commit 10fe614ee83ba82c06365dd27a112930a2f31848
author Fyodor Kyslov <kyslov@google.com> Tue Nov 23 07:49:10 2021 -0800
committer Fyodor Kyslov <kyslov@google.com> Tue Nov 23 21:43:12 2021 +0000
tree 0a493d335b64d133dc2ab826ce441b2414d87e42
parent 089794f2cd77fb3528ac513249c12e08b406a1d2

AV1 RT: Adjust VBP thresholds on intra frames

This allows to speed up intra frame encoding to 35-40% with overall
quality impact of <0.5% (rtc and rtc_derf sets speed 9 and 10)

Change-Id: Ic29e2287103c13b79fa241405abfcd00b69685f2

av1/encoder/speed_features.c

diff --git a/av1/encoder/speed_features.c b/av1/encoder/speed_features.c
index 10be6d6..1cb8414 100644
--- a/av1/encoder/speed_features.c
+++ b/av1/encoder/speed_features.c
@@ -1204,8 +1204,6 @@
   const int is_480p_or_larger = AOMMIN(cm->width, cm->height) >= 480;
   const int is_360p_or_larger = AOMMIN(cm->width, cm->height) >= 360;
 
-  (void)is_720p_or_larger;  // Not used so far
-
   if (!is_360p_or_larger) {
     if (speed >= 5) sf->rt_sf.prune_inter_modes_wrt_gf_arf_based_on_sad = 1;
     if (speed >= 6) sf->rt_sf.force_tx_search_off = 1;
@@ -1262,6 +1260,11 @@
       sf->rt_sf.use_comp_ref_nonrd = 0;
     }
   }
+  if (!is_720p_or_larger) {
+    if (speed >= 9) {
+      sf->rt_sf.force_large_partition_blocks_intra = 1;
+    }
+  }
   if (cpi->ppi->use_svc) {
     sf->rt_sf.use_comp_ref_nonrd = 0;
     if (cpi->svc.ref_frame_comp[0] || cpi->svc.ref_frame_comp[1] ||

av1/encoder/var_based_part.c

diff --git a/av1/encoder/var_based_part.c b/av1/encoder/var_based_part.c
index c46bee2..44597c3 100644
--- a/av1/encoder/var_based_part.c
+++ b/av1/encoder/var_based_part.c
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@
 
   if (is_key_frame) {
     if (cpi->sf.rt_sf.force_large_partition_blocks_intra) {
-      threshold_base <<= cpi->oxcf.speed - 7;
+      threshold_base <<= cpi->oxcf.speed - (cpi->oxcf.mode == ALLINTRA ? 7 : 8);
     }
     thresholds[0] = threshold_base;
     thresholds[1] = threshold_base;