind checking of the
rest of the codec.
Change-Id: Ifb376ea195e086b60f61daf1097d8910c4d8ff16
This function was accessing values below the stack pointer, which
can be corrupted by signal delivery at any time.
Change-Id: I92945b30817562eb0340f289e74c108da72aeaca
previous implementation compared each set of values to limit and then
&'d them together, requiring a compare and & for each value.
this does the accumulation first, requiring only one compare
Change-Id: Ia5e3a1a50e47699c88470b8c41964f92a0dc1323
This patch avoids compiling some debugging code in onyx_if.c. The most
significant fix is to avoid generating code for vp8_write_yuv_frame,
which is never called. Some other code was removed by the dead code
elimination performed by the compiler, and this patch does it with the
preprocessor instead. There are advantages both ways.
Change-Id: I044fd43179d2e947553f0d6f2cad5b40907ac458
reconintra_mt.c is only required for building the decoder right now.
It could definitely be used for the encoder in the future, but it
currently depends on decoder only data structures. (onyxd_int.h,
VP8D_COMP, etc). Move it from common/ to decoder/ until the
necessary changes to the common multithread code are complete.
This patch is needed to build with --disable-vp8-decoder.
Change-Id: I568c52221a2b309234d269675cba97131ce35c86
Having these symbols be available as functions rather than data is
occasionally more convenient. Implemented this way rather than a
get-codec-by-id style to avoid creating a link-time dependency
between the encoder and the decoder.
Fixes issue #169
Change-Id: I319f281277033a5e7e3ee3b092b9a87cce2f463d
The MV decoding changes in c5fb0eb introduced a bug where the
macroblock clamping state was reset for each partition, so if an
earlier partition needed clamping but a subsequent one didn't,
the MB wouldn't receive clamping. Instead, the state is only
set during splitmv decoding, never cleared.
Change-Id: I224fe258493405ee0f6a04596acdb622c475e845
Movdqu is more expensive (throughput, uops) than movq. Minimal
impact for newer big cores, but ~2.25% gain on Atom.
Change-Id: I62c80bb1cc01d8a91c350c4c7719462809a4ef7f
Use pmaxub instead of a combination of psubusb/por to
determine if any comparisons go over the limit.
Change-Id: I3f0bd7d2aabe5fee9ba6620508e2b60605abcb82
The patch related with issue #55 (5a72620) fixed some warnings, but the
fix was not optimal. It actually was a trick to confuse compiler rather
than a fix.
This patch fixes it by creating a new macro used when needed just a high
limit check for an unsigned.
Change-Id: I94b322e0f7fb07604b3b1df1f9321185f48cfcb5
the previous commit laid the groundwork by doing two sets of idcts
together. this moved that further by grouping the interesting data
(q[0], q+16[0]) together to allow using wider instructions. also
managed to drop a few instructions by recognizing that the constant
for sinpi8sqrt2 could be downshifted all the time which avoided a
dowshift as well as workarounds for a function which only accepted
signed data
looks like a modest gain for performance: at qcif, went from ~180
fps to ~183
Change-Id: I842673f3080b8239e026cc9b50346dbccbab4adf
On each MB, loopfiltering is done right after MB decoding. This
combines two loops in multi-threaded code into one, which reduces
number of synchronizations to half.
The above-row/left-col data are saved in temp buffers for
next-row/next MB decoding.
Tests on 4-core gLucid machine showed 10% decoder performance
gain with threads=4 (tulip clip). Testing on other platforms
isn't done yet.
Change-Id: Id18ea7c1e84965dabea65d4c01ca5bc056ddeac9
This patch reduces the size of the global tables maintained by the
tokenizer to 16k from 80k-96k. See issue #177.
Change-Id: If0275d5f28389af11ac83c5d929d1157cde90fbe
Modified code so that:
-When above and left contexts are same and not equal to current segment id, it needs to read a maximum of 2 segment_tree_probabilities.
- When above and left contexts are different and not equal to current segment id, it needs to read only a single segment_tree_probability.
