The commit changes to mask available intra prediction modes for test
based on prediction block size.
With this patch, encoding time of CpuUsed 2 reduces from 10% to 20% for
HD clips with a compression drop of 0.2%
Change-Id: I65f320f1237c0f5ae3a355bf7caf447f55625455
When the codec in VBR (or cq) mode hits its max q limits and is
struggling to hit a target bandwidth, the bit target per frame collapses.
In the first instance normal frames cap out at the maximum allowed
Q and then the ARF and GFs do the same. This latter behavior is not
generally desirable as GFs and ARFs are only effective from a quality
and data rate perspective if they have at lease some level of -Q delta
compared to the surrounding frames.
In this patch I define a separate max Q for GFs and ARFs that is
derived from but somewhat lower than that defined for normal frames.
In effect there is a minimum Q delta that will always be available for
GFs and ARFs regardless of the target rate and MAXQ setting.
This may of course mean that the absolute lowest rate obtainable for
a given clip is somewhat higher.
Change-Id: I268868b28401900d0cd87e51e609cd3b784ab54a
Use b_mode_info to store the inter prediction mode of sub8x8 block,
in replacement of the use of partition_info. Remove redundant buffer
update for partition_info. For bus_cif at 2000 kbps, this seem to make
speed 0 about 1% faster.
Change-Id: Id1b3be45e75a24fb4b42335ac480c23e440978f6
We already have itxm_add member in MACROBLOCKD structure. Both
inv_txm4x4_1_add and inv_txm4x4_add are just its special cases for
different eob values. But eob logic is already implemented in
vp9_iwht4x4_add and vp9_idct4x4_add (that's why also removing
inverse_transform_b_4x4_add).
Change-Id: I80bec9b6f7d40c5e5033c613faca5c819c3e6326
For CpuUsed 1 & 2, this commit allow to skip retangular partition check
when NONE is better than SPLIT. It also changed to allow such logic
on alt ref frame coding rather than use square partition all them. The
change has gain compressio about .3% on yt and ythd for both 1&2, It
helped .6% compression on cif and stdhd for both CpuUsed 1&2.
Change-Id: I814b653baf89f59acd20e042629a12938a1bd4e5
This commit allows sub8x8 intra modes test in the rate-distortion
loop for hd sequences in speed 1 and 2.
For sequence y90n of hd set at 8000 kbps, speed 2 runtime goes
from 207s to 210s. For ped_1080p at 3000 kbps, speed 2 runtim goes
from 336s to 337s. Both are running with 300 frames.
This improves compression performance by 0.24% for stdhd and 0.32%
for hd.
Change-Id: I173ca38a6411565ae6cfadd184c42b2070c5de1f
The idea is to have the following names for each transform size:
vp9_idct4x4_add
vp9_idct4x4_1_add
vp9_idct4x4_10_add
vp9_idct4x4_16_add
vp9_idct8x8_add
vp9_idct8x8_1_add
vp9_idct8x8_10_add
vp9_idct8x8_64_add
etc for 16x16, 32x32
The actual list of renames in this patch:
vp9_idct_add_lossless -> vp9_iwht4x4_add
vp9_short_iwalsh4x4_add -> vp9_iwht4x4_16_add
vp9_short_iwalsh4x4_1_add -> vp9_iwht4x4_1_add
vp9_idct_add -> vp9_idct4x4_add
vp9_short_idct4x4_add -> vp9_idct4x4_16_add
vp9_short_idct4x4_1_add -> vp9_idct4x4_1_add
Change-Id: I6f43f7437c68dd30cdd05d72e213765578ed30b1
Speed 4 still does not give a big gain over speed 3.
This just cleans it up a little from the last patch and comments
out features that do not seem to be giving much benefit.
Change-Id: I5f366e6160e1dbe5dc45cf5eb90cc02712baa1b6
Allow selective masking of individual split modes rather than
just a single on / off flag.
For speed 2 recovers the large speed loss seen for some derf
clips in change Ie6bdfa0a370148dd60bd800961077f7e97e67dd4
and a small quality gain.
For speed 1 10 % speed increase observed locally on some derf clips
for minimal quality change.
