in onyx_if.c update_reference_frames() make
sure that frame buffer indexes are not equal
before preforming a buffer copy. If two frames
share the same buffer the flags will already be
set correctly.
Change-Id: Ida9b5516d08e3435c90f131d2dc19d842cfb536e
Test showed using hex search in realtime mode largely speed up
encoding process, and still achieves similar quality like the
diamond search we have. Therefore, removed the diamond search
option.
Change-Id: I975767d0ec0539f9f6ed7fdfc09506e39761b66c
fixed a bug where active_worst_quality could be set
below active_best_quality which could result in an
infinite loop.
Change-Id: I93c229c3bc5bff2a82b4c33f41f8acf4dd194039
This patch collects the twopass specific memebers of VP8_COMP into a
dedicated struct. This is a first step towards isolating the two pass
rate control and aids readability by decorating these variables with
the 'twopass.' namespace. This makes it clear to the reader in what
contexts the variable will be valid, and is a hint that a section of
code might be a good candidate to move to firstpass.c in later
refactoring. There likely will be other rate control modes that need
their own specific data as well.
This notation is probably overly verbose in firstpass.c, so an
alternative would be to access this struct through a pointer like
'rc->' instead of 'cpi->firstpass.' in that file. Feel free to make
a review comment to that effect if you prefer.
Change-Id: I0ab8254647cb4b493a77c16b5d236d0d4a94ca4d
This commit restructures the mb activity masking code
to better facilitate experimentation using different metrics
etc. and also allows for adjustment of the zero bin either
for encode only or both the encode and mode selection
stages
It also uses information from the current frame rather than
the previous frame and the default strength has been
reduced.
Change-Id: Id39b19eace37574dc429f25aae810c203709629b
This patch improves the accuracy of frame rate estimation by using a
larger, 1 second window. It also more quickly adapts to step changes
in the input frame rate (ie 30fps to 15fps)
Change-Id: I39e48a8f5ac880b4c4b2ebd81049259b81a0218e
The variable is introduced in commit 2e53e9e53 to make more use of
trellis quantization, but this is no longer necessary after RDMULT
was made adaptive in a number of later commits.
Change-Id: I7420522ec7723f38cf77033466c25afb405d52ae
In NEWMV mode, currently, full search is used as the refining search
after n-step search. By replacing it with an iterative diamond search
of radius 1 largely reduced the computation complexity, but still
maintained the same encoding quality since the refining search is
done for every macroblock instead of only a small precentage of
macroblocks while using full search.
Tests on the test set showed a 3.4% encoding speed increase with none
psnr & ssim loss.
Change-Id: Ife907d7eb9544d15c34f17dc6e4cfd97cb743d41
The existing emulation of posix semaphores on Windows uses SetEvent()
and WaitForSingleObject(), which implements a binary semaphore, not a
counting semaphore as implemented by posix. This causes deadlock when
used with the expected posix semantics. Instead, this patch uses the
CreateSemaphore() and ReleaseSemaphore() calls (introduced in Windows
2000) which have the expected behavior.
This patch also reverts commit eb16f00, which split a semaphore that
was being used with counting semantics into two binary semaphores.
That commit is unnecessary with corrected emulation.
Change-Id: If400771536a27af4b0c3a31aa4c4e9ced89ce6a0
This patch is to fix a rare hang in multi-thread encoder that was
only seen on Windows. Thanks for John's help in debugging the
problem. More test is needed.
Change-Id: Idb11c6d344c2082362a032b34c5a602a1eea62fc
The commit also removed the slow ssim calculation that uses a 7x7
kernel, and revised the comments to better describe how sample ssim
values are computed and averaged
Change-Id: I1d874073cddca00f3c997f4b9a9a3db0aa212276
Renamed configure option "enable-psnr" to "enable-internal-stats" to
better reflect the purpose of the option and eliminate the confusion
reported in http://code.google.com/p/webm/issues/detail?id=35
Change-Id: If72df6fdb9f1e33dab1329240ba4d8911d2f1f7a
Combine calc_iframe_target_size, previously only used for forced
keyframes, with calc_auto_iframe_target_size, which handled most
keyframes.
Change-Id: I227051361cf46727caa5cd2b155752d2c9789364
This is a first step in cleaning up the redundancies between
vp8_calc_{auto_,}iframe_target_size. The pick_frame_size() function is
moved to ratectrl.c, and made to be the primary interface. This means
that the various calc_*_target_size functions can be made private.
