Change-Id: I4fa46f10e82aca36c563f7ea829e5a3177a0c740

The previous implementation visited each node in the tree multiple times
because it used each symbol's encoding to revisit the branches taken and
increment its count. Instead, we can traverse the tree depth first and
calculate the probabilities and branch counts as we walk back up. The
complexity goes from somewhere between O(nlogn) and O(n^2) (depending on
how balanced the tree is) to O(n).

Only tested one clip (256kbps, CIF), saw 13% decoding perf improvement.

Note that this optimization should port trivially to VP8 as well. In VP8,
the decoder doesn't use this function, but it does routinely show up
on the profile for realtime encoding.

Change-Id: I4f2848e4f41dc9a7694f73f3e75034bce08d1b12

Refactors the switchable filter search in the rd loop to
improve encode speed.

Uses a piecewise approximation to a closed form expression to estimate
rd cost for a Laplacian source with a given variance and quantization
step-size.

About 40% encode time reduction is achieved.

Results (on a feb 12 baseline) show a slight drop:

derf: -0.019%
yt: +0.010%
std-hd: -0.162%
hd: -0.050%

Change-Id: Ie861badf5bba1e3b1052e29a0ef1b7e256edbcd0

Adds an error-resilient mode where frames can be continued
to be decoded even when there are errors (due to network losses)
on a prior frame. Specifically, backward updates are turned off
and probabilities of various symbols are reset to defaults at
the beginning of each frame. Further, the last frame's mvs are
not used for the mv reference list, and the sorting of the
initial list based on search on previous frames is turned off
as well.

Also adds a test where an arbitrary set of frames are skipped
from decoding to simulate errors. The test verifies (1) that if
the error frames are droppable - i.e. frame buffer updates have
been turned off - there are no mismatch errors for the remaining
frames after the error frames; and (2) if the error-frames are non
droppable, there are not only no decoding errors but the mismatch
PSNR between the decoder's version of the post-error frames and the
encoder's version is at least 20 dB.

Change-Id: Ie6e2bcd436b1e8643270356d3a930e8989ff52a5

This patch removes the old pred-filter experiment and replaces it
with one that is implemented using the switchable filter framework.

If the pred-filter experiment is enabled, three interopolation
filters are tested during mode selection; the standard 8-tap
interpolation filter, a sharp 8-tap filter and a (new) 8-tap
smoothing filter.

The 6-tap filter code has been preserved for now and if the
enable-6tap experiment is enabled (in addition to the pred-filter
experiment) the original 6-tap filter replaces the new 8-tap smooth
filter in the switchable mode.

The new experiment applies the prediction filter in cases of a
fractional-pel motion vector. Future patches will apply the filter
where the mv is pel-aligned and also to intra predicted blocks.

Change-Id: I08e8cba978f2bbf3019f8413f376b8e2cd85eba4

Change-Id: I0df99742029834a85c4933652b0587cf5b6b2587

Add a function clip_pixel() to clip a pixel value to the [0,255] range
of allowed values, and use this where-ever appropriate (e.g. prediction,
reconstruction). Likewise, consistently use the recently added function
clip_prob(), which calculates a binary probability in the [1,255] range.
If possible, try to use get_prob() or its sister get_binary_prob() to
calculate binary probabilities, for consistency.

Since in some places, this means that binary probability calculations
are changed (we use {255,256}*count0/(total) in a range of places,
and all of these are now changed to use 256*count0+(total>>1)/total),
this changes the encoding result, so this patch warrants some extensive
testing.

Change-Id: Ibeeff8d886496839b8e0c0ace9ccc552351f7628

Change-Id: Ie34820c1b6eaba9cf9316415a46f48af79c41646

Given the way mode_context is updated, the benefit of an additional
default is not signficant.

Change-Id: I67489453e8781340b18e26a1cc2f04e9221004a2

Change-Id: Ia1cce221f8511561b9cbd8edb7726fbc286ff243

This commit removed a couple of redundant data structures in frame
coding contextsm, mode_context and mode_context_a, and changed to
use vp9_mode_contexts only. The switch of the context for different
frame type now relies on the switch of frame coding context between
lfc and lfc_a. This commit also removed a number of memcpy among
these redundant data structure.

Change-Id: I42e8174bd60f466b0860afc44c1263896471b0f3

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

Change-Id: Ib947eefbaf68f8b177a796d23f875ccdfa6bc9dc

Change-Id: Icf8ad313c543462e523bff89690e5daa8d49bcc0

Experiments with a larger set of contexts and some
clean up to replace magic numbers regarding the
number of contexts.

The starting values and rate of backwards adaption
are still suspect and based on a small set of tests.
Added forwards adjustment of probabilities.

The net result of adding the new context and forward
update is small compared to the old context from the
legacy find_near function.  (down a little on derf but
up by a similar amount for HD)

HOWEVER.... with the new context and forward update
the impact of disabling the reverse update (which may be
necessary in some use cases to facilitate parallel decoding)
is hugely reduced.

For the old context without forward update, the impact of
turning off reverse update (Experiment was with SB off) was
Derf - 0.9, Yt -1.89, ythd -2.75 and sthd -8.35. The impact was
mainly at low data rates.

With the new context and forward update enabled the impact
for all the test sets was no more than 0.5-1% (again most at
the low end).

Change-Id: Ic751b414c8ce7f7f3ebc6f19a741d774d2b4b556

A patch on compound inter-intra prediction.

In compound inter-intra prediction, a new predictor for
16x16 inter coded MBs are obtained by combining a single
inter predictor with a 16x16 intra predictor, in a manner
that the weight varies with distance from the top/left
boundary. The current search strategy is to combine the best
inter mode with the best intra mode obtained independently.

