[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] FFV1 2pass initial range coder states

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:32:10PM -0700, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > patch below uses 2 pass to find approximatly good initial states (not global
> > optimal, that can be done too and i might try)
> >
> > foreman with very small gops like 1 gop == 1 frame gains about 11% in terms
> > of compression.
> >
> > I will apply this (+ any cleanups/bugfixes i stumble accross) soon
> 
> Er... why does this help?  It writes EVERY SINGLE CONTEXT as an
> initial state, which should have an equivalent cost to adapting from
> the 50/50 state over the course of the video.
>
> Or does this help because at the start of each gop, the contexts are
> reset, forcing us to re-adapt each time?

i suspect so. Also having slices in ver2 multiplies the initial state issue


> Couldn't the same kind of
> benefit be had via some other method, like decoding the first frame of
> the video to infer the contexts used for other gops?

That seems harder and i dont think this could reach the same benefit


> 
> And for that matter, could the initial states be compressed,

they are, better ideas are welcome


> or lower
> precision,

will try


> or interpolated from fewer values?

I tried replicating initial values from a smaller context set (no LL/TT based
contexts) and this didnt work very well

either way storing all the states costs ~120kb this is negligible for a full
length movie. So its just short clips that would benefit.

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