Change-Id: I66a9a62a5f9c23c818015e03f92f3757bf3bb5c8
the decision to run the regular or simple loopfilter is made outside the
function and managed with pointers
stop tracking the option in two places. use filter_type exclusively
Change-Id: I39d7b5d1352885efc632c0a94aaf56b72cc2fe15
Rather than using a default size of 1/2 or 3/2 seconds for the first
frame, use a fraction of the initial buffer level to give the
application some control.
This will likely undergo further refinement as size limits on key
frames are currently under discussion on codec-devel@, but this gives
much better behavior for small buffer sizes as a starting point.
Change-Id: Ieba55b86517b81e51e6f0a9fe27aabba295acab0
The arguments to these fprintfs are int not long int so
the format specifier should be "%d" and not "%ld". This
was writing garbage in the linux build.
Change-Id: I3d2aa8a448d52e6dc08858d825bf394929b47cf3
Golden and ALT reference buffers were refreshed by copying from
the new buffer. Replaced this by index manipulation.
Also moved all the reference frame updates to one function for
easier tracking.
Change-Id: Icd3e534e7e2c8c5567168d222e6a64a96aae24a1
Remove tot_key_frame_bits and prior_key_frame_size[] as they were
tracked but never used. Remove intra_frame_target, as it was only
used to initialize prior_key_frame_size.
Refactor vp8_adjust_key_frame_context() some to remove unnecessary
calculations.
Change-Id: Icbc2c83d2b90e184be03e6f9679e678f3a4bce8f
This patch cleans up the source buffer storage and copy mechanism to
allow access through a standard push/pop/peek interface. This approach
also avoids an extra copy in the case where the source is not a
multiple of 16, fixing issue #102.
Change-Id: I05808c39f5743625cb4c7af54cc841b9b10fdbd9
MV sad cost error is only used in full-pixel motion search,
which only need full-pixel resolution instead of quarter-pixel
resolution. This change reduced mvsadcost table size, and
removed unneccessary pamameter passing since this table is
constant once it is generated.
Change-Id: I9f931e55f6abc3c99011321f1dfb2f3562e6f6b0
A large number of functions were defined with external linkage, even
though they were only used from within one file. This patch changes
their linkage to static and removes the vp8_ prefix from their names,
which should make it more obvious to the reader that the function is
contained within the current translation unit. Functions that were
not referenced were removed.
These symbols were identified by:
$ nm -A libvpx.a | sort -k3 | uniq -c -f2 | grep ' [A-Z] ' \
| sort | grep '^ *1 '
Change-Id: I59609f58ab65312012c047036ae1e0634f795779
Clean up vp8_init_config() a bit and remove null pointer case,
as this code can't be called any more and is not an adequate
trap anyway, as a null pointer would cause exceptions before
hitting the test.
Change-Id: I937c00167cc039b3aa3f645f29c319d58ae8d3ee
Issue 291 highlighted the fact that CQ mode was not working
as expected in 1 pass mode,
This commit fixes that specific problem but in so doing I also
uncovered an overflow issue in the VBR code for 1 pass and
some data values not being correctly initialized.
For some clips (particularly short clips), the resulting
improvement is dramatic.
Change-Id: Ieefd6c6e4776eb8f1b0550dbfdfb72f86b33c960
In multithreaded mode the loopfilter is running in its own thread (filter level
calculation and frame filtering). Filtering is mostly done in parallel with the
bitstream packing. Before starting the packing the loopfilter level has
to be calculated. Also any needed reference frame copying is done in the
filter thread.
Currently the encoder will create n+1 threads, where n > 1 is the number of
threads specified by application and 1 is the extra filter thread. With n = 1
the encoder runs in single thread mode. There will never be more than n threads
running concurrently.
Change-Id: I4fb29b559a40275d6d3babb8727245c40fba931b
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
Currently, when the video frame width is not multiples of 16, the
source buffer has a stride of non-multiples of 16, which forces
an unaligned load in SAD function and hurts the performance. To
avoid that, this change allocates source buffers to be multiples
of 16.
Change-Id: Ib7506e3eb2cea06657d56be5a899f38dfe3eeb39
checks added to make sure that cpi->tplist
is freed correctly in vp8_dealloc_compressor_data
and vp8_alloc_compressor_data.
