Change If4321cc5 fixed a bug caused by forward declarations not being
kept in sync across C files, resulting in a function call with the
wrong arguments. The commit moves the affected function declarations
into a header file, along with the other symbols from encodeframe.c
that were being sloppily shared.
Change-Id: I76a7b4c66d4fe175f9cbef7e52148655e4bb9ba1
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
mode_info_context->mbmi.mb_skip_coeff has to always reflect the
existence or not of coeffs for a certain MB. The loopfilter needs this
info.
mb_skip_coeff is either set by the vp8_tokenize_mb or has to be set to
1 when the MB is skipped by mode selection. This has to be done
regardless of the mb_no_coeff_skip value.
prob_skip_false is needed just when mb_no_coeff_skip is 1. No need to
keep count of both skip_false and skip_true as they are complementary
(skip_true+skip_false = total_mbs)
Change-Id: I3c74c9a0ee37bec10de7bb796e408f3e77006813
This commit continues the process of converting to the new RTCD
system. It removes the last of the VP8_ENCODER_RTCD struct references.
Change-Id: I2a44f52d7cccf5177e1ca98a028ead570d045395
This is a proof of concept RTCD implementation to replace the current
system of nested includes, prototypes, INVOKE macros, etc. Currently
only the decoder specific functions are implemented in the new system.
Additional functions will be added in subsequent commits.
Overview:
RTCD "functions" are implemented as either a global function pointer
or a macro (when only one eligible specialization available).
Functions which have RTCD specializations are listed using a simple
DSL identifying the function's base name, its prototype, and the
architecture extensions that specializations are available for.
Advantages over the old system:
- No INVOKE macros. A call to an RTCD function looks like an ordinary
function call.
- No need to pass vtables around.
- If there is only one eligible function to call, the function is
called directly, rather than indirecting through a function pointer.
- Supports the notion of "required" extensions, so in combination with
the above, on x86_64 if the best function available is sse2 or lower
it will be called directly, since all x86_64 platforms implement
sse2.
- Elides all references to functions which will never be called, which
could reduce binary size. For example if sse2 is required and there
are both mmx and sse2 implementations of a certain function, the
code will have no link time references to the mmx code.
- Significantly easier to add a new function, just one file to edit.
Disadvantages:
- Requires global writable data (though this is not a new requirement)
- 1 new generated source file.
Change-Id: Iae6edab65315f79c168485c96872641c5aa09d55
This patch removes the local copies of the dequantize
constants and implements John's idea as described
in "Make a local copy of the dequantized data" commit.
Change-Id: Ic6b7d681f00bf63263f71ff1e39ab2f80729e8b2
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
These functions are now used by the encoder.
This is WIP with the goal of creating a common idct/add for
the encoder and decoder. A boost of 1.8% was seen for
the HD rt test clip used.
[Tero] Added needed changes to ARM side.
Change-Id: Ibbb8000be09034203d7adffc457d3c3f8b06a5bf
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
Call the idct/add after the tokenize. This is WIP with
the goal of creating a common idct/add for the encoder and
decoder. This move is necessary because the decoder's version
of the idct clobbers qcoeff, which is used by the tokenize.
Change-Id: I6b08d8e8397cd873647fa4fb9469884e3c876756
vp8cx_mb_init_quantizer() needs to be called at least once to get
all values calculated. This change added one check to decide if
we could skip initialization or not.
Change-Id: I3f65eb548be57580a61444328336bc18c25c085b
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
vp8_update_zbin_extra() is called all the time even though the fast
quantizer doesn't use it. Skip this call if fast quantizer is used.
Change-Id: Ia711c38431930cc2486cf59b8466060ef0e9d9db
for SPLITMV and B_PRED modes. Modified code to use the bmi
found in mode_info_context instead of BLOCKD. On the decode
side, the uvmvs are calculated only when required, instead of
every macroblock. This is WIP. (bmi should eventually be
removed from BLOCKD)
Small performance gains noticed for RT encodes and decodes.(VGA)
Change-Id: I2ed7f0fd5ca733655df684aa82da575c77a973e7
I got this idea from Pascal (Thanks). Before encoding a macroblock,
copy it to a 16x16 buffer, and then read source data from there
instead. This will help keep the source data in cache, and help
with the performance.
Change-Id: Id05f4cb601299150511d59dcba0ae62c49b5b757
RDMULT/RDDIV defines a bit worth of distortion in term of sum squared
difference. This has also been used as errorperbit in subpixel motion
search, where the distortions computed as variance of the difference.
The variance of differences is different from sum squared differences
by amount of DC squared. Typically, for inter predicted MBs, this
difference averages around 10% between the two distortion, so this patch
introduces a 110% constant in deriving errorperbit from RDMULT/RDDIV.
Test on CIF set shows small but positive gain on overall PSNR (.03%)
and SSIM (.07%), overall impact on average PSNR is 0.
Change-Id: I95425f922d037b4d96083064a10c7cdd4948ee62
Moved encode_intra function from firstpass.c to encodeintra.c to
prevent linking problem in real-time only build. Also changed name
of the function to vp8_encode_intra because it is not a static.
Change-Id: Ibf3c6c1de3152567347e5fbef47d1d39564620a5
In activity masking, RDO constant RDMULT is adjusted on a per MB basis
adaptive to activity with the MB. errorperbit, which is defined as
RDMULT/RDDIV, is a constant used in motion estimation. Previously, in
activity masking, errorperbit is not changed even when RDMULT is changed.
This commit changed to adjust errorperbit according to the change in
RDMULT.
Test in cif set showed a very small but consistent gain by all quality
metrics (average, overall psnr and ssim) when activity masking is on.
Change-Id: I07ded3e852919ab76757691939fe435328273823
This change is analogous to I0b67dae1f8a74902378da7bdf565e39ab832dda7,
which made the move for the non-RD path.
Change-Id: If63fc1b0cd1eb7f932e710f83ff24d91454f8ed1
This commit moves the intra block mode selection from encodeframe.c
to pickinter.c (in the non-RD case). This allowed pick_intra_mbuv_mode
and pick_intra4x4mby_modes to be made static, and is a step towards
refactoring intra mode selection in the main pickinter loop. Gave a
small perf increase (~0.5%).
Change-Id: I0b67dae1f8a74902378da7bdf565e39ab832dda7
Some further re-structuring of activity masking code.
Still has various experimental switches.
Supports a metric based on intra encode.
Experimental comparison against a fixed activity target rather
than a frame average, for altering rd and zbin.
Overall the SSIM performance is similar to TT's original
code but there is a much smaller PSNR hit of circa
0.5% instead of 3.2%
Change-Id: I0fd53b2dfb60620b3f74d7415e0b81c1ac58c39a
The encoder defined about 4 set of similar functions to calculate sum,
variance or sse or a combination of them. This commit removed one set
of these functions, get8x8var and get16x16var, where calls to the later
function are replaced with var16x16 by using the fact on a 16x16 MB:
variance == sse - sum*sum/256
Change-Id: I803eabd1fb3ab177780a40338cbd596dffaed267
Declared the bmi in BLOCKD as a union instead of B_MODE_INFO.
Then removed B_MODE_INFO completely.
Change-Id: Ieb7469899e265892c66f7aeac87b7f2bf38e7a67
