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
Allow the application to change the frame size during encoding. This
is only supported when not using lagged compress.
Change-Id: I89b585d703d5fd728a9e3dedf997f1b595d0db0f
When running multi-layer (ML) encodes and dynamically
changing coding parameters on the fly (e.g. frame
duration/rate, bandwidths allocated to each layer)
the encoder would not produce sensible output.
In certain cases the rate targeting would be
hideously inaccurate.
These fixes make it possible to change these coding
parameters correctly and to maintain accurate control
of the rate targeting.
I also added the specification of the input timebase
into the test program, vp8_scalable_patterns.c.
Patch 2: Moved declaration to appease MS compiler)
Change-Id: Ic8bb5a16daa924bb64974e740696e040d07ae363
The default maximum keyframe interval is 9999, or over five minutes
at normal video rates. When the encoder produces streams with such
a long interval seeking (with correct output) is more expensive,
and live streaming is impossible.
Of course the encoding application should set this parameter
based on its knowledge of the intended use of the stream, but
reducing the default gives better results for applications
which do not.
Change-Id: I900b15d74ce72ecc3ade4d43f758c5cf97a2098a
Merged multi-resolution motion estimation with regular motion
estimation function in order to remove duplicated part. This
caused slight changes in multi-resulotion encoder quality &
performance.
Change-Id: Ib4ecc7acfebfe5eea959b5b91febae6db7b95fd1
Add the notion of deferred validation of parameters. We don't want to
validate the cq_level at initialization time, because it won't have
been set via set_param() yet.
Change-Id: Ia1308395e8c10e0b1dc4e9af3a09b2bd6744cc30
The example encoder down-samples the input video frames a number of
times with a down-sampling factor, and then encodes and outputs
bitstreams with different resolutions.
Support arbitrary down-sampling factor, and down-sampling factor
can be different for each encoding level.
For example, the encoder can be tested as follows.
1. Configure with multi-resolution encoding enabled:
../libvpx/configure --target=x86-linux-gcc --disable-codecs
--enable-vp8 --enable-runtime_cpu_detect --enable-debug
--disable-install-docs --enable-error-concealment
--enable-multi-res-encoding
2. Run make
3. Encode:
If input video is 1280x720, run:
./vp8_multi_resolution_encoder 1280 720 input.yuv 1.ivf 2.ivf 3.ivf 1
(output: 1.ivf(1280x720); 2.ivf(640x360); 3.ivf(320x180).
The last parameter is set to 1/0 to show/not show PSNR.)
4. Decode:
./simple_decoder 1.ivf 1.yuv
./simple_decoder 2.ivf 2.yuv
./simple_decoder 3.ivf 3.yuv
5. View video:
mplayer 1.yuv -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=1280:h=720 -loop 0 -fps 30
mplayer 2.yuv -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=640:h=360 -loop 0 -fps 30
mplayer 3.yuv -demuxer rawvideo -rawvideo w=320:h=180 -loop 0 -fps 30
The encoding parameters can be modified in vp8_multi_resolution_encoder.c,
for example, target bitrate, frame rate...
Modified API. John helped a lot with that. Thanks!
Change-Id: I03be9a51167eddf94399f92d269599fb3f3d54f5
The calculated frame_rate is a state variable in the codec, and
shouldn't be maintained in the configuration struct. Move it to the
main part of cpi so that it isn't clobbered when the configuration
struct is updated. The initial framerate estimate is moved from the
vp8_cx_iface.c wrapper into the body of init_config() in onyx_if.c, so
that it is only called once and not reset on every call to
vp8_change_config().
Change-Id: I8d9a3d1283330d1ee297d07e9d78d1f2875f2465
check to make sure that cx_data buffer has enough room before
writting to it, prior behavior did not which could result in a crash.
Change-Id: I3fab6f2bc4a96d7c675ea81acd39ece121738b28
Added the ability to create rate-targeted, temporally
scalable, VP8 compatible bitstreams.
The application vp8_scalable_patterns.c demonstrates how
to use this capability. Users can create output bitstreams
containing upto 5 temporally separable streams encoded
as a single VP8 bitstream.
(previously abandoned as:
I92d1483e887adb274d07ce9e567e4d0314881b0a)
Change-Id: I156250a3fe930be57c069d508c41b6a7a4ea8d6a
Since this is the only ABI incompatible change since the last release,
convert it to use the control interface instead. The member of the
configuration struct is replaced with the VP8E_SET_MAX_INTRA_BITRATE_PCT
control.
