these are only used in the encoder.
frames_since_golden / frames_till_alt_ref_frame -> VP[89]_COMP
Change-Id: Ie14a6f46987bced685ddb449b85dc261caba6dfe
Precalculated block ptrs do not need updates during encoding.
Set these at init stage.
Moved the allocation of 'mt_current_mb_col' (last encoded MB on each
row) to vp8_alloc_compressor_data(), so that it is correctly
reallocated when frame size is changing.
Change-Id: Idcdaa2d0cf3a7f782b7d888626b7cf22a4ffb5c1
xd->subpixel_predict16x16 is called in first pass, but isn't
initialized in first pass, which causes segfault. This patch
fixed that problem.
Change-Id: Ibd2cad4e2d32ea589fc3e0876d60d3079ae836e7
Allows building the library with the gcc -pedantic option, for improved
portabilty. In particular, this commit removes usage of C99/C++ style
single-line comments and dynamic struct initializers. This is a
continuation of the work done in commit 97b766a46, which removed most
of these warnings for decode only builds.
Change-Id: Id453d9c1d9f44cc0381b10c3869fabb0184d5966
Make functions only referenced from one translation unit static. Other
symbols with extern linkage get a vp8/vpx prefix.
Change-Id: I928c7e0d0d36e89ac78cb54ff8bb28748727834f
Change If4321cc5 fixed a bug caused by forward declarations not being
kept in sync across C files, resulting in a function call with the
wrong arguments. The commit moves the affected function declarations
into a header file, along with the other symbols from encodeframe.c
that were being sloppily shared.
Change-Id: I76a7b4c66d4fe175f9cbef7e52148655e4bb9ba1
Removes all runtime initialization of global data. This commit is a
squashed version of the following series cherry-picked from master.
This is necessary because of a change that was merged to the tester
that depends on the scaler being moved to the RTCD framework, which
is a worthwhile thing to include in Eider anyway.
- a91b42f02 Makes all global data in entropy.c const
- b35a0db0e Makes all global data in tokenize.c const
- 441cac8ea Makes all mode token tables const
- 5948a0210 Ports vpx_xcaler to new RTCD method
- 317d4244c Makes all mode token tables const part 2
Change-Id: Ifeaea24df2b731e7c509fa6c6ef6891a374afc26
This change added a motion search skipping mechanism similar
to what we did in second pass. For a macroblock that is very
similar to the macroblock at same location on last frame,
we can set its mv to be zero, and skip motion search. This
improves first-pass performance for slide shows and video
conferencing clips with a slight PSNR loss.
Change-Id: Ic73f9ef5604270ddd6d433170091d20361dfe229
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
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
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
Uninitialized data could be written to the first pass file when no
motion vectors are present in the frame.
Also fix a number of compiler warnings.
Change-Id: Icc9f53b6d33da9de4563d86d9fd591910473ea90
Changes to the selection of Q limits for two pass
and two pass CQ mode.
Allowance made for Mode and motion vector costs.
Some refactoring of common code.
For Derf and YT sets CQ mode average improvement
circa 1% (SSIM and Global PSNR).
Some increased tendency to undershoot even when
user CQ not reached.
Patch2: Removed some test code accidentally merged.
Change-Id: Icf74d13af77437c08602571dc7a97e747cce5066
Instead of a single mid GF boost apply a few extra bits to
every other frame. This gives a very small average metrics
improvement on both derf and YT sets.
Also use min GF interval as min KF interval.
Change-Id: Iee238b8cae0ffaed850a5a944ac825cee18da485
This reverts commit b5ea2fbc2c. Further
testing showed noticable keyframe popping in some cases, reverting this
for now to give time for a proper fix.
Conflicts:
vp8/encoder/onyx_if.c
vp8/encoder/ratectrl.c
Change-Id: I159f53d1bf0e24c035754ab3ded8ccfd58fd04af
This patch attempts to improve the handling of CBR streams with
respect to the short term buffering requirements. The "buffer level"
is changed to be an average over the rc buffer, rather than a long
running average. Overshoot is also tracked over the same interval
and the golden frame targets suppressed accordingly to correct for
overly aggressive boosting.
Testing shows that this is fairly consistently positive in one
metric or another -- some clips that show significant decreases
in quality have better buffering characteristics, others show
improvenents in both.
Change-Id: I924c89aa9bdb210271f2e03311e63de3f1f8f920
Do mvp clamping in full-pixel precision instead of 1/8-pixel
precision to avoid error caused by right shifting operation.
Also, further fixed the motion vector limit calculation in change:
b748045470
Change-Id: Ied88a4f7ddfb0476eb9f7afc6ceeddbf209fffd7
In this commit I have added an experimental function
that tests prediction quality either side of a central position
to calculate a suggested boost number for an ARF frame.
The function is passed an offset from the current position and
a number of frames to search forwards and backwards.
It returns a forward, backward and compound boost number.
The new code can be deactivated using #define NEW_BOOST 0
In its current default state the code searches forwards and backwards
from the proposed position of the next alt ref.
The the old code used a boost number calculated by scanning forward
from the previous GF up to the proposed alt ref frame position.
I have also added some code to try and prevent placement of a gf/arf
where there is a brief flash.
