Tero Rintaluoma [Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:39:06 +0000 (13:39 +0300)]
Fix RT only build
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.
Tero Rintaluoma [Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:29:35 +0000 (11:29 +0300)]
Update -linux-rvct targets
- Updated -linux-rvct targets to support RVDS 4.0 and later.
- Changed optimization flag to -Otime because -O3 ruined performance
for RVCT linux targets.
- Added support for --enable-small for RVCT
- RVCT created library should be able to link with GCC
- Supports building shared linux libraries
Tero Rintaluoma [Fri, 10 Jun 2011 11:05:53 +0000 (14:05 +0300)]
Fix make clean for asm offset files
Automatically created assembly offset files added to CLEAN-OBJS list
for proper cleanup. This will fix following build error:
1) Build for the workstation
./conigure
make
make clean
2) Build for ARM platform
./configure --target=armv7-linux-gcc
make ==> this will fail because it uses old asm_*_offset.asm files
John Koleszar [Wed, 8 Jun 2011 17:50:50 +0000 (13:50 -0400)]
vp8_pick_inter_mode: remove best_bmodes
Since BPRED will be tested at most once, and SPLITMV is not enabled,
there's nothing to clobber the subblock modes, so there's no need to
save and restore them.
Yaowu Xu [Tue, 7 Jun 2011 20:59:46 +0000 (13:59 -0700)]
Adjust errorperbit according to RDMULT in activity masking
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.
John Koleszar [Wed, 8 Jun 2011 15:24:52 +0000 (11:24 -0400)]
Move intra block mode selection to pickinter.c
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%).
Paul Wilkins [Wed, 8 Jun 2011 15:00:59 +0000 (16:00 +0100)]
Further activity masking changes:
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%
Yaowu Xu [Fri, 20 May 2011 06:12:40 +0000 (23:12 -0700)]
adjust sad per bit constants
While investigating the effect of DC values on SAD and SSE in motion
estimation, a side finding indicates the two table of constants need
be adjusted. The adjustment was done by multiplying old constants by
90% with rounding. Also absorb the 1/2 scaling constant into the two
tables. Refer to change Ifa285c3e for background of the 1/2 factor.
Cif set test showed a very small gain on all metric.
Yaowu Xu [Mon, 6 Jun 2011 23:42:58 +0000 (16:42 -0700)]
remove redundant functions
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
Two pass encodes were tested at best quality. One pass encodes were
tested only at realtime speed 4:
--rt --cpu-used=-4
The peak datarate (over the specified 500ms window) was measured
for each encode, and averaged together to get metric for
"average peak," computed as SUM(peak)/SUM(target). This patch
reduces the average peak datarate as follows:
One pass:
baseline: 1.29715
this patch: 1.23664
Two pass:
baseline: 1.32702
this patch: 1.37824
This change had a positive effect on our quality metrics as well:
One pass CBR:
Min / Mean / Max (pct)
Average PSNR -0.42 / 2.86 / 27.32
Overall PSNR -0.90 / 2.00 / 17.27
SSIM -0.05 / 3.95 / 37.46
Two pass CBR:
Min / Mean / Max (pct)
Average PSNR -4.47 / 4.35 / 35.99
Overall PSNR -3.40 / 4.18 / 36.46
SSIM -4.56 / 6.98 / 53.67
One pass VBR:
Min / Mean / Max (pct)
Average PSNR -5.21 / 0.01 / 3.30
Overall PSNR -8.10 / -0.38 / 1.21
SSIM -7.38 / -0.11 / 3.17
(note: most values here were close to the mean, there were a few
outliers on files that were very sensitive to golden frame size)
Two pass VBR:
Min / Mean / Max (pct)
Average PSNR 0.00 / 0.00 / 0.00
Overall PSNR 0.00 / 0.00 / 0.00
SSIM 0.00 / 0.00 / 0.00
Neither one pass or two pass CBR mode adheres particularly strictly
to the short term buffer constraints, and two pass is less
consistent, even in the baseline commit. This should be addressed
in a later commit. This likely will hurt the quality numbers, as it
will have to reduce the burstiness of golden frames.
Aside: My work on this commit makes it clear that we need to make
rate control modes "pluggable", where you can easily write a new
one or work on one in isolation.