More significant API changes were expected to be forthcoming when this
control was first introduced, and while they continue to be expected,
it's not worth breaking compatibility for only this change.
Change-Id: I799d8dbe24c8bc9c241e0b7743b2b64f81327d59
Allow the encoder to inform the application that the encoded frame will not
be used as a reference.
Change-Id: I90e41962325ef73d44da03327deb340d6f7f4860
With this commit frames can be received partition-by-partition
from the encoder and passed partition-by-partition to the
decoder.
At the encoder-side this makes it easier to split encoded
frames at partition boundaries, useful when packetizing
frames. When VPX_CODEC_USE_OUTPUT_PARTITION is enabled,
several VPX_CODEC_CX_FRAME_PKT packets will be returned
from vpx_codec_get_cx_data(), containing one partition
each. The partition_id (starting at 0) specifies the decoding
order of the partitions. All partitions but the last has
the VPX_FRAME_IS_FRAGMENT flag set.
At the decoder this opens up the possibility of decoding partition
N even though partition N-1 was lost (given that independent
partitioning has been enabled in the encoder) if more info
about the missing parts of the stream is available through
external signaling.
Each partition is passed to the decoder through the
vpx_codec_decode() function, with the data pointer pointing
to the start of the partition, and with data_sz equal to the
size of the partition. Missing partitions can be signaled to
the decoder by setting data != NULL and data_sz = 0. When
all partitions have been given to the decoder "end of data"
should be signaled by calling vpx_codec_decode() with
data = NULL and data_sz = 0.
The first partition is the first partition according to the
VP8 bitstream + the uncompressed data chunk + DCT address
offsets if multiple residual partitions are used.
Change-Id: I5bc0682b9e4112e0db77904755c694c3c7ac6e74
This patch changes the rc_undershoot_pct and rc_overshoot_pct controls
to set the "aggressiveness" of rate adaptation, by limiting the
amount of difference between the target buffer level and the actual
buffer level which is applied to the target frame rate for this frame.
This patch was initially provided by arosenberg at logitech.com as
an attachment to issue #270. It was modified to separate these controls
from the other unrelated modifications in that patch, as well as to
use the pre-existing variables rather than introducing new ones.
Change-Id: Id542e3f5667dd92d857d5eabf29878f2fd730a62
The firstpass motion map consists of an 8-bit flag for
each MB indicating how strongly the firstpass code
believes it should be filtered during the second pass
ARNR filtering.
For long or large format material the motion map can
become extremely large and hamper the operation of
the encoding process.
This change removes the motion map altogether, leaving
the second pass to rely on the magnitude of the motion
compensated error to determine the filter weight to
use for the MB during ARNR filtering.
Tests on the derf set indicate that the effect of this
change is neutral, with some small wins and losses. The
motion map has therefore been removed based on
a cost/benefit evaluation.
Change-Id: I53e07d236f5ce09a6f0c54e7c4ffbb490fb870f6
preview_img d_w and d_h along with w and h
would not be updated for resized frames.
now uses sd.y_width and sd.y_height
Change-Id: I52241de4cc1de5e73f865e668bd70a7cbd954390
When the keyframe distance is fixed the first interval has the right
distance but, the next ones have kf_distance + 1.
Change-Id: I44f1190fe7146124bd07660a5e0ef08829e3ae07
Remove allocation/deallocation of stats storage.
Remove full search functions in machine specific encoder inits.
Remove last pass validation in validate_config.
Change-Id: I7f29be69273981a4fef6e80ecdb6217c68cbad4e
The CQ level was not using the q_trans[] array to convert
to a 0-127 range as per min and maxq
Experimental change to try and match the reconstruction
error for forced key frames approximately to that of the
previous frame by means of the recode loop. Though this
may cause extra recodes and the recode behavior has not
been optimized, it can only happen on forced key frames.
Change-Id: I1f7e42d526f1b1cb556dd461eff1a692bd1b5b2f
The merge includes hooks to for CQ mode and other code
changes merged from the test branch.
CQ mode attempts to maintain a more stable quantizer within a clip
whilst also trying to adhere to a guidline maximum bitrate.
The existing target data rate parameter is used to specify the
guideline maximum bitrate.
A new parameter allows the user to specify a target CQ level.
For normal (non kf/gf/arf) frames, the quantizer will not drop BELOW the
user specified value (0-63). However, in some cases the encoder may
choose to impose a target CQ that is above that specified by the user,
if it estimates that consistent use of the target value is not compatible
with guideline maximum bitrate.