Change-Id: Idc2cf2c4afcc6179b8162ac5a32c948ff5a9a2ba
There is no need to make sure that the lower byte of the
register is 0 because the downshift by 11 overwrites that byte.
Change-Id: I89cbf004b2ff532a2c68e0dc399c45a49cdad5a1
-Updates by making use of spatial correlation.
-Checks if the segment_id is same as above or left context and encodes only the update to the map instead of updating individual segment_ids.
Change-Id: Ib861df97e8aa2b37516219eeddcdbaf552b6a249
Sequentially accessing memory from a low address to a high
address should make it easier for the processor to predict
the cache.
Change-Id: I1921ce996bdd547144fe864fea6435f527f5842d
Improved the subset block search and fill. (about 3% improvement for
32 bit) Modified/merged the code in order to create
vp8_read_mb_modes_mv which can decode the modes/mvs on a macroblock
level. This will allow the decode loop (in the future) to decode
modes/mvs on a frame, row, or mb level.
Change-Id: If637d994b508792f846d39b5d44a7bf9aa5cddf3
Expand 93c32a55 which used SSE2 instructions to do two
idct/dequant/recons at a time to NEON. Initial working
commit. More work needs to be put into rearranging and
interlacing the data to take advantage of quadword
operations, which is when we'll hopefully see a much
better boost
Change-Id: I86d59d96f15e0d0f9710253e2c098ac2ff2865d1
When ARFs are enabled in non-lagged compress modes, the GF interval
was being reset to zero. Non-lagged ARF updates were enabled in commit
63ccfbd, but this incorrect GF interval caused a quality regression.
Change-Id: I615c3b493f4ce2127044f4e68d0bcb07d6b730c3
Changes 'The VP8 project' to 'The WebM project', for consistency
with other webmproject.org repositories.
Fixes issue #97.
Change-Id: I37c13ed5fbdb9d334ceef71c6350e9febed9bbba
vp8_get_compressed_data() was defeating logic in
encode_frame_to_datarate() that determined the reference buffers to
search and forcing all frames to be eligible to search. In cases
where buffers have identical contents, this is unnecessary extra
work.
Change-Id: I9e667ac39128ae32dc455a3db4c62e3efce6f114
ARFs were explicitly disabled except in lagged compress mode. New
ARF logic allows for the ARF buffer to hold an older golden frame,
which does not require lagged compress.
Change-Id: I1dff82b6f53e8311f1e0514b1794ae05919d5f79
Moved partition_bmi and partition_count out of MB_MODE_INFO and
placed into MACROBLOCK. Also reduced the size of other members
of the MB_MODE_INFO struct. For 1080p, the memory was reduced
by 1,209,516 bytes. The decoder performance appeared to improve
by 3% for the clip used.
Note: The main goal for this change is to improve the decoder
performance. The encoder will be revisited at a later date for
further structure cleanup.
Change-Id: I4733621292ee9cc3fffa4046cb3fd4d99bd14613
Remove the dependency on postproc.c for the encoder in general, the only
unchecked need for it is when CONFIG_PSNR is enabled. All other cases
are already wrapped in CONFIG_POSTPROC. In the CONFIG_PSNR case the file
will still be included.
Additionally, when VP8_SET_POSTPROC is used with the encoder when post
processing has been disabled an error will be returned.
This addresses issue #153.
Change-Id: Ia6dfe20167f7077734a6058cbd1d794550346089
There was an extremely rare deadlock that happened when one thread
was waiting to start the loop filter on frame n while the other
threads were starting to work on frame n+1.
Change-Id: Icc94f728b3b6663405435640d9a2996735ba19ef
These changes improve the behaviour of the code with
forced key frames sent in by a calling application.
The sizing of the frames is still suboptimal for two pass in
particular but the behaviour is much better than it was.
Change-Id: I35fae610c67688ccc69d11f385e87dfc884e65a1
The main reason for the change was to reduce cycles in the token
decoder. (~1.5% gain for 32 bit) This layout should be more
cache friendly.
As a result of this change, the encoder had to be updated.