Change-Id: If86191087b93cbc05351c26c60c7933e2149e485
This commit separates the rate-distortion optimization loop of
superblocks from that of sub8x8 blocks. This allows better design
rate-distortion optimization search loop for each setting. It also
removes the use of SPLITMV and I4X4_PRED therein.
No performance change in speed 0 settings. For bus@CIF at 2000kbps,
the speed 1 runtime goes from 48009ms to 43894ms (about 10% faster).
The overall compression performance on derf changed by -0.021%.
Speed 2 runtime goes from 27114ms to 28700ms (6% slower), while the
overall coding efficiency goes up by 1.629% for derf, 1.236% for yt.
Change-Id: Ie6bdfa0a370148dd60bd800961077f7e97e67dd4
Substantial reworking of the speed vs quality trade offs for
speed 1 and 2.
In this patch I am attempting to freeze the "quality" meaning of
speeds 1 and 2 relative to speed 0 so that in future we can
better evaluate progress.
I am targeting :
Speed 1 quality ~-5% vs speed 0.
Speed 2 quality ~-10% vs speed 0
It is inevitable that quality will still fluctuate a little as we adjust
settings and add new features, but we will attempt to keep as
close as possible to these values. Above speed 2 things will remain
a bit more fluid for now.
In this patch speed 1 is approximately 4-5x as fast as speed 0. This
is similar to before but the quality hit is a lot less. Likewise speed 2
is approximately 2x as fast as speed 1 but is similar in quality to the
previous speed 1 configuration.
Also slight change to behavior of FLAG_EARLY_TERMINATE to insure
all reference frames get at least one rd test. Important for very low
variance regions.
WIP :- Added a new speed level with old speed 4 becoming speed 5.
Speed 3 and 4 tradeoffs still WIP
Change-Id: Ic7a38dd7b5b63ab1501f9352411972f480ac6264
The code now takes into account temporal and spatial
information to determine the partition size range, but the
frequency counts have been removed.
The net effect is similar in quality but about 10% faster.
Change-Id: I39a513fb79cec9177b73b2a7218f0da70963ae95
This patch deletes the variance based speed three partitioning.
Speed 3 now uses the same partitioning method as speed 2
but with some stricter conditions.
The speed and quality are now somewhere between speeds 2 and 4
whereas before it was worse in both than speed 4.
Change-Id: Ia142e7007299d79db3ceee6ca8670540db6f7a41
Some small changes to the quantizer mapping functions.
Also includes some cleanups.
Change-Id: I9dea29b24015f6e6697012a0e4d8983049d8e5c7
Results:
derfraw300: +0.106%
stdhdraw250: +0.139%
Adds modeled functions to decide the qp for altref frames in constant q
mode similar to other functions in use in bitrate mode.
Also turns on the constrained quality mode (end-usage=2) option which
was turned off before. Basic testing shows the mode works in principle,
to cap bitrate to the target-bitrate specified, while allowing lower
bitrate depending on the cq-level specified. The mode will need to be
improved over time.
Results for constant quality vs bitrate control mode:
derfraw300/fullderfraw: +3.0% at constant quality over bitrate control.
fullstdhdraw: +4.341%
stdhdraw250: +5.361%
Change-Id: If5027c9ec66c8e88d33e47062c6cb84a07b1cda9
This commit enables adaptive constraint on motion search range for
smaller partitions, given the motion vectors of collocated larger
partition as a candidate initial search point.
It makes speed 0 runtime of bus at CIF and 2000 kbps goes from
167s down to 162s (3% speed-up), at 0.01dB performance gains. In
the settings of speed 1, this makes the runtime goes from 33687 ms
to 32142 ms (4.5% speed-up), at 0.03dB performance gains.
Compression performance wise, it gains at speed 1:
derf 0.118%
yt 0.237%
hd 0.203%
stdhd 0.438%
Change-Id: Ic8b34c67810d9504a9579bef2825d3fa54b69454
Removes this speed feature since it is very slow and unlikely
to be used in practice. This cleanup removes a bunch of unnecessary
complications in the outer encode loop.
Change-Id: I3c66ef1ca924fbfad7dadff297c9e7f652d308a1
Propose some changes to the speed 2 settings to improve quality.
In particular, turns off the adjust_thresholds_by_speed feature
which improves results by 6%. Also removes the code for
adjust_thresholds_by_speed since it conflicts with the adaptive
rd thresh feature.
