new_mt is a very generic name that will get obsolete soon enough.
Since this is exposed as a codec control, renaming it to row_mt to
signify row level paralellism. Also renaming the ETHREAD_BIT_MATCH
codec control to ROW_MT_BIT_EXACT.
Change-Id: Ic7872d78bb3b12fb4cf92ba028ec8e08eb3a9558
Increase the variance partition thresholds for superblocks that
have low sum-diff (from source analysis prior to encoding frame).
Use it for now only for speed >= 7 or for denoising on.
Small change on metrics for rtc set: less than ~0.1 avgPNSR decrease
on RTC set, for both speed 7 and 8.
Change-Id: I38325046ebd5f371f51d6e91233d68ff73561af1
(Yunqing Wang)
This patch implements the row-based multi-threading within tiles in
the encoding pass, and substantially speeds up the multi-threaded
encoder in VP9.
Speed tests at speed 1 on STDHD(using 4 tiles) set show that the
average speedups of the encoding pass(second pass in the 2-pass
encoding) is 7% while using 2 threads, 16% while using 4 threads,
85% while using 8 threads, and 116% while using 16 threads.
Change-Id: I12e41dbc171951958af9e6d098efd6e2c82827de
While the new-mt mode is enabled(namely, allowing to use row-based
multi-threading in encoder), several speed features that adaptively
adjust encoding parameters during encoding would cause mismatch
between single-thread encoded bitstream and multi-thread encoded
bitstream. This patch provides a set_control API to disable these
features, so that the bit match bitstream is obtained in the unit
test.
Change-Id: Ie9868bafdfe196296d1dd29e0dca517f6a9a4d60
Modified the encoding stage to have row level entry points with relevant
initializations and to access the token information at row level
Change-Id: Ife10e55a7c1a420ee906d711caf75002688d9e39
(yunqingwang)
1. Rebased the patch. Incorporated recent first pass changes.
2. Turned on the first pass unit test.
Change-Id: Ia2f7ba8152d0b6dd6bf8efb9dfaf505ba7d8edee
Only for speed >= 7, and affects skipping of intra modes.
Threshold is set low for now, needs to be tuned.
Small/no difference in metrics on rtc clips.
Change-Id: If9bdbd43f08d1f80407cdd2e9e5e96780dcd2424
Avoid quality loss when copying partition of superblock with large motions.
Maximum consecutively copied frames can be set (currently 5).
Change-Id: I11c30575514f02194c0f001444cf4021609e5049
Also set the flag to 1 when exit early choosing 64x64 block
such that skipping new mv for golden works in these scenerios.
Change the size of prev_segment_id to the number of superblocks
to save memory.
Borg test shows quality regression of 0.012% on average PSNR
and 0.035% on SSIM.
Change-Id: I5014224c8617d439d35c66ece3fed9ae30b31d23
If enabled denoiser will only denoise the top spatial layer for now.
Added unittest for SVC with denoising.
Change-Id: Ifa373771c4ecfa208615eb163cc38f1c22c6664b
Constraints on encoder config:
-target_bandwidth is no larger than 80% of level bitrate limit
-target_bandwidth * (1 + max_over_shoot_pct) is no larger than
88% of level bitrate limit
-min_gf_interval is no smaller than level limit
-tile_columns is no larger than level limit
Constraints on rate control:
-current frame size plus previous three frames' size is no larger
than the CPB level limit
-current frame size is no larger than 50%/40%/20% of the CPB
level limit if it's a key/alt-ref/other frame.
Change-Id: I84d1a2d6d6e3c82bfd533b3309ce999cfaba2c8b
Add feature to copy partition from the last frame.
The copy is only done under certain conditions that SAD is below threshold.
Feature is currently disabled, until threshold is tuned.
Feature will be initially used for Speed 8 (ARM).
Under extreme case of always copying partition for speed 8:
Encode time is reduced by 5.4% on rtc_derf and 7.8% on rtc.