Change-Id: Id5e804169d8889da0378b3a519ac04dabd28c837
Note: dixie uses a similar layout
The memory being zeroed in vp8_update_mode_info_border() was just
allocated with calloc, and so the entire function is actually
redundant, but it should be made correct in case someone expects
it to actually work in the future.
Change-Id: If7a84e489157ab34ab77ec6e2fe034fb71cf8c79
did a test compile with clang and got rid of some warnings that have
been annoying me for a while:
vp8/decoder/detokenize.c: In function 'vp8_init_detokenizer':
vp8/decoder/detokenize.c:121: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
vp8/decoder/detokenize.c:122: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
vp8/decoder/detokenize.c:123: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
vp8/decoder/detokenize.c:124: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
vp8/decoder/detokenize.c:125: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
vp8/decoder/detokenize.c:128: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
vp8/decoder/detokenize.c:129: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
vp8/decoder/detokenize.c:130: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
vp8/decoder/detokenize.c:131: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type
Change-Id: I78ddab176fe47cbeed30379709dc7bab01c0c2e4
Moving the eob structure allows for a non-struct based
function to handle decoding an entire mb of
idct/dequant/recon data. This allows for SIMD functions
to idct/dequant/recon multiple blocks at once.
SSE2 implementation gives 3% gain on Atom.
Change-Id: I8a8f3efd546ea4e0535f517d94f347cfb737c9c2
The external API exposes the RC initial/optimal/full buffer level in
milliseconds, but this value was truncated internally to seconds. This
patch allows the use of the full precision during the conversion from
time to bits.
Change-Id: If8dd2a87614c05747f81432cbe75dd9e6ed2f04e
move some things around, reorder some instructions
constant 0 is used several times. load it once per call in horiz,
once per loop in vert.
separate saturating instructions to avoid stalls.
just use one usub8 call to set GE flags, rather than uqsub8 followed by
usub8 w/ 0
document some stalls for further consideration
Change-Id: Ic3877e0ddbe314bb8a17fd5db73501a7d64570ec
test cases were causing a crash because the count was being read
incorrectly. after fixing that, noticed that the output was not
matching. fixed that.
Change-Id: Idb0edb887736bd566a3cf6d4aa1a03ea8d20eb27
The C version of the dequant/idct/add function depends on the C
version of the IDCT, but this isn't compiled in on ARM. Since this
code has asm version, we can just remove this file to eliminate the
link error.
Change-Id: I21de74d89d3765a1db2da27292b20727c53178e9
vp8_update_gf_useage_maps() is only used by the encoder. This patch
fixes the ability to build in decode-only or encode-only
configurations.
Change-Id: I3a5211428e539886ba998e09e8abd747ac55c9aa
adds a compile time option: --enable-arm-asm-detok which pulls in
vp8/decoder/arm/detokenize.asm
currently about break even speed wise, but changes are pending to
the fill code (branch and load 3 bytes versus conditionally always
load one) and the error handling. Currently it doesn't handle zero
runs or overrunning the buffer.
this is really just so i don't have to rebase my changes all the
time to run benchmarks - now just need to replace one file!
Change-Id: I56d0e2354dc0ca3811bffd0e88fe1f952fa6c797
asm_offsets contains some definitions which are no longer used. this
was one of them. v6 build works now
Change-Id: If370cfa8acd145de4fead2d9a11b048fccc090df
These copies occurred for each macroblock in the encoder and decoder.
Thetemp MB_MODE_INFO mbmi was removed from MACROBLOCKD. As a result,
a large number compile errors had to be fixed.
Change-Id: I4cf0ffae3ce244f6db04a4c217d52dd256382cf3
The mv_ref and sub_mv_ref token encodings are indexed from NEARESTMV
and LEFT4X4, respectively, rather than being zero-based like the
other token encodings.
Change-Id: I3699c3f84111209ecfb91097c4b900773e9a3ad5
This patch changes a few numbers in the two constant arrays
for quantizer's zerobin and rounding factors, in general to
make the sum of the two factors for any Q to be 128. While
it might be beneficial to calibrate the two arrays for best
quantizer performance, it is not the purpose of this patch.
