For real-time mode, increase variance threshold for 32x32 blocks in
var-based partitioning for resolution >= 720p, so that it is more
likely to stay at 32x32 for high resolution which accelerates the
encoding speed with little/no PSNR drop.
PSNR effect on different speed settings:
speed 8 rtc: 0.02 overall PSNR drop, 0.285% SSIM drop
speed 7 rtc: 0.196% overall PSNR increase, 0.066% SSIM increase
speed 5 rtc_derf: no effect.
Speed up:
gips_motion_WHD, 1mbps: 2.5% faster on speed 7, 2.6% faster on speed8
gips_stat_WHD, 1mbps: 4.6% faster on speed 7, 5.6% faster on speed8
Change-Id: Ie7c33c4d2dd7d09294917e031357fc5476c3a4bb
In vp9_pick_inter_mode(), instead of using
vp9_get_pred_context_switchable_interp(xd) to assign filter_ref,
we use a less strict condition on assigning filter_ref.
This is to reduce the probabily of entering the flow of not
assigning filter_ref and then skipping filter search.
Overall PSNR gain 0.074% for rtc dataset
Details:
Low Mid High
0.185% -0.008% -0.082%
Change-Id: Id5c5ab38d3766c213d5681e17b4d1afd1529e676
This commit adds an encoder workaround to support better
compatibility with a non-compliant hardware vp9 profile 2 decoder.
The known issue with this decoder is:
The decoder assumes a wrong value, 127 instead of the correct
value of 511 and 2047, for any assumed top-left corner pixel in
UV planes for 10 and 12 bit, respectively. Such assumed
top-left corner pixel is used for INTRA prediction when a real
decoded/reconstructed pixel is not avalable, e.g. when it is
located inside the row above the top row or inside the column
left to the leftest column of a video image.
Change-Id: Ic15a938a3107e1b85e96cb7903a5c4220986b99d
This change is only for real-time mode if short_circuit_low_temp_var
is on. Add bias to last frame in choosing ref frame for partitioning,
when y_sad and y_sad_g are close. It speeds up real-time encoding by
0.5% on some clips with less than 0.1% overall PSNR drop on rtc test set.
Change-Id: I2a2110fe36455f3d8f0fc404aef2228f512e8df8
1. Skip golden non-zeromv and newmv-last for bsize >= 16x16 if the
temporal variance obtained from choose_partitioning is very low.
2. Skip horz and vert INTRA mode for speed 8.
This change works best on the clips with little noise and with some
motion (e.g. gips_motion which has > 5% speed up). PSNR drop is 1.78%
on rtc test set, no obvious visual quality regression found.
Change-Id: Ib43b5b20e67809d03c5a6890818ddff59e1fc94a
On scene-cut detected frames (i.e., high_source_sad = 1), use
nonrd_pick_partition (over choose_part + select_part), as
the nonrd_pick partitioning is generally better.
Small positive increase in metrics on ytlive set (~0.5 - 1%).
Negligle overall speed decrease, as its only used on scene-cut frames.
Only affects 1 pass vbr mode, speed = 5.
Change-Id: I07c89cbdc75f5bb16eb8e0e2773ead0980d2de5c
Skip intra-mode and some inter-modes (newmv, nearmv, nearestmv) for
golden frame if the variance got from choose_partitioning is very low.
Only for 1 pass real-time CBR mode and bsize >= 32x32, it has ~2.5%
speed up with less than 0.1% PSNR drop for rtc test set. Don't see
visual regression.
Change-Id: I70efbc95a1007231ae36f02c5b2fbf6cd35077ad
Add control API VP9E_SET_TARGET_LEVEL that allows the encoder to
control the output bitstream level and/or keep level related
statistics.
Usage:
255 do not care about level (default)
0 keep level related stats only
10 target for level 1
11 target for level 1.1
.
.
.
62 target for level 6.2
Usage for vpxenc:
--target-level=0/255/10/11...
Change-Id: I31d1aeca19358b893e7577b4e63748c8e614034a
Move skin superblock force split out of this function as well
as some minor code refactors. Checked bitexact for different speed
settings and different resolutions.
Change-Id: I6078cbe88dd9ce6c0b69470a8a0a8f8d2274161b
Fix will reset the consec_zero_mv map on non-skipped blocks with non-zero mv.
Adjust thresholds on consec_zero_mv in noise estimation and skin detection,
as more possible reset on map means lower thresholds should be used.
Change-Id: Ibe8520057472b3609585260b51b6f95a38fb777d
In Aq mode 1 the segment and AQ delta for each block is based
on spatial variance. There may be a net imbalance between blocks
that have lower Q than the baseline value and those that have higher Q.
This patch monitors that imbalance and extends the allowed baseline
Q range for the frame to accommodate adjustment of that baseline value
to compensate.
Change-Id: Iae8a48c7c01fe2af94a141e149d03acf467237ca
So it can be used even with aq-mode=3 not enabled.
Also cleans up some code in the places where its used.
No change in behavior.
Change-Id: Ib6b265308dbd483f691200da9a0be4da4b380dbc
This commit back ports the fix from
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/#/c/326940
It corrects the block partition context fetching in rate-distortion
optimization. It improves the average coding performance of speed 0:
derf 0.098%
hevcmr 0.102%
stdhd 0.282%
Change-Id: I8bcc6fe40ba5c6b50a6136daac116dcc738937ec
The double pointer in xd->mi handles this for us.
Cuts encode_suberblock()'s self time in half at rt speed 8.
Change-Id: I820dae24efdbf9a140bbeae82e4e2a5850317766
Reset the scale factors before build_inter_predictors.
Add datarate tests for 3 spatial layers, which exposed this issue.
Change-Id: I7f81efbe44345ecea9fdd5f639a4cca76aed3874
This commit fixes issue 1141. The issue was triggered in multi-tile
encoding. The change properly saves and restores the block context
information in the real-time mode selection process. It removes
several redundant memcpy operations in sub8x8 intra block mode search.
Change-Id: I35c9ad197f4bd500ec39b5fc833f052f19eee010
If a superblock contains alot of "skin" then force split
of 64x64 partition, and make some adjustments in mode selection.
This helps to reduce artifacts on moving face/skin areas at low bitrates.
Little/no change in metrics: avgPSNR/SSIM down by ~0.12%.
Small encoding time increase < 1%.
Change-Id: Ic57f52148c3716f391419fab0530d916e4c1d186
Changes to mode selection for 1 pass SVC mode:
use base layer motion vector, changes to intra-prediction.
Change-Id: I3e883aa04db521cfa026a0b12c9478ea35a344c9
