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Author SHA1 Message Date
Johann
01527e743f remove simpler_lpf
the decision to run the regular or simple loopfilter is made outside the
function and managed with pointers

stop tracking the option in two places. use filter_type exclusively

Change-Id: I39d7b5d1352885efc632c0a94aaf56b72cc2fe15
2011-04-25 17:37:41 -04:00
John Koleszar
73c3d32705 Merge "Remove unused kf rate variables" 2011-04-21 16:54:14 -07:00
John Koleszar
ad6a8ca58b Remove unused kf rate variables
Remove tot_key_frame_bits and prior_key_frame_size[] as they were
tracked but never used. Remove intra_frame_target, as it was only
used to initialize prior_key_frame_size.

Refactor vp8_adjust_key_frame_context() some to remove unnecessary
calculations.

Change-Id: Icbc2c83d2b90e184be03e6f9679e678f3a4bce8f
2011-04-19 16:14:57 -04:00
Johann
cd103a5721 Merge "store quant_shift as an unsigned char" 2011-04-18 10:03:40 -07:00
John Koleszar
88841f1059 Refactor lookahead ring buffer
This patch cleans up the source buffer storage and copy mechanism to
allow access through a standard push/pop/peek interface. This approach
also avoids an extra copy in the case where the source is not a
multiple of 16, fixing issue #102.

Change-Id: I05808c39f5743625cb4c7af54cc841b9b10fdbd9
2011-04-13 14:26:45 -04:00
Johann
70f30aa95d store quant_shift as an unsigned char
in encodframe.c, quant_shift is set to 0 or 1 in vp8cx_invert_quant

only use 8 bits to store this, instead of 16. will allow saving an
xmm register in an updated version of the regular quantize

Change-Id: Ie88c47fe2aff5af0283dab1147fb2791e4b12f90
2011-04-13 13:50:12 -04:00
Attila Nagy
297b27655e Runtime detection of available processor cores.
Detect the number of available cores and limit the thread allocation
accordingly. On decoder side limit the number of threads to the max
number of token partition.

Core detetction works on Windows and
Posix platforms, which define _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN or _SC_NPROC_ONLN.

Change-Id: I76cbe37c18d3b8035e508b7a1795577674efc078
2011-03-31 10:23:01 +03:00
Yunqing Wang
76ec21928c Merge "Encoder loopfilter running in its own thread" 2011-03-11 04:55:05 -08:00
Attila Nagy
3ae2465788 Encoder loopfilter running in its own thread
In multithreaded mode the loopfilter is running in its own thread (filter level
calculation and frame filtering). Filtering is mostly done in parallel with the
bitstream packing. Before starting the packing the loopfilter level has
to be calculated. Also any needed reference frame copying is done in the
filter thread.

Currently the encoder will create n+1 threads, where n > 1 is the number of
threads specified by application  and 1 is the extra filter thread. With n = 1
the encoder runs in single thread mode. There will never be more than n threads
running concurrently.

Change-Id: I4fb29b559a40275d6d3babb8727245c40fba931b
2011-03-11 10:52:51 +02:00
Adrian Grange
ed40ff9e2d Removed firstpass motion map
The firstpass motion map consists of an 8-bit flag for
each MB indicating how strongly the firstpass code
believes it should be filtered during the second pass
ARNR filtering.

For long or large format material the motion map can
become extremely large and hamper the operation of
the encoding process.

This change removes the motion map altogether, leaving
the second pass to rely on the magnitude of the motion
compensated error to determine the filter weight to
use for the MB during ARNR filtering.

Tests on the derf set indicate that the effect of this
change is neutral, with some small wins and losses. The
motion map has therefore been removed based on
a cost/benefit evaluation.

Change-Id: I53e07d236f5ce09a6f0c54e7c4ffbb490fb870f6
2011-03-10 11:32:48 -08:00
Paul Wilkins
bc9c30a003 Improved key frame detection.
In some cases where clips have been encoded with
borders (eg. some wide-screen content where there is a
border top and bottom and slide shows containing portrait
format photographs (border left and right)) key frames were
not being correctly detected.