Change-Id: I66149dbbd25c958800ad94f4379d723191d9680d
As mentioned in check-in "Improve motion search in real-time mode",
MV prediction calculation causes speed loss for speed 7 and above.
This change added a flag to turn off this calculation for speed>6
in real-time mode.
Change-Id: I9f4ae5a8bf449222d1784b54e7d315fc8347b2d1
Applied better MV prediction in real-time mode, which improves
the encoding quality.
Used quarter-pixel search instead of iterative sub-pixel search
for speed >=5 to improve encoding performance.
Tests on the test set showed:
1. For speed=-5, quality improvement: 1.7% on AvgPSNR and 2.1%
on SSIM, performance improvement: 3.6% (This counts in the
performance lose caused by MV prediction calculation in "Improve
MV prediction in vp8_pick_inter_mode() for speed>3").
2. For speed=-8, quality improvement: 2.1% on AvgPSNR and 2.5%
on SSIM. but, 6.9% performance decrease because of MV prediction
calculation. This should be improved later.
Change-Id: I349a96c452bd691081d8c8e3e54419e7f477bebd
Created a new speed 1 which is in the middle of the old
speed 0 and speed 1. (for both quality and performance)
Change-Id: I4802133cdb43f359ca787646c090899679dd5d84
The encoder was not correctly catching transitions in the quantizer
deltas. If a delta_q was set, then the quantizer would be reinitialized
on every frame, but if they transitioned to 0, the quantizer would
not be reinitialized, leading to a encode-decode mismatch.
This bug was triggered by commit 999e155, which sets a Y2 delta Q
for very low base Q levels.
Change-Id: Ia6733464a55ee4ff2edbb82c0873980d345446f5
Whe auto keyframe insertion is enabled and conditions are right (scene change)
the encoder can decide to insert a key frame and does a re-encoding. This can
introduce extra latency. In RT mode we do not do the re-encoding of the current
frame but force the next frame to key frame.
Change-Id: I15c175fa845ac4c1a1f18bea3676e154669522a7
Reduce the number of sync points by letting each thread
continue imediatly with a new MB row.
Better multicore scaling, improves performance by 5-20% on ARM multicore.
Change-Id: Ic97e4d1c4886a842c85dd3539a93cb217188ed1b
The code previously tested cpi->common.refresh_alt_ref_frame
but there are situations where this flag may be set for viewable frames.
The correct test should be !cm->show_frame.
Change-Id: Ia1a600622992a4a68fe1d38ac23bf6b34b133688
This commit also removes artificial RDMULT cap for low quantizers.
The intention is to address some abnormal behavior of mode selections
at the low quantizer end, where many macroblocks were coded with
SPLITMV with all partitions using same motion vector including (0,0).
This change improves the compression quality substantially for high
quality encodings in both PSNR and SSIM terms. Overall effect on
mid/low rate range is also positive for all metrics, but smaller
in magnitude.
Change-Id: I864b29c4bd9ff610d2545fa94a19cc7e80c02667
Adjust checking points in motion vector prediction to better cover
possible movements, and get a better prediction. Tests on test
clips showed a 0.1% improvement in SSIM, and no change in PSNR
and performance.
Change-Id: Ifdab05d35e10faea1445c61bb73debf888c9d2f8
These changes are specifically targeted at fade transitions to
static scenes. Here we want to place a GF/ARF immediately
after the fade and prevent an ARF just before the fade.
Also some code lines and comment lines shortened to 80 chars
while I was there.
Change-Id: Iefdc09a4fa7b265048fc017246b73e138693950f
This code fixes a bug in the calculation of
the minimum Q for alt ref frames.
It also allows an extended gf/arf interval for sections
of clips that completely static (or nearly so).
Change-Id: I1a21aaa16d4f0578e5f99b13bebd78d59403c73b
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
This change is designed to try and reduce pulsing effects when moving
with a complex transition like a fade, into an easy or static section in
an otherwise difficult clip in CQ mode.
The active CQ level is relaxed down to the user entered level for frames that
are generating less than the passed in minimum bandwidth.
Change-Id: Id6d8b551daad4f489c087bd742bc95418a95f3f0
Fixed discrepancy cpi->ni_frames vs cm->current_video_frame > 150.
Make one pass path explicit.
There is still scope for some odd behaviour around the transition
point at cpi->ni_frames > 150.
Change-Id: Icdee130fe6e2a832206d30e45bf65963edd7a74d
