Take account of the fact that the overlay frame is usually
very cheap so distribute target bits among the other frames.
Change-Id: I120685122e8cbbe75da8d07d02932f7877059867
This will hurt metrics in some cases (particularly for static
clips at low data rates where there is extra overhead, but it
helps smooth transitions around forced key frames between
stitched kf sections.
Change-Id: I7e1026ae0de6c77bba863061e115136d7f283cc0
Slightly reduces the mean tendency to undershoot target
rate in vbr, especially when using the memory less mode
and when recodes are disabled.
The effect is primarily at low q.
Change-Id: I59a593b99522cc7da31b4134d1c8a65f5b7b7c53
Various cleanups and refactoring.
Removes feedback of active worst qaulity and uses last_q
instead to make the interface cleaner. Active worst quality
is now decided only once for a frame being coded in the
beginning based on last_q and other stats. Also, adds other
cleaups on last_q to store also the last_q for altref frames,
and reduces the altref interval a little.
The output does change a little.
derfraw300: +0.224% (global psnr)
stdhdraw250: +0.442% (global psnr)
Change-Id: Ie634cdc032697044c472dd0fe79c109b3e7f9767
Clean up and simplification of both estimate_max_q
variants and only call once per clip/section.
This leads to a more constrained range of Q values
across a clip / section.
Average gains across all 4 test sets:-
PSNR ~0.5% SSIM ~0.3%
Change-Id: If77d5f7bb50939a464e117724f4da5b001c62d70
Removed an adaptive rate correction factor that was having
a negative impact on quality in many clips. This factor
was influencing the Q range available to each frame
independently of the bits allocated to each.
Average results with DISABLE_RC_LONG_TERM_MEM.
derf +0.199, -0.059.
yt +3.957, +3.798
std hd +1.577, +2.140
yt hd +4.127, +4.513
Average results without DISABLE_RC_LONG_TERM_MEM
derf -0.628, -0.665
yt +3.432, +3.015
std hd -0.105, +0.153
yt hd +3.432, +3.015
Change-Id: I45bab6b606f49a442e7b27a6d631f3ffd843bbce
Includes various cleanups.
Streamlines the interfaces so that all rate control state
updates happen in the vp9_rc_postencode_update() function.
This will hopefully make it easier to support multiple
rate control schemes.
Removes some unnecessary code, which in rare cases can casue
a difference in the constrained quality mode output, but
other than that there is no bitstream change yet.
Change-Id: I3198cc37249932feea1e3691c0b2650e7b0c22fc
In the decoder we don't need to save eobs, we can pass eob as an argument.
That's why removing eob arrays from VP9Decompressor and TileWorkerData,
and moving eob pointer from macroblockd_plane to macroblock_plane.
Change-Id: I8eb919acc837acfb3abdd8319af63d1bbca8217a
We only need qcoeff buffers in the encoder. Reducing TileWorkerData struct
and VP9Decompressor struct sizes by 24K.
Change-Id: Id148868461f7ffa3d3dd634b371503ae9c57e207
Moves all rate control variables to a separate structure,
removes some currently unused variables,
moves some rate control functions to vp9_ratectrl.c,
and splits the encode_frame_to_data_rate function.
Change-Id: I4ed54c24764b3b6de2dd676484f01473724ab52b
Since they used in encoder only. This commit also re-order includes
for the files that include vp9_extend.h
Change-Id: I929fc113f2135d3198cd1fc6a17434e5a2f8a459
Explicitly constrain the upper limit of motion search range (in the
unit of full pixel) to be [-1023, +1023]. It is intended to control
the effective motion search range for 4K sequences.
Change-Id: I645539c70885eec0f155781f439d97d333336e88
Overall change (using dual buffer scheme for superblocks of both inter
and intra modes) reduces speed 2 runtime:
bluesky_1080p at 6000kbps: 263553ms -> 257441ms
riverbed_1080p at 8000kbps: 233230ms -> 225308ms.
Change-Id: Idf8d70f768a4b0d97b2a8506372c57b7b4022119
Allocate memory space of dual buffer sets that store the coeff, qcoeff,
dqcoeff, and eobs. Connect the pointers of macroblock_plane and
macroblockd_plane to the actual buffer in use accordingly.
Change-Id: I2f0b5f482ca879fae39095013eaf8901db20a5a4
replaces use of cur_tile_mi_(row|col)_(start|end) by VP9_COMMON, making
it less stateful and more reusable for parallel tile decoding
Change-Id: I1df09382b4567a0e5f4434825d47c79afe2399be
The only case where they were intentionally pointing to different
structures was in mbgraph, and this didn't have the expected behavior
because both of these pointers are used interchangeably through the code
Change-Id: I979251782f90885fe962305bcc845bc05907f80c
This should be similar to what x264 does with --aq-mode 1.