Change-Id: I98af789a5181148659f10dd5dd2ff2d4250cd51c
I got this idea from Pascal (Thanks). Before encoding a macroblock,
copy it to a 16x16 buffer, and then read source data from there
instead. This will help keep the source data in cache, and help
with the performance.
Change-Id: Id05f4cb601299150511d59dcba0ae62c49b5b757
This reverts commit 212f618373.
Further testing shows that the overshoot accumulation/damping is too
aggressive on some clips. Allowing the accumulated overshoot to
decay and limiting to damping to golden frames shows some promise.
But some clips show significant overshoot in the buffer window, so
I think this still needs work.
Change-Id: Ic02a9ca34f55229f9cc04786f4fab54cdc1a3ef5
Modify the second-pass code to provide a full golden-frame (GF) bit
allocation boost if the past GF group (GFG) had no alt-ref frame (ARF),
even if the current GFG does contain and ARF.
This mostly has no effect on clips, since switching ARFs on/off between
GFGs is not very common. Has a positive effect on e.g. cheer (+0.45 SSIM
at 600kbps) and football (+0.25 SSIM at 600kbps), particularly at high
bitrates. Has a negative effect (-0.04 SSIM at 300kbps) at pamphlet,
which appears only marginally related to this patch, and crew (-0.1 SSIM
at 700kbps).
Change-Id: I2e32899638b59f857e26efeac18a82e0c0b77089
firstpass.c contains some rate adjustment code that assures that the
last few frames in a sequence abide by rate limits. If the second-to-
last group of frames contains an alt-ref frame (ARF), the last golden
frame (GF) is zero bytes, and we will thus spend a ridiculously high
number of bits on regular P-frames trying to hit the target rate. This
does slightly enhance the quality of these last few frames, but has
no perceptual value (other than hitting the target rate).
Disabling this code means we consistently (slightly) undershoot the
target rate and consequently do worse on the last few frames of a
clip, which is particularly noticeable for small clips. The quality-
per-bitrate is generally better, ~0.2% better overall on derf-set,
especially on clips such as garden, tennis, foreman at low bitrates.
Has a negative effect on hallmonitor at high bitrates.
Change-Id: I1d63452fef5fee4a0ad2fb2e9af4c9f2e0d86d23
Moved encode_intra function from firstpass.c to encodeintra.c to
prevent linking problem in real-time only build. Also changed name
of the function to vp8_encode_intra because it is not a static.
Change-Id: Ibf3c6c1de3152567347e5fbef47d1d39564620a5
Some further re-structuring of activity masking code.
Still has various experimental switches.
Supports a metric based on intra encode.
Experimental comparison against a fixed activity target rather
than a frame average, for altering rd and zbin.
Overall the SSIM performance is similar to TT's original
code but there is a much smaller PSNR hit of circa
0.5% instead of 3.2%
Change-Id: I0fd53b2dfb60620b3f74d7415e0b81c1ac58c39a
This patch attempts to reduce the peak bitrate hit by the encoder
when using small buffer windows.
Tested on the CIF set over 200-500kbps using these settings:
--buf-sz=500 --buf-initial-sz=250 --buf-optimal-sz=250 \
--undershoot-pct=100
Two pass encodes were tested at best quality. One pass encodes were
tested only at realtime speed 4:
--rt --cpu-used=-4
The peak datarate (over the specified 500ms window) was measured
for each encode, and averaged together to get metric for
"average peak," computed as SUM(peak)/SUM(target). This patch
reduces the average peak datarate as follows:
One pass:
baseline: 1.29715
this patch: 1.23664
Two pass:
baseline: 1.32702
this patch: 1.37824
This change had a positive effect on our quality metrics as well:
One pass CBR:
Min / Mean / Max (pct)
Average PSNR -0.42 / 2.86 / 27.32
Overall PSNR -0.90 / 2.00 / 17.27
SSIM -0.05 / 3.95 / 37.46
Two pass CBR:
Min / Mean / Max (pct)
Average PSNR -4.47 / 4.35 / 35.99
Overall PSNR -3.40 / 4.18 / 36.46
SSIM -4.56 / 6.98 / 53.67
One pass VBR:
Min / Mean / Max (pct)
Average PSNR -5.21 / 0.01 / 3.30
Overall PSNR -8.10 / -0.38 / 1.21
SSIM -7.38 / -0.11 / 3.17
(note: most values here were close to the mean, there were a few
outliers on files that were very sensitive to golden frame size)
Two pass VBR:
Min / Mean / Max (pct)
Average PSNR 0.00 / 0.00 / 0.00
Overall PSNR 0.00 / 0.00 / 0.00
SSIM 0.00 / 0.00 / 0.00
Neither one pass or two pass CBR mode adheres particularly strictly
to the short term buffer constraints, and two pass is less
consistent, even in the baseline commit. This should be addressed
in a later commit. This likely will hurt the quality numbers, as it
will have to reduce the burstiness of golden frames.
Aside: My work on this commit makes it clear that we need to make
rate control modes "pluggable", where you can easily write a new
one or work on one in isolation.
Change-Id: I1ea9a48f2beedd59891f1288aabf7064956b4716