Normalizing the two arrays will enable quick optimization
of the current faster quantizer, i.e .zerobin check can be
removed.
Change-Id: If9abfd7929bf4b8e9ecd64a79d817c6728c820bd
Replace the exponential search for optimal rounding during
quantization with a linear Viterbi trellis and enable it
by default when using --best.
Right now this operates on top of the output of the adaptive
zero-bin quantizer in vp8_regular_quantize_b() and gives a small
gain.
It can be tested as a replacement for that quantizer by
enabling the call to vp8_strict_quantize_b(), which uses
normal rounding and no zero bin offset.
Ultimately, the quantizer will have to become a function of lambda
in order to take advantage of activity masking, since there is
limited ability to change the quantization factor itself.
However, currently vp8_strict_quantize_b() plus the trellis
quantizer (which is lambda-dependent) loses to
vp8_regular_quantize_b() alone (which is not) on my test clip.
Patch Set 3:
Fix an issue related to the cost evaluation of successor
states when a coefficient is reduced to zero. With this
issue fixed, now the trellis search almost exactly matches
the exponential search.
Patch Set 2:
Overall, the goal of this patch set is to make "trellis"
search to produce encodings that match the exponential
search version. There are three main differences between
Patch Set 2 and 1:
a. Patch set 1 did not properly account for the scale of
2nd order error, so patch set 2 disable it all together
for 2nd blocks.
b. Patch set 1 was not consistent on when to enable the
the quantization optimization. Patch set 2 restore the
condition to be consistent.
c. Patch set 1 checks quantized level L-1, and L for any
input coefficient was quantized to L. Patch set 2 limits
the candidate coefficient to those that were rounded up
to L. It is worth noting here that a strategy to check
L and L+1 for coefficients that were truncated down to L
might work.
(a and b get trellis quant to basically match the exponential
search on all mid/low rate encodings on cif set, without
a, b, trellis quant can hurt the psnr by 0.2 to .3db at
200kbps for some cif clips)
(c gets trellis quant to match the exponential search
to match at Q0 encoding, without c, trellis quant can be
1.5 to 2db lower for encodings with fixed Q at 0 on most
derf cif clips)
Change-Id: Ib1a043b665d75fbf00cb0257b7c18e90eebab95e
This is the first modification of VP8 multi-thread decoder, which uses
same threads to decode macroblocks and then do loopfiltering for each
frame.
Inspired by Rob Clark, synchronization was done on every 8 macroblocks
instead of every macroblock to reduce lock contention.
Comparing with the original code, this implementation gave about 15%-
20% performance gain while decoding my test clips on a Core2 Quad
platform (Linux).
The work is not done yet.
Test on other platforms are needed.
Change-Id: Ice9ddb0b511af1359b9f71e65066143c04fef3b5
Clang defaults to C99 mode, and inline works differently in C99.
(gcc, on the other hand, defaults to a special gnu-style inlining,
which uses different syntax.) Making the functions static makes sure
clang doesn't decide to discard a function because it's too large to
inline.
Thanks to eli.friedman for the patch.
Fixes http://code.google.com/p/webm/issues/detail?id=114
Change-Id: If3c1c3c176eb855a584a60007237283b0cc631a4
global label:data
^^
Provide nasm compatibility. No binary change by this patch with yasm
on {x86_64,i686}-fedora13-linux-gnu. Few longer opcodes with nasm on
{x86_64,i686}-fedora13-linux-gnu have been checked as safe.
Change-Id: I10f17eb1e4d4a718d4ebd1d0ccddc807c365e021
Labels should end by colon (':'), nasm requires it.
Provide nasm compatibility. No binary change by this patch with yasm
on {x86_64,i686}-fedora13-linux-gnu. Few longer opcodes with nasm on
{x86_64,i686}-fedora13-linux-gnu have been checked as safe.
Change-Id: I0b2ec6f01afb061d92841887affb5ca0084f936f
nasm knows only OWORD. yasm knows both OWORD and DQWORD.
