Produce the token partitions on-the-fly, while processing each MB.
Context is updated at the beginning of each frame based on the
previoud frame's counters. Optimally encoder outputs partitions in
separate buffers. For frame based output, partitions are concatenated
internally.
Limitations:
- enabled just in combination with realtime-only mode
- number of encoding threads has to be equal or less than the
number of token partitions. For this reason, by default the encoder
will do 8 token partitions.
- vpxenc supports partition output (-P) just in combination with
IVF output format (--ivf)
Performance:
- Realtime encoder can be up to 13% faster (ARM) depending on the number
of threads and bitrate settings. Constant gain over the 5-16 speed
range.
- Token buffer reduced from one frame to 8 MBs
Quality:
- quality is affected by the delayed context updates. This again
dependents on input material, speed and bitrate settings. For VC
style input the loss seen is up to 0.2dB. If error-resilient=2
mode is used than the effect of this change is negligible.
Example:
./configure --enable-realtime-only --enable-onthefly-bitpacking
./vpxenc --rt --end-usage=1 --fps=30000/1000 -w 640 -h 480
--target-bitrate=1000 --token-parts=3 --static-thresh=2000
--ivf -P -t 4 -o strm.ivf tanya_640x480.yuv
Change-Id: I127295cb85b835fc287e1c0201a67e378d025d76
use oxcf instead of common in check to Reinit the
lookahead buffer if the frame size changes
prior behavior would cause assertion fail/crash
first observed in:
support changing resolution with vpx_codec_enc_config_set
Change-Id: Ib669916ca9b4f206d4cc3caab5107e49d39a36aa
Second shot at this...
Sync with loopfilter thread as late as possible, usually just at the
beginning of next frame encoding. This returns control to application
faster and allows a better multicore scaling.
When PSNR packets are generated the final filtered frame is needed
imediatly so we cannot delay the sync. Same has to be done when
internal frame is previewed.
Change-Id: I64e110c8b224dd967faefffd9c93dd8dbad4a5b5
Allow the application to change the frame size during encoding. This
is only supported when not using lagged compress.
Change-Id: I89b585d703d5fd728a9e3dedf997f1b595d0db0f
This is the final commit in the series converting to the new RTCD
system. It removes the encoder csystemdependent files and the remaining
global function pointers that didn't conform to the old RTCD system.
Change-Id: I9649706f1bb89f0cbf431ab0e3e7552d37be4d8e
This commit continues the process of converting to the new RTCD
system. It removes the last of the VP8_ENCODER_RTCD struct references.
Change-Id: I2a44f52d7cccf5177e1ca98a028ead570d045395
This is a proof of concept RTCD implementation to replace the current
system of nested includes, prototypes, INVOKE macros, etc. Currently
only the decoder specific functions are implemented in the new system.
Additional functions will be added in subsequent commits.
Overview:
RTCD "functions" are implemented as either a global function pointer
or a macro (when only one eligible specialization available).
Functions which have RTCD specializations are listed using a simple
DSL identifying the function's base name, its prototype, and the
architecture extensions that specializations are available for.
Advantages over the old system:
- No INVOKE macros. A call to an RTCD function looks like an ordinary
function call.
- No need to pass vtables around.
- If there is only one eligible function to call, the function is
called directly, rather than indirecting through a function pointer.
- Supports the notion of "required" extensions, so in combination with
the above, on x86_64 if the best function available is sse2 or lower
it will be called directly, since all x86_64 platforms implement
sse2.
- Elides all references to functions which will never be called, which
could reduce binary size. For example if sse2 is required and there
are both mmx and sse2 implementations of a certain function, the
code will have no link time references to the mmx code.
- Significantly easier to add a new function, just one file to edit.
Disadvantages:
- Requires global writable data (though this is not a new requirement)
- 1 new generated source file.
Change-Id: Iae6edab65315f79c168485c96872641c5aa09d55
This commit is incomplete, as it does not synchronize the loop filter
before returning a handle to the reconstructed frame in
vpx_codec_get_preview_frame(), which can cause (false?) failures
when running the test_reconstruct_buffer test.
This may be related to a bug that does cause visible artifacts, which
is also under investigation.
This reverts commit 380d64ecb1.
Change-Id: Iad710941e7731d44fc2bde63bc63d6763cc4629e
A processor with ARMv7 instructions does not
necessarily have NEON dsp extensions. This CL
has the added side effect of allowing the ability
to enable/disable the dsp extensions cleanly.
Change-Id: Ie1e879b8fe131885bc3d4138a0acc9ffe73a36df
When running multi-layer (ML) encodes and dynamically
changing coding parameters on the fly (e.g. frame
duration/rate, bandwidths allocated to each layer)
the encoder would not produce sensible output.
In certain cases the rate targeting would be
hideously inaccurate.
These fixes make it possible to change these coding
parameters correctly and to maintain accurate control
of the rate targeting.
I also added the specification of the input timebase
into the test program, vp8_scalable_patterns.c.
Patch 2: Moved declaration to appease MS compiler)
Change-Id: Ic8bb5a16daa924bb64974e740696e040d07ae363
The code had a number of constructs like (condition)?1:0,
which is redundant with C's semantics. In the cases where a boolean
operator was used in the condition, simply remove the ternary part.