Overall PSNR reduced by 2.1 on rtc_derf and 0.968 on rtc.
Change-Id: I1bcab515af3088e4d60675758f72613c2d3dc7a5
This patch modified the motion search counts used in:
https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/#/c/305640/
These 2 counts were originally added as thread data, and used to
make decisions in motion search. The tile encoding order can be
inconsistent while using different number of threads, which can
cause bitstream mismatch. Here moved them to tile data to solve
the issue.
BUG=webm:1322
Change-Id: Iedc4477aef1746aa0a4f84d88a1156296fd3ba87
Re-use the tile worker threads to pack the bitstream in parallel
on a per-tile basis. Restricting this to real-time only for now
(further testing is needed to ensure this does not make 2-pass
worse in any case).
BUG=webm:1309
Change-Id: I8a80da7c5089b837d0df79a5c49d5e3022dfc8ec
This reverts commit 9e8efa5b18.
this change causes ubsan warnings, failures in
vpxenc_vp9_webm_rt_multithread_tiled
BUG=webm:1309
Change-Id: I020c7be985c771bfff4b3de1afe51cc8edb980da
Re-use the tile worker threads to pack the bitstream in parallel
on a per-tile basis. Restricting this to real-time only for now
(further testing is needed to ensure this does not make 2-pass
worse in any case).
BUG=webm:1309
Change-Id: Ia2c982da56697756e12f02643f589189b3271d98
For 1 pass vbr real-time mode:
Allow for the usage of alt-ref frame when non-zero lag-in-frames is used.
Use non-filtered alt-ref, and select usage based on fast scene/content
analysis/detection within the lag of frames.
Positive gains on ytlive set: overall avgPSNR ~3-4%.
Several clips are up between 5-14%, a few clips are neutral/small change.
Current speed decrease is about ~5-10%.
Use the flag USE_ALTREF_FOR_ONE_PASS to enable this feature
(off by default for now).
Change-Id: I802d2bf3d44f9cf01f6d15c76be9c90192314769
Current commit is just an API template for the rest of the code, and
I will add inner logic later.
Altref frames generate a lot of bitrate and at the same time
other frames refer to them a lot, so it makes sense to apply
special compensation-based adaptive quantization scheme for altref
frames. E.g., for blocks that are good predictors for the future
apply rate-control chosen quantizer while for bad predictors apply
worse one.
Change-Id: Iba3f8ec349470673b7249f6a125f6859336a47c8
In the future this option will activate adaptive quantization special
for altref frames. Encoder will create the adaptive quantization map
on the basis of lookahead buffers similarity which is the estimate of
the future motion compensation performance.
Change-Id: Ia0088b3babb0f9a4899c79d8d819947ba5a03df2
For forced key frames in particular this helps to make them
blend better with the surrounding frames where noise tends
to be suppressed by a combination of quantization and alt
ref filtering.
Currently disabled by default under and IFDEF flag pending
wider testing.
Change-Id: I971b5cc2b2a4b9e1f11fe06c67ef073f01b25056
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
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
For 1 pass cbr mode: allow for two-stage 1:2 scaling
(which will use the 1:2 optimized scaler) if the spatial
layer is 1/4x1/4 of souce.
Without this change, the base layer for 3 spatial layers would
be using the non-normative scaler which is un-optimized/C code.
Change-Id: I9d73f92a4a96927d0f1d6bf75315c1e60513226a
This reverts commit f51f0998e1.
This causes datarate tests to fail. Some are due to the new default
keyframe distance, another causes an assert even forcing 9999:
[ RUN ] VP9/DatarateOnePassCbrSvc.OnePassCbrSvc3SpatialLayers/0
test_libvpx:
vpx_dsp/x86/vpx_subpixel_8t_intrin_ssse3.c:853: scaledconvolve2d:
Assertion `y_step_q4 <= 32' failed.
