2.5% faster when encoding first 50 frames of bus @ 1500kbps.

Change-Id: I5a64703996cf7fd39b07e32c72311c4b125ec6d4

Change-Id: Iec41736c2b6140715f90f40de5ae6cf52497a9b8

This speed 1 - uses variance threshold stolen from static-thresh
to determine split.  Any superblock with greater than the variance
set by static thresh * quantizer index squared is split. In addition
transform size is set to largest size less than or equal to partition
size, sub pixel filter is set to normal,  and only 12 modes are used
at all.

Change-Id: If7a2858ee70f96d1eb989c04fd87a332b147abef

Correct the stride parameter of 4x8 in vp9_sub_pixel_variance4x8_
and vp9_sub_pixel_avg_variance4x8.

Change-Id: I2ca74d4043817503b21737563994270e3b0619ff

These building blocks enable rate-distortion optimization search
over block sizes of 8x4 and 4x8. Need to convert them into mmx/sse
forms.

Change-Id: I570ea2d22d14ceec3fe3575128d7dfa172a577de

In current code, motion vectors got from single prediction mode are used
in compound prediction mode directly. These motion vectors may not give
accurate prediction since they are searched independently. In this patch,
we took Pascal's suggestion, and did joint motion search in compound
prediction mode to find better motion vectors in this situation.
Test results:
Overall PSNR: 0.570%(derf), 0.918%(stdhd);
SSIM: 0.572%(derf), 1.009%(stdhd);

The encoder is a little slower. This can be improved since some c
code is used in motion search.

Change-Id: Ib30c9240f6c56c9b070867b4ca89412a76d9f3c6

Change-Id: I390bb1cedc835f439fd5dd6cda6572b29cbb139c

Incorrect strides caused use of uninitialized stack data.

Change-Id: Ifc12174285311bcf0453987d4283e91141f979ef

Move rectangular superblock coding out of experimental list.

Change-Id: I96c37547d122330d666a67b4bf577ae54547857f

With this, the RD loop properly supports rectangular blocks.

Change-Id: Iece79048fb4e84741ee1ada982da129a7bf00470

Update the code to call the new convolution functions to do subpixel
prediction rather than the existing functions. Remove the old C and
assembly code, since it is unused. This causes a 50% performance
reduction on the decoder, but that will be resolved when the asm for
the new functions is available.

There is no consensus for whether 6-tap or 2-tap predictors will be
supported in the final codec, so these filters are implemented in
terms of the 8-tap code, so that quality testing of these modes
can continue. Implementing the lower complexity algorithms is a
simple exercise, should it be necessary.

This code produces slightly better results in the EIGHTTAP_SMOOTH
case, since the filter is now applied in only one direction when
the subpel motion is only in one direction. Like the previous code,
the filtering is skipped entirely on full-pel MVs. This combination
seems to give the best quality gains, but this may be indicative of a
bug in the encoder's fil...

Change-Id: If6c88752dffdb566f8d4322f135145270716fb8e

Change-Id: I0df99742029834a85c4933652b0587cf5b6b2587

3.2% gains on std/hd, 1.0% gains on hd.

Change-Id: I481d5df23d8a4fc650a5bcba956554490b2bd200

For coefficients, use int16_t (instead of short); for pixel values in
16-bit intermediates, use uint16_t (instead of unsigned short); for all
others, use uint8_t (instead of unsigned char).

Change-Id: I3619cd9abf106c3742eccc2e2f5e89a62774f7da

Change-Id: Ia1cce221f8511561b9cbd8edb7726fbc286ff243

Support for gyp which doesn't support multiple objects in the same
static library having the same basename.

Change-Id: Ib947eefbaf68f8b177a796d23f875ccdfa6bc9dc

Change-Id: I478878c78ef8a770186622d987d318176827ef5f

In the variance calculations the difference is summed and later squared.
When the sum exceeds sqrt(2^31) the value is treated as a negative when
it is shifted which gives incorrect results.

To fix this we force the multiplication to be unsigned.

The alternative fix is to shift sum down by 4 before multiplying.
However that will reduce precision.

For 16x16 blocks the maximum sum is 65280 and sqrt(2^31) is 46340 (and
change).

This change is based on:
16982342 Missed some variance casts
fea3556e Fix variance overflow

Change-Id: I2c61856cca9db54b9b81de83b4505ea81a050a0f

Change-Id: Iedaa108ddb65f54d768424f9c47ad4d069b656fd

Change-Id: Ic084c475844b24092a433ab88138cf58af3abbe4

For non-static functions, change the prefix to vp9_. For static functions,
remove the prefix. Also fix some comments, remove unused code or unused
function prototypes.

Change-Id: I1f8be05362f66060fe421c3d4c9a906fdf835de5

For local symbols, make them static instead.

Change-Id: I13d60947a46f711bc8991e16100cea2a13e3a22e

Most of these were picked up in the previous commit (prefix change from
vp8_ to vp9_), but I'm pushing this separately so that it's easier to
review.

