Current partition checking starts from small sizes, and then goes up
to large sizes. This experiment uses the small partitions' motion
estimation result, which is already available, to speed up the
large partition's motion estimation. We can decide to skip some
patition checkings if they are unlikely choices. We could use the
motion vector(MV) result as current partition's prediction MV, limit
the search range and reference frame.
Current result at speed 1:
psnr loss: 1.19% for stdhd, 0.287% for derf.
speed gain: 14% for sunflower(hd), 11% for akiyo.
Further improvement will be done later.
Change-Id: I5abfd070e9cace2e91e2a0247d1325df313887ab
Use an estimate based on DC_PRED for intra uv cost
within the rd loop then only do a full uv mode analysis
if an intra mode is chosen.
Significant speed gains in some cases. Currently only
enabled for speed 2 pending speed/quality tests.
Change-Id: Ie851a12400d5483bce47ec0e3ccb8516041e91c0
This commit makes the encoder to perform motion search only once
per reference frame type for each 4x4/4x8/8x4 block. For bus_cif
at 2000 kbps, the runtime goes from 253812ms -> 217817ms
(14% speed-up) for speed 0.
Change-Id: I5f17599ccc8cfaf93ccb4f98fcb6008af6d79e92
Removing tile_rows and tile_columns from VP9Common, removing redundant
constants MIN_TILE_WIDTH and MAX_TILE_WIDTH, changing signature of
vp9_get_tile_n_bits.
Change-Id: I8ff3104a38179b2c6900df965c144c1d6f602267
Making implementation of vp9_set_pred_flag_{seg_id, mbskip} consistent
with vp9_get_segment_id without using confusing sub(a, b) macro. Passing
mi_row and mi_col to functions explicitly instead of replying on
mb_to_right_edge and mb_to_bottom_edge.
Change-Id: I54c1087dd2ba9036f8ba7eb165b073e807d00435
This is a short term optimization till we work out a decoder
implementation requiring no frame border extension.
Change-Id: I02d15bfde4d926b50a4e58b393d8c4062d1be70f
Cycle times:
4x4: 151 to 131 cycles (15% faster)
8x8: 334 to 306 cycles (9% faster)
16x16: 1401 to 1368 cycles (2.5% faster)
32x32: 7403 to 7367 cycles (0.5% faster)
Total encode time of first 50 frames of bus @ 1500kbps (speed 0)
goes from 1min39.2 to 1min38.6, i.e. a 0.67% overall speedup.
Change-Id: I799a49460e5e3fcab01725564dd49c629bfe935f
Also inline some of the block calculations to assist the compiler to
not do silly things like calculating the same offset (or converting
between raster/transform block offset or block, mi and pixel unit)
many, many, many times.
Cycle times:
4x4: 584 -> 505 cycles (16% faster)
8x8: 1651 -> 1560 cycles (6% faster)
16x16: 7897 -> 7704 cycles (2.5% faster)
32x32: 16096 -> 15852 cycles (1.5% faster)
Overall, this saves about 0.5 seconds (1min49.8 -> 1min49.3) on the
first 50 frames of bus (speed 0) @ 1500kbps, i.e. 0.5% overall.
Change-Id: If3dd62453f8e2ab9d4ee616bc4ea956fb8874b80
Skip the inverse transform and reconstruction of inter-mode coded
blocks in the rate-distortion optimization loop, when skip_encode_sb
feature is turned on. This provides about 1% speed-up at speed 0,
and 1.5% speed-up at speed 1. No performance change in both settings.
Change-Id: I2932718bf4d007163702b61b16b6ff100cf9d007
This speed feature allows the encoder to largely remove the spatial
dependency between blocks inside a 64x64 superblock, thereby removing
the need to repeatedly encode superblocks per partition type in the
rate-distortion optimization loop.
A major challenge lies in the intra modes tested in the rate-distortion
optimization loop. The subsequent blocks do not have access to the
reconstructed boundary pixels without the intermediate coding steps.
This was resolved by using the original pixels for intra prediction
in the rd loop, followed by an appropriately designed distortion
modeling on the quantization parameters. Experiments also suggested
that the performance impact is more discernible at lower bit-rate/psnr
settings. Hence a quantizer dependent threshold is applied to deactivate
skip of block coding.
For bus_cif at 2000 kbps,
speed 0: runtime 269854ms -> 237774ms (12% speed-up) at 0.05dB
performance loss.
speed 1: runtime 65312ms -> 61536ms, (7% speed-up) at 0.04dB
performance loss.
This operation is currently turned on in settings of speed 1.
Change-Id: Ib689741dfff8dd38365d8c1b92860a3e176f56ec
this was never fleshed out in the context of VP8, for which it was
added. for VP9 it has no meaning.
Change-Id: Iba2ecc026d9e947067b96690245d337e51e26eff
Implements some of the helper functions more efficiently with
lookups rathers than branches. Modeling function is consolidated
to reduce some computations.
Also merged the two enums BLOCK_SIZE_TYPES and BlockSize into
one because there is no need to keep them separate (even though
the semantics are a little different).
No bitstream or output change.
About 0.5% speedup
Change-Id: I7d71a66e8031ddb340744dc493f22976052b8f9f
For some reason iOS builds take a really long time to sort this
function out.
It's not used anywhere so remove it.
Change-Id: Ia5c8513a0d9c7eb32641cca58ca1c1113e2dd9f4
Adding segmentation struct to vp9_seg_common.h. Struct members are from
macroblockd and VP9Common structs. Moving segmentation related constants
and enums to vp9_seg_common.h.
Change-Id: I23fabc33f11a359249f5f80d161daf569d02ec03
The function encode_block is called only by inter-prediction modes,
hence removing the transform type branching there.
Change-Id: I34a3172e28ce2388835efd0f8781922211bff857
With sf->auto_mv_step_size on it is questionable
whether sf->reduce_first_step_size is worthwhile.
At speed 2 it was not having a big impact.
Even at speed 2 sf->optimize_coefficients = 0 is not
having a big speed imapct so for now I have moved it
down into a higher speed setting.
Change-Id: I8a54de76d486ad37aabce76474889da2768b14c1