Provide nasm compatibility. No binary change by this patch with yasm on
{x86_64,i686}-fedora13-linux-gnu. Few longer opcodes with nasm on
{x86_64,i686}-fedora13-linux-gnu have been checked as safe.
Change-Id: I62151390089e90df9a7667822fa594ac20b00e78
Removed the global variables vp8_an and vp8_cd. vp8_an was causing problems
because it was increasing the .bss by 1572864 bytes.
Change-Id: I6c12e294133c7fb6e770c0e4536d8287a5720a87
To facilitate more testing related to quantizer and rate
control, the old version quantizer is added back. old and
new quantizer can be switched back and forth by define or
un-define the macro "EXACT_QUANT".
Change-Id: Ia77e687622421550f10e9d65a9884128a79a65ff
follow up to Change I0e51492d: neon: disable asm quantizer
Now x86 doesn't segfault with --disable-runtime-cpu-detect and -p=2
Change-Id: I8ca127bb299198efebbcbd5a661e81788361933f
The assembly version of the quantizer has not been updated to match
the new exact quantizer introduced in commit e04e2935. That commit tried
to disable this code but missed the non-RTCD case.
Thanks to David Baker <david.baker at openmarket.com> for isolating the
issue and testing this fix.
Change-Id: I0e51492dc6f8e44d2c10b587427448bf94135c65
Jeff Muizelaar posted some changes to the idct/reconstruction c code.
This is the equivalent update for the arm assembly.
This shows a good boost on v6, and a minor boost on neon.
Here are some numbers for highway in qcif, 2641 frames:
HEAD neon: ~161 fps
new neon: ~162 fps
HEAD v6: ~102 fps
new v6: ~106 fps
The following functions have been updated for armv6 and neon:
vp8_dc_only_idct_add
vp8_dequant_idct_add
vp8_dequant_dc_idct_add
Conflicts:
vp8/decoder/arm/armv6/dequantdcidct_v6.asm
vp8/decoder/arm/armv6/dequantidct_v6.asm
Resolved by removing these files. When I rewrote the functions, I also
moved the files to dequant_dc_idct_v6.asm/dequant_idct_v6.asm
Change-Id: Ie3300df824d52474eca1a5134cf22d8b7809a5d4
This moves the prediction step before the idct and combines the idct and
reconstruction steps into a single step. Combining them seems to give an
overall decoder performance improvement of about 1%.
Change-Id: I90d8b167ec70d79c7ba2ee484106a78b3d16e318
At the end of the decode, frame buffers were being copied.
The frames are not updated after the copy, they are just
for reference on later frames. This change allows multiple
references to the same frame buffer instead of copying it.
Changes needed to be made to the encoder to handle this. The
encoder is still doing frame buffer copies in similar places
where pointer reference could be done.
Change-Id: I7c38be4d23979cc49b5f17241ca3a78703803e66
In two pass encodes, the calculation of the number of bits
allocated to a KF group had the potential to overflow for high data
rates if the interval is very long.
We observed the problem in one test clip where there was one
section where there was an 8000 frame gap between key frames.
Change-Id: Ic48eb86271775d7573b4afd166b567b64f25b787
This replaces the approximate division-by-multiplication in the
quantizer with an exact one that costs just one add and one
shift extra.
The asm versions have not been updated in this patch, and thus
have been disabled, since the new method requires different
multipliers which are not compatible with the old method.
Change-Id: I53ac887af0f969d906e464c88b1f4be69c6b1206
These files were out of date and no longer maintained.
Token decoding has implemented the no-crash code which
is incompatible with this arm assembly code.
Change-Id: Ibf729886c56fca48181af60b44bda896c30023fc
The libs.mk file must be installed for the vpx.vcproj file to be
generated. It was being installed, but not in the src/ directory as
expected.
Also missed include files yasm.rules, quantize_x86.h
Change-Id: Ic1a6f836e953bfc954d6e42a18c102a0114821eb
Change submitted for Adrian Grange. Convert threshold
calculation in ARNR filter to a lookup table.
