It is essentially a duplicate of mode for RD-only purposes. Removing it
saves us 4 bytes per B_MODE_INFO, or ~0.5MB for a 1080p video encode.

Change-Id: I0a54db5f51658b3946d7efb1ca6e8cfbda0cdf88

The variable is essentially a duplicate of mode for RD-only purposes.
Removing it gives identical results, and saves 4 bytes per macroblock
(i.e. 32.5kB for a 1080p HD video encode).

Change-Id: I22d5058fdb80ab0b69862caee825e9d86bb148b3

Change the macros PLANE_TYPE_{Y_NO_DC,Y2,UV,Y_WITH_DC} to a typed enum,
and use this typed enum consistently across all places where relevant.
In places where the type is implied (e.g. in functions that only handle
second order planes or chroma planes), remove it as a function argument
and instead hardcode the proper enum in the code directly.

Change-Id: I93652b4a36aa43163d49c732b0bf5c4442738c47

Change-Id: I22aa803ffff330622cdb77277e7b196a9766f882

With this change, even if hybridtransform8x8 experiment is off,
8x8 dct is used for the I8x8 mode. However note that the gains
observed with the hybridtransform8x8 experiment will now be less,
since part of the gain is now merged in.

Change-Id: I9afb3880906fd0a1368a374041fc08efcf060c54

for MBs using i8x8 prediciton mode when hybridtransform8x8 is not
enabled in configure.

Change-Id: I3e3c8bb1c0261108c1c71213ca9557b0ce558036

The non-void function didn't return a value in the default case.

Change-Id: Ie4c965315bedc189d2080dd65cf29d3347661946

Some cleanups on the transform size and type selection logic.

Change-Id: If2e9675459482242cf83b4f7de7634505e3f6dac

This reverts commit c5af82b7

There was a mismatch bug introduced by this patch. Hence reverting until it is fixed.

Some cleanups that will make it easier to maintain the code
and incorporate upcoming changes on  entropy coding for the
hybrid transforms.

Change-Id: I44bdba368f7b8bf203161d7a6d3b1fc2c9e21a8f

This commit merges those parts of the CONFIG_NEW_MVREF
that specifically relate to choosing a better set of candidate
MV references into the NEWBESTREFMV experiment.

CONFIG_NEW_MVREF will then be used for changes relating
to the explicit coding of a cost optimized MV reference in the
bitstream as part of MV coding.

Change-Id: Ied982c0ad72093eab29e38b8cd74d5c3d7458b10

Extend experiment to use both vectors from MBs
coded using compound prediction as candidates.

In final sort only consider best 4 candidates
for now but make sure 0,0 is always one of them.

Other minor changes to new MV reference code.
Pass in Mv list to vp8_find_best_ref_mvs().

Change-Id: Ib96220c33c6b80bd1d5e0fbe8b68121be7997095

Enable ADST/DCT of dimension 16x16 for I16X16 modes. This change provides
benefits mostly for hd sequences.

Set up the framework for selectable transform dimension.

Also allowing quantization parameter threshold to control the use
of hybrid transform (This is currently disabled by setting threshold
always above the quantization parameter. Adaptive thresholding can
be built upon this, which will further improve the coding performance.)

The coding performance gains (with respect to the codec that has all
other configuration settings turned on) are

derf:   0.013
yt:     0.086
hd:     0.198
std-hd: 0.501

Change-Id: Ibb4263a61fc74e0b3c345f54d73e8c73552bf926

Change-Id: I3d585bae446c16fcf7a39d72c1bcd6468a7bb1a1

Alternative strategy for finding a list of candidate motion
vectors to use as reference values in mv coding and as
nearest and near.

Sort by sad in vp8_find_best_ref_mvs() rather than just
pick the best. Allow 0,0 as a best ref option but not a
nearest or near unless there are no alternatives.

Encode/Decode verified on at least some clips.

Some commented out experimental and stats code still in place.

Gain over existing code averages about 1% on derf (alll metrics)
with improvement on all clips. Other test results pending.

