This patch modified struct VP9_COMP. Created a struct ThreadData
to include data that need to be copied for each thread. In
multiple thread case, one thread processes one tile. all threads
share one copy of VP9_COMP,
(refer to VP9_COMP *cpi in the code)
but each thread has its own copy of ThreadData,
(refer to ThreadData *td in the code).
Therefore, within the scope of encode_tiles(), both cpi and td
need to be passed as function parameters.
In single thread case, the FRAME_COUNTS pointer in ThreadData
points to "counts" in VP9_COMMON.
Change-Id: Ib37908b2d8e2c0f4f9c18f38017df5ce60e8b13e
The intra mode penalty is covered by intra_cost_penalty. This
commit removes the other intra cost threshold, provided that the
constant 50 is negligible in normal rate-distortion cost.
Change-Id: I9b8b7483c43b9a41741622e7057def1f7d51bb72
This commit makes a non-RD coding mode decision process for key
frame coding. It can be optionally turned on in speed -6 and above.
Change-Id: I0847258b392877a0210b4768bef88ebc9ad009b5
This commit allows more aggressive decision to skip forward
transform and quantization for luma component in RTC coding mode.
The chroma components remains going through the normal coding
routine, since they are not included in the non-RD mode search
process.
It reduces the runtime cost by 2% - 10%. In speed -6,
vidyo1 1000 kbps
16576 b/f, 40.281 dB, 8402 ms -> 16576 b/f, 40.323 dB, 7764 ms
nik720p 1000 kbps
33337 b/f, 38.622 dB, 7473 ms -> 33299 b/f, 38.660 dB, 7314 ms
dark720p 1000 kbps
33330 b/f, 39.785 dB, 13505 ms -> 33325 b/f, 39.714 dB, 13105 ms
The compression performance of speed -6 is improved by 0.44% in
PSNR and 1.31% in SSIM.
Change-Id: Iae9e3738de6255babea734e5897f29118bebc6d7
This commit adds a check condition to the prediction buffering
operation used in the rtc coding mode. This resolves a unit test
warning in example/vpx_tsvc_encoder_vp9_mode_7.
Change-Id: I9fd50d5956948b73b53bd8fc5a16ee66aff61995
This commit makes the speed -6 and above use the reconstructed
boundary pixels for precise intra prediction. This allows more
intra prediction modes to be tested in the non-RD coding process.
Enabling horizontal and vertical intra prediction modes can
improve the speed -6 compression performance for rtc set
by 0.331%.
Change-Id: I3a99f9d12c6af54de2bdbf28c76eab8e0905f744
This commit makes the RTC coding mode to conditionally skip the
reference frame mode search, when the predicted motion vector of
the current reference frame gives more than two times sum of
absolute difference compared to that of other reference frames.
It reduces the runtim by 1% - 4% for speed -5 and -6. The average
compression performance is improved by about 0.1% in both settings.
It is of particular benefit to light change scenarios. The
compression performance of test clip mmmovingvga.y4m is improved by
6.39% and 15.69% at high bit rates for speed -5 and -6, respectively.
Speed -5
vidyo1 16555 b/f, 40.818 dB, 12422 ms ->
16552 b/f, 40.804 dB, 12100 ms
nik 33211 b/f, 39.138 dB, 11341 ms ->
33228 b/f, 39.139 dB, 11023 ms
mmmoving 33263 b/f, 40.935 dB, 13508 ms ->
33256 b/f, 41.068 dB, 12861 ms
Speed -6
vidyo1 16541 b/f, 40.227 dB, 8437 ms ->
16540 b/f, 40.220 dB, 8216 ms
nik 33272 b/f, 38.399 dB, 7610 ms ->
33267 b/f, 38.414 dB, 7490 ms
mmmoving 33255 b/f, 40.555 dB, 7523 ms ->
33257 b/f, 40.975 dB, 7493 ms
Change-Id: Id2aef76ef74a3cba5e9a82a83b792144948c6a91
This commit makes the inter prediction buffer system to support
hybrid partition search. It reduces the runtime of speed -5 by
about 3%. No compression performance change.
vidyo1 720p 1000 kbps
11831 ms -> 11497 ms
nik 720p 1000 kbps
10919 ms -> 10645 ms
Change-Id: I5b2da747c6395c253cd074d3907f5402e1840c36
This commit changes to allow the usage of golden reference frame in
VP9 CBR mode to improve quality. VP9 supports potentially up to 8
reference buffers, it has reference buffers available for this
purpose. This was not possible in VP8 as golden and alt-ref buffers
were used for temporal scalability purpose in CBR mode in WebRTC.
For frames that update golden frame, there can be a quality boost.
The amount of allowed bitrate boost can be controlled via parameter
rc_max_inter_bitrate_pct. The inital value of the boost ratior is
currently based on over_shoot_pct. Further experiments will work
out the adaption of this boost value.
Change-Id: I0c5f010c8fd8b7b598f69779c1b30e5b2ac30a4d
The initialization of this_mode_pred does not work when the ref_frame
loop ever goes beyond LAST_FRAME. This commit fixes the subtle issue
and allows potentially expanding the loop to test GOLDEN_FRAME.
Change-Id: Ibbd427a22160d1d9eacb8ed0c87f88d6cef9c0f3
This commit refactors the rate distortion structure used in the
non-RD coding mode and saves a few RDCOST calculations.
Change-Id: I62c3416c300d2c5372f21b96d93a6b633a34ab3a
Reduce the intra_cost_penalty for non-rd mode,
and some updates to VAR_BASED_PARTITION.
Visual tests show some improvement at Speed 6, for RTC clips.
Change-Id: If9090daf7aed14906a32d931a538ab544bbca606
- Some fixes to surface fit.
- Returns variance function as cost rather than sad in the
pattern search and diamond search functions. Only
vp9_pattern_search_sad function used in bigdia search
uses sad as integer 1-away costs.
- Deploys SUBPEL_TREE_PRUNED_MORE for speed 4+.
Results:
derf [Speed 3]: About +0.036% in coding efficiency without any
discernible speed loss.
derf [Speed 4]: About 2-3% faster at -0.199% loss in coding efficiency.
derf [Speed 5]: About 3-4% faster at -0.149% loss in coding efficiency.
Change-Id: I8462f94f6adb46966ca964f2bd0400977357fd63
The concept:
There's too much noise in source pixels for variance and at low bitrate
the reconstructed looks nothing like the source so we have problems
getting good partitionings with either. This skirts the issue by using
a box blur scaled down version for variance calculations. To compare
against source_var_ moved keyframe to be rd based like source_var.
Change-Id: Ie3babdbfadae324b7b5a76bea192893af27f0624
The functions b_width_log2 and b_height_log2 only do direct
table fetch. This commit unifies such use cases by using the
table directly and removes these functions.
Change-Id: I3103fc6ba959c1182886a2799d21b8b77c8a7b6b
mi_grid_* are arrays of pointer to pointer. They save the pointers that point
to the MIs in cm->mi. But they are unnecessary and complicated. The original
goal was to remove MODE_INFO_t copy. But with an extra MODE_INFO_t pointer
inside MODE_INFO_t, same goal could be achieved.
This commit totally removes the mi_grid_* structures. But there are still
many dummy MODE_INFO_t inside cm->mi which are a waste of memory. Next commit
will do on-demand MODE_INFO_t allocation in order to save these memories.
Change-Id: I3a05cf1610679fed26e0b2eadd315a9ae91afdd6