Change-Id: I12a4bbb96b9ce6231ce2a6ecc2d295610d49e7ec
Previously we had assumed that it was necessary to give a full frame's
bit allocation to the alt ref frame if it has been created through temporal
filtering. This is not the case. The active max quantizer control
insures that sufficient bits are allocated if needed and allocating a
full frame's worth of bits creates an excessive overhead for the ARF.
Change-Id: I83c95ed7bc7ce0e53ccae6ff32db5a97f145937a
In the case where the best reference mv is not (0,0) a secondary
search is carried out centered on (0,0). However, rather than
sending tmp_err into the search function, motion_error was
inadvertently passed.
As a result tmp_err remains set at INT_MAX and the (0,0)-based
search result will never be selected, even if it is better.
Change-Id: I3c82b246c8c82ba887b9d3fb4c9e0a0f2fe5a76c
Change I9fd1a5a4 updated the multithreaded loopfilter to avoid
reinitializing several parameteres if they haven't changed from the
last frame, but the code to update the last frame's parameters wasn't
invoked in the multithreaded case.
Change-Id: Ia23d937af625c01dd739608e02d110f742b7e1f2
Restructured and rewrote SSE2 loopfilter functions. Combined u and
v into one function to take advantage of SSE2 128-bit registers.
Tests on test clips showed a 4% decoder performance improvement on
Linux desktop.
Change-Id: Iccc6669f09e17f2224da715f7547d6f93b0a4987
Following conversations with Tim T (Derf) I ran a large number of
tests comparing the existing polynomial expression with a simpler
^2 variant. Though the polynomial was sometimes a little better at
the extremes of Q it was possible to get close for most clips and
even a little better on some.
This code also changes the way the RD multiplier is calculated
when the ZBIN is extended to use a variant of the same ^2
expression.
I hope that this simpler expression will be easier to tune further
as we expand our test set and consider adjustments based on content.
Change-Id: I73b2564346e74d1332c33e2c1964ae093437456c
Besides the slight improvement in round trip error. This
also fixes a sign bias in the forward transform, so the
round trip errors are evenly distributed between +1s and
-1s. The old bias seemed to work well with the dc sign bias
in old fdct, which no longer exist in the improved fdct.
Change-Id: I8635e7be16c69e69a8669eca5438550d23089cef
Corrected setting of "which_buffer" for U & V cases to match that
used for Y, i.e. to refer to the temporally most recent frame of
those to be filtered.
Change-Id: Idf94b287ef47a05f060da3e61134a0b616adcb6b
The new fdct lowers the round trip sum squared error for a
4x4 block ~0.12. or ~0.008/pixel. For reference, the old
matrix multiply version has average round trip error 1.46
for a 4x4 block.
Thanks to "derf" for his suggestions and references.
Change-Id: I5559d1e81d333b319404ab16b336b739f87afc79
bestsad needs to be a int and set to INT_MAX because at the end
of the function it is compared to INT_MAX to determine if there
was a match in the function.
Change-Id: Ie80e88e4c4bb4a1ff9446079b794d14d5a219788
bestsad should be an int initialized to INT_MAX. The optimized
SAD function expects a signed value for bestsad to use for comparison
and early loop termination. When no match is made, which is
determined by a comparison of bestsad to INT_MAX, INT_MAX is returned.
These are mostly vestigial, it's up to the compiler to decide what
should be inlined, and this collided with certain Windows platform SDKs.
Change-Id: I80dd35de25eda7773156e355b5aef8f7e44e179b
1. Unavailability of each reference frame type should be tested
independently,
2. Also, only the VP8_GOLD_FLAG needs to be tested before setting
golden frame specific thresholds, and only VP8_ALT_FLAG needs
testing before setting thresholds relevant to the AltRef frame.
(Raised by gbvalor, in response to Issue 47)
Change-Id: I6a06fc2a6592841d85422bc1661e33349bb6c3b8
Since the intent is
to reset the appropriate bit in ref_frame_flags not to
test a logic condition. Prior result would always have
been ref_frame_flags being set to 0.
