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
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
Patch set 2: 64 bit build fix
Patch set 3: 64 bit crash fix
[Tero]
Patch set 4: Updated ARMv6 and NEON assembly.
Added also minor NEON optimizations to subtract
functions.
Patch set 5: x86 stride bug fix
Change-Id: I1fcca93e90c89b89ddc204e1c18f208682675c15
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
Added ARM optimized intra 4x4 prediction
- 2x faster on Profiler compared to C-code compiled with -O3
- Function interface changed a little to improve BLOCKD structure
access
Change-Id: I9bc2b723155943fe0cf03dd9ca5f1760f7a81f54
It is discovered that in rare situations the 2nd order block may
produce a few small magnitude coefficients that has no effect on
reconstruction. The situations are a combination of low quantizer
values (high quality) and low energy in residual signals (content
dependent). This commit added code to detect such cases and reset
the 2nd order block to all 0.
Patch 1 to 4 used code to do all-zero-check on idct result buffer,
and tests on derf set showed a consistent gain of .12%-.14% on all
metrics.But due to a recent change Ie31d90b, the idct result buffer
is not longer populated. So patch 5&6 use an alternative method to
detect the situations. Tests on derf set now shows a consistent
quality gain of .16%-.20%.
As suggested by Jim, Patch 7&8 removed the condition of all first
order block not having any coefficient, instead we reset 2nd order
coefficients to all 0 if sum of absolute value of the coefficients
is small. So it does slightly more than just detecting the oddity
as discussed above, but tests on derf set now show a consistent
gain of .20%-.23% on all metrics.
It is worth noting here that this change does not have any effect
on mid/high quantizer range, it only affects the quantizer value
18 or blow. Within this range, the change helps compression by up
to 2.5% on clips in the derf set.
Change-Id: I718e19cf59a4fc2462cb7070832759beb9f7e7dd
Instead of using the predict buffer, the decoder now writes
the predictor into the recon buffer. For blocks with eob=0,
unnecessary idcts can be eliminated. This gave a performance
boost of ~1.8% for the HD clips used.
Tero: Added needed changes to ARM side and scheduled some
assembly code to prevent interlocks.
Patch Set 6: Merged (I1bcdca7a95aacc3a181b9faa6b10e3a71ee24df3)
into this commit because of similarities in the idct
functions.
Patch Set 7: EC bug fix.
Change-Id: Ie31d90b5d3522e1108163f2ac491e455e3f955e6
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
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
Small decode performance gain (~1%) on keyframes. No
noticeable gains on encode. Also changed pick_intra4x4mby_modes()
to read the above and left block modes for keyframes only.
Change-Id: I1f4885252f5b3e9caf04d4e01e643960f910aba5
Declared the bmi in BLOCKD as a union instead of B_MODE_INFO.
Then removed B_MODE_INFO completely.
Change-Id: Ieb7469899e265892c66f7aeac87b7f2bf38e7a67
Declared the bmi in MODE_INFO as a union instead of B_MODE_INFO.
This reduced the memory footprint by 518,400 bytes for 1080
resolutions. The decoder performance improved by ~4% for the
clip used and the encoder showed very small improvements. (0.5%)
This reduction was first mentioned to me by John K. and in a
later discussion by Yaowu.
This is WIP.
Change-Id: I8e175fdbc46d28c35277302a04bee4540efc8d29
The variable is introduced in commit 2e53e9e53 to make more use of
trellis quantization, but this is no longer necessary after RDMULT
was made adaptive in a number of later commits.
Change-Id: I7420522ec7723f38cf77033466c25afb405d52ae
A large number of functions were defined with external linkage, even
though they were only used from within one file. This patch changes
their linkage to static and removes the vp8_ prefix from their names,
which should make it more obvious to the reader that the function is
contained within the current translation unit. Functions that were
not referenced were removed.
These symbols were identified by:
$ nm -A libvpx.a | sort -k3 | uniq -c -f2 | grep ' [A-Z] ' \
| sort | grep '^ *1 '
Change-Id: I59609f58ab65312012c047036ae1e0634f795779
The vp8_build_intra_predictors_mby and vp8_build_intra_predictors_mby_s
functions had global function pointers rather than using the RTCD
framework. This can show up as a potential data race with tools such as
helgrind. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640935
for an example.
Change-Id: I29c407f828ac2bddfc039f852f138de5de888534
Eliminated unnecessary calculations. Improved performance
by 10% on keyframes and 1.6% overall for the test clip used.
Change-Id: I87671b26af5e2cc439e81d0fee3b15c7cd2a3309
Use the function macro_block_yrd() to calculate error and distortion
in keeping with what is done for inter frames.
The old code was using a variance metric for once case and an
SSE function for measuring distortion in the other case.
The function vp8_encode_intra16x16mbyrd() is no longer used.
Change-Id: Ic228cb00a78ff637f4365b43f58fbe5a9273d36f
ARM NEON has a platform specific version of vp8_recon16x16mb, though
it's just a stub to extract the various parameters from the
MACROBLOCKD struct and pass them to vp8_recon16x16mb_neon(). Using
that function's prototype directly will be a better long term solution,
but it's quite an invasive change.
