The current way of counting inter_zz_count doesn't work correctly
in multi-threaded encoding. Calculating it after the frame is
encoded fixed the problem.
Change-Id: Ifcb1972cde950b8cc194f75c6d7b6af09e8b0e65
The sync interval for the multithreaded encoder was considered as not changing
during the encoding. This is not true if picture size is changed.
The encoder could dead-lock because the main thread and the other threads were
using different sync interval.
Change-Id: I75232bbdbc6c02d77f830d870fd8b4e96697c64e
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
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
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
RD costs were local to MACROBLOCK data and had to be copied all the
time to each thread's MACROBLOCK data. Tables moved to a common place
and only pointers are setup for each encoding thread.
vp8_cost_tokens() generates 'int' costs so changed all types to be
int (i.e. removed unsigned).
NOTE: Could do some more cleaning in vp8cx_init_mbrthread_data().
Change-Id: Ifa4de4c6286dffaca7ed3082041fe5af1345ddc0
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
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
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 patch removes the local copies of the dequantize
constants and implements John's idea as described
in "Make a local copy of the dequantized data" commit.
Change-Id: Ic6b7d681f00bf63263f71ff1e39ab2f80729e8b2
This value needs to be copied to each thread's data structure.
This fixed artifact problem in multi-thread encoder.
Change-Id: Iab6d9745a1d44846aa503184705376f63a505597
vp8cx_mb_init_quantizer() needs to be called at least once to get
all values calculated. This change added one check to decide if
we could skip initialization or not.
Change-Id: I3f65eb548be57580a61444328336bc18c25c085b
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
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
Declared the bmi in BLOCKD as a union instead of B_MODE_INFO.
Then removed B_MODE_INFO completely.
Change-Id: Ieb7469899e265892c66f7aeac87b7f2bf38e7a67
vp8_fast_quantize_b_pair_neon function added to quantize
two adjacent blocks at the same time to improve performance.
- Additional 3-6% speedup compared to neon optimized fast
quantizer (Tanya VGA@30fps, 1Mbps stream, cpu-used=-5..-16)
Change-Id: I3fcbf141e5d05e9118c38ca37310458afbabaa4e
Declared the bmi in MODE_INFO as a union instead of B_MODE_INFO.
This reduced the memory footprint by 518,400 bytes for 1080
resolutions. The decoder performance improved by ~4% for the
clip used and the encoder showed very small improvements. (0.5%)
This reduction was first mentioned to me by John K. and in a
later discussion by Yaowu.
This is WIP.
Change-Id: I8e175fdbc46d28c35277302a04bee4540efc8d29
This commit restructures the mb activity masking code
to better facilitate experimentation using different metrics
etc. and also allows for adjustment of the zero bin either
for encode only or both the encode and mode selection
stages
It also uses information from the current frame rather than
the previous frame and the default strength has been
reduced.
Change-Id: Id39b19eace37574dc429f25aae810c203709629b
Paul pointed out that the pointer to the gf_active_flags is not being
properly incremented in multithreaded encoder. This commit fixes the
issue by making sure the gf_active_ptr points to the starting of next
group of mb rows.
Change-Id: I3246e657d23beabb614dfb880733a68a5fd7e34c
The existing emulation of posix semaphores on Windows uses SetEvent()
and WaitForSingleObject(), which implements a binary semaphore, not a
counting semaphore as implemented by posix. This causes deadlock when
used with the expected posix semantics. Instead, this patch uses the
CreateSemaphore() and ReleaseSemaphore() calls (introduced in Windows
2000) which have the expected behavior.
This patch also reverts commit eb16f00, which split a semaphore that
was being used with counting semantics into two binary semaphores.
That commit is unnecessary with corrected emulation.
Change-Id: If400771536a27af4b0c3a31aa4c4e9ced89ce6a0
This patch is to fix a rare hang in multi-thread encoder that was
only seen on Windows. Thanks for John's help in debugging the
problem. More test is needed.
Change-Id: Idb11c6d344c2082362a032b34c5a602a1eea62fc
MV sad cost error is only used in full-pixel motion search,
which only need full-pixel resolution instead of quarter-pixel
resolution. This change reduced mvsadcost table size, and
removed unneccessary pamameter passing since this table is
constant once it is generated.
Change-Id: I9f931e55f6abc3c99011321f1dfb2f3562e6f6b0
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
Thread synchronization was not correct when frame width was 1 MB.
Number of allocated encoding threads is limited by the sync_range.
There is no point having more because each thread lags sync_range MBs
behind the thread processing the row above.
http://code.google.com/p/webm/issues/detail?id=302
Change-Id: Icaf67a883beecc5ebf2f11e9be47b6997fdf6f26
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