The new code looks to measure cases where a portion of
the image can be coded equally easily using intra or inter
modes and where the resulting error score is also very low.
These "neutral" areas are then discounted in the key frame
detection code.

Change-Id: I00c3e8230772b8213cdc08020e1990cf83b780d8
2011-03-07 15:58:07 +00:00
Attila Nagy
7af0d906e3 Remove temporal alt ref from realtime only build
It is not used in realtime mode. Reduces memory footprint.

Change-Id: I7f163225762368df5457cfd413050161d3704a3f
2011-02-22 12:53:32 +02:00
John Koleszar
c351aa7f1b Merge "Fix relative include paths" 2011-02-17 04:13:44 -08:00
Yunqing Wang
9d0b2cbbce Add improved_mv_pred flag in real-time mode
As mentioned in check-in "Improve motion search in real-time mode",
MV prediction calculation causes speed loss for speed 7 and above.
This change added a flag to turn off this calculation for speed>6
in real-time mode.

Change-Id: I9f4ae5a8bf449222d1784b54e7d315fc8347b2d1
2011-02-11 09:59:41 -05:00
John Koleszar
02321de0f2 Fix relative include paths
Allow compiling without adding vp8/{common,encoder,decoder} to the
include paths.

Change-Id: Ifeb5dac351cdfadcd659736f5158b315a0030b6c
2011-02-10 15:09:44 -05:00
Gaute Strokkenes
315e3c2518 Put more code under #if CONFIG_MULTITHREAD.
Change-Id: Icf4b692099d7d249fe3553852b1022b027b28e4b
2011-02-09 11:21:18 -05:00
John Koleszar
c0a9cbebe1 Merge "Delay auto key frame insertion in realtime configuration" 2011-02-04 05:16:15 -08:00
Yunqing Wang
a870315629 Merge "Improved encoder threading" 2011-02-03 05:44:57 -08:00
Attila Nagy
e5904f2d5e Delay auto key frame insertion in realtime configuration
Whe auto keyframe insertion is enabled and conditions are right (scene change)
the encoder can decide to insert a key frame and does a re-encoding. This can
introduce extra latency. In RT mode we do not do the re-encoding of the current
frame but force the next frame to key frame.

Change-Id: I15c175fa845ac4c1a1f18bea3676e154669522a7
2011-02-02 13:54:40 +02:00
Attila Nagy
385c2a76d1 Improved encoder threading
Reduce the number of sync points by letting each thread
continue imediatly with a new MB row.
Better multicore scaling, improves performance by 5-20% on ARM multicore.

Change-Id: Ic97e4d1c4886a842c85dd3539a93cb217188ed1b
2011-02-01 12:17:58 +02:00
Scott LaVarnway
317f0da91e Removed last_auto_filter_prediction_error
last_auto_filter_prediction_error is not really used.

Change-Id: Ic6e56c4076bbd250ef783ee1be46964c85f62864
2011-01-31 19:41:09 -05:00
Scott LaVarnway
8a5c255b3d Merge "Removed unused members from VP8_COMP" 2011-01-27 08:12:22 -08:00
Yunqing Wang
cac54404b9 Remove copies of same functions
Reduce the code size.

Change-Id: I2e1998557a3c8776e262c442fd758c25e17aff7a
2011-01-26 15:37:00 -05:00
Scott LaVarnway
c4887da39c Removed unused members from VP8_COMP
Change-Id: I8f3f2642b02975fbdb14982984a29821f80d30d3
2011-01-26 15:07:17 -05:00
Paul Wilkins
57136a268a Further CQ, Key frame and ARF changes
This code fixes a bug in the calculation of
the minimum Q for alt ref frames.

It also allows an extended gf/arf interval for sections
of clips that completely static (or nearly so).

