This patch does 4 things, all of which interact and thus it
woudln't be possible to commit them separately without causing
either quality regressions or assertion failures.
Fate comparison targets don't all reflect improvements in
quality, yet listening tests show substantially improved quality
and stability.
1. Increase SF range utilization.
The spec requires SF delta values to be constrained within the
range -60..60. The previous code was applying that range to
the whole SF array and not only the deltas of consecutive values,
because doing so requires smarter code: zeroing or otherwise
skipping a band may invalidate lots of SF choices.
This patch implements that logic to allow the coders to utilize
the full dynamic range of scalefactors, increasing quality quite
considerably, and fixing delta-SF-related assertion failures,
since now the limitation is enforced rather than asserted.
2. PNS tweaks
The previous modification makes big improvements in twoloop's
efficiency, and every time that happens PNS logic needs to be
tweaked accordingly to avoid it from stepping all over twoloop's
decisions. This patch includes modifications of the sort.
3. Account for lowpass cutoff during PSY analysis
The closer PSY's allocation is to final allocation the better
the quality is, and given these modifications, twoloop is now
very efficient at avoiding holes. Thus, to compute accurate
thresholds, PSY needs to account for the lowpass applied
implicitly during twoloop (by zeroing high bands).
This patch makes twoloop set the cutoff in psymodel's context
the first time it runs, and makes PSY account for it during
threshold computation, making PE and threshold computations
closer to the final allocation and thus achieving better
subjective quality.
4. Tweaks to RC lambda tracking loop in relation to PNS
Without this tweak some corner cases cause quality regressions.
Basically, lambda needs to react faster to overall bitrate
efficiency changes since now PNS can be quite successful in
enforcing maximum bitrates, when PSY allocates too many bits
to the lower bands, suppressing the signals RC logic uses to
lower lambda in those cases and causing aggressive PNS.
This tweak makes PNS much less aggressive, though it can still
use some further tweaks.
Also update MIPS specializations and adjust fuzz
Also in lavc/mips/aacpsy_mips.h: remove trailing whitespace
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.
This patch modifies the encode frame function to
retry encoding the frame when the resulting bit count
is too far off target, but only adjusting lambda
in small, incremental step. It also makes the logic
more conservative - otherwise it will contend with
bit reservoir-related variations in bit allocation,
and result in artifacts when frame have to be truncated
(usually at high bit rates transitioning from low
complexity to high complexity).
Avoid clipping due to quantization noise to produce audible
artifacts, by detecting near-clipping signals and both attenuating
them a little and encoding escape-encoded bands (usually the
loudest) rounding towards zero instead of nearest, which tends to
decrease overall energy and thus clipping.
Currently fate tests measure numerical error so this change makes
tests using asynth (which are near clipping) report higher error
not less, because of window attenuation. Yet, they sound better,
not worse (albeit subtle, other samples aren't subtle at all).
Only measuring psychoacoustically weighted error would make for
a representative test, so that will be left for a future patch.
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
This commit adds the energy spread to the struct for each band and removes 2 unused fields.
distortion and perceptual_weight were not referenced in any file nor were they set to any value,
so it was safe to remove them. The energy spread is currently only used in the aac psy model.
It's defined as being proportional to the tonality of each band.
Reviewed-by: Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
* commit '040c565e51985477a8fa5e42d2ddfb26ebde6608':
doc: developer: Allow tabs in the vim configuration for Automake files
Remove pointless av_cold attributes in header files
Conflicts:
libavcodec/h264.h
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
The init functions marked as av_cold have to be executed in any case,
so there is no gain from trying to mark paths leading to such functions
as unlikely.
* qatar/master:
Remove ffmpeg.
aacenc: Simplify windowing
aacenc: Move saved overlap samples to the beginning of the same buffer as incoming samples.
aacenc: Deinterleave input samples before processing.
aacenc: Store channel count in AACEncContext.
aacenc: Move Q^3/4 calculation to it's own table
aacenc: Request normalized float samples instead of converting s16 samples to float.
aacpsy: Replace an if with FFMAX in LAME windowing.
aacenc: cosmetics, replace 'rd' with 'bits' in codebook_trellis_rate to make it more clear what is being calculated.
aacpsy: cosmetics, change a FIXME to a NOTE about subshort comparisons
aacenc: cosmetics: move init() and end() to the bottom of the file.
aacenc: aac_encode_init() cleanup
XWD encoder and decoder
vc1: don't read the interpfrm and bfraction elements for interlaced frames
mxfdec: fix memleak on mxf_read_close()
westwood: split the AUD and VQA demuxers into separate files.
Conflicts:
.gitignore
Changelog
Makefile
configure
doc/ffmpeg.texi
ffmpeg.c
libavcodec/Makefile
libavcodec/aacenc.c
libavcodec/allcodecs.c
libavcodec/avcodec.h
libavcodec/version.h
libavformat/Makefile
libavformat/img2.c
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
* qatar/master:
rational-test: Add proper main() declaration to fix gcc warnings.
configure: Add vdpau and dxva2 to configure results output.
Remove unused, never built libavutil/pca.[ch]
matroskadec: forward parsing errors to caller.
av_find_stream_info: simplify EAGAIN handling.
aacenc: Fix determination of Mid/Side Mode.
psymodel: Remove the single channel analysis function
aacenc: Implement dummy channel group analysis that just calls the single channel analysis for each channel.
psymodel: Add channels and channel groups to the psymodel.
ARM: remove check for PLD instruction
fate: move amr[nw]b test rules into separate files
ogg: fix double free when finding length of small chained oggs.
swscale: implement >8bit scaling support.
build: fix creation of tools dir with make 3.81
build: Mark all-yes Makefile target as phony.
pixfmt: fix YUV422/444 wrong endian comment
build: create output directories as needed
Add new yuv444 pixfmts to avcodec_align_dimensions2
Conflicts:
Makefile
configure
libavutil/pca.c
libavutil/pca.h
libavutil/pixfmt.h
libswscale/swscale.c
libswscale/utils.c
libswscale/x86/swscale_template.c
tests/ref/lavfi/pixdesc
tests/ref/lavfi/pixfmts_copy
tests/ref/lavfi/pixfmts_null
tests/ref/lavfi/pixfmts_scale
tests/ref/lavfi/pixfmts_vflip
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
* qatar/master:
log: Fix an oob array read.
cosmetics: trim trailing whitespace in postproc
Ban strncpy() it's too easy to misuse.
psymodel: Remove wrapper functions.
aacenc: Replace loop counters in aac_encode_frame() with more descriptive 'ch' and 'w'.
regtest: remove redundant flags in jpg test
regtest: use run_ffmpeg in do_image_formats
regtest: simplify encoding functions
ffmpeg.c: check for interlaced flag in the correct place.
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
* qatar/master:
psymodel: extend API to include PE and bit allocation.
avio: always compile dyn_buf functions
Remove unnecessary parameter from ff_thread_init() and fix behavior
Revert "aac_latm_dec: use aac context and aac m4ac"
configure: tell user if libva is enabled like the rest of external libs.
Add silence support for AV_SAMPLE_FMT_U8.
avio: make URL_PROTOCOL_FLAG_NESTED_SCHEME internal
avio: deprecate av_url_read_seek
avio: deprecate av_url_read_pause
ac3enc: NEON optimised extract_exponents
Conflicts:
libavcodec/utils.c
Merged-by: Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
Claudio Freire