(Issue reported by dgohman, issue 47)
Change-Id: I2c12502ed74c73cf38e98c9680e0249c29e16433
The DOUBLE_DIVIDE_CHECK macro prevents from divide by 0,
so must be on the denominator to work as intended.
Change-Id: Ie109242d52dbb9a2c4bc1e11890fa51b5f87ffc7
If the version script produced by the libvpx build system is not
used when linking a shared library on x86-64 Linux, the constant
data in the subpel filters produces R_X86_64_32 relocation errors
due to the use of wrt rip addressing instead of
wrt rip wrt ..gotpcrel.
Instead of adding a new macro for this addressing mode, this patch
sets the ELF visibility of these symbols to "hidden", which
allows wrt rip addressing to work without a text relocation.
This allows building a shared library without using the provided
build system or a separate version script.
Fixes http://code.google.com/p/webm/issues/detail?id=46
Change-Id: Ie108f9d9a4352e5af46938bf4750d2302c1b2dc2
When the license headers were updated, they accidentally contained
trailing whitespace, so unfortunately we have to touch all the files
again.
Change-Id: I236c05fade06589e417179c0444cb39b09e4200d
Change bitreading functions to use a larger window which is refilled less
often.
This makes it cheap enough to do bounds checking each time the window is
refilled, which avoids the need to copy the input into a large circular
buffer.
This uses less memory and speeds up the total decode time by 1.6% on an ARM11,
2.8% on a Cortex A8, and 2.2% on x86-32, but less than 1% on x86-64.
Inlining vp8dx_bool_decoder_fill() has a big penalty on x86-32, as does moving
the refill loop to the front of vp8dx_decode_bool().
However, having the refill loop between computation of the split values and
the branch in vp8_decode_mb_tokens() is a big win on ARM (presumably due to
memory latency and code size: refilling after normalization duplicates the
code in the DECODE_AND_BRANCH_IF_ZERO and DECODE_AND_LOOP_IF_ZERO cases.
Unfortunately, refilling at the end of vp8dx_bool_decoder_fill() and at the
beginning of each decode step in vp8_decode_mb_tokens() means the latter
requires an extra refill at the end.
Platform-specific versions could avoid the problem, but would require most of
detokenize.c to be duplicated.
Change-Id: I16c782a63376f2a15b78f8086d899b987204c1c7
Added sse2 version of vp8_regular_quantize_b which improved encode
performance(for the clip used) by ~10% for 32 bit builds and ~3% for
64 bit builds.
Also updated SHADOW_ARGS_TO_STACK to allow for more than 9 arguments.
Change-Id: I62f78eabc8040b39f3ffdf21be175811e96b39af
This patch addresses issue #79, which is a regression since commit
28de670 "Fix RD bug." If the coded error value is zero, the iiratio
calculation effectively multiplies by 1000000 by the
DOUBLE_DIVIDE_CHECK macro. This can result in a value larger than
INT_MAX, giving a negative ratio. Since the error values are
conceptually unsigned (though they're stored in a double) this patch
makes the iiratio values unsigned, which allows the clamping to work
as expected.
ssim.c comiles in a huge (512M) amount of global scratch space. Allocating
this data on the heap would be a better solution, but this file doesn't
need to be built at all in most cases, so as a first pass, disable it
except when doing opsnr.stt output (--enable-psnr).
Change-Id: I320d812f6d652a12516a16b52295ebff20b5bd42
No good reason to be tricky here. I don't know why 'break' occurred to me
as the natrual replacement for the 'return', but an if/else block is
definitely clearer.
Change-Id: I08a336307afeb0dc7efa494b37398f239f66c2cf
The new scheme introduced in I68d35a2f did not clamp chroma MVs in the SPLITMV
case, and clamped them incorrectly (to the luma plane bounds) in every other
case.
Because chroma MVs are computed from the luma MVs before clamping occurs, they
could still point outside of the frame buffer and cause crashes.
This clamping happens outside of the MV prediction loop, and so should not
affect bitstream decoding.
