1. 03 Dec, 2015 1 commit
  2. 02 Dec, 2015 2 commits
    • Claudio Freire's avatar
      AAC encoder: improve SF range utilization · ca203e99
      Claudio Freire authored
      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
      ca203e99
    • Chris Cunningham's avatar
      avformat/mp3dec: prefer "fast_seek" to TOC seek for CBR files. · 5e6ce28d
      Chris Cunningham authored
      "Fast seek" uses linear interpolation to find the position of the
      requested seek time. For CBR this is more direct than using the
      mp3 TOC and bypassing the TOC avoids problems with TOC precision.
      (see https://crbug.com/545914#c13)
      
      For VBR, fast seek is not precise, so continue to prefer the TOC
      when available (the lesser of two evils).
      
      Also, some re-ordering of the logic in mp3_seek to simplify and
      give usetoc=1 precedence over fastseek flag.
      Signed-off-by: 's avatarwm4 <nfxjfg@googlemail.com>
      5e6ce28d
  3. 29 Nov, 2015 1 commit
    • Claudio Freire's avatar
      AAC encoder: make pe.min a local minimum · 88e498a8
      Claudio Freire authored
      As noted in a comment, pe.min in the reference encoder
      is centered around current pe. The bit reservoir algo
      needs pe.min to be a local minimum, because it can only
      account for local PE variations. If it's set to a global
      minimum as was being done, bit reservoir logic doesn't
      work as efficiently.
      
      This patch tries to forget old minimums and converge to
      a local minimum without losing the stability of the
      previous solution. Listening tests until now suggest this
      solves numerous RC issues.
      88e498a8
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  10. 10 Nov, 2015 2 commits
    • Martin Storsjö's avatar
      movenc: Add an API unit test for fragmenting options/calls · 59e8ec0a
      Martin Storsjö authored
      Contrary to the normal fate tests that run via avconv, this tests
      nontrivial call sequences that are only doable via the API
      (mainly for different corner cases when using the muxer for
      segmenting).
      
      The test muxes fake packet data (with extradata that looks
      enough like proper data to make the file be viewable with e.g.
      boxdumper) and checks the hash of the produced files. The test also
      verifies that fragments produced via different call sequences remain
      identical (to avoid e.g. updating the output hashes and suddenly
      having fragments that used to be identical suddenly diverging), for
      fragments written with frag_discont and/or delay_moov.
      Signed-off-by: 's avatarMartin Storsjö <martin@martin.st>
      59e8ec0a
    • Michael Niedermayer's avatar
      tests/fate/avformat: Fix fate-lavf · b83c849e
      Michael Niedermayer authored
      The CMP variable seems to have been inherited from fate-api-seek which set it to null
      
      the mxf reference needed a change due to c7e14a27Signed-off-by: 's avatarMichael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
      b83c849e
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  21. 11 Oct, 2015 3 commits
    • Andreas Cadhalpun's avatar
      avcodec: remove leftover iff_byterun1 decoder · ec027584
      Andreas Cadhalpun authored
      It was merged with the iff_ilbm decoder in commit
      929a24ef.
      
      Define AV_CODEC_ID_IFF_BYTERUN1 as AV_CODEC_ID_IFF_ILBM for API
      compatibility.
      Reviewed-by: 's avatarRonald S. Bultje <rsbultje@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: 's avatarAndreas Cadhalpun <Andreas.Cadhalpun@googlemail.com>
      ec027584
    • Claudio Freire's avatar
      AAC encoder tests: increase fuzz for pred test · 79f2014f
      Claudio Freire authored
      MIPS needs more fuzz
      79f2014f
    • Claudio Freire's avatar
      AAC encoder: Extensive improvements · 01ecb717
      Claudio Freire authored
      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.
      01ecb717
  22. 09 Oct, 2015 1 commit
    • Christophe Gisquet's avatar
      fate: add DNxHD/HR tests · 25d3013e
      Christophe Gisquet authored
      Currently only 2 profiles are evaluated because they are the only 2
      with distributed test sequences.
      - CID 1260: YUV 4:2:2 10 bits with block-adaptive interlace coding,
        from ticket 4876;
      - CID 1270: YUV 4:4:4 10 bits (HR), 1920x839, from ticket 4581.
      
      They were generated from the ticket sequences by running the
      following kind of command-line;
      ffmpeg -i $INPUT -an -sn -vcodec copy -vframes 1 -y $OUTPUT.mov
      Signed-off-by: 's avatarMichael Niedermayer <michael@niedermayer.cc>
      25d3013e
  23. 30 Sep, 2015 1 commit
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    • Claudio Freire's avatar
      AAC encoder: tweak PNS usage to be more aggressive · 9458a62d
      Claudio Freire authored
      This patch tweaks search_for_pns to be both more
      aggressive and more careful when applying PNS. On
      the one side, it will again try to use PNS on zero
      (or effectively zero) bands. For this, both zeroes
      and band_type have to be checked (some ZERO bands
      aren't marked in zeroes). On the other side, a more
      accurate rate-distortion measure avoids using PNS
      where it would cause audible distortion.
      
      Also fixed a small bug in the computation of freq
      that caused PNS usage on low-frequency bands during
      8-short windows. This allows re-enabling PNS during
      8-short.
      9458a62d