Change-Id: I2221f9eecae8cc3c431d36caf83503941b25e4c1
Add a new encoder control, VP8E_SET_TUNING, to allow the application
to inform the encoder that the material will benefit from certain
tuning. Expose this control as the --tune option to vpxenc. The args
helper is expanded to support enumerated arguments by name or value.
Two tunings are provided by this patch, PSNR (default) and SSIM.
Activity masking is made dependent on setting --tune=ssim, as the
current implementation hurts speed (10%) and PSNR (2.7% avg,
10% peak) too much for it to be a default yet.
Change-Id: I110d969381c4805347ff5a0ffaf1a14ca1965257
remove warning comment in vpxenc.c: in case of 1x1 picture,
detect_bytes will be equal to '3' and we'll fall back to
RAW_TYPE.
fix read_frame() by tracking the pre-read buffer length
in the struct detect
Change-Id: If1ed86ee5260dcdbc8f9d10da6cbb84a4cc2f151
The ERROR macro collides wiith the MS SDK on Windows. Since we're not
making any win32 calls in this function, just #undef it first to take
ownership.
Change-Id: Ic18c60dfa3a33c52e6c49d3f4f8d3e7e3ac3341d
Debugging in postproc needs more flags to allow for specific
block types to be turned on or off in the visualizations.
Must be enabled with --enable-postproc-visualizer during
configuration time.
Change-Id: Ia74f357ddc3ad4fb8082afd3a64f62384e4fcb2d
Change the pts of the altref frame to be as close as possible to the
pts of the preceding frame and still be strictly increasing.
Change-Id: Iae3033a4c89ae5a9d0e5c4198e9196e5f3ee57c7
The first implementation of the firstpass motion map for motion
compensated temporal filtering created a file, fpmotionmap.stt,
in the current working directory. This was not safe for multiple
encoder instances. This patch merges this data into the first pass
stats packet interface, so that it is handled like the other
(numerical) firstpass stats.
The new stats packet is defined as follows:
Numerical Stats (16 doubles) -- 128 bytes
Motion Map -- 1 byte / Macroblock
Padding -- to align packet to 8 bytes
The fpmotionmap.stt file can still be generated for debugging
purposes in the same way that the textual version of the stats
are available (defining OUTPUT_FPF in firstpass.c)
Change-Id: I083ffbfd95e7d6a42bb4039ba0e81f678c8183ca
Modified the range checking of parameters used in the
AltRef temporal filter (arnr-max-frames, arnr-strength,
arnr-type) and default values for each of them.
Change-Id: Ib261028d501b9523f6e44cb4790cc52167b6e92b
Having these symbols be available as functions rather than data is
occasionally more convenient. Implemented this way rather than a
get-codec-by-id style to avoid creating a link-time dependency
between the encoder and the decoder.
Fixes issue #169
Change-Id: I319f281277033a5e7e3ee3b092b9a87cce2f463d
The patch related with issue #55 (5a72620) fixed some warnings, but the
fix was not optimal. It actually was a trick to confuse compiler rather
than a fix.
This patch fixes it by creating a new macro used when needed just a high
limit check for an unsigned.
Change-Id: I94b322e0f7fb07604b3b1df1f9321185f48cfcb5
Changes 'The VP8 project' to 'The WebM project', for consistency
with other webmproject.org repositories.
Fixes issue #97.
Change-Id: I37c13ed5fbdb9d334ceef71c6350e9febed9bbba
Remove the dependency on postproc.c for the encoder in general, the only
unchecked need for it is when CONFIG_PSNR is enabled. All other cases
are already wrapped in CONFIG_POSTPROC. In the CONFIG_PSNR case the file
will still be included.
Additionally, when VP8_SET_POSTPROC is used with the encoder when post
processing has been disabled an error will be returned.
This addresses issue #153.
Change-Id: Ia6dfe20167f7077734a6058cbd1d794550346089
The external API exposes the RC initial/optimal/full buffer level in
milliseconds, but this value was truncated internally to seconds. This
patch allows the use of the full precision during the conversion from
time to bits.
Change-Id: If8dd2a87614c05747f81432cbe75dd9e6ed2f04e
When the license headers were updated, they accidentally contained
trailing whitespace, so unfortunately we have to touch all the files
again.
Change-Id: I236c05fade06589e417179c0444cb39b09e4200d