The entropy coding of the mode (nearest/near etc) still
depends upon and requires the old "findnear" code so
this needs looking at and may provide room for further gains.

Change-Id: I871d7cba1d1c379c4bad9bcccce1fb19c46b8247

corrected ifdefs to include CONFIG_HYBRIDTRANSFORM8X8 for missing
definitions

Change-Id: I96cd08c98d74b5ba10866f3fa30252073ce92fa5

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

Further cases of inconsistent naming convention.

Change-Id: Id3411ecec6f01a4c889268a00f0c9fd5a92ea143

Change-Id: I27729a8631cffd54dfbae3ec0f07df7c883f7510

Change-Id: Id38baf1b89648ef534e28be72f583137871f920c

Using surrounding reconstructed pixels from left and above to select
best matching mv to use as reference motion vector for mv encoding.

Test results:
       AVGPSNR  GLBPSNR VPXSSIM
Derf:  1.107%   1.062%  0.992%
Std-hd:1.209%   1.176%  1.029%

Change-Id: I8f10e09ee6538c05df2fb9f069abcaf1edb3fca6

Merged in the high_precision_mv experiment to make it easier
to work on new mv encoding strategies. Also removed
coef_update_probs3().

Change-Id: I82d3b0bb642419fe05dba82528bc9ba010e90924

Fixed the code review comments.

Under the htrans8x8 experiment the 8X8 DCT in the
I8X8 mode is replaced with a combination of 8X8 ADST and
DCT.

Overall coding gains with the htrans8x8 experiment are:
derf:   0.486
std-hd: 1.040
hd:     1.063
yt:     0.506

Note that part of the gain comes from bigger transforms
(8x8 instead of 4x4) and part comes from replacing the DCT
wth the ADST.

Change-Id: I92ca6bbfce11b4165d612b81d9adfad4d010c775

Set on all 16x16 intra/inter modes

Features:
- Butterfly fDCT/iDCT
- Loop filter does not filter internal edges with 16x16
- Optimize coefficient function
- Update coefficient probability function
- RD
- Entropy stats
- 16x16 is a config option

Have not tested with experiments.

hd:     2.60%
std-hd: 2.43%
yt:     1.32%
derf:   0.60%

Change-Id: I96fb090517c30c5da84bad4fae602c3ec0c58b1c

Merged the enhanced_interp experiment.
Found and fixed a bug in the include files framework, whereby
certain encoder files were still using the old INTERP_EXTEND
value of 3 instead of 4. The thresholds for mv range mcomp.c
need a small adjustment to prevent crashes.

The results are more or less unchanged.

Change-Id: Iac5008390f1efc97ce1102fbb5f8989c847fb579

Allows for swtiching/setting interpolation filters at the MB
level. A frame level flag indicates whether to use a specifc
filter for the entire frame or to signal the interpolation
filter for each MB. When switchable filters are used, the
encoder chooses between 8-tap and 8-tap sharp filters. The
code currently has options to explore other variations as well,
which will be cleaned up subsequently.

One issue with the framework is that encoding is slow. I
tried to do some tricks to speed things up but it is still slow.
Decoding speed should not be affected since the number of
filter taps remain unchanged.

With the current version, we are up 0.5% on derf on average but
some videos city/mobile improve by close to 4 and 2% respectively.
If we did a full-search by turning the SEARCH_BEST_FILTER flag
on, the results are somewhat better.

The framework can be combined with filtered prediction, and I
seek feedback regarding that.

Rebased.

Change-Id: I8f632cb2c111e76284140a2bd480945d6d42b77a

The following five experiments are merged:

newentropy
newupdate
adaptive_entropy (also includes a couple of parameter changes
                  that improves results a little
                  in common/entropymode.c and encoder/modecosts.c
                  that were not merged from the internal branch)
newintramodes
expanded_coef_context

Change-Id: I8a142a831786ee9dc936f22be1d42a8bced7d270

Adds ADST/DCT hybrid transform coding for Intra4x4 mode.
The ADST is applied to directions in which the boundary
pixels are used for prediction, while DCT applied to
directions without corresponding boundary prediction.

