For content that is identified as likely to contain some
animation or graphics content, increase the availability
of split modes for good quality speeds 1-3.
On a problem test animation clip this improves metrics
results by about 0.25 db and makes a noticeable difference
visually. It also causes a small drop in file size (~0.5%) but
a rise in encode time of about 5-6% at speed 2.
For more normal content it should have no effect.
Change-Id: Ic4cd9a8de065af9f9402f4477a17442aebf0e439
Some places are using the unoptimized variance function. This was never
intended and does not fit into the optimization framework.
Change-Id: Id96238407aad03b0ffd4a46cd183555a026daedc
Break out the setting of the block variance split thresholds,
since they are locally modified, e.g., based on local/segment qp.
No change in performance.
Change-Id: I0a3238e6dab05140657539fc4bd27ac5ff7a554e
This patch provides a partial rapid feedback of bits
resulting from extreme undershoot.
Some improvement on some problem animated material
but in its current form only a small impact on the metrics results
of our standard test sets.
Change-Id: Ie03036ea8123bc2553437cb8c8c9e7a9fc5dac5d
This patch addresses two issues that can occur when the
encoder chooses to use a mixture of ARF and GF groups.
The first issue relates to a failure to reset the "ARF active" flag
correctly when transitioning from coding ARF groups to coding
GF groups. This caused some golden frames to be encoded
with an incorrect bit rate target as if they were ARF overlay frames.
The second issue relates to the encoding of a single short GF group
just before a key frame. Where the last group before a key frame
is an ARF group we expect the final frame before the key frame to
be an low data rate overlay frame. However, when the last group
is a GF group, the final frame before the key frame should be a normal
frame with a normal bit allocation. This issue had the potential to cause
a single poorly coded frame just before a key frame. If that key frame
were a forced key frame rather than a real scene cut, this might cause
pulsing.
Change-Id: Idf1eb5eaf63a231495a74de7899236e1ead9fb00
Testing on another rate control patch reveals that in some
situations, where the encoder is flipping in and out of arf
mode, we get an encoder decoder mismatch.
Whilst it is still not clear why, skipping the last buffer
update seems to trigger the problem. Until I can establish
why, or if there is another underlying cause, I am reverting
this change.
This reverts commit e5112b3ae3.
Change-Id: I315c5200414de89458015823344b7367e9dd75ba
With the sad functions, and hopefully the variance functions soon,
moving to the vpx_dsp location, place the defines used in the
reference C code in a common location.
Change-Id: I4c8ce7778eb38a0a3ee674d2f1c488eda01cfeca
The computation of new metrics is not supported yet in highbitdepth
mode. This commit adds protection to make sure the computation is
done only when highbitdepth is not on. This protection shall be
revised when support of highbitdpeth computation is added.
This resolves the encoder crash when configured with both
--enable-internal-stats
--enable-vp9-highbitdepth
Change-Id: Id9f4bcc4fa26d9ca0e9eabade83f3f88a5b212e6
Where a frame appears to be a repeat of an earlier
frame or frame buffer, but the first pass code
does not anticipate this (usually because it is matching
the GF or ARF buffer not the last frame buffer), do not
update the last frame buffer.
This helps ensure that the content of the last frame buffer
is kept "different" where possible, and not updated to
match the GF or ARF. This is particularly helpful in some
animated sequences where there are groups of repeating
frames. Here it has quite a big impact. However, in most
of our standard test clips it has little or no impact.
Change-Id: I77332ee1a69f9ffc0c6080bfeb811c43fd8828e6
Create a new component, vpx_dsp, for code that can be shared
between codecs. Move the SAD code into the component.
This reduces the size of vpxenc/dec by 36k on x86_64 builds.
Change-Id: I73f837ddaecac6b350bf757af0cfe19c4ab9327a
(see I3a05cf1610679fed26e0b2eadd315a9ae91afdd6)
For the test clip used, the decoder performance improved by ~2%.
This is also an intermediate step towards adding back the
mode_info streams.
Change-Id: Idddc4a3f46e4180fbebddc156c4bbf177d5c2e0d
PSNR HVS is a human visual system weighted version of SNR that's
gained some popularity from academia and apparently better matches
MOS testing.
This code is borrowed from the Daala Project but uses our FDCT code.
Change-Id: Idd10fbc93129f7f4734946f6009f87d0f44cd2d7
The vbp thresholds are set seperately for boosted/non-boosted
superblocks according to their segment_id. This way we don't
have to force the boosted blocks to split to 32x32.
Speed 6 RTC set borg test result showed some quality gains.
Overall PSNR: +0.199%; Avg PSNR: +0.245%; SSIM: +0.802%.
No speed change was observed.
Change-Id: I37c6643a3e2da59c4b7dc10ebe05abc8abf4026a
