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2012-07-17Restyle codeJohn Koleszar
Approximate the Google style guide[1] so that that there's a written document to follow and tools to check compliance[2]. [1]: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cppguide.xml [2]: http://google-styleguide.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/cpplint/cpplint.py Change-Id: Idf40e3d8dddcc72150f6af127b13e5dab838685f
2012-03-15WebM Experimental Codec Branch SnapshotYaowu Xu
This is a code snapshot of experimental work currently ongoing for a next-generation codec. The codebase has been cut down considerably from the libvpx baseline. For example, we are currently only supporting VBR 2-pass rate control and have removed most of the code relating to coding speed, threading, error resilience, partitions and various other features. This is in part to make the codebase easier to work on and experiment with, but also because we want to have an open discussion about how the bitstream will be structured and partitioned and not have that conversation constrained by past work. Our basic working pattern has been to initially encapsulate experiments using configure options linked to #IF CONFIG_XXX statements in the code. Once experiments have matured and we are reasonably happy that they give benefit and can be merged without breaking other experiments, we remove the conditional compile statements and merge them in. Current changes include: * Temporal coding experiment for segments (though still only 4 max, it will likely be increased). * Segment feature experiment - to allow various bits of information to be coded at the segment level. Features tested so far include mode and reference frame information, limiting end of block offset and transform size, alongside Q and loop filter parameters, but this set is very fluid. * Support for 8x8 transform - 8x8 dct with 2nd order 2x2 haar is used in MBs using 16x16 prediction modes within inter frames. * Compound prediction (combination of signals from existing predictors to create a new predictor). * 8 tap interpolation filters and 1/8th pel motion vectors. * Loop filter modifications. * Various entropy modifications and changes to how entropy contexts and updates are handled. * Extended quantizer range matched to transform precision improvements. There are also ongoing further experiments that we hope to merge in the near future: For example, coding of motion and other aspects of the prediction signal to better support larger image formats, use of larger block sizes (e.g. 32x32 and up) and lossless non-transform based coding options (especially for key frames). It is our hope that we will be able to make regular updates and we will warmly welcome community contributions. Please be warned that, at this stage, the codebase is currently slower than VP8 stable branch as most new code has not been optimized, and even the 'C' has been deliberately written to be simple and obvious, not fast. The following graphs have the initial test results, numbers in the tables measure the compression improvement in terms of percentage. The build has the following optional experiments configured: --enable-experimental --enable-enhanced_interp --enable-uvintra --enable-high_precision_mv --enable-sixteenth_subpel_uv CIF Size clips: http://getwebm.org/tmp/cif/ HD size clips: http://getwebm.org/tmp/hd/ (stable_20120309 represents encoding results of WebM master branch build as of commit#7a15907) They were encoded using the following encode parameters: --good --cpu-used=0 -t 0 --lag-in-frames=25 --min-q=0 --max-q=63 --end-usage=0 --auto-alt-ref=1 -p 2 --pass=2 --kf-max-dist=9999 --kf-min-dist=0 --drop-frame=0 --static-thresh=0 --bias-pct=50 --minsection-pct=0 --maxsection-pct=800 --sharpness=0 --arnr-maxframes=7 --arnr-strength=3(for HD,6 for CIF) --arnr-type=3 Change-Id: I5c62ed09cfff5815a2bb34e7820d6a810c23183c
2011-08-19Copy less when active map is in useAlpha Lam
When active map is specified and the current frame is not a key frame, golden frame nor a altref frame then copy only those active regions. This significantly reduces encoding time by as much as 19% on the test system where realtime encoding is used. This is particularly useful when the frame size is large (e.g. 2560x1600) and there's only a few action macroblocks. Change-Id: If394a813ec2df5a0201745d1348dbde4278f7ad4
2011-07-20Increase chrow row alignment to 16 bytes.Timothy B. Terriberry
This is done by expanding luma row to 32-byte alignment, since there is currently a bunch of code that assumes that uv_stride == y_stride/2 (see, for example, vp8/common/postproc.c, common/reconinter.c, common/arm/neon/recon16x16mb_neon.asm, encoder/temporal_filter.c, and possibly others; I haven't done a full audit). It also uses replaces the hardcoded border of 16 in a number of encoder buffers with VP8BORDERINPIXELS (currently 32), as the chroma rows start at an offset of border/2. Together, these two changes have the nice advantage that simply dumping the frame memory as a contiguous blob produces a valid, if padded, image. Change-Id: Iaf5ea722ae5c82d5daa50f6e2dade9de753f1003
2011-04-13Refactor lookahead ring bufferJohn Koleszar
This patch cleans up the source buffer storage and copy mechanism to allow access through a standard push/pop/peek interface. This approach also avoids an extra copy in the case where the source is not a multiple of 16, fixing issue #102. Change-Id: I05808c39f5743625cb4c7af54cc841b9b10fdbd9