It works well with clips like parkjoy and touhou
(http://x264.nl/developers/Dark_Shikari/LosslessTouhou.mkv).
At low bitrates, the segmentation signaling overhead may negate the
benefits of this feature.
(PGW) Default changed to feature OFF to allow provisional merge.
Change-Id: I938abf9bb487e1d4ad3b0264ea03d9826275c70b
Use b_mode_info to store the inter prediction mode of sub8x8 block,
in replacement of the use of partition_info. Remove redundant buffer
update for partition_info. For bus_cif at 2000 kbps, this seem to make
speed 0 about 1% faster.
Change-Id: Id1b3be45e75a24fb4b42335ac480c23e440978f6
Both first pass and mbgraph search use block size 16x16 for motion
estimation. This commit put a limit of motion vector range. The
effective range allows the entire 16x16 with required subpel
interpolation input to be completely outside image border, but
not any further away from image border.
Change-Id: Id70a5ed08be49e70959f064859d72adc7d775d08
Adds modeled functions to decide the qp for altref frames in constant q
mode similar to other functions in use in bitrate mode.
Also turns on the constrained quality mode (end-usage=2) option which
was turned off before. Basic testing shows the mode works in principle,
to cap bitrate to the target-bitrate specified, while allowing lower
bitrate depending on the cq-level specified. The mode will need to be
improved over time.
Results for constant quality vs bitrate control mode:
derfraw300/fullderfraw: +3.0% at constant quality over bitrate control.
fullstdhdraw: +4.341%
stdhdraw250: +5.361%
Change-Id: If5027c9ec66c8e88d33e47062c6cb84a07b1cda9
mode_info_context was stored as a grid of MODE_INFO structs.
The grid now constists of pointers to MODE_INFO structs. The
MODE_INFO structs are now stored as a stream (decoder only),
eliminating unnecessary copies and is a little more cache
friendly.
Change-Id: I031d376284c6eb98a38ad5595b797f048a6cfc0d
Thank Paul for the suggestions. While turning on static-thresh
for static-image videos, a big jump on bitrate was seen. In this
patch, we detected static frames in the video using first-pass
stats. For different cases, disable encode breakout or reduce
encode breakout threshold to limit the skipping.
More modification need be done to break incorrect partition
picking pattern for static frames while skipping happens.
Change-Id: Ia25f47041af0f04e229c70a0185e12b0ffa6047f
Adds a new end-usage option for constant quality encoding in vpx. This
first version implemented for VP9, encodes all regular inter frames
using the quality specified in the --cq-level= option, while encoding
all key frames and golden/altref frames at a quality better than that.
The current performance on derfraw300 is +0.910% up from bitrate control,
but achieved without multiple recode loops per frame.
The decision for qp for each altref/golden/key frame will be improved
in subsequent patches based on better use of stats from the first pass.
Further, the qp for regular inter frames may also be varied around the
provided cq-level.
Change-Id: I6c4a2a68563679d60e0616ebcb11698578615fb3
mode_info_context was stored as a grid of MODE_INFO structs.
The grid now constists of a pointer to a MODE_INFO struct and
a "in the image" flag. The MODE_INFO structs are now stored
as a stream, eliminating unnecessary copies and is a little
more cache friendly.
For the test clips used, the decoder performance improved
by ~4.3% (1080p) and ~9.7% (720p).
Patch Set 2: Re-encoded clips with latest. Now ~1.7% (1080p)
and 5.9% (720p).
Change-Id: I846f29e88610fce2523ca697a9a9ef2a182e9256
Removing unused constants, macros, and function declarations. Using
ROUND_POWER_OF_TWO macro, vp9_zero, vp9_copy where possible. Moving
#include from *.h to *.c. Merging for loops for motion vectors.
Change-Id: Ic3bf841764a2bb177128bb3a6d7aa8f68229cd13
This prevents a duplicate memcpy of a 128-byte struct every time
set_scale_factors() is called (which is a lot), thus leading to a
decrease from 3.7 MB to 1.85 MB of struct copying per 64x64 block
RD/partition loop.
Overall, this decreases encoding time of the first 50 frames of bus
@ 1500kbps (speed 0) from 1min5.9 to 1min4.9, i.e. about a 1.5%
overall speedup. We can likely get more gains by removing the copy
of the other struct (and replacing it with an indexing) as well.