Yunqing Wang [Thu, 2 Jun 2011 21:33:17 +0000 (17:33 -0400)]
Adjust bounds checking for hex search in real-time mode
Currently, hex search couldn't guarantee the motion vector(MV)
found is within the limit of maximum MV. Therefore, very large
motion vectors resulted from big motion in the video could cause
encoding artifacts. This change adjusted hex search bounds
checking to make sure the resulted motion vector won't go out
of the range. James Berry, thank you for finding the bug.
Don't allow very short GF groups even when the GF is predicted from an ARF.
This is basically a slightly modified version of the previous patch,
and it has a moderately positive effect (SSIM/PSNR both +0.08% avg
on derf-set). Most clips show no change, except waterfall/coastguard,
each ~ +0.8% SSIM/PSNR. You can see similar effects in other clips
by shortening their length to terminate at a very short last group
of frames.
Yaowu Xu [Wed, 1 Jun 2011 18:41:05 +0000 (11:41 -0700)]
further clean up of errorperbit and sadperbit
this commit makes the usage errorperbit and sadperbit consistent for
encoding modes and passes. Removed all different magic weight factors
associated with errorperbit. Now 1/2 is used for both sadperbit16 and
sadperbit4, the /2 operation is merged into initializations of the 2
variables.
Tests on cif set show .23%, 0.18% and 0.19% gain by avg psnr, overall
psnr and ssim respectively.
Henrik Lundin [Wed, 1 Jun 2011 19:41:12 +0000 (21:41 +0200)]
Bugfix in vp8dx_set_reference
The fb_idx_ref_cnt book-keeping was in error. Added an assert to
prevent future errors in the reference count vector. Also fixed a
pointer syntax error.
remove some magic weights associated with sad_per_bit
sad_per_bit has been used for a number of motion vector search routines
with different magic weights: 1, 1/2 and 1/4. This commit remove these
magic numbers and use 1/2 for all motion search routines, also reformat
a number of source code lines to within 80 column limit.
Test on cif set shows overall effect is neutral on all metrics. <=0.01%
Tero Rintaluoma [Mon, 9 May 2011 07:09:41 +0000 (10:09 +0300)]
neon fast quantize block pair
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)
James Berry [Fri, 27 May 2011 18:57:25 +0000 (14:57 -0400)]
bug fix check frame buffer index before copy
in onyx_if.c update_reference_frames() make
sure that frame buffer indexes are not equal
before preforming a buffer copy. If two frames
share the same buffer the flags will already be
set correctly.
Yunqing Wang [Fri, 27 May 2011 17:31:15 +0000 (13:31 -0400)]
Use hex search for realtime mode speed>4
Test showed using hex search in realtime mode largely speed up
encoding process, and still achieves similar quality like the
diamond search we have. Therefore, removed the diamond search
option.
Yaowu Xu [Wed, 25 May 2011 23:07:37 +0000 (16:07 -0700)]
fix the mix use of errorperbit and sadperbit
error_per_bit and sad_per_bit were designed as estimates of a bit worth
of sum squared error and sum absolute difference respectively. Under
this assumption, error_per_bit should be used in combination with 2nd
order errors (variance or sum squared error) while sad_per_bit should
be used in combination with 1st order SADs in motion estimation. There
were a few places where sad_per_bit has been misused with variances,
this commit changes to use error_per_bit for those places, also changes
parameter names to properly indicate which constant is being used.
On cif set, the change has a universal gain by all metrics: 0.13% by
average/overall psnr and 0.1% by ssim.
Scott LaVarnway [Tue, 24 May 2011 17:24:52 +0000 (13:24 -0400)]
MODE_INFO size reduction
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.
John Koleszar [Thu, 19 May 2011 21:16:39 +0000 (17:16 -0400)]
cleanup: collect twopass variables
This patch collects the twopass specific memebers of VP8_COMP into a
dedicated struct. This is a first step towards isolating the two pass
rate control and aids readability by decorating these variables with
the 'twopass.' namespace. This makes it clear to the reader in what
contexts the variable will be valid, and is a hint that a section of
code might be a good candidate to move to firstpass.c in later
refactoring. There likely will be other rate control modes that need
their own specific data as well.
This notation is probably overly verbose in firstpass.c, so an
alternative would be to access this struct through a pointer like
'rc->' instead of 'cpi->firstpass.' in that file. Feel free to make
a review comment to that effect if you prefer.
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