Otherwise adjust the surrounding expression to remove the condition
(eg, for rounding up. See pickinter.c and rdopt.c)
Change-Id: Icb2372defa3783cf31857d90b2630d06b2c7e1be
The total_stats, this_frame_stats, and total_left_stats structures
were previously create by a heap allocation, despite being of fixed
size. These structures were allocated and deallocated during
{de,}allocate_compressor_data, which is reinvoked whenever the frame
size changes. Unfortunately, this clobbers the total_stats and
total_left_stats data.
Historically, these were variable size at one time, due to the first
pass motion map, which necessitated their being created by a unique
heap allocation. However, this bug with the total_stats being
clobbered has probably been present since that initial implementation.
These structures are instead moved to be stored within the struct
twopass_rc directly, rather than being heap allocated separately.
Change-Id: I7f9e519e25c58b92969071f0e99fa80307e0682b
Do the test filtering in the existing backup frame buffer instead of
the original. Copy the original data into extra buffer before doing
the filtering. This way there is no need to restore the original
unfiltered frame at the end of level picking process.
This came up in some discussions with Johann. Thanks!
Change-Id: I495f4301d983854673276c34ec0ddf9a9d622122
The example encoder down-samples the input video frames a number of
times with a down-sampling factor, and then encodes and outputs
bitstreams with different resolutions.
Support arbitrary down-sampling factor, and down-sampling factor
can be different for each encoding level.
For example, the encoder can be tested as follows.
1. Configure with multi-resolution encoding enabled:
../libvpx/configure --target=x86-linux-gcc --disable-codecs
--enable-vp8 --enable-runtime_cpu_detect --enable-debug
--disable-install-docs --enable-error-concealment
--enable-multi-res-encoding
2. Run make
3. Encode:
If input video is 1280x720, run:
./vp8_multi_resolution_encoder 1280 720 input.yuv 1.ivf 2.ivf 3.ivf 1
(output: 1.ivf(1280x720); 2.ivf(640x360); 3.ivf(320x180).
The last parameter is set to 1/0 to show/not show PSNR.)
4. Decode:
./simple_decoder 1.ivf 1.yuv
./simple_decoder 2.ivf 2.yuv
./simple_decoder 3.ivf 3.yuv
5. View video:
mplayer 1.yuv -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=1280:h=720 -loop 0 -fps 30
mplayer 2.yuv -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=640:h=360 -loop 0 -fps 30
mplayer 3.yuv -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=320:h=180 -loop 0 -fps 30
The encoding parameters can be modified in vp8_multi_resolution_encoder.c,
for example, target bitrate, frame rate...
Modified API. John helped a lot with that. Thanks!
Change-Id: I03be9a51167eddf94399f92d269599fb3f3d54f5
API was not returning correct partition sizes on arm targets.
The armv5 token packing functions were not storing the information to the
partition size table.
As a fix, have one boolcoder instance allocated for each partition so
that partition sizes are internally available after all partitions
were encoded. This will also allow more flexibility in producing
several partitions in parallel.
Use buffer validation (overflow check) in all ARM bitpacking
functions.
Change-Id: I31c8a11d8a7613676f0ff50928cb2a2ab14fd169
There was an implicit reference frame test order (typically LAST,
GOLD, ARF) in the mode selection logic, but this doesn't provide the
expected results when some reference frames are disabled. For
instance, in real-time mode, the speed selection logic often disables
the ARF modes. So if the user disables the LAST and GOLD frames, the
encoder was always choosing INTRA, when in reality searching the ARF
in this case has the same speed penalty as searching LAST would have
had.
Instead, introduce the notion of a reference frame search order. This
patch preserves the former priorities, so if a frame is disabled, the
other frames bump up a slot to take its place. This patch lays the
groundwork for doing something smarter in the frame test order, for
example considering temporal distance or looking at the frames used by
nearby blocks.
Change-Id: I1199149f8662a408537c653d2c021c7f1d29a700
Extend buffer write validation (overflow check) to single token
partition packing, both mb and row based functions.
Change-Id: I36e19b7d37fc43712d05c70e3ad223d3eb5b973d
The calculated frame_rate is a state variable in the codec, and
shouldn't be maintained in the configuration struct. Move it to the
main part of cpi so that it isn't clobbered when the configuration
struct is updated. The initial framerate estimate is moved from the
vp8_cx_iface.c wrapper into the body of init_config() in onyx_if.c, so
that it is only called once and not reset on every call to
vp8_change_config().
Change-Id: I8d9a3d1283330d1ee297d07e9d78d1f2875f2465
Added code to clip the buffer level to the maximum buffer
size. Without this the buffer level would increase
unchecked.
This bug was found when encoding an essentially static
scene at 2Mb/s. The encoder is unable to generate frames
consistent with the high data-rate because Q bottoms out
at Qmin.
As frames generated are consistently undersized the buffer
level increases and does not get checked against the
maximum size specified by the user (or default).
Change-Id: Id8a3c6323d3246da50f7cb53ddbf78b5528032c6
check to make sure that cx_data buffer has enough room before
writting to it, prior behavior did not which could result in a crash.
Change-Id: I3fab6f2bc4a96d7c675ea81acd39ece121738b28
Added the ability to create rate-targeted, temporally
scalable, VP8 compatible bitstreams.
The application vp8_scalable_patterns.c demonstrates how
to use this capability. Users can create output bitstreams
containing upto 5 temporally separable streams encoded
as a single VP8 bitstream.
(previously abandoned as:
I92d1483e887adb274d07ce9e567e4d0314881b0a)
Change-Id: I156250a3fe930be57c069d508c41b6a7a4ea8d6a