Change-Id: I1a21aaa16d4f0578e5f99b13bebd78d59403c73b
2011-01-18 15:19:05 +00:00
Paul Wilkins
339c512762 Fix CQ range and experimental KF sizing changes.
The CQ level was not using the q_trans[] array to convert
to a 0-127 range as per min and maxq

Experimental change to try and match the reconstruction
error for forced key frames approximately to that of the
previous frame by means of the recode loop. Though this
may cause extra recodes and the recode behavior has not
been optimized, it can only happen on forced key frames.

Change-Id: I1f7e42d526f1b1cb556dd461eff1a692bd1b5b2f
2011-01-17 17:24:45 +00:00
Paul Wilkins
55acda98f7 Limit key frame quantizer for forced key frames.
Where a key frame occurs because of a minimum interval
selected by the user, then these forced key frames ideally need
to be more closely matched in quality to the surrounding frame.

Change-Id: Ia55b1f047e77dc7fbd78379c45869554f25b3df7
2011-01-12 17:43:59 +00:00
Yunqing Wang
1546e6a8c9 Add no_skip_block4x4_search flag in SPLITMV mode
Add a flag to always enable block4x4 search for speed=0 (good
quality) to guarantee no quality loss for speed0.

Change-Id: Ie04bbc25f7e6a33a7bfa30e05775d33148731c81
2011-01-11 09:50:13 -05:00
Paul Wilkins
c28b10adeb Merge "CQ Mode" 2011-01-07 11:05:56 -08:00
Paul Wilkins
e0846c9c8c CQ Mode
The merge includes hooks to for CQ mode and other code
changes merged from the test branch.

CQ mode attempts to maintain a more stable quantizer within a clip
whilst also trying to adhere to a guidline maximum bitrate.

The existing target data rate parameter is used to specify the
guideline maximum bitrate.

A new parameter allows the user to specify a target CQ level.

For normal (non kf/gf/arf) frames, the quantizer will not drop BELOW the
user specified value (0-63). However, in some cases the encoder may
choose to impose a target CQ that is above that specified by the user,
if it estimates that consistent use of the target value is not compatible
with guideline maximum bitrate.

Change-Id: I2221f9eecae8cc3c431d36caf83503941b25e4c1
2011-01-07 18:46:29 +00:00
Paul Wilkins
ba976eaa9b Merge "Limit Q variability in two pass." 2011-01-07 09:32:29 -08:00
Paul Wilkins
3af3593c8e Limit Q variability in two pass.
In two pass encoding each frame is given an active
Q range to work with. This change limits how much this
Q range can be altered over time from the initial estimate
made for the clip as a whole.

There is some danger this could lead to overshoot or undershoot
in some corner cases but it helps considerably in regard to
clips where either there is a glut or famine of bits in some sections,
particularly near the end of a clip.

Change-Id: I34fcd1af31d2ee3d5444f93e334645254043026e
2011-01-07 17:23:50 +00:00
Scott LaVarnway
dd314351e6 Merge "Removed cpi->target_bits_per_mb" 2011-01-07 06:46:45 -08:00
Scott LaVarnway
6dbdfe3422 Removed cpi->target_bits_per_mb
cpi->target_bits_per_mb is currently not being used,
so delete it.  Also removed other unused code in rdopt.c.

Change-Id: I98449f9030bcd2f15451d9b7a3b9b93dd1409923
2011-01-07 09:41:13 -05:00
Paul Wilkins
b095d9df3c Adjustment to boost calculation in two pass.
Calculate a minimum intra value to be used in determining the
IIratio scores used in two pass, second pass.

This is to make sure sections that are low complexity" in the
intra domain are still boosted appropriately for KF/GF/ARF.

For now I have commented out the Q based adjustment of
KF boost.

