1. 31 Oct, 2012 - 1 commit
  2. 15 Mar, 2012 - 1 commit
    • Yaowu Xu's avatar
      WebM Experimental Codec Branch Snapshot · 6035da54
      Yaowu Xu authored
      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#7a159071)
      
      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
      6035da54
  3. 09 Sep, 2010 - 1 commit
  4. 18 Jun, 2010 - 1 commit
    • John Koleszar's avatar
      cosmetics: trim trailing whitespace · 94c52e4d
      John Koleszar authored
      When the license headers were updated, they accidentally contained
      trailing whitespace, so unfortunately we have to touch all the files
      again.
      
      Change-Id: I236c05fade06589e417179c0444cb39b09e4200d
      94c52e4d
  5. 04 Jun, 2010 - 1 commit
  6. 18 May, 2010 - 1 commit