This speed feature allows the encoder to largely remove the spatial
dependency between blocks inside a 64x64 superblock, thereby removing
the need to repeatedly encode superblocks per partition type in the
rate-distortion optimization loop.
A major challenge lies in the intra modes tested in the rate-distortion
optimization loop. The subsequent blocks do not have access to the
reconstructed boundary pixels without the intermediate coding steps.
This was resolved by using the original pixels for intra prediction
in the rd loop, followed by an appropriately designed distortion
modeling on the quantization parameters. Experiments also suggested
that the performance impact is more discernible at lower bit-rate/psnr
settings. Hence a quantizer dependent threshold is applied to deactivate
skip of block coding.
For bus_cif at 2000 kbps,
speed 0: runtime 269854ms -> 237774ms (12% speed-up) at 0.05dB
performance loss.
speed 1: runtime 65312ms -> 61536ms, (7% speed-up) at 0.04dB
performance loss.
This operation is currently turned on in settings of speed 1.
Change-Id: Ib689741dfff8dd38365d8c1b92860a3e176f56ec
Adding missed parenthesis around boolean expressions. Bitstream is changed.
Regenerating test vectors.
Change-Id: I4cc00b761e9473f92f180a9fc3a0c607f0aaae56
This function is actually called from set_offsets which is called right
before vp9_read_mode_info.
Change-Id: Ibb9d5ad606194bc80eab264fad85b31c9dfd8f77
Implements some of the helper functions more efficiently with
lookups rathers than branches. Modeling function is consolidated
to reduce some computations.
Also merged the two enums BLOCK_SIZE_TYPES and BlockSize into
one because there is no need to keep them separate (even though
the semantics are a little different).
No bitstream or output change.
About 0.5% speedup
Change-Id: I7d71a66e8031ddb340744dc493f22976052b8f9f
Adding segmentation struct to vp9_seg_common.h. Struct members are from
macroblockd and VP9Common structs. Moving segmentation related constants
and enums to vp9_seg_common.h.
Change-Id: I23fabc33f11a359249f5f80d161daf569d02ec03
Independent horizontal and vertical implementations.
Requires that blocks be built from 4x4 and [xy]_step_q4 == 16
6-10% improvement. CIF improved the least.
Change-Id: I137f5ceae4440adc0960bf88e4453e55a618bcda
The function encode_block is called only by inter-prediction modes,
hence removing the transform type branching there.
Change-Id: I34a3172e28ce2388835efd0f8781922211bff857
With sf->auto_mv_step_size on it is questionable
whether sf->reduce_first_step_size is worthwhile.
At speed 2 it was not having a big impact.
Even at speed 2 sf->optimize_coefficients = 0 is not
having a big speed imapct so for now I have moved it
down into a higher speed setting.
Change-Id: I8a54de76d486ad37aabce76474889da2768b14c1
Enable SSE2 4x4 inverse ADST/DCT transform. The runtime goes from
292 cycles down to 89 cycles. Running bus_cif at 2000 kbps, the
overall runtime of speed 0 goes from 301s to 295s (2% speed-up).
Change-Id: I24098136e7fee7ab2fbf1c11755bdf2ca37f3628
Where possible, do the 16 pixel wide filter while doing the horizontal
filtering pass. The same approach can be taken for the mbloop_filter
when that's implemented. Doing so on the vertical pass is a little more
involved, but possible.
Change-Id: I010cb505e623464247ae8f67fa25a0cdac091320