Change-Id: I15deb09c5bd9b53180a2ddd3e5f575b2aba244b3
2011-01-04 18:11:28 +00:00
Scott LaVarnway
516ea8460b Use the fast quantizer for inter mode selection
Use the fast quantizer for inter mode selection and the
regular quantizer for the rest of the encode for good quality,
speed 1.  Both performance and quality were improved.  The
quality gains will make up for the quality loss mentioned in
I9dc089007ca08129fb6c11fe7692777ebb8647b0.

Change-Id: Ia90bc9cf326a7c65d60d31fa32f6465ab6984d21
2010-12-28 14:51:46 -05:00
Johann
092b5bef37 abstract apply_temporal_filter
allow for optimized versions of apply_temporal_filter
(now vp8_apply_temporal_filter_c)

the function was previously declared as static and appears to have been
inlined. with this change, that's no longer possible. performance takes
a small hit.

the declaration for vp8_cx_temp_filter_c was moved to onyx_if.c because
of a circular dependency. for rtcd, temporal_filter.h holds the
definition for the rtcd table, so it needs to be included by onyx_int.h.
however, onyx_int.h holds the definition for VP8_COMP which is needed
for the function prototype. blah.

Change-Id: I499c055fdc652ac4659c21c5a55fe10ceb7e95e3
2010-12-22 11:31:54 -05:00
John Koleszar
b1aa54ab26 remove unused temporal preproc code
This code is unused, as the current preproc implementation uses the
same spatial filter that postproc uses.

Change-Id: Ia06d5664917d67283f279e2480016bebed602ea7
2010-12-13 16:47:59 -05:00
Scott LaVarnway
d283d9bb30 Merge "Improve MV prediction accuracy to achieve performance gain" 2010-12-06 09:41:09 -08:00
Yunqing Wang
c3bbb29164 Improve MV prediction accuracy to achieve performance gain
Add vp8_mv_pred() to better predict starting MV for NEWMV
mode in vp8_rd_pick_inter_mode(). Set different search
ranges according to MV prediction accuracy, which improves
encoder performance without hurting the quality. Also,
as Yaowu suggested, using diamond search result as full
search starting point and therefore adjusting(reducing)
full search range helps the performance.

Change-Id: Ie4a3c8df87e697c1f4f6e2ddb693766bba1b77b6
2010-12-03 15:23:35 -05:00
John Koleszar
5e76dfcc70 Merge 'Add simple version of activity masking.'
Merge commit 'refs/changes/79/779/2' of
    https://review.webmproject.org/p/libvpx

Conflicts:
	vp8/encoder/encodeintra.c
	vp8/encoder/encodemb.c

Change-Id: Id607063fabe92d99eeb3c380e8ca670b01bfb3ef
2010-12-03 13:30:50 -05:00
Paul Wilkins
70b885a0e8 Added extra two pass stats gathering.
Added code to record spend so far against planed budget.

Change-Id: I5a3335346fa1771b2b1219df9f6127f9993d2594
2010-11-19 14:12:33 -05:00
Fritz Koenig
69ee697fef Comments for alt ref flags.
Clarify what the alt ref flags do when encoding.

Change-Id: I71f78e0f42edae633fb91840f29dfbe64362c44c
2010-11-16 15:16:24 -08:00
Paul Wilkins
513f8e6814 Relax rate control for last few frames
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
2010-11-10 10:09:45 +00:00
Paul Wilkins
6adbe09058 Tuning for the more exact quantizer.
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
2010-11-10 09:52:58 +00:00
John Koleszar
f7e187d362 improve average framerate calculation
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
2010-11-05 08:42:46 -04:00
John Koleszar
209d82ad72 Add half-pixel variance RTCD functions
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
2010-10-26 20:00:56 -07:00
Timothy B. Terriberry
8f75ea6b5c Convert [4][4] matrices to [16] arrays.
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
2010-10-21 17:04:30 -07:00
John Koleszar
bb7dd5b1ba Move firstpass motion map to stats packet
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
2010-10-21 14:04:20 -04:00
Yaowu Xu
2e53e9e53f change to make use of more trellis quantization
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
2010-10-15 10:14:34 -07:00
Timothy B. Terriberry
8d0f7a01e6 Add simple version of activity masking.
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
2010-10-12 08:41:03 -04:00
Timothy B. Terriberry
dd08db9315 Remove INTRARDOPT #define and intra_rd_opt option.
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
2010-10-11 11:53:57 -07:00
Adrian Grange
1b2f8308e4 Made AltRef filter adaptive & added motion compensation
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.
2010-09-28 15:23:41 +01:00
John Koleszar
c2140b8af1 Use WebM in copyright notice for consistency
Changes 'The VP8 project' to 'The WebM project', for consistency
with other webmproject.org repositories.