Change-Id: I3dceb7e79f71e6fe911b11cc994cf89a869dde7a
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
Code intra/inter, then comp/single, then the ref frame selection.
Use contextualization for all steps. Don't code two past frames
in comp pred mode.
Change-Id: I4639a78cd5cccb283023265dbcc07898c3e7cf95
It remains as a local define in rdopt.c so we can distinguish between
split and non-split modes in the RD loop, but disappears outside that
scope in the codec.
Change-Id: I98c18fe5ab7e4fbd1d6620ec5695e2ea20513ce9
Adds a subsampling aware border extension function. This may be reworked
soon to support more than 3 planes.
Change-Id: I76b81901ad10bb1e678dd4f0d22740ca6c76c43b
Always initialize the mode_info with sb_type of BLOCK_SIZE_MB16X16
for the first-pass encoding test.
Change-Id: Ic86393eeef981bdd523a5b44cfac3f0b24c068b7
Make framebuffer allocations according to the chroma subsamping
factors in use. A bit is placed in the raw part of the frame header for
each of the two subsampling factors. This will be moved in a future
commit to make them part of the TBD feature set bits, probably only set
on keyframes, etc.
Change-Id: I59ed38d3a3c0d4af3c7c277617de28d04a001853
The chroma planes are not used during the first pass encode,
but the vp9_encode_sb() function was operating on them anyway.
This was causing the use of uninitialized memory.
Change-Id: I5ebafcd3d5e34ed91a8336dad159b573995a939f
There is only one instance of these structures, no need for them
to be allocated separately on the heap.
Change-Id: I1333cc92d06bbe21be643c2b2f0e3936f0264cac
This setup is now handled by vp9_build_intra_predictors()
when left_available and/or up_available is zero.
Change-Id: I59cec0ab95f8be69ce885fd20727510e4deef8a0
Creates a common encode (subtract, transform, quantize, optimize,
inverse transform, reconstruct) function for all sb sizes, including
the old 16x16 path.
Change-Id: I964dff1ea7a0a5c378046a069ad83495f54df007
All members can be referenced from their per-plane counterparts, and
removes assumptions about 24 blocks per macroblock.
Change-Id: I7ff2fa72d22c29163eb558981c8193765a8113d9
All members can be referenced from their per-plane counterparts, and
removes assumptions about 24 blocks per macroblock.
Change-Id: I593fb0715e74cd84b48facd1c9b18c3ae1185d4b
Function set_mb_row() and set_mb_col() do similar work and are always
called together, this commit merged them into a single function for
clarity and easy maintainence. This was a TODO item.
Change-Id: I956bd9ed6afb8b2b0469b20fd8bc893b26f8a0f3
First in a series of commits moving the framebuffers pointers to
per-plane data, so that they can be indexed numerically rather than
by name.
Change-Id: I6e0d60fd4d51e6375c384eb7321776564df21775
Adjustments take heavier account of the frame near a kf
in deciding boost and limit the total number that can contribute.
Also adjusted the minq calculations such that in most cases we
generate a smaller key frame.
Modified the code that accounts for how static the sequence is and
added some adjustment based on image size. This is still very
crude but smaller images tend to behave better with a larger
delta between KF Q and other frames than larger image formats.
Changes give sizable gains in overall PSNR on all the test sets but the
biggest gains (~3%) were on the std-hd set.
The gains were smaller for SSIM but still significant.
Average PSNR results are mixed because this metric can very easily
be altered by having a very good / lossless coding of one or two frames.
Some of the YT and YT-HD clips in particular have blank lead ins and
allowing lossless coding of these appears to make a big difference to
average PSNR but it reality does not help much at all.
Change-Id: I6bfe485a1d330b47c783832f1717c95c535464ec
This commit converts the luma versions of vp9_build_inter_predictors_sb
to use a common function. Update the convolution functions to support
block sizes larger than 16x16, and add a foreach_predicted_block walker.
Next step will be to calculate the UV motion vector and implement SBUV,
then fold in vp9_build_inter16x16_predictors_mb and SPLITMV.
At the 16x16, 32x32, and 64x64 levels implemented in this commit, each
plane is predicted with only a single call to vp9_build_inter_predictor.
This is not yet called for SPLITMV. If the notion of SPLITMV/I8X8/I4X4
goes away, then the prediction block walker can go away, since we'll
always predict the whole bsize in a single step. Implemented using a
block walker at this stage for SPLITMV, as a 4x4 "prediction block size"
within the BLOCK_SIZE_MB16X16 macroblock. It would also support other
rectangular sizes too, if the blocks smaller than 16x16 remain
implemented as a SPLITMV-like thing. Just using 4x4 for now.