Results so far:

derf +0.31%
yt +0.32%
std-hd +0.35%
hd +0.42%

It is conceivable that the results would improve somewhat
with a more thorough search strategy where all intra modes
are searched given the best mv, or even a joint search for
the best mv and the best intra mode.

Change-Id: I7951f1ed0d6eb31ca32ac24d120f1585bcd8d79b

This change is a fix / extension of the newbestrefmv
experiment. As such it is presented without IFDEF.

The change creates a new context for coding inter modes
in vp9_find_mv_refs(). This replaces the context that
was previously calculated in vp9_find_near_mvs().
The new context is unoptimized and not necessarily
any better at this stage (results pending), but eliminates
the need for a legacy call to vp9_find_near_mvs().
Based on numbers from Scott, this could help decode
speed by several %.

In a later patch I will add support for forward update of
context (assuming this helps) and refine the context as
necessary.

Change-Id: I1cd991b82c8df86cc02237a34185e6d67510698a

Preliminary patch on a new 4x4 intra mode B_CONTEXT_PRED where the
dominant direction from the context is used to encode. Various decoder
changes are needed to support decoding of B_CONTEXT_PRED in conjunction
with hybrid transforms since the scan order and tokenization depends on
the actual direction of prediction obtained from the context. Currently
the traditional directional modes are used in conjunction with the
B_CONTEXT_PRED, which also seems to provide the best results.

The gains are small - in the 0.1% range.

Change-Id: I5a7ea80b5218f42a9c0dfb42d3f79a68c7f0cdc2

Change-Id: Ic084c475844b24092a433ab88138cf58af3abbe4

Most of these were picked up by jenkins in the commit that changed
the vp8 namespace to vp9 in common/.

Change-Id: I5cbd56ffc753b92ef805133cda6acc1713a13878

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

This change encompasses VP8_PTR, VP8_COMP, VP8D_COMP, VP8_COMMON,
VP8Decompressor and VP8Common.

Change-Id: I514ef4ad4e682370f36d656af1c09ee20da216ad

For local symbols, make them static instead.

Change-Id: I13d60947a46f711bc8991e16100cea2a13e3a22e

Change-Id: Ic5a5f60e1ff9d9ccae4174160d36529466eeb509

This is the condition under which it is called in onyx_if.c. Also remove
the unused function print_mv_ref_cts().

Change-Id: I51ea3720d46f86d136e2215e01cf9d6c7dfc41ea

There is a macro DEFAULT_INTERP_FILTER defined in encoder/onyx_if.c that
is set as EIGHTTAP for now - so SWITCHABLE is not really used. Ideally,
this should be SWITCHABLE but that would make the encoder quite a bit slower.
We will change the default filter to SWITCHABLE once we find a faster way to
search for switchable filters.

Change-Id: Iee91832cdc07e6e14108d9b543130fdd12fc9874

This can be used to distinguish between 16x8, 8x16, 8x8 and 4x4
partitioning modes when choosing splitmv as a MB mode.

Change-Id: Idc8b59772e1a80ccc4ad44d63c5c2ec3fc061a3c

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

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

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

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

Incorporates mv_ref, mbsplit and second_mv into the adaptive
entropy framework. The mv_ref framework has been modified from
before.

Adds some clean-ups and fixes.

Results with the adaptive entropy experiment are currently up by
+1.93% on derf; +2.33% std-hd and +1.87% yt-hd.

Fixed a nasty intermittent bug.

Change-Id: I4b1ac9f9483b48432597595195bfec05f31d1e39

Change-Id: Iec81423e8e6c50acd9e10f69bc99ad0e9058517d

This patch incorporates adaptive entropy coding of coefficient tokens,
and mode/mv information based on distributions encountered in a frame.
Specifically, there is an initial forward update to the probabilities
in the bitstream as before for coding the symbols in the frame, however
at the end of decoding each frame, the forward update to the
probabilities is reverted and instead the probabilities are updated
towards the actual distributions encountered within the frame.
The amount of update is weighted by the number of hits within each
context.

Results on derf/hd/std-hd are all up by 1.6%.

On derf, the most of the gains come from coefficients, however for the
hd and std-hd sets, the most of the gains come from the mode/mv
information updates.

Change-Id: I708c0e11fdacafee04940fe7ae159ba6844005fd

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

Change-Id: I25eccc0836f28d8d74922e4e9231568a648b47d1

Make functions only referenced from one translation unit static. Other
symbols with extern linkage get a vp8/vpx prefix.

Change-Id: I928c7e0d0d36e89ac78cb54ff8bb28748727834f

Removes all runtime initialization of global data. This commit is a
squashed version of the following series cherry-picked from master.
This is necessary because of a change that was merged to the tester
that depends on the scaler being moved to the RTCD framework, which
is a worthwhile thing to include in Eider anyway.

  - a91b42f0 Makes all global data in entropy.c const
  - b35a0db0 Makes all global data in tokenize.c const
  - 441cac8e Makes all mode token tables const
  - 5948a021 Ports vpx_xcaler to new RTCD method
  - 317d4244 Makes all mode token tables const part 2

Change-Id: Ifeaea24df2b731e7c509fa6c6ef6891a374afc26

This commit merge the QI mode experiment. As the experiment affects
the encoding of intra coding modes on key frame only, the overall
effect of the experiment on encoding tests is insignificant.

Change-Id: I9e4e3933adface88867ad429cee3986e529c511d

The commit merges the UVINTRA experiment and removed the related
macros. The overall effect of the experiment is a small gain (.1%
on derf)

Change-Id: Ia34b3312fb9b5b34c9ba111bf0fa78c6f78ac80b

Key frame macrobock and block mode probabilities are constant.
Remove the allocation of tables for each codec instance and use
instead the default const prob tables.

Change-Id: I8361798ac491f9b3889e86925a494c58647c753f