Skip certain ALTREF inter modes in ARF coding

This commit enables the encoder to skip checking ALTREF inter modes
in ARF coding, if the predicted motion vectors suggest that the
GOLDEN_FRAME provides higher prediction accuracy than ALTREF_FRAME.

It improves the speed 3 encoding speed by about 5%, at the expense
of compression performance loss -0.041% and -0.225% for derf and
stdhd, respectively.

pedestrian_area 1080p 2000 kbps
66705 b/f, 40.909 dB, 118738 ms ->
66732 b/f, 40.908 dB, 113688 ms

old_town_cross 720p 1500 kbps
14427 b/f, 36.256 dB, 62746 ms ->
14412 b/f, 36.252 dB, 60690 ms

blue_sky 1080p 1500 kbps
51026 b/f, 35.897 dB, 73310 ms ->
50921 b/f, 35.893 dB, 70406 ms

bus CIF 1000 kbps
21301 b/f, 34.841 dB, 7326 ms ->
21248 b/f, 34.837 dB, 7196 ms

Change-Id: I76cf88b4d655e1ee3c0cb03c8a5745493040e8d2

diff --git a/vp9/encoder/vp9_rdopt.c b/vp9/encoder/vp9_rdopt.c
index 0f3009ddc587603b6ce0e74cfe36b7ca0efb11fa..fd67ab5bdf4d573084f5770d385ed63a50289ad0 100644 (file)
--- a/vp9/encoder/vp9_rdopt.c
+++ b/vp9/encoder/vp9_rdopt.c
@@ -2674,6 +2674,11 @@ int64_t vp9_rd_pick_inter_mode_sb(VP9_COMP *cpi, MACROBLOCK *x,
     }
   }
 
+  if (cpi->sf.alt_ref_search_fp)
+    if (!cm->show_frame)
+      if (x->pred_mv_sad[ALTREF_FRAME] > (x->pred_mv_sad[GOLDEN_FRAME] << 1))
+        mode_skip_mask[ALTREF_FRAME] |= INTER_ALL;
+
   if (bsize > cpi->sf.max_intra_bsize) {
     ref_frame_skip_mask[0] |= (1 << INTRA_FRAME);
     ref_frame_skip_mask[1] |= (1 << INTRA_FRAME);