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
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
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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
cppcheck found a leaked file descriptor in the debugging code
enabled by defining ENTROPY_STATS. Fixes issue #60.
Change-Id: I0c1d0669cb94d44fed77860f97b82763be06b7cb
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
This patch reduces the size of the global tables maintained by the
tokenizer to 16k from 80k-96k. See issue #177.
Change-Id: If0275d5f28389af11ac83c5d929d1157cde90fbe