Change-Id: I4ee4fea97f47e4f1a23b82a62e6afc6280961e38
For 1 pass cbr mode: allow for two-stage 1:2 scaling
(which will use the 1:2 optimized scaler) if the spatial
layer is 1/4x1/4 of souce.
Without this change, the base layer for 3 spatial layers would
be using the non-normative scaler which is un-optimized/C code.
Change-Id: Ifcf526ec2aaf3e5fa7924588d9dd8660bf02fb46
An issue exists with reference_masking in non-rd pickmode for spatial
scaling. It was kept off for internal dynamic resizing and svc, this
change is to keep it off also for external dynamic resizing.
Update to external resize test, and update TODO to re-enable this
at frame level when references have same scale as source.
Change-Id: If880a643572127def703ee5b2d16fd41bdbf256c
Different quality levels are used for different regions in
the frame depending on how far they are vertically from the
center. Specifically, three segments are used based on the
mi_row index with respect number to the number of mi_rows in
the frame.
Change-Id: Ifc8b777bc58ea8521dffc4640360c67d99f8d381
This change alters the nature and use of exhaustive motion search.
Firstly any exhaustive search is preceded by a normal step search.
The exhaustive search is only carried out if the distortion resulting
from the step search is above a threshold value.
Secondly the simple +/- 64 exhaustive search is replaced by a
multi stage mesh based search where each stage has a range
and step/interval size. Subsequent stages use the best position from
the previous stage as the center of the search but use a reduced range
and interval size.
For example:
stage 1: Range +/- 64 interval 4
stage 2: Range +/- 32 interval 2
stage 3: Range +/- 15 interval 1
This process, especially when it follows on from a normal step
search, has shown itself to be almost as effective as a full range
exhaustive search with step 1 but greatly lowers the computational
complexity such that it can be used in some cases for speeds 0-2.
This patch also removes a double exhaustive search for sub 8x8 blocks
which also contained a bug (the two searches used different distortion
metrics).
For best quality in my test animation sequence this patch has almost
no impact on quality but improves encode speed by more than 5X.
Restricted use in good quality speeds 0-2 yields significant quality gains
on the animation test of 0.2 - 0.5 db with only a small impact on encode
speed. On most clips though the quality gain and speed impact are small.
Change-Id: Id22967a840e996e1db273f6ac4ff03f4f52d49aa
Source noise level estimate is also useful for
setting variance encoder parameters (variance thresholds,
qp-delta, mode selection, etc), so allow it to be used also
if denoising is not on.
Change-Id: I4fe23d47607b4e17a35287057f489c29114beed1
In the decoder, map this to the output variable vpx_image_t.r_w/h.
This is intended as an improved version of VP9D_GET_DISPLAY_SIZE,
which doesn't work with parallel frame decoding. In the encoder,
map this to a codec control func (VP9E_SET_RENDER_SIZE) that takes
a w/h pair argument in a int[2] (identical to VP9D_GET_DISPLAY_SIZE).
Also add render_size to the encoder_param_get_to_decoder unit test.
See issue 1030.
Change-Id: I12124c13602d832bf4c44090db08c1009c94c7e8
In decoder, export (eventually) into vpx_image_t.range field. In
encoder, use oxcf->color_range to set it (same way as for
color_space).
See issue 1059.
Change-Id: Ieabbb2a785fa58cc4044bd54eee66f328f3906ce
The normative (convolve8) filter is optimized/faster than
the nonnormative one. Pass usage of scaler (normative/nonomorative)
to vp9_scale_if_required(), and always use normative one for 1 pass.
Change-Id: I2b71d9ff18b3c7499b058d1325a9554de993dd52
Switch to use the normative (convolve8) filter for source scaling,
only for 1/2x1/2 scaling for now. This is faster and has better
quality than either the vpx_scale_frame or the nonnormative scaler.
Remove the vp9_scale_if_required_fast, which is now not used.
Change-Id: I2f7d73950589d19baafb1fa650eac987d531bcc8
