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
RDMULT/RDDIV defines a bit worth of distortion in term of sum squared
difference. This has also been used as errorperbit in subpixel motion
search, where the distortions computed as variance of the difference.
The variance of differences is different from sum squared differences
by amount of DC squared. Typically, for inter predicted MBs, this
difference averages around 10% between the two distortion, so this patch
introduces a 110% constant in deriving errorperbit from RDMULT/RDDIV.
Test on CIF set shows small but positive gain on overall PSNR (.03%)
and SSIM (.07%), overall impact on average PSNR is 0.
Change-Id: I95425f922d037b4d96083064a10c7cdd4948ee62
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
In activity masking, RDO constant RDMULT is adjusted on a per MB basis
adaptive to activity with the MB. errorperbit, which is defined as
RDMULT/RDDIV, is a constant used in motion estimation. Previously, in
activity masking, errorperbit is not changed even when RDMULT is changed.
This commit changed to adjust errorperbit according to the change in
RDMULT.
Test in cif set showed a very small but consistent gain by all quality
metrics (average, overall psnr and ssim) when activity masking is on.
Change-Id: I07ded3e852919ab76757691939fe435328273823
This change is analogous to I0b67dae1f8a74902378da7bdf565e39ab832dda7,
which made the move for the non-RD path.
Change-Id: If63fc1b0cd1eb7f932e710f83ff24d91454f8ed1
This commit moves the intra block mode selection from encodeframe.c
to pickinter.c (in the non-RD case). This allowed pick_intra_mbuv_mode
and pick_intra4x4mby_modes to be made static, and is a step towards
refactoring intra mode selection in the main pickinter loop. Gave a
small perf increase (~0.5%).
Change-Id: I0b67dae1f8a74902378da7bdf565e39ab832dda7
Some further re-structuring of activity masking code.
Still has various experimental switches.
Supports a metric based on intra encode.
Experimental comparison against a fixed activity target rather
than a frame average, for altering rd and zbin.
Overall the SSIM performance is similar to TT's original
code but there is a much smaller PSNR hit of circa
0.5% instead of 3.2%
Change-Id: I0fd53b2dfb60620b3f74d7415e0b81c1ac58c39a
The encoder defined about 4 set of similar functions to calculate sum,
variance or sse or a combination of them. This commit removed one set
of these functions, get8x8var and get16x16var, where calls to the later
function are replaced with var16x16 by using the fact on a 16x16 MB:
variance == sse - sum*sum/256
Change-Id: I803eabd1fb3ab177780a40338cbd596dffaed267
Declared the bmi in BLOCKD as a union instead of B_MODE_INFO.
Then removed B_MODE_INFO completely.
Change-Id: Ieb7469899e265892c66f7aeac87b7f2bf38e7a67
vp8_fast_quantize_b_pair_neon function added to quantize
two adjacent blocks at the same time to improve performance.
- Additional 3-6% speedup compared to neon optimized fast
quantizer (Tanya VGA@30fps, 1Mbps stream, cpu-used=-5..-16)
Change-Id: I3fcbf141e5d05e9118c38ca37310458afbabaa4e
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
This commit restructures the mb activity masking code
to better facilitate experimentation using different metrics
etc. and also allows for adjustment of the zero bin either
for encode only or both the encode and mode selection
stages
It also uses information from the current frame rather than
the previous frame and the default strength has been
reduced.
Change-Id: Id39b19eace37574dc429f25aae810c203709629b
The compiler produces better assembly when using int_mv
for assignments. The compiler shifts and ors the two 16bit
values when assigning MV.
Change-Id: I52ce4bc2bfbfaf3f1151204b2f21e1e0654f960f
Paul pointed out that the pointer to the gf_active_flags is not being
properly incremented in multithreaded encoder. This commit fixes the
issue by making sure the gf_active_ptr points to the starting of next
group of mb rows.
Change-Id: I3246e657d23beabb614dfb880733a68a5fd7e34c
The dc_diff flag is used to skip loopfiltering. Instead
of setting this flag in the decoder/encoder, we now check
for this condition in the loopfilter.
Change-Id: Ie2b9cdf9e0f4e8b932bbd36e0878c05bffd28931
Code cleanup. The build inter predictor functions are
redundantly checking the mode_info_context for either
INTRA_FRAME or SPLITMV.
Change-Id: I4d58c3a5192a4c2cec5c24ab1caf608bf13aebfb
in encodframe.c, quant_shift is set to 0 or 1 in vp8cx_invert_quant
only use 8 bits to store this, instead of 16. will allow saving an
xmm register in an updated version of the regular quantize
Change-Id: Ie88c47fe2aff5af0283dab1147fb2791e4b12f90
The error accumulator stats values cpi->prediction_error and
cpi->intra_error were being populated with rd values not
distortion values.
These are only "currently" used in a limited way for RT compress
key frame detection.
Change-Id: I2702ba1cab6e49ab8dc096ba75b6b34ab3573021
MV sad cost error is only used in full-pixel motion search,
which only need full-pixel resolution instead of quarter-pixel
resolution. This change reduced mvsadcost table size, and
removed unneccessary pamameter passing since this table is
constant once it is generated.
Change-Id: I9f931e55f6abc3c99011321f1dfb2f3562e6f6b0
Thread synchronization was not correct when frame width was 1 MB.
Number of allocated encoding threads is limited by the sync_range.
There is no point having more because each thread lags sync_range MBs
behind the thread processing the row above.
http://code.google.com/p/webm/issues/detail?id=302
Change-Id: Icaf67a883beecc5ebf2f11e9be47b6997fdf6f26
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
The encoder was not correctly catching transitions in the quantizer
deltas. If a delta_q was set, then the quantizer would be reinitialized
on every frame, but if they transitioned to 0, the quantizer would
not be reinitialized, leading to a encode-decode mismatch.
This bug was triggered by commit 999e155, which sets a Y2 delta Q
for very low base Q levels.
Change-Id: Ia6733464a55ee4ff2edbb82c0873980d345446f5