There's also a potential to combine with the foreach_transformed_block
walker if the logic for calculating the size of the subsampled
transform is made more straightforward, perhaps as a consequence of
supporing smaller macroblocks than 16x16. Will watch what happens there.
Change-Id: Iddd9973398542216601b630c628b9b7fdee33fe2
This function is now called from configures the ARNR
filter so it belongs with the other temporal filter
functions.
Change-Id: I64211875918364b5b8edfb97743e573c6def1663
Normalization of the frame boost value was being done
when it reached the value 1028. The intention was to
keep to a range of 10 bits, so it should have been
clipped above 1023.
Change-Id: I0afdddc1d2eb9e7822ec4578903cbe6ec0b33b91
This is work-in-progress, it implements multiple ARF
encoding behind an experimental flag.
It adds the ability to insert multiple ARF frames into a
single ARF group. This patch implements the reordering
of the coded frames, and implements a fixed-length coding
pattern. It applies a fixed quantizer strategy based on
where the frame is in the coding sequence.
Further work to modify the rate control strategy is
ongoing and will be submitted via a set of future patches.
In this first step, each ARF group is recursively
bisected and an ARF frame added at that position in the
sequence. The recursion continues until ARF frames are
within MIN_GF_INTERVAL frames.
The code sits behind the "multiple-arf" experimental
flag ("CONFIG_MULTIPLE_ARF"). The experimental flag
"oneshotq" ("CONFIG_ONESHOTQ") also needs to be enabled
for this patch to work correctly.
Change-Id: Ie473b05ebb43ac473c0cfb659b2b8042823085e2
This threshold effectively limits the amount of motion
from one end of a GF/ARF group to the other.
This patch makes the threshold depend on image size.
Change-Id: Id45d1d7bced815f86ddd037be53164894b00b82f
Renaming Width to width, Height to height and Version to version in
several structs and function signatures.
Change-Id: I084c3f7e747cb2ce3345aff27a3dff9b13a87543
Adjust the filter length and strength for each
ARF group based on a measure of difficulty (the boost)
and the active q range.
Remove lower limit on RDMULT value.
Average gains on the different sets in range 0.4%-0.9%.
However the ARNR changes give a very big boost on a
few clips.
Eg. Soccer ~5%, in derf set and Cyclist ~ 10% in the std-hd set
Change-Id: I2078d78798e27ad2bcc2b32d703ea37b67412ec4
If the second reference is better than the first in the long term,
it was possible to try to take the fractional exponent of a
negative number, giving an undefined result.
Change-Id: I1dd08286747ceae960eb03bb5d98a383cc9d253b
This patch puts in an adjustment to the maximum gf/arf
interval based on the active q range. It sets a fixed
baseline maximum of 16 but can drop this down to 12 at
lower q. This required some re-ordering in the first pass
code to insure we have a Q range estimate before defining
the first gf sequence.
The main gains seed are int he STD hd set on 50fps clips
where previously the interval could rise as high as 25.
On the std hd clip the gains are around 2.8% with limit set
to 300 frames.
When combined with the one shot rate control flags we get
combined of:
derf 1.55% (limit300), yt 7.25%, hd 5.17% std-hd 5.84% (limit300)
Change-Id: Ib380d51354511f2ff0f171a8df4e74291c0421f9
Increase the motion search range by 4x. Change MV_CLASS tree of the
entropy coding to allow two additional mv classes to cover the
extended motion vector limit. The codec determines the effective
motion search range conditioned on the actual frame dimension.
It provides coding gains:
stdhd 0.39%
yt 0.56%
hd 0.47%
Major coding performance gains are packed in several sequences with
intense motion activities, e.g., ped_1080p gains 7% at high bit-rates,
and on average 3%.
TODO: Need to further tune the rate control and motion search units.
Change-Id: Ib842540a6796fbee5a797809433ef6a477c6d78d
This patch makes the encoder's use of ref_frame_map and active_ref_idx
consistent with the decoder. ref_frame_map[] maps a reference buffer
index to its actual location in the yv12_fb array, since many
references may share an underlying buffer. active_ref_idx[] mirrors
cpi->{lst,gld,alt}_fb_idx, holding the active references in each
slot.
This also fixes a bug in setup_buffer_inter() where the incorrect
reference was used to populate the scaling factors.
