Bug relating to issue:- http://b/25090786
base_frame_target is supposed to track the idealized bit
allocation based on error score and not the actual bits
allocated to each frame.
The clamping of this value based on the VBR min and max pct values
was causing a bug where in some cases the loop that adjusts the
active max quantizer for each GF group was running out of bits at
the end of a KF group. This caused a spike in Q and some ugly artifacts.
A second change makes sure that the calculation of the active
Q range for a group DOES, however, take account of clamping.
Change-Id: I31035e97d18853530b0874b433c1da7703f607d1
The normative (convolve8) filter is optimized/faster than
the nonnormative one. Pass usage of scaler (normative/nonomorative)
to vp9_scale_if_required(), and always use normative one for 1 pass.
Change-Id: I2b71d9ff18b3c7499b058d1325a9554de993dd52
From Change Ibf0c30b72074b3f71918ab278ccccc02a95a70a0
There is still an issue relating to one animated test clip with repeat
patterns where this change effectively increase the default maximum
arf interval by +1. This can be examined seperately.
Change-Id: Idd01d5480fc45202d8a059a0c3afc0997cc5bdd1
Change speed features / behavior for split mode when there
is an internal active edge (e.g. formatting bars).
Remove some threshold constraints in rd code near the active
edge of the image.
Add some plumbing for left and right active edge detection.
Patch set 5. Limit rd pass through for sub 8x8 to internal active edges.
This takes away any speed penalty for most clips but keeps the enhanced
edge coding for the more critical case of internal image edges
Change-Id: If644e4762874de4fe9cbb0a66211953fa74c13a5
Adds two new vp9 parameters --min-gf-interval and --max-gf-interval
to enable testing based on frequency of alt-ref frames.
Also adds a unit-test to test enforcement of min-gf-interval.
For both these parameters the default value is 0, which indicates
they are picked by the encoder, based on resolution and framerate
considerations. If they are greater than zero, the specified
parameter is honored.
(Additional note by paulwilkins)
Note that there is a slight oddity in that key frames are also GFs and
considered part of GF only group. However they are treated as not
being part of an arf group because for arf groups the previous GF is
assumed to be the terminal or overlay frame for the previous group.
(end note)
Change-Id: Ibf0c30b72074b3f71918ab278ccccc02a95a70a0
Correct the ARF boost calculations to partly discount
inactive or very low energy regions of the image.
Examples (formatting bars and 0 energy areas of animated clips).
Change-Id: I241af058d10aba8c67a4deca36deb913047d4561
Some initial experiments into discounting dead zone
formating bars and intra skip blocks (common in some
types of animation and graphics) in the calculation of
the active max Q for each ARF/GF group.
TODO: check for vertical formating bars and validate the
horizontal bar at the bottom edge of the image.
As expected, this change as it stands, does not make much
difference for the natural videos in the std-hd and derf sets.
However, for the yt and yt hd set there is a significant rise
in the average PSNR with overall PSNR and SSIM remaining
neutral.
The mean rise for the YT-HD test set was > 6%. This is mainly
because the change allows Q to drop further on titles and
other graphics sections where spending a small number of
extra bits gives a sharp rise in PSNR.
Change-Id: I3f878ae91fc1854312d7ecf9fa792c17bc1aa6b7
For content that is identified as likely to contain some
animation or graphics content, increase the availability
of split modes for good quality speeds 1-3.
On a problem test animation clip this improves metrics
results by about 0.25 db and makes a noticeable difference
visually. It also causes a small drop in file size (~0.5%) but
a rise in encode time of about 5-6% at speed 2.
For more normal content it should have no effect.
Change-Id: Ic4cd9a8de065af9f9402f4477a17442aebf0e439
Adds code to detect dead zone bars at the top and bottom
of reformatted letterbox video (note that the code only
looks at the top of the image and assumes any dead zone
is symmetrical). Use of this to adapt rate control etc.
will follow in a subsequent patch.
Also counts other blocks (excluding the dead zone) that
have no intra signal. The presence of a significant
number of such blocks can be used as a identify that the frame
may be artificial (e.g. animation, screen capture, graphics).
This patch contains plumbing only and does not use
the signal.
Change-Id: I59bc93529cd4065416cef773e405fda3ae006a20
This patch provides a partial rapid feedback of bits
resulting from extreme undershoot.
Some improvement on some problem animated material
but in its current form only a small impact on the metrics results
of our standard test sets.
Change-Id: Ie03036ea8123bc2553437cb8c8c9e7a9fc5dac5d
This patch addresses two issues that can occur when the
encoder chooses to use a mixture of ARF and GF groups.
The first issue relates to a failure to reset the "ARF active" flag
correctly when transitioning from coding ARF groups to coding
GF groups. This caused some golden frames to be encoded
with an incorrect bit rate target as if they were ARF overlay frames.
The second issue relates to the encoding of a single short GF group
just before a key frame. Where the last group before a key frame
is an ARF group we expect the final frame before the key frame to
be an low data rate overlay frame. However, when the last group
is a GF group, the final frame before the key frame should be a normal
frame with a normal bit allocation. This issue had the potential to cause
a single poorly coded frame just before a key frame. If that key frame
were a forced key frame rather than a real scene cut, this might cause
pulsing.
Change-Id: Idf1eb5eaf63a231495a74de7899236e1ead9fb00
With the sad functions, and hopefully the variance functions soon,
moving to the vpx_dsp location, place the defines used in the
reference C code in a common location.
