The alternate reference frame is disabled in non-RD mode. No need
to keep the related entries in the THR_MODES array.

Change-Id: I53386f4bb1c6284f582801f27246c5edf55bc24b

In RTC coding mode, the alternate reference frame modes and compound
inter prediction modes are disabled. This commit reworks the
related mode search threshold update process to skip interacting
with these coding modes. It provides about 1.5% speed-up for speed
-6 on average.

vidyo1
16551 b/f, 40.451 dB, 6261 ms -> 16550 b/f, 40.459 dB, 6190 ms

nik720p
33316 b/f, 38.795 dB, 6335 ms -> 33310 b/f, 38.798 dB, 6237 ms

mmmoving
33265 b/f, 41.055 dB, 7176 ms -> 33267 b/f, 41.064 dB, 7084 ms

dark720
33329 b/f, 39.729 dB, 11235 ms -> 33331 b/f, 39.733 dB, 10731 ms

Change-Id: If2a4090a371cd28f579be219c013b972d7d9b97f

Use a temporary variable to store the transform size associated
with the best intra mode and restore the mode_info if the overall
best mode is intra mode.

Change-Id: I2606e0061ad32f91b095462902b1eb734b128eea

When multiple intra modes are tested, the previous mode info
update process may overwrite the selected best intra mode and make
the final selection use an inter mode. This commit fixes this
issue by moving the mode_info reset outside the intra mode search
loop.

Change-Id: I15ed4288a6b3cb0832104a5e6d5d9a25cd1a5b2b

If vp9_pick_inter_mode works properly, it should at least check
one coding mode and hence get best_tx_size assigned a valid value.
There is no need to initialize best_tx_size with a legitimate
value before starting the mode search.

Change-Id: Ic0496cd89672ea9c2c512a9bd1da952190af9cba

Make the variable reduction_fac log2 based and explicitly use
right shift when computing intra_cost_penalty.

Change-Id: I208f1fb879a02debb3b3fc64f9fd06260dcf1c86

Use left shift to replace one multiplication. The computation
outcome remains identical.

Change-Id: I1e1737af0a245de0d2a2bde10f0c171477199fc1

Replace error_resilient flag with use_prev_frame_mvs in
vp9_pick_inter_mode reference motion vector search selection.
This effectively turns off the simplified ref mv search in the
settings of frame resizing, even if error-resilient mode is off.

Change-Id: I7fed814ee7bc0cb419a03b846e0fc2de46ba7686

The initial reset of this_rdc in vp9_pick_inter_mode is not needed,
since it will be re-assign when used.

Change-Id: Ic0e12d741cbab292fc214c1eabb48b129af7839b

Compare the current best mode rate-distortion cost with the skip
threshold to decide if performing motion search.

Change-Id: Ia071824f8dd3b7db485f424692a485a2da6a1a9f

Change-Id: I0222f7abc61202f4a83b117bbfb042ada6304562

Bug was introduced in https://gerrit.chromium.org/gerrit/#/c/72122/

Change-Id: Idb500ea619a30e7bc50e22fb8ee03be5282f41db

Change-Id: Ic072585ebffdb36982ed7b8b9f875ca6c1c656c4

This commit allows the encoder to increase the mode test kick-off
thresholds if the previous best mode renders all zero quantized
coefficients, thereby saving motion search runs when possible.
The compression performance of speed -5 and -6 is down by -0.446%
and 0.591%, respectively. The runtime of speed -6 is improved by
10% for many test clips.

vidyo1, 1000 kbps
16578 b/f, 40.316 dB, 7873 ms -> 16575 b/f, 40.262 dB, 7126 ms

nik720p, 1000 kbps
33311 b/f, 38.651 dB, 7263 ms -> 33304 b/f, 38.629 dB, 6865 ms

dark720p, 1000 kbps
33331 b/f, 39.718 dB, 13596 ms -> 33324 b/f, 39.651 dB, 12000 ms

mmoving, 1000 kbps
33263 b/f, 40.983 dB, 7566 ms -> 33259 b/f, 40.978 dB, 7531 ms

Change-Id: I7591617ff113e91125ec32c9b853e257fbc41d90

This patch modified struct VP9_COMP. Created a struct ThreadData
to include data that need to be copied for each thread. In
multiple thread case, one thread processes one tile. all threads
share one copy of VP9_COMP,
(refer to VP9_COMP *cpi in the code)
but each thread has its own copy of ThreadData,
(refer to ThreadData *td in the code).
Therefore, within the scope of encode_tiles(), both cpi and td
need to be passed as function parameters.