Adds enum TX_TYPE in b_mode_infor to indicate the transform
type used.

Make coding style consistent with google style.
Fixed the commented issues.

Experimental results in terms of bit-rate reduction:
derf:   0.731%
yt:     0.982%
std-hd: 0.459%
hd:     0.725%

Will be looking at 8x8 transforms next.

Change-Id: I46dbd7b80dbb3e8856e9c34fbc58cb3764a12fcf

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

Added the ability to optionally filter the prediction data
when inter modes are selected (excludes SPLITMV, for now).

The mode selection loop considers both the filtered and
non-filtered prediction data when choosing mode. The filter
can be turned on/off at the frame-level, or signaled for
each MB.

Change-Id: I1b783c71d95a361ab36c761b07e8a6b06bc36822

Adds 6 directional intra predictiom modes for 16x16 and 8x8 blocks.

Change-Id: I25eccc0836f28d8d74922e4e9231568a648b47d1

This patch expands the set of prev contexts used for video coding
from 3 to 4.

There is a small improvement of the order of 0.08% for derf and
0.15% on the HD set. The tests were rerun after the various merges
last week. There are two columns in each test - the first are the
results with the mbskip change, and the second with expanded contexts
added on top of that.

Derf:
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/explibvpx_newentropy_expcontext.html

HD:
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/explibvpx_hd_newentropy_expcontext.html

Rebased.

Broke up 80 char lines.

Change-Id: I82d2e72d054e530cbf5ce9aa0e6d85c582965675

Change-Id: I0af3395500b1cb0ed629249eb6636a0c9322cb18

This is the first patch to add superblock (32x32) coding
order capabilities. It does not yet do any mode selection
at the SB level, that will follow in a further patch.

This patch encodes rows of SBs rather than
MBs, each SB contains 2x2 MBs.

Two intra prediction modes have been disabled since they
require reconstructed data for the above-right MB which
may not have been encoded yet (e.g. for the bottom right
MB in each SB).

Results on the one test clip I have tried (720p GIPS clip)
suggest that it is somewhere around 0.2dB worse than the
baseline version, so there may be bugs.

It has been tested with no experiments enabled and with
the following 3 experiments enabled:
  --enable-enhanced_interp
  --enable-high_precision_mv
  --enable-sixteenth_subpel_uv
in each case the decode buffer matches the recon buffer
(using "cmp" to compare the dumped/decoded frames).
Note: Testing these experiments individually created
errors.

Some problems were found with other experiments but it
is unclear what state these experiments are in:
  --enable-comp_intra_pred
  --enable-newentropy
  --enable-uvintra

This code has not been extensively tested yet, so there
is every likelihood that further bugs remain. I also
intend to do some code cleanup & refactoring in tandem
with the next patch that adds the 32x32 modes.

Change-Id: I1eba7f740a70b3510df58db53464535ef881b4d9

Using contextual coding of the mkb_skip_coeff flag using the
values of this flag from the left and above. There is a small
improvement of about 0.15% on Derf:
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/mbskipcontext.html

Refactored to use pred_common.c by adding a new context type.

Results on HD set (about 0.66% improvement):
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/mbskipcontext_hd.html

Incliding missing refactoring to use the pred_common utilities.

Change-Id: I95373382d429b5a59610d77f69a0fea2be628278

The commit added a clamp to the 2nd motion vector used in compound
prediction to insure mv within UMV borders. The clamp is similar to
that of the first motion vector except that No SPLITMV is ever used
for the 2nd motion vector.

Change-Id: I26dd63c304bd66b2e03a083749cc98c641667116

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

The commit added a clamp to the 2nd motion vector used in compound
prediction to insure mv within UMV borders. The clamp is similar to
that of the first motion vector except that No SPLITMV is ever used
for the 2nd motion vector.

Change-Id: I26dd63c304bd66b2e03a083749cc98c641667116

Change-Id: I8e9b6b154e1a0d0cb42d596366380d69c00ac15f

Also remove duplicate build_intra_predictors_mby/uv().

Change-Id: I78607e7304952a9b962a5b25af9bb9c48692187b