Prevents having to have random magic values in the decoder and a
separate macro in the encoder.
Signed-off-by: Rostislav Pehlivanov <rpehlivanov@obe.tv>
The slice prefix is 0 in the reference encoder and the decoder ignores it.
Writing 0 there seems like the best temporary solution.
The padding could have contained uninitialized data, but reference VC2
encoders put 0xFF there, hence the memset value.
Overall this allows producing bistreams with no random data for use by fate.
Until now, for formats which were in the spec but not in the encoder's
list of supported formats required the -strict -1 flag. This enables
support for all video formats which are specified, all the way from
QSIF525 to 8K.
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In some cases this caused the slice size rounding to generate invalid
slice sizes and overwrite some slices.
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This was a leftover from before the slices were encoded in parallel.
Since the put_bits context is initialized per slice aligning it
aferwards is pointless.
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This commit solves most of the crashes and issues with the encoder and
the bitrate setting. Now the encoder will always allocate the absolute
lowest amount of memory regardless of what the bitrate has been set to.
Therefore if a user inputs a very low bitrate the encoder will use the
maximum possible quantization (basically zero out all coefficients),
allocate a packet and encode it. There is no coupling between the
bitrate and the allocation size and so no crashes because the buffer
isn't large enough.
The maximum quantizer was raised to the size of the table now to both
keep the overshoot at ridiculous bitrates low and to improve quality
with higher bit depths (since the coefficients grow larger per transform
quantizing them to the same relative level requires larger quantization
indices).
Since the quantization index start follows the previous quantization
index for that slice, the quantization step was reduced to a static 1
to improve performance. Previously with quant/5 the step was usually
set to 0 upon start (and was later clipped to 1), that isn't a big change.
As the step size increases so does the amount of bits leftover and so
the redistribution algorithm has to iterate more and thus waste more
time.
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This was a regression introduced by commit e7345abe05 which
enabled full use of the allocated packet but due to the overhead of
using field coding the buffer was too small and triggered warnings and
crashes.
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The fact that now all quantization indices costs are cached justifies
storing 20 more integers in a structure already allocated on heap.
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This commit redistributes the leftover bytes amongst the top 150 slices
in terms of size (in the hopes that they'll be the ones pretty bitrate
starved).
A more perceptual method would probably need to cut bits off from slices
which don't need much, but that'll be implemented later.
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Previously a global average was used. Using the previous quantizer
resulted in a fairly significant speedup as slice size selection settled
down quicker.
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16 bits were definitely not enough and caused artifacts to appear on
images at barely compressed images.
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This commit moves the minimum bits per slice calculations outside of the
rate control function as it is identical for every slice.
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Since coefficients differ only in the last bit when writing to the
bitstream it was possible to remove the sign from the tables, thus
halving them. Also now all quantization is done in the unsigned domain
as the sign is completely separate, which gets rid of the need to do
quantization on 32 bit signed integers.
Overall, this slightly speeds up the encoder depending on the machine.
The commit still generates bit-identical files as before the commit.
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The reference encoder limits it to 64, but testing revealed that there
is absolutely no difference for indices above 50 in amount of zeroed
coefficients.
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This commit adds support for the (simple, allowed in the spec, but
inferior in quality) Haar wavelet transforms.
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Similar to how the AAC encoder does it.
0 means the video's been compressed losslessly/almost losslessly
thoughout. Generally, the higher, the worse.
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This commit adds a new encoder capable of creating BBC/SMPTE Dirac/VC-2 HQ
profile files.
Dirac is a wavelet based codec created by the BBC a little more than 10
years ago. Since then, wavelets have mostly gone out of style as they
did not provide adequate encoding gains at lower bitrates. Dirac was a
fully featured video codec equipped with perceptual masking, support for
most popular pixel formats, interlacing, overlapped-block motion
compensation, and other features. It found new life after being stripped
of various features and standardized as the VC-2 codec by the SMPTE with
an extra profile, the HQ profile that this encoder supports, added.
The HQ profile was based off of the Low-Delay profile previously
existing in Dirac. The profile forbids DC prediction and arithmetic
coding to focus on high performance and low delay at higher bitrates.
The standard bitrates for this profile vary but generally 1:4
compression is expected (~525 Mbps vs the 2200 Mbps for uncompressed
1080p50). The codec only supports I-frames, hence the high bitrates.
The structure of this encoder is simple: do a DWT transform on the
entire image, split it into multiple slices (specified by the user) and
encode them in parallel. All of the slices are of the same size, making
rate control and threading very trivial. Although only in C, this encoder
is capable of 30 frames per second on an 4 core 8 threads Ivy Bridge.
A lookup table is used to encode most of the coefficients.
No code was used from the GSoC encoder from 2007 except for the 2
transform functions in diracenc_transforms.c. All other code was written
from scratch.
This encoder outperforms any other encoders in quality, usability and in
features. Other existing implementations do not support 4 level
transforms or 64x64 blocks (slices), which greatly increase compression.
As previously said, the codec is meant for broadcasting, hence support
for non-broadcasting image widths, heights, bit depths, aspect ratios,
etc. are limited by the "level". Although this codec supports a few
chroma subsamplings (420, 422, 444), signalling those is generally
outside the specifications of the level used (3) and the reference
decoder will outright refuse to read any image with such a flag
signalled (it only supports 1920x1080 yuv422p10). However, most
implementations will happily read files with alternate dimensions,
framerates and formats signalled.
Therefore, in order to encode files other than 1080p50 yuv422p10le, you
need to provide an "-strict -2" argument to the command line. The FFmpeg
decoder will happily read any files made with non-standard parameters,
dimensions and subsamplings, and so will other implementations. IMO this
should be "-strict -1", but I'll leave that up for discussion.
There are still plenty of stuff to implement, for instance 5 more
wavelet transforms are still in the specs and supported by the decoder.
The encoder can be lossless, given a high enough bitrate.
Signed-off-by: Rostislav Pehlivanov <atomnuker@gmail.com>
Rostislav Pehlivanov
Christophe Gisquet
Rostislav Pehlivanov