In single thread case, the FRAME_COUNTS pointer in ThreadData
points to "counts" in VP9_COMMON.

Change-Id: Ib37908b2d8e2c0f4f9c18f38017df5ce60e8b13e

The intra mode penalty is covered by intra_cost_penalty. This
commit removes the other intra cost threshold, provided that the
constant 50 is negligible in normal rate-distortion cost.

Change-Id: I9b8b7483c43b9a41741622e7057def1f7d51bb72

This commit makes a non-RD coding mode decision process for key
frame coding. It can be optionally turned on in speed -6 and above.

Change-Id: I0847258b392877a0210b4768bef88ebc9ad009b5

This commit allows more aggressive decision to skip forward
transform and quantization for luma component in RTC coding mode.
The chroma components remains going through the normal coding
routine, since they are not included in the non-RD mode search
process.

It reduces the runtime cost by 2% - 10%. In speed -6,
vidyo1 1000 kbps
16576 b/f, 40.281 dB, 8402 ms -> 16576 b/f, 40.323 dB, 7764 ms

nik720p 1000 kbps
33337 b/f, 38.622 dB, 7473 ms -> 33299 b/f, 38.660 dB, 7314 ms

dark720p 1000 kbps
33330 b/f, 39.785 dB, 13505 ms -> 33325 b/f, 39.714 dB, 13105 ms

The compression performance of speed -6 is improved by 0.44% in
PSNR and 1.31% in SSIM.

Change-Id: Iae9e3738de6255babea734e5897f29118bebc6d7

6.3% better compression
less than 1% compression time increase

Change-Id: Ie83c059436e54c09de9e7c87e06e0a6d40dc38fe

This commit adds a check condition to the prediction buffering
operation used in the rtc coding mode. This resolves a unit test
warning in example/vpx_tsvc_encoder_vp9_mode_7.

Change-Id: I9fd50d5956948b73b53bd8fc5a16ee66aff61995

This commit makes the speed -6 and above use the reconstructed
boundary pixels for precise intra prediction. This allows more
intra prediction modes to be tested in the non-RD coding process.

Enabling horizontal and vertical intra prediction modes can
improve the speed -6 compression performance for rtc set
by 0.331%.

Change-Id: I3a99f9d12c6af54de2bdbf28c76eab8e0905f744

Change-Id: I39d9f13fa34984ee9dad0c4f303ef672635f420e

This commit makes the RTC coding mode to conditionally skip the
reference frame mode search, when the predicted motion vector of
the current reference frame gives more than two times sum of
absolute difference compared to that of other reference frames.

It reduces the runtim by 1% - 4% for speed -5 and -6. The average
compression performance is improved by about 0.1% in both settings.

It is of particular benefit to light change scenarios. The
compression performance of test clip mmmovingvga.y4m is improved by
6.39% and 15.69% at high bit rates for speed -5 and -6, respectively.

Speed -5
vidyo1 16555 b/f, 40.818 dB, 12422 ms ->
       16552 b/f, 40.804 dB, 12100 ms

nik    33211 b/f, 39.138 dB, 11341 ms ->
       33228 b/f, 39.139 dB, 11023 ms

mmmoving 33263 b/f, 40.935 dB, 13508 ms ->
         33256 b/f, 41.068 dB, 12861 ms

Speed -6
vidyo1 16541 b/f, 40.227 dB, 8437 ms ->
       16540 b/f, 40.220 dB, 8216 ms

nik    33272 b/f, 38.399 dB, 7610 ms ->
       33267 b/f, 38.414 dB, 7490 ms

mmmoving 33255 b/f, 40.555 dB, 7523 ms ->
         33257 b/f, 40.975 dB, 7493 ms

Change-Id: Id2aef76ef74a3cba5e9a82a83b792144948c6a91

Fix the alignment of entries fo intra prediction modes.

Change-Id: Ie32ad87cf90694efd591a4b1cc29c916c4cd56f7

This improves coding performance of speed -5 and -6 by 0.6%,
respectively.

Change-Id: Ic5a7746a88c73285f0b14333d35dc16b02152c25

Reduce the scope of function parameters.

