In the partition search, the encoder checks all possible
partitionings in the superblock's partition search tree.
This patch proposed a set of criteria for partition search
early termination, which effectively decided whether or
not to terminate the search in current branch based on the
"skippable" result of the quantized transform coefficients.
The "skippable" information was gathered during the
partition mode search, and no overhead calculations were
introduced.
This patch gives significant encoding speed gains without
sacrificing the quality.
Borg test results:
1. At speed 1,
stdhd set: psnr: +0.074%, ssim: +0.093%;
derf set: psnr: -0.024%, ssim: +0.011%;
2. At speed 2,
stdhd set: psnr: +0.033%, ssim: +0.100%;
derf set: psnr: -0.062%, ssim: +0.003%;
3. At speed 3,
stdhd set: psnr: +0.060%, ssim: +0.190%;
derf set: psnr: -0.064%, ssim: -0.002%;
4. At speed 4,
stdhd set: psnr: +0.070%, ssim: +0.143%;
derf set: psnr: -0.104%, ssim: +0.039%;
The speedup ranges from several percent to 60+%.
speed1 speed2 speed3 speed4
(1080p, 100f):
old_town_cross: 48.2% 23.9% 20.8% 16.5%
park_joy: 11.4% 17.8% 29.4% 18.2%
pedestrian_area: 10.7% 4.0% 4.2% 2.4%
(720p, 200f):
mobcal: 68.1% 36.3% 34.4% 17.7%
parkrun: 15.8% 24.2% 37.1% 16.8%
shields: 45.1% 32.8% 30.1% 9.6%
(cif, 300f)
bus: 3.7% 10.4% 14.0% 7.9%
deadline: 13.6% 14.8% 12.6% 10.9%
mobile: 5.3% 11.5% 14.7% 10.7%
Change-Id: I246c38fb952ad762ce5e365711235b605f470a66
Updates the vp9_pattern_search function to return integer one-away
neighbors' sad values, for subsequent use in speeding up the
sub-pel search. Also, removes code for the do_refine option
which is not being used currently.
Updates the integer and subpel functions to pass in a 5-element
sad list for output or input.
A new pruned sub-pel search algorithm is implemented that uses
the sad returned from the integer pel search. But it is not
deployed yet.
Change-Id: Ifa9f5ad024b5b660570366d2bd900343e1891520
This commit re-work the operation flow related to prediction
residual generation and the rate-distortion modeling. It saves one
call for model_rd_for_sb.
Change-Id: Icaf96c0ff09c903637ed5283448afe01d798195f
The value of switchable rate has been stored in a local variable.
This change skips the second call to vp9_get_switchable_rate() by
reusing the local variable.
Change-Id: Ib7d3fef7621cc4bde94c6d6e6b3a71f1fd4559f2
Check the mode and motion vector cost. If it is already above
the existing best rate-distortion cost, skip the rest check process
on this mode.
Change-Id: Ie065cebdfda2a3be3be18b8e8b43dc29aaa8c179
This commit makes the rate distortion modeling run in the unit of
maximum transform block size. No compression/speed change observed.
It is for the use of later fast forward transform purpose.
Change-Id: Ibaaedb69c765e8d0c5d5012f0ec07f36fd9f68fd
This commit addes a new strategy to reduce the search for optimal
interpolation filter type. The encoder counts and store how many each
filter type is selected and used for each of the reference frames.
A filter type that is rarely used for all three reference frames is
masked out to avoid computation.
The impact on compression is neglectible:
-0.02% on derf
+0.02% on stdhd
Encoding time is seen to reduce by 2~3%.
Change-Id: Ibafa92291b51185de40da513716222db4b230383
We can use one frame context for each layer so that we don't have
to reset the probs every frame. But we can't use prev_mi since we
may drop enhancement layers. So we have to generate a non vp9
compatible bitstream and modify it in the player.
1. We need to code all frames as invisible frame to let prev_mi
not to be used. But in the bitstream we need to code the
show_frame flag to 1 so that the publisher will know it's
supposed to be a visible frame.
2. In the player we need to change the show_frame flag to 0 for
all frames. Then add an one byte frame into the super frame
to tell the decoder which layer we want to show.
Change-Id: I75b7304cf31f0ab952f043e33c034495e88f01f3
