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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
vpx Multi-Format Codec SDK
README - 19 May 2010
Welcome to the WebM VP8 Codec SDK!
COMPILING THE APPLICATIONS/LIBRARIES:
The build system used is similar to autotools. Building generally consists of
"configuring" with your desired build options, then using GNU make to build
the application.
1. Prerequisites
* All x86 targets require the Yasm[1] assembler be installed.
* All Windows builds require that Cygwin[2] be installed.
* Building the documentation requires PHP[3] and Doxygen[4]. If you do not
have these packages, you must pass --disable-install-docs to the
configure script.
[1]: http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm
[2]: http://www.cygwin.com
[3]: http://php.net
[4]: http://www.doxygen.org
2. Out-of-tree builds
Out of tree builds are a supported method of building the application. For
an out of tree build, the source tree is kept separate from the object
files produced during compilation. For instance:
$ mkdir build
$ cd build
$ ../libvpx/configure <options>
$ make
3. Configuration options
The 'configure' script supports a number of options. The --help option can be
used to get a list of supported options:
$ ../libvpx/configure --help
4. Cross development
For cross development, the most notable option is the --target option. The
most up-to-date list of supported targets can be found at the bottom of the
--help output of the configure script. As of this writing, the list of
available targets is:
armv5te-linux-rvct
armv5te-linux-gcc
armv5te-symbian-gcc
armv6-darwin-gcc
armv6-linux-rvct
armv6-linux-gcc
armv6-symbian-gcc
iwmmxt-linux-rvct
iwmmxt-linux-gcc
iwmmxt2-linux-rvct
iwmmxt2-linux-gcc
armv7-linux-rvct
armv7-linux-gcc
mips32-linux-gcc
ppc32-darwin8-gcc
ppc32-darwin9-gcc
ppc64-darwin8-gcc
ppc64-darwin9-gcc
ppc64-linux-gcc
x86-darwin8-gcc
x86-darwin8-icc
x86-darwin9-gcc
x86-darwin9-icc
x86-linux-gcc
x86-linux-icc
x86-solaris-gcc
x86-win32-vs7
x86-win32-vs8
x86_64-darwin9-gcc
x86_64-linux-gcc
x86_64-solaris-gcc
x86_64-win64-vs8
universal-darwin8-gcc
universal-darwin9-gcc
generic-gnu
The generic-gnu target, in conjunction with the CROSS environment variable,
can be used to cross compile architectures that aren't explicitly listed, if
the toolchain is a cross GNU (gcc/binutils) toolchain. Other POSIX toolchains
will likely work as well. For instance, to build using the mipsel-linux-uclibc
toolchain, the following command could be used (note, POSIX SH syntax, adapt
to your shell as necessary):
$ CROSS=mipsel-linux-uclibc- ../libvpx/configure
In addition, the executables to be invoked can be overridden by specifying the
environment variables: CC, AR, LD, AS, STRIP, NM. Additional flags can be
passed to these executables with CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, and ASFLAGS.
5. Configuration errors
If the configuration step fails, the first step is to look in the error log.
This defaults to config.err. This should give a good indication of what went
wrong. If not, contact us for support.
SUPPORT
This library is an open source project supported by its community. Please
please email webm-users@webmproject.org for help.