Change-Id: Ifef2cfb559908a97498ffdbd6ea53da1cd45a73c

This commit makes the inter prediction buffer system to support
hybrid partition search. It reduces the runtime of speed -5 by
about 3%. No compression performance change.

vidyo1 720p 1000 kbps
11831 ms -> 11497 ms

nik 720p 1000 kbps
10919 ms -> 10645 ms

Change-Id: I5b2da747c6395c253cd074d3907f5402e1840c36

Adaptively adjust the mode thresholds after each mode search round
to skip checking less likely selected modes. Local tests indicate
5% - 10% speed-up in speed -5 and -6. Average coding performance
loss is -1.055%.

speed -5
vidyo1 720p 1000 kbps
16533 b/f, 40.851 dB, 12607 ms -> 16556 b/f, 40.796 dB, 11831 ms

nik 720p 1000 kbps
33229 b/f, 39.127 dB, 11468 ms -> 33235 b/f, 39.131 dB, 10919 ms

speed -6
vidyo1 720p 1000 kbps
16549 b/f, 40.268 dB, 10138 ms -> 16538 b/f, 40.212 dB, 8456 ms

nik 720p 1000 kbps
33271 b/f, 38.433 dB,  7886 ms -> 33279 b/f, 38.416 dB, 7843 ms

Change-Id: I2c2963f1ce4ed9c1cf233b5b2c880b682e1c1e8b

This commit changes to allow the usage of golden reference frame in
VP9 CBR mode to improve quality. VP9 supports potentially up to 8
reference buffers, it has reference buffers available for this
purpose. This was not possible in VP8 as golden and alt-ref buffers
were used for temporal scalability purpose in CBR mode in WebRTC.

For frames that update golden frame, there can be a quality boost.
The amount of allowed bitrate boost can be controlled via parameter
rc_max_inter_bitrate_pct. The inital value of the boost ratior is
currently based on over_shoot_pct. Further experiments will work
out the adaption of this boost value.

Change-Id: I0c5f010c8fd8b7b598f69779c1b30e5b2ac30a4d

Make the common tile info as one element in the encoder tile data
struct.

Change-Id: I8c474b4ba67ee3e2c86ab164f353ff71ea9992be

Use per tile threshold in the prediction mode search process.

Change-Id: I6c74ee5a3b069bb4281002dfe51310911a0756c0

To outside the loop to avoid repeating the operations.

Change-Id: I66c1986e98ce0d7594caad3d3b45de655b299bff

This improves the compression performance of speed -5 by 0.6%. The
speed impact is less than 1%.

Change-Id: Ie77daa561976dfc8b479061e1221bdf428eb0c3b

The initialization of this_mode_pred does not work when the ref_frame
loop ever goes beyond LAST_FRAME. This commit fixes the subtle issue
and allows potentially expanding the loop to test GOLDEN_FRAME.

Change-Id: Ibbd427a22160d1d9eacb8ed0c87f88d6cef9c0f3

This commit refactors the rate distortion structure used in the
non-RD coding mode and saves a few RDCOST calculations.

Change-Id: I62c3416c300d2c5372f21b96d93a6b633a34ab3a

INTERP_FILTER; Modify the macro ADD_MV_REF_LIST and
IF_DIFF_REF_FRAME_ADD_MV.

Change-Id: Ic36c9eb6ccb8ec324d991f7241e42b40b60b1dcb

Reduce the intra_cost_penalty for non-rd mode,
and some updates to VAR_BASED_PARTITION.

Visual tests show some improvement at Speed 6, for RTC clips.

Change-Id: If9090daf7aed14906a32d931a538ab544bbca606

Uses highbd_ prefix convention consistently.

Change-Id: I58f7f799a7ff8e32701bcd71c955bcf1cdd4581e

- Some fixes to surface fit.
- Returns variance function as cost rather than sad in the
  pattern search and diamond search functions. Only
  vp9_pattern_search_sad function used in bigdia search
  uses sad as integer 1-away costs.
- Deploys SUBPEL_TREE_PRUNED_MORE for speed 4+.

Results:
derf [Speed 3]: About +0.036% in coding efficiency without any
discernible speed loss.
derf [Speed 4]: About 2-3% faster at -0.199% loss in coding efficiency.
derf [Speed 5]: About 3-4% faster at -0.149% loss in coding efficiency.

Change-Id: I8462f94f6adb46966ca964f2bd0400977357fd63

The concept:

There's too much noise in source pixels for variance and at low bitrate
the reconstructed looks nothing like the source so we have problems
getting good partitionings with either.   This skirts the issue by using
a box blur scaled down version for variance calculations.  To compare
against source_var_ moved keyframe to be rd based like source_var.

Change-Id: Ie3babdbfadae324b7b5a76bea192893af27f0624