Fixes issue #97.

Change-Id: I37c13ed5fbdb9d334ceef71c6350e9febed9bbba
2010-09-09 10:01:21 -04:00
Scott LaVarnway
99f46d62d9 Moved gf_active code to encoder only
The gf_active code is only used by the encoder, so it was moved from
common and decoder.

Change-Id: Iada15acd5b2b33ff70c34668ca87d4cfd0d05025
2010-08-11 11:54:25 -04:00
Paul Wilkins
68cf24310b Merge commit 'refs/changes/51/351/1' of ssh://review.webmproject.org:29418/libvpx into KfRateBugMerged 2010-07-23 17:45:26 +01:00
Paul Wilkins
9404c7db6d Rate control bug with long key frame interval.
In two pass encodes, the calculation of the number of bits
allocated to a KF group had the potential to overflow for high data
rates if the interval is very long.

We observed the problem in one test clip where there was one
section where there was an 8000 frame gap between key frames.

Change-Id: Ic48eb86271775d7573b4afd166b567b64f25b787
2010-07-23 17:01:12 +01:00
Timothy B. Terriberry
e04e293522 Make the quantizer exact.
This replaces the approximate division-by-multiplication in the
 quantizer with an exact one that costs just one add and one
 shift extra.
The asm versions have not been updated in this patch, and thus
 have been disabled, since the new method requires different
 multipliers which are not compatible with the old method.

Change-Id: I53ac887af0f969d906e464c88b1f4be69c6b1206
2010-07-23 08:48:01 -07:00
John Koleszar
94c52e4da8 cosmetics: trim trailing whitespace
When the license headers were updated, they accidentally contained
trailing whitespace, so unfortunately we have to touch all the files
again.

Change-Id: I236c05fade06589e417179c0444cb39b09e4200d
2010-06-18 13:06:11 -04:00
John Koleszar
cd475da8ed Make this/next iiratio unsigned.
This patch addresses issue #79, which is a regression since commit
28de670 "Fix RD bug." If the coded error value is zero, the iiratio
calculation effectively multiplies by 1000000 by the
DOUBLE_DIVIDE_CHECK macro. This can result in a value larger than
INT_MAX, giving a negative ratio. Since the error values are
conceptually unsigned (though they're stored in a double) this patch
makes the iiratio values unsigned, which allows the clamping to work
as expected.
2010-06-12 14:11:51 -04:00
John Koleszar
09202d8071 LICENSE: update with latest text
Change-Id: Ieebea089095d9073b3a94932791099f614ce120c
2010-06-04 16:19:40 -04:00
John Koleszar
b7492341ac install includes in DIST_DIR/include/vpx, move vpx_codec/ to vpx/
This renames the vpx_codec/ directory to vpx/, to allow applications
to more consistently reference these includes with the vpx/ prefix.
This allows the includes to be installed in /usr/local/include/vpx
rather than polluting the system includes directory with an
excessive number of includes.

Change-Id: I7b0652a20543d93f38f421c60b0bbccde4d61b4f
2010-05-24 20:27:42 -04:00
John Koleszar
0ea50ce9cb Initial WebM release 2010-05-18 11:58:33 -04:00