Substantial restructuring of the way we estimate
the rate of decay in prediction quality and determine
the arf interval and amount of boost used.
Also other changes to support moving to a lower first pass
Q which exposes some new features and allows us to better
distinguish genuinely static blocks from low motion or noisy
blocks.
Net gains now visible on all the test sets with std-hd PSNR up
1.87%. There are still some bad outlier cases but most of these
are low motion or slide show type content where the metrics
are already high at any given rate. The best + case is up by
more than 10%.
Change-Id: I18e25170053bdf3188f493ff8062f48a74515815
1. This is to align with the ffmpeg implementation
2. Remove APIs for setting quantizers and scale-factors
Change-Id: I6e238d71db790a9fb3254baaeb61e2a5aac58f48
This commit adds back sse2 or ssse3 optimized versio of a couple of
functions, fixes a ~10% performance regression.
Change-Id: I049786906e5a641224dced63c6492aec9d86d183
The ARF frame should always be the same size as the
native resolution of the input frames.
It will be scaled to the required resolution at
encode time.
Change-Id: I0afe858129aa6ef65b1648f43476331715346896
This commit makes the encoder to use non-zero mode threshold for
NEARESTMV modes. The runtime for test clips of speed 3 is reduced
by about 1%.
pedestrian 1080p 2000 kbps, 143239 ms -> 141989 ms
bus CIF 1000 kbps, 7835 ms -> 7749 ms
The compression performance change is about -0.02% for both derf
and stdhd.
Change-Id: Ib71808922c41ae2997100cb7c561f68dcebfa08e
If the partition block is skippable, which means no coefficients
for Y, U, and V planes, its skip flag is set to 1. No quality
change (verified by borg tests), and no noticeable speed change.
Change-Id: I9231f720f8dd6364384cf05aa148ca24d75450f1
Libvpx was memseting every external frame buffer before decode. This
was to work around a valgrind issue in our C loop filter. Most of
the time this was not needed and we have noticed some significant
performance loss on some platforms. Now we require the application to
zero out the buffers if it is using external frame buffers.
Change-Id: I7330d00a315e65137ed30edd5f813e8929b76242
This commit enforces ARF validation check for compound inter modes.
It avoids potential access to ARF in the encoding process if it
is not allowed.
Change-Id: I055fec946b5d19d97937dc9001e1e564923e2439
The valid reference frame check in sub8x8 rate-distortion
optimization search has been included in the ref_frame_skip_mask
scheme. This commit removes the later further validation checks
that are not in effect.
Change-Id: I853b477c44037d3dc0afec6cbfce08a96c597a75
This commit replaces the best_ref_index table fetch with the use
of best_mbmode in vp9_rd_pick_inter_mode_sub8x8.
Change-Id: I882ee9ee6a8c0e61befcca1f4dba6d2ea8de8f13
The issue was discovered on bitstream with 2x vertical downscale. For
zero MVs, y_pad is set to 1 only when vertical convolution is
required. The original code assumes that for y_step_q4 == 32 we don't
perform vertical convolution. But vp9_setup_scale_factors_for_frame()
sets convolve functions so that when x_step and y_step are both not
equal to 16, convolve in both directions is performed. And convolve()
unconditionally subtracts one stride from source pointer when calls
convolve_horiz(). This leads to invalid memory access.
Change-Id: I882dfa6081a58e172b5ffa55842bfcd6727f10bf
Call to vp9_rc_get_second_pass_params() moved from
Pass2Encode() to earlier in vp9_get_compressed_data(),
to ensure that two pass stats and parameters are
available before decisions such as frame scaling.
Change-Id: If21537f0073919b04696a7d5e9aac78e23d76f39
