For gcc, when libvpx config option debug is disabled, added the
flag -DNDEBUG to disable the assertions in libvpx for some speedup.
Change-Id: Ifcb7b9e8ef5cbe5d07a24407b53b9a2923f596ee
The bug sets the wrong pointer to the first pass mb stats
if the encoder does the re-coding in the second pass.
Change-Id: I8a11f45dd7dceb38de814adec24cecccae370d00
In vp8, statistics are collected about the different modes as they are searched.
This process is more complicated due to the variable block size. Fields were
added to the PICM_MODE_CONTEXT struct to hold this information for each point in
the search. The information is then taken from the appropriate part of the tree
during denoising.
Change-Id: I89261ab77ad637821287ae157dfdf694702b8e77
vp9_rdopt is for making rd optimal mode decisions. vp9_rd is for all
other rd related routines. Anything used outside of making an rd optimal
decision belongs in rd.
Change-Id: I772a3073f7588bdf139f551fb9810b6864d8e64b
This commit re-designs the quantization process for transform
coefficient blocks of size 4x4 to 16x16. It improves compression
performance for speed 7 by 3.85%. The SSSE3 version for the
new quantization process is included.
The average runtime of the 8x8 block quantization is reduced
from 285 cycles -> 255 cycles, i.e., over 10% faster.
Change-Id: I61278aa02efc70599b962d3314671db5b0446a50
Encoder still uses SWITCHABLE as default via DEFAULT_INTERP_FILTER,
but does not override the default if it is not SWITCHABLE.
Change-Id: I3c0f6653bd228381a623a026c66599b0a87d01d5
When the frame is intra coded only, the encoder takes the RD
coding flow. Hence the function set_mode_info is not practically
in use. This commit removes it and the associated conditional
branches.
Change-Id: I1e42659ceb55b771ba712d1cdecacb446aa6460d
Before encoding a frame, calculate and store each 16x16 block's
variance of source difference between last and current frame.
Find partitioning threshold T for the frame from its variance
histogram, and then use T to make partition decisions.
Comparing with fixed 16x16 partitioning, rtc set test showed an
overall psnr gain of 3.242%, and ssim gain of 3.751%. The best
psnr gain is 8.653%.
The overall encoding speed didn't change much. It got faster for
some clips(for example, 12% speedup for vidyo1), and a little
slower for others.
Also, a minor modification was made in datarate unit test.
Change-Id: Ie290743aa3814e83607b93831b667a2a49d0932c
This commit enables an adaptive transform size selection method
for speed -6. It uses largest transform size when the sse is more
than 4 times of variance, i.e., most energy is compacted in the
DC coefficient. Otherwise, use the default TX_8X8. It improves
the compression efficiency for rtc set of speed -6 by 0.8%, no
speed change observed.
Change-Id: Ie6ed1e728ff7bf88ebe940a60811361cdd19969c
This patch allows the encoder to skip the partition search for the
frame if it is an inter frame and only zero motion vectors have
been detected in the first pass. The partition size is directly
assigned according to the difference variance.
Borg tests show overall little performance changes in term of PSNR
(derf -0.027%, yt 0.152%, hd 0.078%, stdhd 0%). The worst case of
PSNR loss is -0.514% from yt. The best PSNR gain is 4.293% from yt.
The second pass encoding speedup for slideshow clips is 15%-40%.
Change-Id: I881f347d286553ee5594a9ea09ba1a61ac684045
In real-time speed 6, no partition search is done. The inter
prediction results got from picking mode can be reused in the
following encoding process. A speed feature reuse_inter_pred_sby
is added to only enable the resue in speed 6.
This patch doesn't change encoding result. RTC set tests showed
that the encoding speed gain is 2% - 5%.
Change-Id: I3884780f64ef95dd8be10562926542528713b92c
Fix some bugs relating to the use of buffers
in the overlay frames.
Fix bug where a mid sequence overlay was
propagating large partition and transform sizes into
the subsequent frame because of :-
sf->last_partitioning_redo_frequency > 1 and
sf->tx_size_search_method == USE_LARGESTALL
Change-Id: Ibf9ef39a5a5150f8cbdd2c9275abb0316c67873a
This commit enables a fast path computational flow for forward
transformation. It checks the sse and variance of prediction
residuals and decides if the quantized coefficients are all
zero, dc only, or more. It then selects the corresponding coding
path in the forward transformation and quantization stage.
It is currently enabled in rtc coding mode. Will do it for rd
coding mode next.
In speed -6, the runtime for pedestrian_area 1080p at 1000 kbps
goes down from 14234 ms to 13704 ms, i.e., about 4% speed-up.
Overall coding performance for rtc set is changed by -0.18%.
Change-Id: I0452da1786d59bc8bcbe0a35fdae9f623d1d44e1
In non-rd real-time mode, choosing smaller transform size in
encoding gives better video quality and good speed gain than
choosing larger transform size. This patch set tx size search
method to ALLOW_8X8, which is better than using 4x4 or other
larger sizes.
Borg tests on rtc set at speed 6 showed significant gain on quality.
PSNR gain: 11.034% and SSIM gain: 15.466%.
The speed gain is 5% - 12% for <720p clips, and 2% - 7% for
720p clips.
Change-Id: If4dc74ed2df359346b059f47fb73b4a0193ec548
Right now there is just one place to check: xd->lossless and for the first
pass there is a function is_lossless_requested().
Change-Id: I949a6834e64ce51e422e2892f097f2b871b5429a
As a side-effect, the sad unit tests for VP8 and VP9
had to be separated.
Fixes a bug in original patch:
(https://gerrit.chromium.org/gerrit/#/c/70163/8)
that was reverted due to a nightly test failure.
Change-Id: Ia2a4e9e278fd3c89d6c3c82fcc6381320ec2a8a6