Reoptimizes the 8-tap smooth filter.

Results:
derf: +0.101%
yt: +0.157%
hd: +0.791%
stdhd: +0.264%

The next step will be to reoptimize the other two filters.

Change-Id: I3d256a510ad9c7c30c33fae4a70fb43dfc708ed0

This avoids duplicating all the filters twice. Includes fixups to the
convolve routines and associated tests to make this work.

Change-Id: I922f86021594e55072ddb63b42b2313605db6e00

This patch allows coding frames using references of different
resolution, in ZEROMV mode. For compound prediction, either
reference may be scaled.

To test, I use the resize_test and enable WRITE_RECON_BUFFER
in vp9_onyxd_if.c. It's also useful to apply this patch to
test/i420_video_source.h:

  --- a/test/i420_video_source.h
  +++ b/test/i420_video_source.h
  @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ class I420VideoSource : public VideoSource {

     virtual void FillFrame() {
       // Read a frame from input_file.
  +    if (frame_ != 3)
       if (fread(img_->img_data, raw_sz_, 1, input_file_) == 0) {
         limit_ = frame_;
       }

This forces the frame that the resolution changes on to be coded
with no motion, only scaling, and improves the quality of the
result.

Change-Id: I1ee75d19a437ff801192f767fd02a36bcbd1d496

Update the code to call the new convolution functions to do subpixel
prediction rather than the existing functions. Remove the old C and
assembly code, since it is unused. This causes a 50% performance
reduction on the decoder, but that will be resolved when the asm for
the new functions is available.

There is no consensus for whether 6-tap or 2-tap predictors will be
supported in the final codec, so these filters are implemented in
terms of the 8-tap code, so that quality testing of these modes
can continue. Implementing the lower complexity algorithms is a
simple exercise, should it be necessary.

This code produces slightly better results in the EIGHTTAP_SMOOTH
case, since the filter is now applied in only one direction when
the subpel motion is only in one direction. Like the previous code,
the filtering is skipped entirely on full-pel MVs. This combination
seems to give the best quality gains, but this may be indicative of a
bug in the encoder's filter selection, since the encoder could
achieve the result of skipping the filtering on full-pel by selecting
one of the other filters. This should be revisited.

Quality gains on derf positive on almost all clips. The only clip
that seemed to be hurt at all datarates was football
(-0.115% PSNR average, -0.587% min). Overall averages 0.375% PSNR,
0.347% SSIM.

Change-Id: I7d469716091b1d89b4b08adde5863999319d69ff

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

Fixed the warning: the size of array ‘intermediate_buffer’ can’t
be evaluated [-Wvla].

Change-Id: Ibcffd6969bd71cee0c10f7cf18960e58cd0bd915

For coefficients, use int16_t (instead of short); for pixel values in
16-bit intermediates, use uint16_t (instead of unsigned short); for all
others, use uint8_t (instead of unsigned char).

Change-Id: I3619cd9abf106c3742eccc2e2f5e89a62774f7da

Fixed the warning: the size of array ‘intermediate_buffer’ can’t
be evaluated [-Wvla].

Change-Id: Ibcffd6969bd71cee0c10f7cf18960e58cd0bd915

Prefer the standard fixed-size integer typedefs.

Change-Id: Iad75582350669e49a8da3b7facb9c259e9514a5b

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: Ia1cce221f8511561b9cbd8edb7726fbc286ff243

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

Change-Id: Ib947eefbaf68f8b177a796d23f875ccdfa6bc9dc

Change-Id: Ib8f8a66c9fd31e508cdc9caa662192f38433aa3d

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

For local symbols, make them static instead.

Change-Id: I13d60947a46f711bc8991e16100cea2a13e3a22e

Change-Id: Ic5a5f60e1ff9d9ccae4174160d36529466eeb509

Quickly modified the ssse3 sixtap filters to support eight taps.  For the test
clip used, a 23+% boost in decoder performance was seen.  We can
revisit later and improve further.

Change-Id: I5f59860459e80d6fa23e6cc0fd91296a969f5240

About 3.5x faster, 30% overall encoder speedup. Rest of optimizations
will come soon (see TODO section in filter_sse4.c).

Change-Id: If18108048bfd5345fc942e8574e4c7f58e0e86e0

Merges this experiment in to make it easier to run tests on
filter precision, vectorized implementation etc.

Also removes an experimental filter.

Change-Id: I1e8706bb6d4fc469815123939e9c6e0b5ae945cd

Change-Id: Ib23b0711a4690e1edff3131ce48527b6805877fb

as a preparation for the upcoming vectorized implementation.

Change-Id: I0d1629943cee68fcb0ea8b6dd8aef265d050cc7a

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

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

Change-Id: I9d6083d54e3d478ec20dc6dc48d3f45eb5c7e16b

Change-Id: I0af3395500b1cb0ed629249eb6636a0c9322cb18

Various refactoring to make the subpel motion compensation
filters switchable by a frame level field.
Two types of 8-tap filters are supported in addition to the existing
bilinar and sixtap filters. One is the default 8-tap and the
other has a sharper cut-off for use with frames with substantial
edge content.

Patch 2: Added a preliminary strategy for filter selection based on
edginess detecton. Also includes some filter changes.

