Adds an additional grid search step that starts from the zero motion
vector after the normal grid search. The search range for this step is
half of the normal range.
- Changes TZ grid search and star refinement to keep the origin constant
instead of moving to the best position after each iteration.
- Changes star refinement to loop until there is no more improvement,
instead of running the step only once.
When the starting point for integer motion estimation was selected among
the merge candidates, the candidate motion vectors were always rounded
down. This commit changes the rounding so that they are rounded to the
nearest integer MV instead.
- Fixes two errors in calculating the POC for the reference frame for
temporal candidate MV scaling.
- Fixes using the MV for the wrong direction when the temporal MV
predictor block uses bi-prediction.
Fixes#160.
Adds struct inter_search_info_t for holding the parameters that are used
by most function related to inter search. Passing the parameters in
a single struct greatly reduces the number of parameters for many
functions.
Inter costs are computed using SAD except when fractional motion
estimation or bi-prediction is enabled. This commit changes
search_pu_inter_ref to recalculate the cost with SATD. Fixes inter/intra
cost comparisons since intra costs are always SATD costs.
Adds field max_inter_ref_lcu to encoder_control_t. It is used to set up
inter-LCU dependencies in encoder_state_encode_leaf and restrict motion
vectors in fracmv_within_tile.
When using WPP and OWF, the first CTU of a row depends on the last CTU
of the row below in the reference frame. This is necessary when SAO is
enabled since we currently do SAO for a whole CTU row at a time. When
SAO is disabled, however, it is unnecessary to wait for the whole row.
Changes CTUs to depend only on the CTU below in the reference frame
instead of the whole row when WPP and OWF are enabled and SAO disabled.
Gives a significant speedup when running on a machine with many CPU
cores.
When using --me-early-termination=sensitive, early termination of inter
search used to always return the starting point if no tested motion
vector was good enough to continue the search. This commit changes
early_termination to always return the best motion vector and cost
found.
Some of the fields in encoder_control_t were simply copies of the
corresponding fields in kvz_config. This commit drops the copied fields
in favor of using the fields in encoder_control_t.cfg directly.
The kvz_config struct is created by the user but kvazaar keeps a pointer
to it. It is easy to break things by modifying the configuration outside
kvazaar. In addition, kvazaar modifies the struct even though it is has
a const modifier.
This commit changes the field cfg in encoder_control_t to be a copy of
the kvz_config struct instead of a pointer, removing modifications to
the const struct and allowing users to do whatever they want with it
after opening the encoder.
When the number of merge candidates was five, biprediction search would
read past the bounds of the priority list arrays. Fixed to limit the
search to the first four candidates.
The function search_pu_inter_ref incorrectly rounded the coordinates of
the block to down to a multiple 8 pixels. Small SMP and AMP blocks may
start at coordinates that are not multiples of 8. Fixed by removing the
rounding.
Fixes a failing assert when --mv-constraint is used with --smp or --amp.
Subpixel motion estimation return 0-vector when no subpixel vector is
within the constraint. Fix is to not call subpixel motion estimation
when the integer vector is not within the constraint.
This is to prepare for changing the code using the floating point table
to use the fixed point table instead.
This also allows reducing the size of the fractional part, which was
useful for finding every place where the the fixed point presentation
is relied upon.
Adds fields lambda, lambda_sqrt and qp to encoder_state_t. Drops field
cur_lambda_cost_sqrt from encoder_state_config_frame_t and renames
cur_lambda_cost to lambda.