Overall, with this change speed 2 is -15.2% from speed 0 settings,
on derf, which is significantly better than -21.6% down before.
Change-Id: I6e90a563470979eb0c258ec32d6183ed7ce9a505
mode_info_context was stored as a grid of MODE_INFO structs.
The grid now constists of pointers to MODE_INFO structs. The
MODE_INFO structs are now stored as a stream (decoder only),
eliminating unnecessary copies and is a little more cache
friendly.
Change-Id: I031d376284c6eb98a38ad5595b797f048a6cfc0d
Thank Paul for the suggestions. While turning on static-thresh
for static-image videos, a big jump on bitrate was seen. In this
patch, we detected static frames in the video using first-pass
stats. For different cases, disable encode breakout or reduce
encode breakout threshold to limit the skipping.
More modification need be done to break incorrect partition
picking pattern for static frames while skipping happens.
Change-Id: Ia25f47041af0f04e229c70a0185e12b0ffa6047f
A previous speed feature skipped modes not used in earlier
partitions but this not longer worked as intended following
changes to the partition coding order and in conjunction
with some other speed features (Especially speed 2 and above).
This modified mode skip feature sets a mask after the first X
modes have been tested in each partition depending on the
reference frame of the current best case.
This patch also makes some changes to the order modes are
tested to fit better with this skip functionality.
Initial testing suggests speed and rd hit count improvements
of up to 20% at speed 1. Quality results. (derf -1.9%, std hd +0.23%).
Change-Id: Idd8efa656cbc0c28f06d09690984c1f18b1115e1
Sample app: vp9_spatial_scalable_encoder
vpx_codec_control extensions:
VP9E_SET_SVC
VP9E_SET_WIDTH, VP9E_SET_HEIGHT, VP9E_SET_LAYER
VP9E_SET_MIN_Q, VP9E_SET_MAX_Q
expanded buffer size for vp9_convolve
modified setting of initial width in vp9_onyx_if.c so that layer size
can be set prior to initial encode
Default number of layers set to 3 (VPX_SS_DEFAULT_LAYERS)
Number of layers set explicitly in vpx_codec_enc_cfg.ss_number_layers
Change-Id: I2c7a6fe6d665113671337032f7ad032430ac4197
Adds a new end-usage option for constant quality encoding in vpx. This
first version implemented for VP9, encodes all regular inter frames
using the quality specified in the --cq-level= option, while encoding
all key frames and golden/altref frames at a quality better than that.
The current performance on derfraw300 is +0.910% up from bitrate control,
but achieved without multiple recode loops per frame.
The decision for qp for each altref/golden/key frame will be improved
in subsequent patches based on better use of stats from the first pass.
Further, the qp for regular inter frames may also be varied around the
provided cq-level.
Change-Id: I6c4a2a68563679d60e0616ebcb11698578615fb3
mode_info_context was stored as a grid of MODE_INFO structs.
The grid now constists of a pointer to a MODE_INFO struct and
a "in the image" flag. The MODE_INFO structs are now stored
as a stream, eliminating unnecessary copies and is a little
more cache friendly.
For the test clips used, the decoder performance improved
by ~4.3% (1080p) and ~9.7% (720p).
Patch Set 2: Re-encoded clips with latest. Now ~1.7% (1080p)
and 5.9% (720p).
Change-Id: I846f29e88610fce2523ca697a9a9ef2a182e9256
Added some code to output normalized rd hit count stats.
In effect this approximates to the average number of rd
operations/tests per pixel for the sequence.
The results are not quite accurate and I have not bothered
to account for partial SB64s at frame edges and for key frames
However they do give some idea of the number of modes /
prediction methods being tested for each pixel across the
different partition sizes. This indicates how much scope their
is for further gains either by reducing the number of partitions
examined or the modes per partition through heuristics.
Patch 3 moved place where count incremented so partial rd
tests that are aborted with INT_MAX return are also counted.
Example numbers for first 50 frames of Akiyo.
Speed 0 ~84.4 rd operations / pixel
Speed 1 ~28.8
Speed 2 ~11.9
Change-Id: Ib956e787e12f7fa8b12d3a1a2f6cda19a65a6cb8