Change-Id: Id3728f6d77cffcd27c248903bf51f9c3e594287e
This patch allows coding frames using references of different
resolution, in ZEROMV mode. For compound prediction, either
reference may be scaled.
To test, I use the resize_test and enable WRITE_RECON_BUFFER
in vp9_onyxd_if.c. It's also useful to apply this patch to
test/i420_video_source.h:
--- a/test/i420_video_source.h
+++ b/test/i420_video_source.h
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ class I420VideoSource : public VideoSource {
virtual void FillFrame() {
// Read a frame from input_file.
+ if (frame_ != 3)
if (fread(img_->img_data, raw_sz_, 1, input_file_) == 0) {
limit_ = frame_;
}
This forces the frame that the resolution changes on to be coded
with no motion, only scaling, and improves the quality of the
result.
Change-Id: I1ee75d19a437ff801192f767fd02a36bcbd1d496
Some minor refactoring code relating to estimates of
bits per MB at a given Q and estimating the allowed Q range.
Most of the changes here were included in a previous commit.
This commit seeks to separate out the refactoring from more
the material changes.
Two #define control flags have been added for experimentation.
ONE_SHOT_Q_ESTIMATE force the two pass encoder to
use its initial Q range estimate for the whole clip even if this results
in a miss on the target data rate. In effect this tightens the Q range
seen at the expense of rate control accuracy.
DISABLE_RC_LONG_TERM_MEM is a related flag that disables the
long term memory in the rate control. Local adjustments are still
made to try and better hit the rate target on a per frame basis but
the impact of rate control misses is not propagated to the remainder
of the clip. This means that for example an overshoot early on will not
cause frames later in the clip to be starved of bits. Again the result
of this relaxation amy be less rate control accuracy especially on short
clips.
The flags are disabled by default for now.
Change-Id: I7482f980146d8ea033b5d50cc689f772e4bd119e
Remove lst_fb_idx, gld_fb_idx, alt_fb_idx, refresh_last_frame,
refresh_golden_frame, refresh_alt_ref_frame from common. Gold/Alt are
encode side conventions. From the decoder's perspective, we want to be
dealing with numbered references.
Updates to active_ref 2 signal mode context switches, vestigial from
refresh_alt_ref_frame. This needs some clean up to make sense with
increased numbers of reference frames, as well as reimplementing the
swapping of alt/golden which was previously done using the
buffer-to-buffer copy mechanism removed in an earlier commit.
Change-Id: I7334445158b7666f9295d2a2dd22aa03f4485f58
These variables have the type int64_t, not long long. long long could
be a larger type than 64 bits. Emulate INT64_MAX for older versions of
MSVC, and remove the unreferenced vpx_ports/vpxtypes.h
Change-Id: Ideaca71838fcd3849d816d5ab17aa347c97d03b0
Various fixups to resolve issues when building vp9-preview under the more stringent
checks placed on the experimental branch.
Change-Id: I21749de83552e1e75c799003f849e6a0f1a35b07
For coefficients, use int16_t (instead of short); for pixel values in
16-bit intermediates, use uint16_t (instead of unsigned short); for all
others, use uint8_t (instead of unsigned char).
Change-Id: I3619cd9abf106c3742eccc2e2f5e89a62774f7da
In some cases intra modes in inter frames give
an over smoothed appearance. Especially with
noisy but flat content.
Also in some cases there were problems with key
frame sizing again with very flat but noisy content.
These are temporary changes to help alleviate the
visual problems but will almost certainly hurt metric
results especially at the very low data rate end.
Change-Id: I11549179a19277ffc283d9788bc70168f2a8bdc9
Only declare the functions in vpx_scale RTCD and include the relevant
header.
Remove unused files and functions in vpx_scale to avoid wasting time
renaming. vpx_scale/win32/scaleopt.c contains functions which have not
been called in a long time but are potentially optimized.
The 'vp8' functions have not been renamed yet. That is for after the
cleanup.
Change-Id: I2c325a101d60fa9d27e7dfcd5b52a864b4a1e09c
Only declare the functions in vpx_scale RTCD and include the relevant
header.
Remove unused files and functions in vpx_scale to avoid wasting time
renaming. vpx_scale/win32/scaleopt.c contains functions which have not
been called in a long time but are potentially optimized.
The 'vp8' functions have not been renamed yet. That is for after the
cleanup.
Change-Id: I2c325a101d60fa9d27e7dfcd5b52a864b4a1e09c
Support for gyp which doesn't support multiple objects in the same
static library having the same basename.
Change-Id: Ib947eefbaf68f8b177a796d23f875ccdfa6bc9dc
