Marco [Wed, 20 Sep 2017 21:55:31 +0000 (14:55 -0700)]
vp9: Modify pickmode early exit for ARF in 1pass.
Add the condition frames_since_golden > 0 to the
early exit check for ARF usage in nonrd_pickmode.
This improves quality of first frame following ARF, where
frame_since_golden = 0.
Small/neutral gain in metrics for speed 6, neutral change in speed.
Only affects when USE_ALTREF_FOR_ONE_PASS is enabled.
Marco [Tue, 19 Sep 2017 22:19:41 +0000 (15:19 -0700)]
vp9: Modify simple_block_yrd condition for SVC
Modify simple_block_yrd condition in nonrd_pickmode for SVC:
allow it to be used also on base temporal_layer, only when
spatial_layer > 1 and block size < 32x32.
Speed up of about ~2% for 3 layer SVC, with little/negligible
loss in quality.
Marco [Tue, 19 Sep 2017 00:30:49 +0000 (17:30 -0700)]
vp9: Adjustments for ARF usage in 1 pass vbr.
Only when USE_ALT_REF_ONE_PASS is enabled (off by default).
Force fixed partition to 64x64 when is_src_alt_ref_frame is true,
and don't force early exit for some modes in nonrd_pickmode
for ARF noshow frames.
Small gain ~0.2% on ytlive metrics for speed 6.
Neutral speed difference.
Hui Su [Thu, 10 Aug 2017 22:05:20 +0000 (15:05 -0700)]
VP9 level targeting: add a new AUTO mode
In the new AUTO mode, restrict the minimum alt-ref interval and max column
tiles adaptively based on picture size, while not applying any rate control
constraints.
This mode aims to produce encodings that fit into levels corresponding to
the source picture size, with minimum compression quality lost. However, the
bitstream is not guaranteed to be level compatible, e.g., the average bitrate
may exceed level limit.
Because ssse3 code is used for the reference, the qcoeff and dqcoeff
reference buffers must be aligned.
Original change's description:
> quantize avx: copy 32x32 implementation
>
> Ensure avx and ssse3 stay in sync by testing them against each other.
>
> Change-Id: I699f3b48785c83260825402d7826231f475f697c
Specialize 4 to 3 scaling in vp9_scale_and_extend_frame_c()
Scale 3x3 block instead of 16x16 block in each loop.
Benefits:
1. Reduced number of different phase_scaler from 16 to 3. Optimization code
will be smaller and faster.
2. The maximum phase_scaler drifting will be reduced from 5/16 to 1/24.
(The drifting is 1/(3*16) in each step.)
paulwilkins [Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:08:08 +0000 (13:08 -0700)]
Fix bug in intra mode rd penalty.
The intra mode rd penalty was implemented as a rate penalty.
Code was added to scale the penalty according to block size but
this was not done correctly for the SB level or sub 8x8.
The code did a weird double scaling in regard to bit depth that
has been removed. Given that it is a rate penalty the bit depth
should not matter.
This bug fix improves average metrics on our standard test
sets by about 0.1%
Peter Boström [Wed, 6 Sep 2017 15:48:42 +0000 (11:48 -0400)]
Remove support for stdatomic.h.
This header doesn't build on g++ v6 as it's a C and not C++ header
(_Atomic is not a keyword in C++11). Since the C and C++ invocations
cannot be guaranteed to point to the same underlying atomic_int
implementation, remove support for them and use compiler intrinsics
instead.
Peter Boström [Thu, 31 Aug 2017 21:33:59 +0000 (14:33 -0700)]
Prevent data race from low-pass filter.
Makes main thread wait for the filter level to be picked to avoid a race
between the LPF thread and update_reference_frames(). This also
re-enables the failing tests under thread_sanitizer where this data race
was detected.
Peter Boström [Fri, 25 Aug 2017 22:48:11 +0000 (15:48 -0700)]
Add atomics to vp8 synchronization primitives.
Fixes issue on iPad Pro 10.5 (and probably other places) where threads
are not properly synchronized. On x86 this data race was benign as load
and store instructions are atomic, they were being atomic in practice as
the program hasn't been observed to be miscompiled.
Such guarantees are not made outside x86, and real problems manifested
where libvpx reliably reproduced a broken bitstream for even just the
initial keyframe. This was detected in WebRTC where this device started
using multithreading (as its CPU count is higher than earlier devices,
where the problem did not manifest as single-threading was used in
practice).
This issue was not detected under thread-sanitizer bots as mutexes were
conditionally used under this platform to simulate the protected read
and write semantics that were in practice provided on x86 platforms.
This change also removes several mutexes, so encoder/decoder state is
lighter-weight after this change and we do not need to initialize so
many mutexes (this was done even on non-thread-sanitizer platforms where
they were unused).
Re-enabled tests still fail tsan in high bitdepth.
Original change's description:
> Re-enable disabled tests under TSan.
>
> These tests point to an already-fixed bug, this should no longer have a
> data race.
>
> BUG=webm:1049
>
> Change-Id: Iaedc5db8df99362bdc501b70ff7fdebf8756fdb8
Marco [Mon, 21 Aug 2017 23:39:56 +0000 (16:39 -0700)]
vp9: Speed 6 adapt_partition for live/vbr usage.
Enable adapt_partition for vbr mode for speed 6.
This allows the usage of the pickmode-based partition
(used in speed 5), but only selectively for superblocks
with high source sad, otherwise the faster variance based
partition scheme is used.
For speed 6 on ytlive set: avgPSNR/SSIM metrics up by ~0.6%,
several clips up by ~1.5%. Small/negligible decrease in speed.
Reason for revert: <INSERT REASONING HERE>
Failures in AVX/VP9QuantizeTest in nightly tests.
Original change's description:
> quantize avx: copy 32x32 implementation
>
> Ensure avx and ssse3 stay in sync by testing them against each other.
>
> Change-Id: I699f3b48785c83260825402d7826231f475f697c
Marco [Thu, 24 Aug 2017 17:36:27 +0000 (10:36 -0700)]
vp9: Adjust 16x16 splot threshold for variance partition
For speeds < 7, increase threshold that controls the split
of 16x16->8x8 blocks, for resolutions 720p and higher.
Minor change for speed 5 (since it uses reference partition scheme
which only uses variance partition as first step).
For speed 6: ~0.5% increase in avgPSNR/SSIM metrics on ytlvie set.
No change in speed.
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