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Claudio Freire	01ecb7172b	AAC encoder: Extensive improvements This finalizes merging of the work in the patches in ticket #2686. Improvements to twoloop and RC logic are extensive. The non-exhaustive list of twoloop improvments includes: - Tweaks to distortion limits on the RD optimization phase of twoloop - Deeper search in twoloop - PNS information marking to let twoloop decide when to use it (turned out having the decision made separately wasn't working) - Tonal band detection and priorization - Better band energy conservation rules - Strict hole avoidance For rate control: - Use psymodel's bit allocation to allow proper use of the bit reservoir. Don't work against the bit reservoir by moving lambda in the opposite direction when psymodel decides to allocate more/less bits to a frame. - Retry the encode if the effective rate lies outside a reasonable margin of psymodel's allocation or the selected ABR. - Log average lambda at the end. Useful info for everyone, but especially for tuning of the various encoder constants that relate to lambda feedback. Psy: - Do not apply lowpass with a FIR filter, instead just let the coder zero bands above the cutoff. The FIR filter induces group delay, and while zeroing bands causes ripple, it's lost in the quantization noise. - Experimental VBR bit allocation code - Tweak automatic lowpass filter threshold to maximize audio bandwidth at all bitrates while still providing acceptable, stable quality. I/S: - Phase decision fixes. Unrelated to #2686, but the bugs only surfaced when the merge was finalized. Measure I/S band energy accounting for phase, and prevent I/S and M/S from being applied both. PNS: - Avoid marking short bands with PNS when they're part of a window group in which there's a large variation of energy from one window to the next. PNS can't preserve those and the effect is extremely noticeable. M/S: - Implement BMLD protection similar to the specified in ISO-IEC/13818:7-2003, Appendix C Section 6.1. Since M/S decision doesn't conform to section 6.1, a different method had to be implemented, but should provide equivalent protection. - Move the decision logic closer to the method specified in ISO-IEC/13818:7-2003, Appendix C Section 6.1. Specifically, make sure M/S needs less bits than dual stereo. - Don't apply M/S in bands that are using I/S Now, this of course needed adjustments in the compare targets and fuzz factors of the AAC encoder's fate tests, but if wondering why the targets go up (more distortion), consider the previous coder was using too many bits on LF content (far more than required by psy), and thus those signals will now be more distorted, not less. The extra distortion isn't audible though, I carried extensive ABX testing to make sure. A very similar patch was also extensively tested by Kamendo2 in the context of #2686.	9 years ago
Claudio Freire	8df9bf8e39	AAC encoder: refactor to resynchronize MIPS port This patch refactors the AAC coders to reuse code between the MIPS port and the regular, portable C code. There were two main functions that had to use hand-optimized versions of quantization code: - search_for_quantizers_twoloop - codebook_trellis_rate Those two were split into their own template header files so they can be inlined inside both the MIPS port and the generic code. In each context, they'll link to their specialized implementations, and thus be optimized by the compiler. This approach I believe is better than maintaining several copies of each function. As past experience has proven, having to keep those in sync was error prone. In this way, they will remain in sync by default. Also, an implementation of the dequantized output argument for the optimized quantize_and_encode functions is included in the patch. While the current implementation of search_for_pred still isn't using it, future iterations of main prediction probably will. It should not imply any measurable performance hit while not being used.	9 years ago

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Claudio Freire

01ecb7172b

AAC encoder: Extensive improvements

This finalizes merging of the work in the patches in ticket #2686.

Improvements to twoloop and RC logic are extensive.

The non-exhaustive list of twoloop improvments includes:
 - Tweaks to distortion limits on the RD optimization phase of twoloop
 - Deeper search in twoloop
 - PNS information marking to let twoloop decide when to use it
   (turned out having the decision made separately wasn't working)
 - Tonal band detection and priorization
 - Better band energy conservation rules
 - Strict hole avoidance

For rate control:
 - Use psymodel's bit allocation to allow proper use of the bit
   reservoir. Don't work against the bit reservoir by moving lambda
   in the opposite direction when psymodel decides to allocate more/less
   bits to a frame.
 - Retry the encode if the effective rate lies outside a reasonable
   margin of psymodel's allocation or the selected ABR.
 - Log average lambda at the end. Useful info for everyone, but especially
   for tuning of the various encoder constants that relate to lambda
   feedback.

Psy:
 - Do not apply lowpass with a FIR filter, instead just let the coder
   zero bands above the cutoff. The FIR filter induces group delay,
   and while zeroing bands causes ripple, it's lost in the quantization
   noise.
 - Experimental VBR bit allocation code
 - Tweak automatic lowpass filter threshold to maximize audio bandwidth
   at all bitrates while still providing acceptable, stable quality.

I/S:
 - Phase decision fixes. Unrelated to #2686, but the bugs only surfaced
   when the merge was finalized. Measure I/S band energy accounting for
   phase, and prevent I/S and M/S from being applied both.

PNS:
 - Avoid marking short bands with PNS when they're part of a window
   group in which there's a large variation of energy from one window
   to the next. PNS can't preserve those and the effect is extremely
   noticeable.

M/S:
 - Implement BMLD protection similar to the specified in
   ISO-IEC/13818:7-2003, Appendix C Section 6.1. Since M/S decision
   doesn't conform to section 6.1, a different method had to be
   implemented, but should provide equivalent protection.
 - Move the decision logic closer to the method specified in
   ISO-IEC/13818:7-2003, Appendix C Section 6.1. Specifically,
   make sure M/S needs less bits than dual stereo.
 - Don't apply M/S in bands that are using I/S

Now, this of course needed adjustments in the compare targets and
fuzz factors of the AAC encoder's fate tests, but if wondering why
the targets go up (more distortion), consider the previous coder
was using too many bits on LF content (far more than required by
psy), and thus those signals will now be more distorted, not less.

The extra distortion isn't audible though, I carried extensive
ABX testing to make sure.

A very similar patch was also extensively tested by Kamendo2 in
the context of #2686.

9 years ago

Claudio Freire

8df9bf8e39

AAC encoder: refactor to resynchronize MIPS port

This patch refactors the AAC coders to reuse code
between the MIPS port and the regular, portable C code.
There were two main functions that had to use
hand-optimized versions of quantization code:
 - search_for_quantizers_twoloop
 - codebook_trellis_rate

Those two were split into their own template header
files so they can be inlined inside both the MIPS port
and the generic code. In each context, they'll link
to their specialized implementations, and thus be
optimized by the compiler.

This approach I believe is better than maintaining
several copies of each function. As past experience has
proven, having to keep those in sync was error prone.
In this way, they will remain in sync by default.

Also, an implementation of the dequantized output
argument for the optimized quantize_and_encode
functions is included in the patch. While the current
implementation of search_for_pred still isn't using
it, future iterations of main prediction probably will.
It should not imply any measurable performance hit while
not being used.

9 years ago

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