Restructure vp8_sixtap_predict functions to eliminate extra 5-line
calculation while doing first-pass only. Also, combline functions
to eliminate usage of intermediate buffer. This gives decoder a 3%
performance gain on my test clips.
Change-Id: I13de49638884d1a57d0855c63aea719316d08c1b
This patch removes the secondary MV clamping from the MV decoder. This
behavior was consistent with limits placed on non-split MVs by the
reference encoder, but was inconsistent with the MVs generated in the
split case.
The purpose of this secondary clamping was only to prevent crashes on
invalid data. It was not intended to be a behaviour an encoder could or
should rely on. Instead of doing additional clamping in a way that
changes the entropy context, the secondary clamp is removed and the
border handling is made implmentation specific. With respect to the
spec, the border is treated as essentially infinite, limited only by
the clamping performed on the near/nearest reference and the maximum
encodable magnitude of the residual MV.
This does not affect any currently produced streams.
Change-Id: I68d35a2fbb51570d6569eab4ad233961405230a3
This patch adds support for building shared libraries when configured
with the --enable-shared switch.
Building DLLs would require more invasive changes to the sample
utilities than I want to make in this patch, since on Windows you can't
use the address of an imported symbol in a static initializer. The best
way to work around this is proably to build the codec interface mapping
table with an init() function, but dll support is of questionable value
anyway, since most windows users will probably use a media framework
lib like webmdshow, which links this library in staticly.
Change-Id: Iafb48900549b0c6b67f4a05d3b790b2643d026f4
This patch creates some basic infrastructure for doing bitstream-
incompatible changes to the VP8 encoder. The key parts are:
- --enable-experimental configure switch, to enable support for this
incompatible bitstream. This switch is required to be set to enable
any "experiments"
- A list for "experiments" which translate into --enable-<experiment>
options and CONFIG_<experiment> macros.
- The high bit of the "Version" field is used to indicate that the
bitstream was produced by an experimental encoder. The decoder will
fail to decode an experimental bitstream without
--enable-experimental.
- A new "vp8x" encoder interface is created to set the experimental
bit.
- The vp8x encoder interface is made the default for ivfenc in
experimental mode.
Change-Id: Idbdd5eae4cec5becf75bb4770837dcd256b2abef
Tests on x86 showed this function costed 2.7% of total decoding time
because of all the memory reads/writes. After modification, it only
costs about 0.7% of decoding time, which gives a 2% gain.
Change-Id: I5003ee30b6dc6dea0bfa42a6ad7e7c22fcc7b215
This is to accommodate output packets for both compressed
data and psnr stats. For each frame, there are at least
one packet for compressed data and one for psnr stats. For
a max lag of 25, 64 is large enough to cover all lagged
frames at the end of encoding.
Change-Id: If20787fbc86f96e1aa16a3ccf2adc93e6c1e3d5f
This renames the vpx_codec/ directory to vpx/, to allow applications
to more consistently reference these includes with the vpx/ prefix.
This allows the includes to be installed in /usr/local/include/vpx
rather than polluting the system includes directory with an
excessive number of includes.
Change-Id: I7b0652a20543d93f38f421c60b0bbccde4d61b4f
Avoid an potential name clashes and match other external types.
s/IMG_FMT/VPX_$&/g
s/img_fmt/vpx_$&/g
Change-Id: Ia7ad5bbb6424416b37e71e5f5eb1eca31c3c707f
This doesn't play well with autotools, and the preprocessor magic is
confusing and unhelpful in the vp8-only context.
Change-Id: I2fcb57e6eb7876ecb58509da608dc21f26077ff1
Visual c++ compiler uses xmm registers for floating point
operations for 64 bit architecture, therefore its calling
convention requires the preservation of xmm6-xmm15 in any
function that have used these registers. However, the sse2
functions, that were originally written for 32 bit windows,
may have used xmm6 and xmm7 without preserving the content.
In this particular case, the compiler used xmm6 to save
the variable "two_pass_min_rate", the value of the variable
is mucked up by our sse2 optimized loop filter functions,
hence the results of release/debug mismatching.
