The nominal tx_type for a given mode is used as a context
to encode the actual tx_type for intra.
Results:
derflr: -0.241% BDRATE
hevcmr: -0.366% BDRATE
Change-Id: Icfe7b0a58d79bc6497a06e3441779afec6e01e21
This change has been imported from VP9 and
alters the nature and use of exhaustive motion search.
Firstly any exhaustive search is preceded by a normal step search.
The exhaustive search is only carried out if the distortion resulting
from the step search is above a threshold value.
Secondly the simple +/- 64 exhaustive search is replaced by a
multi stage mesh based search where each stage has a range
and step/interval size. Subsequent stages use the best position from
the previous stage as the center of the search but use a reduced range
and interval size.
For example:
stage 1: Range +/- 64 interval 4
stage 2: Range +/- 32 interval 2
stage 3: Range +/- 15 interval 1
This process, especially when it follows on from a normal step
search, has shown itself to be almost as effective as a full range
exhaustive search with step 1 but greatly lowers the computational
complexity such that it can be used in some cases for speeds 0-2.
This patch also removes a double exhaustive search for sub 8x8 blocks
which also contained a bug (the two searches used different distortion
metrics).
For best quality in my test animation sequence this patch has almost
no impact on quality but improves encode speed by more than 5X.
Restricted use in good quality speeds 0-2 yields significant quality gains
on the animation test of 0.2 - 0.5 db with only a small impact on encode
speed. On most natural video clips, however, where the step search
is performing well, the quality gain and speed impact are small.
Change-Id: Iac24152ae239f42a246f39ee5f00fe62d193cb98
Some more testing of this patch would probably be useful, but I
think the basics of it should work fine now.
See issue 1035.
Change-Id: I4a36d58f671c5391cb09d564581784a00ed26245
We only write EOSB tokens if we write tokens (i.e. not for skip blocks),
and we write EOSB tokens per-plane instead of per block.
Change-Id: I8d7ee99f8ec50eb7ae809f9f9282c1c91dbf6537
Add palette mode for keyframe luma channel. Palette mode is enabled
when using "--tune-content=screen" in encoding config parameters.
on screen_content testset: +6.89%
on derlr : +0.00%
Design doc (WIP):
https://goo.gl/lD4yJw
Change-Id: Ib368b216bfd3ea21c6c27436934ad87afdaa6f88
We have historically added new bits to cat6 whenever we added a new
transform size (or bitdepth, for that matter). However, we have
always coded these new bits regardless of the actual transform size,
which means that for smaller transforms, we code bits that cannot
possibly be set. The coding (quality) impact of this is negligible,
but the bigger issue is that this allows creating bitstreams with
coefficient values that are nonsensible and can cause int overflows,
which then de facto become part of the bitstream spec. By not coding
these bits, we remove this possibility.
See issue 1065.
Change-Id: Ib3186eca2df6a7a15ddc60c8b55af182aadd964d
This commit removes mbmi_ext_base pointer from MACROBLOCK struct.
Its use case can be fully covered by cpi->mbmi_ext_base pointer.
Change-Id: I155351609336cf5b6145ed13c21b105052727f30
Spatial/temporal svc code was removed. Verified using Borg test,
and the results before and after the change are matching.
Change-Id: I4c2ee5cd560428e3e50be02e57e5871ef4246390