Change-Id: I4c8ce7778eb38a0a3ee674d2f1c488eda01cfeca
Previously limit on max interval set to 0.5 seconds.
Though this helped some low frame rate material it
appears to be a bit too aggressive for some 24 and 25 fps
content. This patch relaxes the limit to 0.75 seconds.
The patch also adds a new minimum interval variable
to replace the current hard wired value. This allows us
to impose a limit on the maximum number of primary
arfs per second for high frame rate (e.g. 50 & 60fps)
content. This is to address concerns regarding playback
performance on some platforms if there is a high base
frame rate and very frequent arfs.
Change-Id: I373e8b6b2a8ef522eced6c6d2cceb234ff763fcf
(see I3a05cf1610679fed26e0b2eadd315a9ae91afdd6)
For the test clip used, the decoder performance improved by ~2%.
This is also an intermediate step towards adding back the
mode_info streams.
Change-Id: Idddc4a3f46e4180fbebddc156c4bbf177d5c2e0d
The existing test was triggering a lot of false positives on some types
of animated material with very plain backgrounds. These were triggering
code designed to catch key frames in letter box format clips.
This patch tightens up the criteria and imposes a minimum requirement
on the % blocks coded intra in the first pass and the ratio between the
% coded intra and the modified inter % after discounting neutral (flat)
blocks that are coded equally well either way.
On a particular problem animation clip this change eliminated a large
number of false positives including some cases where the old code
selected kf several times in a row. Marginal false negatives are less
damaging typically to compression and in the problem clip there are now
a couple of cases where "visual" scene cuts are ignored because of well
correlated content across the scene cut.
Replaced some magic numbers related to this with #defines and added
explanatory comments.
Change-Id: Ia3d304ac60eb7e4323e3817eaf83b4752cd63ecf
This patch limits the maximum arf interval length to
approximately half a second. In some low fps animations in
particular the existing code was selecting an overly long interval
which was hurting visual quality. For a sample problem test clip
(360P animation , 15fps, ~200Kbit/s) this change also improved
metrics by >0.5 db.
There may be some clips where this hurts metrics a little, but the
worst case impact visually is likely to be less than having an
interval that is much too long. On more normal material at 24
fps or higher, the impact is likely to be nil/minimal.
Change-Id: Id8b57413931a670c861213ea91d7cc596375a297
Modifies a special handling that improves rate control accuracy in
the constrained quality mode, when the undershoot and overshoot
limits are set tighter.
Change-Id: If62103f0ef3ed1cac92807400678c93da50cf046
Set the GF group adaptive max Q compile flag to 1 by default.
This change has a quite big visual impact in some clips and also
contributes to tighter rate control.
For short test clips that have consistent content the impact is
quite small on metrics but for more varied long form clips there is
a drop in overal psnr but a sharp rise in average psnr caused by
greater expenditure on some easier sections and tighter rate clipping
in hard sections.
In chunck'ed encodes some of the effect will already be present due
to the independent rate control in each chunk but this change takes
the control down to a smaller scale.
yt hd +10.67%, - 3.77%, -1.56%
yt +9.654%, - 3.6%, - 1.82%
std hd +0.25%, -0.85%, -0.42%
derf +0.25%, - 1.1%. - 0.87%
Change-Id: Ibbc39b800d99d053939f4c6712d715124082843e
Revised adjustment for rd based on source complexity.
Two cases:
1) Bias against low variance intra predictors
when the actual source variance is higher.
2) When the source variance is very low to give a slight
bias against predictors that might introduce false texture
or features.
The impact on metrics of this change across the test sets is
small and mixed.
derf -0.073%, -0.049%, -0.291%
std hd -0.093%, -0.1%, -0.557%
yt +0.186%, +0.04%, - 0.074%
ythd +0.625%, + 0.563%, +0.584%
Medium to strong psycho-visual improvements in some
problem clips.
This feature and intra weight on GF group length now
turned on by default.
Change-Id: Idefc8b633a7b7bc56c42dbe19f6b2f872d73851e
This patch accounts in the first pass stats for blocks that
while not coded as intra, are complex and have an intra error /
best error ratio below a threshold.
The modification shortens the GF arf interval for a particular
class of content that contains a lot of blocks matching the
above criteria. (In one short problem test sequence the average
interval dropped from about 14-15 to 10-11)
The change results in small net gains in metrics results for the
Yt(~0.2%) and yt-hd (~0.5%) sets and is approximately neutral
for the other test sets.
The change is currently shielded by a flag and off by default
pending verification that it does not cause other regressions
in tests on a wider YT test set.
Change-Id: I6b803daa6a4ac09a6f428fb3a18be1ecedd974b7
Adjustment previously only enabled in VBR mode.
This patch allows adjustment of min and max q for CBR
and adjustment of max q only for CQ mode.
Change-Id: Id5e583f3d50453cd544fc57249acacd946457482
Frame buffers are now allocated dynamically on-demand.
Entries in the reference frame map, cm->ref_frame_map,
may now be set to -1 (INVALID_IDX) to indicate that
there is not a valid reference buffer in that "slot".
All slots in the reference frame map are now initialized
to the empty state (-1) and each buffer is initialized
to have a reference count of 0.
Change-Id: Id1afe98de98db4ae8b2dfefed7889c3b28c68582