Change-Id: I866085bda5ae143cfdf2ec88157feaabdf7bd63a

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

This is the first patch for refactoring of the code related to
high-precision mv, so that 1/4 and 1/8 pel motion vectors can
co-exist in the same bit-stream by use of a frame level flag.
The current patch works fine for only use of 1/4th and
only use of 1/8th pel mv, but there are some issues with the
mode switching in between. Subsequent patches on this change Id
will fix the remaining issues.

Patch 2: Adds fixes to make sure that multiple mv precisions can
co-exist in the bit-stream. Frame level switching has been tested
to work correctly.

Patch 3: Fixes lines exceeding 80 char

Patch 4:
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterp.html

Results on derf after ssse3 bugfix, compared to everything
enabled but the 8-tap, 1/8-subpel and 1/16-subpel uv. Overall the
gains are about 3% now. Hopefully there are no more bugs lingering.
Apparently the sse3 bug affected the quartel subpel results more than
the eighth pel ones (which is understandabale because one bad predictor
due to the bug, matters less if there are a lot more subpel options
available as in the 1/8 subpel case).
The results in the 4th column correspond to the current settings.
The first two columns correspond to two settings of adaptive switching
of the 1/4 or 1/8 subpel mode based on initial Q estimate. These
do not work as good as just using 1/8 all the time yet.

Change-Id: I3ef392ad338329f4d68a85257a49f2b14f3af472

The Lagrangian interpolation filter is maximally flat in the
passband. There is non-trivial improvement with the hd set, while
for derf the results are virtually unchanged.
See:
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterpn.html (derf)
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterpn_hd.html (HD)

Patch 2: Updated the results for derf in the html above to use the
new baseline. There is still about 4% improvement. Will update the
hd baseline later (since it takes 9 hours to run on my machine)

Patch 3: By mistake the default filter was left at 60 - should be 0
to use the new interpolation filter.

Change-Id: If5f64444976562415d68a2aeabb94fdfa0d47890

* Removes EDGE_PIXEL_FILTER for external sanpshot
* changes the default 8-tap filter based on high precision results
in http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterpn.html
* changes the default prob tables for high-precision mv encoding to
favor zeros in the last bit (i.e. quarter pel). This is only important
for short clips.

Change-Id: I02bb0de8679d9eec06cdbcc8160dbf073cd847a4

This is the initial patch for supporting 1/8th pel
motion. Currently if we configure with enable-high-precision-mv,
all motion vectors would default to 1/8 pel. Encode and
decode syncs fine with the current code. In the next phase
the code will be refactored so that we can choose the 1/8
pel mode adaptively at a frame/segment/mb level.

Derf results:
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterp_hpmv.html
(about 0.83% better than 8-tap interpoaltion)

Patch 3: Rebased. Also adding 1/16th pel interpolation for U and V

Patch 4: HD results.
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterp_hd_hpmv.html
Seems impressive (unless I am doing something wrong).

Patch 5: Added mmx/sse for bilateral filtering, as well as enforced
use of c-versions of subpel filters with 8-taps and 1/16th pel;
Also redesigned the 8-tap filters to reduce the cut-off in order to
introduce a denoising effect. There is a new configure option
sixteenth-subpel-uv which will use 1/16 th pel interpolation for
uv, if the motion vectors have 1/8 pel accuracy.

With the fixes the results are promising on the derf set. The enhanced
interpolation option with 8-taps alone gives 3% improvement over thei
derf set:
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterpn.html

Results on high precision mv and on the hd set are to follow.

Patch 6: Adding a missing condition for CONFIG_SIXTEENTH_SUBPEL_UV in
vp8/common/x86/x86_systemdependent.c

Patch 7: Cleaning up various debug messages.

Patch 8: Merge conflict

Change-Id: I5b1d844457aefd7414a9e4e0e06c6ed38fd8cc04

Change-Id: I7549e424ca6846b07a796f2b9cd4e9d4e550ca9b

Results with the new filter coefficients compared with the previous
versions are here:
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterp.html (derf)
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterp_hd.html (HD)
Overall, the derf set improves by 0.94% with 8-tap filters while
the HD set improves by 0.58%.

Patch 1: resolving merge conflict

Change-Id: I09db0abdab7b08bb19f86d911de23d2123309748

Change-Id: Ieaaa07c50eae41118596197f6a4d848135946e41

This commit continues the process of converting to the new RTCD
system.

Change-Id: I6c519ab61e4f4e0ebcc796f2df061f945c48cefe

Fixes a rounding issue with the 8-tap filters, which allows us to
use sharper filters that before with a little better performance.
Results on derf (0verall gain 0.76):
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterp.html
Results on a 720P set (Overall gain 0.61):
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterp_hd.html

Change-Id: I4cd7bdf3583db974dc5589fa64857bc31ac861fa

using an 8-tap filter.

The results with 3 different 8-tap filters on the derf set are in:
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterp.html
The one that gives the most gain achieves an overall gain of about
0.6%. The results for a set of 12 hd (720p) videos are in:
http://www.corp.google.com/~debargha/vp8_results/enhinterp_hd.html
with max gain of 0.55% with the same filter. The best filter apparently
achieves the best trade-off between pass band ripple and stop band
attenuation.

Change-Id: I919e28ae245c0493147fa0864f8c9d048a9dd530