In the pipeline, part 2
From the local commit git log:
commit dbc5ef040b1f8a83e7491dc8a2fc8943b1e20c07
Author: Loren Merritt Date: Thu Oct 30 00:47:09 2008 -0700
Fix bug in hadamard_ac SSE assembly
Some extreme inputs could cause overflows.
commit a0a1bfac7f4a09159f6ef2bf13fb69548b6c5a02
Author: Jason Garrett-Glaser
Date: Tue Oct 28 20:35:15 2008 -0700
Full sub8x8 RD mode decision
Small speed penalty with p4x4 enabled, but significant quality gain at subme >= 6
As before, gain is proportional to the amount of p4x4 actually useful in a given input at the given bitrate.
commit aa40e41abae051191117ae670cadd9cd50f66b6f
Author: Jason Garrett-Glaser
Date: Sat Oct 25 01:50:08 2008 -0700
Optimize CABAC bit cost calculation
Speed up cabac mvd and add new precalculated transition/entropy table.
Add “noup” function for cabac operations to not update the state table when it isn’t necessary.
1-3% faster macroblock_size_cabac.
Cosmetics
commit d7df1a477b5e0e851d206e8c25da0b275ae0b7cc
Author: Anders Ossowicki
Date: Thu Oct 23 22:36:11 2008 -0700
Replace “git-command” with “git command” in version.sh for git 1.6 support
commit 990274cd5fd276bb26ac0fa13fc9bc1cbcf7acbc
Author: Loren Merritt Date: Thu Oct 23 13:45:04 2008 -0700
Add assembly version of CAVLC 8x8dct interleave
Faster CAVLC encoding and RDO with 8x8dct
commit 86a0fe50c6e369d6dacac5b992febb4bd09de85d
Author: Alexander Strange
Date: Wed Oct 22 15:55:30 2008 -0700
Add support for psy-rd/trellis to encoder_reconfig
commit 4c78f091e625e87b8f82c567af81969c2fd3e671
Author: Alexander Strange
Date: Wed Oct 22 15:00:43 2008 -0700
Fix Darwin speed regression
commit 8ca555ef691e20d4eb429b45e178f4c0108b607d
Author: Gabriel Bouvigne
Date: Wed Oct 22 14:48:47 2008 -0700
Further improve prediction of bitrate and VBV in threaded mode
commit bd280019556c832014202f57fcd3d868e51547ae
Author: Jason Garrett-Glaser
Date: Wed Oct 22 13:37:09 2008 -0700
Sub-8×8 Qpel-RD in P-frames
Improves quality when using p8x4/p4x8/p4x4 subpartitions
Benefit is proportional to how many sub-8×8 partitions are used; helps most at high bitrates and low resolutions.
commit d0add77f5f084253202747266f85daa65f7fc9cc
Author: Jason Garrett-Glaser
Date: Wed Oct 22 02:20:06 2008 -0700
Faster qpel-RD
3-4% faster qpel-RD; avoid re-checking bmv/pmv during the hex search.
commit f451563f93fad8972c0e9b788b30799e777e913a
Author: Jason Garrett-Glaser
Date: Wed Oct 22 00:37:00 2008 -0700
Some minor optimizations in RD refinement
Don’t write b subpartition in CABAC RDO
Calculate nonzero count in i4x4 CAVLC RDO
commit 84ede33bec64332cc4bc5da1106c53f3cffa919b
Author: Jason Garrett-Glaser
Date: Tue Oct 21 20:17:18 2008 -0700
Faster deblocking when p4x4 isn’t used
Most of the MV checks can be skipped, resulting in faster strength calculation
commit ce0b11099e5fa920b8d1bc39389ae9373f921358
Author: Jason Garrett-Glaser
Date: Tue Oct 21 19:38:21 2008 -0700
Print profile and level information upon starting encode
Previously level was only printed as part of autodetect, and only in verbose mode.
commit 296b39dd863ea90a12d8a52848d1135e387a28f3
Author: Jason Garrett-Glaser
Date: Tue Oct 21 17:10:46 2008 -0700
Fix possible crash in trellis at very low QPs
commit f5da8110606c1bdb8f3a194f11574db28855415e
Author: Jason Garrett-Glaser
Date: Tue Oct 21 14:59:07 2008 -0700
Add assembly versions of decimate_score
3-7x faster decimation, 1-3% faster overall
commit 6d9ef8ad39b0bfa5df0c1305e91ae932aad4997e
Author: Jason Garrett-Glaser
Date: Sat Oct 18 03:40:59 2008 -0700
Fix typo in subme8/9 lossless qpel-RD
Slightly improves compression.
commit 79194caffdc216e338674d88e50adca2f4ea8fa2
Author: Jason Garrett-Glaser
Date: Thu Oct 16 03:17:53 2008 -0700
Extend trellis to support luma/chroma DC and chroma AC
Small speed loss in trellis 1, slightly larger in trellis 2, but significant quality improvement.
Also, cake is still planned.
October 25th, 2008 at 4:37 am
Well, sounds very promising (expecially the cake)
Can’t wait for the rev1000 build. ^^
October 25th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Hmm. I don’t get it, it seems like you’re holding improvements just because this “r1000″ thing. It better be big, yet I don’t see it since policy seems to be “keep unrelated commits separate” and I can’t relate cake with a significant feature.
Maybe the cake *WAS* a lie after all?
Anyway here’s hoping for a prompt release of r1000, if for the pipeline flushing that will follow.
October 28th, 2008 at 6:44 am
I’m guessing by “cake” you mean x264′s birthday.
But r1 was on Thu Jun 3 19:29:33 2004.
So then x264 is going to change it’s version numbering system, right?
How soon is this planned (days, weeks, months,…)?
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October 29th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
@John:
I’m holding improvements, but this is how things always work: I rarely commit individual changes, but rather keep a local git stash of to-be-committed changes that I push all at once. This has various development benefits, among them that its easier to spot bugs when I spend a few days *using* all of my changes before actually pushing them.
Its just being held a little longer than usual here.
By the way, I’ll be updating this post until the actual commit, adding more and more changes.
@Avenger:
No, no, I mean actual cake.
October 30th, 2008 at 6:31 am
So no new version numbering system, that’s too bad.
Still, you haven’t answered how soon this is planned (days, weeks, months,…)?