Activity update is no longer dependent on being in RD mode, so update
it unconditionally.

Change-Id: Ib617a6fc210dfc045455e3e4467d7ee5e3d1fa0e

Better fix for #326. ICC happens to support the inline magic

Change-Id: Ic367eea608c88d89475cb7b05d73500d2a1bc42b

Broke RVCT. New magic coming for ICC. Stay tuned!

This reverts commit c73eb2ff

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.

Change-Id: I7c3615b69190c10bd068a44df5488d6e8b85a364

The returned rate was always the 4x4 rate, instead of the rate
matching the selected mode.

Change-Id: I51da31f80884f5e37f3bcc77d1047d31e612ded4

Change-Id: Ib641c624faec28ad9eb99e2b5de51ae74bbcb2a2

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.

Change-Id: I07ded3e852919ab76757691939fe435328273823

This change is analogous to I0b67dae1f8a74902378da7bdf565e39ab832dda7,
which made the move for the non-RD path.

Change-Id: If63fc1b0cd1eb7f932e710f83ff24d91454f8ed1

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%).

Change-Id: I0b67dae1f8a74902378da7bdf565e39ab832dda7

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%

Change-Id: I0fd53b2dfb60620b3f74d7415e0b81c1ac58c39a

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.

Change-Id: I04333527a823371175dd46cb04a817e5b9a8b752

Change-Id: I5b0aaca06f2e0f40588cb24fb0642b6865da8970

Change-Id: Id66e70540ee7345876f099139887c1843093907f

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

In real-time mode motion search, there is no need to calculate
variance. This change improved encoding speed by 1% ~ 2%(speed=-5).

Change-Id: I65b874901eb599ac38fe8cf9cad898c14138d431

Fixes #326

Change-Id: I5f2a4257430ef62f674190acefd43a0474821288

This patch attempts to reduce the peak bitrate hit by the encoder
when using small buffer windows.

Tested on the CIF set over 200-500kbps using these settings:

  --buf-sz=500 --buf-initial-sz=250 --buf-optimal-sz=250 \
  --undershoot-pct=100

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.

Change-Id: I1ea9a48f2beedd59891f1288aabf7064956b4716

left_block_mv and above_block_mv will return the MB
motion vector for non SPLITMV macro blocks.

Change-Id: I58dbd7833b4fdcd44b6b72e98ec732c93c2ce4f4

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.

Change-Id: If2c55edd9019e72444ad9b4b8688969eef610c55

Declared the bmi in BLOCKD as a union instead of B_MODE_INFO.
Then removed B_MODE_INFO completely.

Change-Id: Ieb7469899e265892c66f7aeac87b7f2bf38e7a67

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.

Change-Id: I7a70de99ca1f9fe6a8b6ca7a6e30e8a4b64383e4

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.

Change-Id: Ifa285c3e065ce0a5a77addfc9f95aabf54ee270d