Change-Id: I91e959895778b8632d7d33375523df8a7568a490

Change-Id: Ie2e3652591b010ded10c216501ce24fd95d0aec5

Previously, in evaluating reference motion vectors, MVs are always
rounded to integer pixel position and SADs are calculated.  This
commit takes into account the subpixel portion of the mvs, and uses
bilinear interpolation to produce reference pixel values in subpixel
postions. In addition, SSE is used in place of SAD. Pixels used are
16x2 above and 2x16 to the left.

This commmit intends to test the potential of this line of work in
term of compression improvement, obviously, the change would increase
decoder complexity significantly.

Test results
std-hd: 1.738%(avg) 1.779%(glb), 1.663%(ssim)
derf: 0.472%(avg) 0.477%(glb), 0.418%(ssim)

Change-Id: I3ae1b098f6289df78891134d9a5e4bb2fde87a0b

This commit adds a pick_sb_mode() function which selects the best 32x32
superblock coding mode. Then it selects the best per-MB modes, compares
the two and encodes that in the bitstream.

The bitstream coding is rather simplistic right now. At the SB level,
we code a bit to indicate whether this block uses SB-coding (32x32
prediction) or MB-coding (anything else), and then we follow with the
actual modes. This could and should be modified in the future, but is
omitted from this commit because it will likely involve reorganizing
much more code rather than just adding SB coding, so it's better to let
that be judged on its own merits.

Gains on derf: about even, YT/HD: +0.75%, STD/HD: +1.5%.

Change-Id: Iae313a7cbd8f75b3c66d04a68b991cb096eaaba6

Merges this experiment in to make it easier to run tests on
filter precision, vectorized implementation etc.

Also removes an experimental filter.

Change-Id: I1e8706bb6d4fc469815123939e9c6e0b5ae945cd

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

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:
* T...

The MFQE function of the postprocessor depends on these

Change-Id: I256a37c6de079fe92ce744b1f11e16526d06b50a

This is the initial patch for supporting 1/8th pel
motion. Currently if we configure with enable-high-precision-mv,
all motion vectors would default to 1/8 pel. Encode and
decode syncs fine with the current code. In the next phase
the code will be refactored so that we can choose the 1/8
pel mode adaptively at a frame/segment/mb level.

Derf results:
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterp_hpmv.html
(about 0.83% better than 8-tap interpoaltion)

Patch 3: Rebased. Also adding 1/16th pel interpolation for U and V

Patch 4: HD results.
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterp_hd_hpmv.html
Seems impressive (unless I am doing something wrong).

Patch 5: Added mmx/sse for bilateral filtering, as well as enforced
use of c-versions of subpel filters with 8-taps and 1/16th pel;
Also redesigned the 8-tap filters to reduce the cut-off in order to
introduce a denoising effect. There is a new configure option
sixteenth-subpel-uv whic...

In the variance calculations the difference is summed and later squared.
When the sum exceeds sqrt(2^31) the value is treated as a negative when
it is shifted which gives incorrect results.

To fix this we cast the result of the multiplication as unsigned.

The alternative fix is to shift sum down by 4 before multiplying.
However that will reduce precision.

For 16x16 blocks the maximum sum is 65280 and sqrt(2^31) is 46340 (and
change).

PPC change is untested.

Change-Id: I1bad27ea0720067def6d71a6da5f789508cec265

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

A large number of functions were defined with external linkage, even
though they were only used from within one file. This patch changes
their linkage to static and removes the vp8_ prefix from their names,
which should make it more obvious to the reader that the function is
contained within the current translation unit. Functions that were
not referenced were removed.

These symbols were identified by:

  $ nm -A libvpx.a | sort -k3 | uniq -c -f2 | grep ' [A-Z] ' \
    | sort | grep '^ *1 '

Change-Id: I59609f58ab65312012c047036ae1e0634f795779

This patch fixes the system dependent entries for the half-pixel
variance functions in both the RTCD and non-RTCD cases:

  - The generic C versions of these functions are now correct.
    Before all three cases called the hv code.

  - Wire up the ARM functions in RTCD mode

  - Created stubs for x86 to call the optimized subpixel functions
    with the correct parameters, rather than falling back to C
    code.

Change-Id: I1d937d074d929e0eb93aacb1232cc5e0ad1c6184

NEON has optimized 16x16 half-pixel variance functions, but they
were not part of the RTCD framework. Add these functions to RTCD,
so that other platforms can make use of this optimization in the
future and special-case ARM code can be removed.

A number of functions were taking two variance functions as
parameters. These functions were changed to take a single
parameter, a pointer to a struct containing all the variance
functions for that block size. This provides additional flexibility
for calling additional variance functions (the half-pixel special
case, for example) and by initializing the table for all block sizes,
we don't have to construct this function pointer table for each
macroblock.

Change-Id: I78289ff36b2715f9a7aa04d5f6fbe3d23acdc29c

These functions should never change their input, and there's no
 reason not to declare that.
This allows them to be passed static const data.

Change-Id: Ia49fe4b01e80e9afcb24b4844817694d4da5995c

Changes 'The VP8 project' to 'The WebM project', for consistency
with other webmproject.org repositories.

Fixes issue #97.

Change-Id: I37c13ed5fbdb9d334ceef71c6350e9febed9bbba

When the license headers were updated, they accidentally contained
trailing whitespace, so unfortunately we have to touch all the files
again.

Change-Id: I236c05fade06589e417179c0444cb39b09e4200d