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    change the threshold of DC check for encode breakout · 8f279596
    Yaowu Xu authored
    Previously, the DC check is to make sure there is no code-able
    DC shift for quantizer Q0, which has been verified rather
    conservative. This commit changes the criteria to have two
    components, DC and AC, to address the conservativeness. First,
    it checks if all AC energy is enough to contribute a single
    non-zero quantized AC coefficient. Second, for DC, the decision
    to skip further considers two possible scenarios: 1. There is
    no code-able 2nd order DC coefficient at all; 2 The residue is
    relatively flat, but the uniform DC change is very small, i.e.
    less than 1/2 gray level per pixel.
    
    Comparing to previous criteria, the new criteria is about 10%
    to 15% faster in encoding time with a very small quality loss.
    (threshold ~1000 and quality range 33db-45db)
    
    It should be noted that this commit enables "automatic" static
    threshold for encodebreakout if a non-zero small value is passed
    in to encoder.
    
    Change-Id: I0f77719a1ac2c2dfddbd950d84920df374515ce3
    8f279596