Change-Id: I04273149e2ade34749e2d09e7edb0c396e1dd620
when a subsequent frame is encoded as an alt reference frame, it is
unlikely that any mb in current frame will be used as reference for
future frames, so we can enable quantization optimization even when
the RD constant is slightly rate-biased. The change has an overall
benefit between 0.1% to 0.2% bit savings on the test sets based on
vpxssim scores.
Change-Id: I9aa7bc5cd573ea84e3ee655d2834c18c4460ceea
This patch moves the scattered updates to the mb skip state
(mode_info_context->mbmi.mb_skip_coeff) to vp8_tokenize_mb. Recent
changes to the quantizer exposed a bug where if a macroblock
could be coded as a skip but isn't, the encoder would run the
loopfilter but the decoder wouldn't, causing a reference buffer
mismatch.
The loopfilter is controlled by a flag called dc_diff. The decoder
looks at the number of decoded coefficients when setting this flag.
The encoder sets this flag based on the skip state, since any
skippable macroblock should be transmitted as a skip. The coefficient
optimization pass (vp8_optimize_b()) could change the coefficients
such that a block that was not a skip becomes one. The encoder was
not updating the skip state in this situation for intra coded blocks.
The underlying issue predates it, but this bug was recently triggered
by enabling trellis quantization on the Y2 block in commit dcd29e3,
and by changing the quantizer range control in commit 305be4e.
Change-Id: I5cce5da0dbc2d22f7d79ee48149f01e868a64802
This uses MB variance to change the RDO weight for mode decision
and quantization.
Activity is normalized against the average for the frame, which is
currently tracked using feed-forward statistics.
This could also be used to adjust the quantizer for the entire
frame, but that requires more extensive rate control changes.
This does not yet attempt to adapt the quantizer within the frame,
but the signaling cost means that will likely only be useful at
very high rates.
Change-Id: I26cd7c755cac3ff33cfe0688b1da50b2b87b9c93
Changes 'The VP8 project' to 'The WebM project', for consistency
with other webmproject.org repositories.
Fixes issue #97.
Change-Id: I37c13ed5fbdb9d334ceef71c6350e9febed9bbba
These copies occurred for each macroblock in the encoder and decoder.
Thetemp MB_MODE_INFO mbmi was removed from MACROBLOCKD. As a result,
a large number compile errors had to be fixed.
Change-Id: I4cf0ffae3ce244f6db04a4c217d52dd256382cf3
Replace the exponential search for optimal rounding during
quantization with a linear Viterbi trellis and enable it
by default when using --best.
Right now this operates on top of the output of the adaptive
zero-bin quantizer in vp8_regular_quantize_b() and gives a small
gain.
It can be tested as a replacement for that quantizer by
enabling the call to vp8_strict_quantize_b(), which uses
normal rounding and no zero bin offset.
Ultimately, the quantizer will have to become a function of lambda
in order to take advantage of activity masking, since there is
limited ability to change the quantization factor itself.
However, currently vp8_strict_quantize_b() plus the trellis
quantizer (which is lambda-dependent) loses to
vp8_regular_quantize_b() alone (which is not) on my test clip.
Patch Set 3:
Fix an issue related to the cost evaluation of successor
states when a coefficient is reduced to zero. With this
issue fixed, now the trellis search almost exactly matches
the exponential search.
Patch Set 2:
Overall, the goal of this patch set is to make "trellis"
search to produce encodings that match the exponential
search version. There are three main differences between
Patch Set 2 and 1:
a. Patch set 1 did not properly account for the scale of
2nd order error, so patch set 2 disable it all together
for 2nd blocks.
b. Patch set 1 was not consistent on when to enable the
the quantization optimization. Patch set 2 restore the
condition to be consistent.
c. Patch set 1 checks quantized level L-1, and L for any
input coefficient was quantized to L. Patch set 2 limits
the candidate coefficient to those that were rounded up
to L. It is worth noting here that a strategy to check
L and L+1 for coefficients that were truncated down to L
might work.
(a and b get trellis quant to basically match the exponential
search on all mid/low rate encodings on cif set, without
a, b, trellis quant can hurt the psnr by 0.2 to .3db at
200kbps for some cif clips)
(c gets trellis quant to match the exponential search
to match at Q0 encoding, without c, trellis quant can be
1.5 to 2db lower for encodings with fixed Q at 0 on most
derf cif clips)
Change-Id: Ib1a043b665d75fbf00cb0257b7c18e90eebab95e
The new fdct lowers the round trip sum squared error for a
4x4 block ~0.12. or ~0.008/pixel. For reference, the old
matrix multiply version has average round trip error 1.46
for a 4x4 block.
Thanks to "derf" for his suggestions and references.
Change-Id: I5559d1e81d333b319404ab16b336b739f87afc79
When the license headers were updated, they accidentally contained
trailing whitespace, so unfortunately we have to touch all the files
again.
Change-Id: I236c05fade06589e417179c0444cb39b09e4200d
