I0c5f010 changed to allow update golden reference buffer in CBR mode,
this commit changes the use of rate_correction_factor for those frames
to be aligned with the new usage. This commit attempts to solve two
issues:
a. Initialization of rate correction factor for Golden Frame
Prior to this patch, even the regular inter frame has been update
the rate correction factor based on content and encoding results,
the first golden frame would still use the ininitialized value
that can be way off.
b. Allowing rate correction factor update to be slightly faster
Prior to this patch, when the rate correction factor is off, the
update to the factor is too slow, the factor could not get close
to a semi-correct value even after many frames.
The commit helps all clips in psnr/ssim metric, but especially to
a few clip in RTC set that rate correction was way off. For example
thaloundeskmtgvga gained about .5dB for both overall/average psnr.
Change-Id: I0be5c41691be57891d824505348b64be87fa3545
This patch was to fix the vpxdec fuzzing3 test failure. When an
error occurs, setjmp() is invoked, which calls the decoder
removing routine. In multiple thread situation, other threads
could try to access the frame context memory that is already
deallocated, thus causing a segfault.
An invalid unit test was added for this issue.
Change-Id: Ida7442154f3d89759483f0f4fe0324041fffb952
The aim of this patch is to apply a positive weighting to
frames that have a significant number of blocks that are
of low spatial complexity and are dark. The rationale behind
this is that artifacts tend to be more visible in such frames.
In this patch the weight is only applied in regard to the distribution
of bits between frames. Hence if all the frames share similar
characteristics (as is the case for most of our short test clips) there
will be little or no net effect.
However, the effect can be seen on some longer form test content.
For example Tears of steel baseline test:
2323.09 Kbit/s opsnr 39.915 ssim 74.729
With this patch:-
2213.34 Kbit/s opsnr 39.963 ssim 74.808
(Sligtly better metrics and about 5% smaller)
The weighting may well need some further tuning along side changes
to the aq modes.
Change-Id: Ieced379bca03938166ab87b2b97f55d94948904c
This commit removes the cyclic aq mode dependency on
in_static_area and reworks the corresponding cut-off thresholds.
It improves the compression performance of speed -5 by 1.47% in
PSNR and 2.07% in SSIM, and the compression performance of speed
-6 by 3.10% in PSNR and 5.25% in SSIM. Speed wise, about 1% faster
in both settings at high bit-rates.
Change-Id: I1ffc775afdc047964448d9dff5751491ba4ff4a9
This will save the memory and improve the decode speed due to
removing unnecessary memset of big prev_mi array for
all the key frames.
Decoding a all key frames 1080p video shows speed improve around 2%.
Change-Id: I6284a445c1291056e3c15135c3c20d502f791c10
This commit makes the RTC coding mode to conditionally skip the
reference frame mode search, when the predicted motion vector of
the current reference frame gives more than two times sum of
absolute difference compared to that of other reference frames.
It reduces the runtim by 1% - 4% for speed -5 and -6. The average
compression performance is improved by about 0.1% in both settings.
It is of particular benefit to light change scenarios. The
compression performance of test clip mmmovingvga.y4m is improved by
6.39% and 15.69% at high bit rates for speed -5 and -6, respectively.
Speed -5
vidyo1 16555 b/f, 40.818 dB, 12422 ms ->
16552 b/f, 40.804 dB, 12100 ms
nik 33211 b/f, 39.138 dB, 11341 ms ->
33228 b/f, 39.139 dB, 11023 ms
mmmoving 33263 b/f, 40.935 dB, 13508 ms ->
33256 b/f, 41.068 dB, 12861 ms
Speed -6
vidyo1 16541 b/f, 40.227 dB, 8437 ms ->
16540 b/f, 40.220 dB, 8216 ms
nik 33272 b/f, 38.399 dB, 7610 ms ->
33267 b/f, 38.414 dB, 7490 ms
mmmoving 33255 b/f, 40.555 dB, 7523 ms ->
33257 b/f, 40.975 dB, 7493 ms
Change-Id: Id2aef76ef74a3cba5e9a82a83b792144948c6a91
This commit unfolds the legacy macro definitions used in the
sub-pixel motion search and refactors the operational flow for
later optimizations.
Change-Id: I3e3f770cad961d03d1a6eb0b2a0186cc77eaf2b8
The current logic was allowing for disabling golden refresh only
for two pass svc encoding. This change disables it as long as
more than 1 layer encoding is used (for example temporal layers under 1pass CBR).
Change-Id: I4dc5204a7ad365c821ec7963e93b59da82e1826b
A recent change has introduced big quality drops for speed 7 and 12
for --rt mode. The change reverted the big drop and improved quality
by 9.5% for speed 7 and 13.4% for speed 12.
Change-Id: I07b82e3bb6002a73af486a083458c88877bdad01
This will save a lot of memory for decoder due to removing of prev_mi,
but prev_mi is still needed in encoder. So this will increase a little bit
memory for encoder.
Change-Id: I24b2f1a423ebffa55a9bd2fcee1077dac995b2ed
This commit makes the inter prediction buffer system to support
hybrid partition search. It reduces the runtime of speed -5 by
about 3%. No compression performance change.
vidyo1 720p 1000 kbps
11831 ms -> 11497 ms
nik 720p 1000 kbps
10919 ms -> 10645 ms
Change-Id: I5b2da747c6395c253cd074d3907f5402e1840c36
Combined vp9_denoiser_8xM_sse2 and vp9_denoiser_4xM_sse2 into one
function vp9_denoiser_NxM_sse2_small and passed the bitexact testing.
Changed the name of the function vp9_denoiser_64_32_16xM_sse2 to
vp9_denoiser_NxM_sse2_big.
Change-Id: Ib22478df585994dd347ebae04202c0b701e7f451
This commit changes to allow the usage of golden reference frame in
VP9 CBR mode to improve quality. VP9 supports potentially up to 8
reference buffers, it has reference buffers available for this
purpose. This was not possible in VP8 as golden and alt-ref buffers
were used for temporal scalability purpose in CBR mode in WebRTC.
For frames that update golden frame, there can be a quality boost.
The amount of allowed bitrate boost can be controlled via parameter
rc_max_inter_bitrate_pct. The inital value of the boost ratior is
currently based on over_shoot_pct. Further experiments will work
out the adaption of this boost value.
Change-Id: I0c5f010c8fd8b7b598f69779c1b30e5b2ac30a4d
Added code to relax the active maximum Q in response
to extreme local overshoot to reduce bandwidth peaks.
The impact is small in metrics terms, but it this helps reduce
bandwidth spikes and overall overshoot in a number of
clips in our tests sets (especially the YT test set).
In particular this should help prevent very big spikes where a clip
is mainly easy but has a short hard section. In such a case a choice
of maximum Q for the clip as a whole may allow us to hit the overall
target rate but give some extreme spikes. The chunked encoding in YT
mitigates this problem but it can show up where a longer clip is
coded as a single chunk.
Change-Id: I213d09950ccb8489d10adf00fda1e53235b39203
The zero motion vector was effectively used in the subsampled pixel
based variance calculation. This commit makes it directly use zero
mv to generate prediction.
Change-Id: Ica83dc843e9f8da2f89c3ef451e50f16214c0def