An update that solves one vulnerability and contains two features can now be installed.
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Bug Fixes:
- aomedia:3349: heap overflow when increasing resolution
- aomedia:3478: GCC 12.2.0 emits a -Wstringop-overflow warning
on aom/av1/encoder/motion_search_facade.c
- aomedia:3489: Detect encoder and image high bit depth
mismatch
- aomedia:3491: heap-buffer-overflow on frame size change
- b/303023614: Segfault at encoding time for high bit depth
images
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New upstream release 3.7.0
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New Features
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New codec controls:
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AV1E_SET_QUANTIZER_ONE_PASS: Set quantizer for each frame.
- AV1E_ENABLE_RATE_GUIDE_DELTAQ: enable the rate distribution guided delta
quantization in all intra mode. The "enable-rate-guide-deltaq" option is
added for this control.
- AV1E_SET_RATE_DISTRIBUTION_INFO: set the input file for rate
distribution used in all intra mode. The "rate-distribution-info" option
is added for this control.
- AV1E_GET_LUMA_CDEF_STRENGTH
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AV1E_SET_BITRATE_ONE_PASS_CBR
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AOM_SCALING_MODE is extended to include 2/3 and 1/3 scaling.
- aom_tune_metric is extended to include AOM_TUNE_VMAF_SALIENCY_MAP.
The "tune" option is extended to include "vmaf_saliency_map".
- SVC example encoder svc_encoder_rtc is able to use the rate control
library.
- Loopfilter level and CDEF filter level is supported by RTC rate control
library.
- New speed (--cpu-used) 11, intended for RTC screen sharing, added for
faster encoding with ~3% bdrate loss with 16% IC (instruction count)
speedup compared to speed 10.
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Compression Efficiency Improvements
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Improved VoD encoding performance
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0.1-0.6% BDrate gains for encoding speeds 2 to 6
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Rate control accuracy improvement in VBR mode
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RTC encoding improvements
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Screen content mode: 10-19% BDrate gains for speeds 6 - 10
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Temporal layers video mode, for speed 10:
- 2 temporal layers on low resolutions: 13-15% BDrate gain
- 3 temporal layers on VGA/HD: 3-4% BDrate gain
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Perceptual Quality Improvements
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Fixed multiple block and color artifacts for RTC screen content by
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Incorporating color into RD cost for IDTX
- Reducing thresholds for palette mode in non RD mode
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Allowing more palette mode testing
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Improved color sensitivity for altref in non-RD mode.
- Reduced video flickering for temporal layer encoding.
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Speedup and Memory Optimizations
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Bug Fixes
- aomedia:3261 Assertion failed when encoding av1 with film grain and
'--monochrome' flag
- aomedia:3276 ensure all allocations are checked (partial fix)
- aomedia:3451 The libaom library calls exit()
- aomedia:3450 enable -Wshadow for C++ sources
- aomedia:3449 Test Seg Faults After
b459af3e345be402db052a143fcc5383d4b74cbd
- aomedia:3416 prune unused symbols / restrict symbol visibility
- aomedia:3443 Jenkins failure:
UninstantiatedParameterizedTestSuite<EstimateNoiseTest>
- aomedia:3434 realtime failures with CONFIG_BITSTREAM_DEBUG=1
- aomedia:3433 DeltaqModeTest crash w/row_mt=0
- aomedia:3429 Encoder crash when turn on both ExternalResize and
g_threads > 2
- aomedia:3438 Build failure with
-DSANITIZE=address -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON when using clang.
- aomedia:3435 Block artifacts when scrolling with AV1 in screen sharing
scenarios
- aomedia:3170 vmaf tune presets produce extreme glitches in one scene
- aomedia:3401 Building shared libaom with MSVC results in a race condition
with the export library
- aomedia:3420 Floating point exception in av1_tpl_get_frame_importance()
- aomedia:3424 heap-buffer-overflow in ScaleFilterCols_16_C() (SIGABRT)
- aomedia:3417 examples/svc_encoder_rtc.c is using internal macros and
functions
- aomedia:3372 SEGV in assign_frame_buffer_p av1_common_int.h
- aomedia:3130 'cpu-features.h' file not found on Android NDK 22
- aomedia:3415 Encoder/decoder mismatch for svc_encoder_rtc running
1 SL 3 TL
- aomedia:3412 Lossless Mode Fails Loopback Bit Test
- aomedia:3409 The use of AV1_VAR_OFFS in av1/encoder/var_based_part.c is
incorrect for high bit depths
- aomedia:3403 test_libaom fails with error message
"feenableexcept() failed" on Linux arm
- aomedia:3370 Random color block at fast motion area
- aomedia:3393 Assertion failure in av1_convolve_2d_sr_c()
- aomedia:3392 Strong artifacting for high bit-depth real-time
- aomedia:3376 aomenc --threads=10 --deltaq-mode=3 crashes after
"Allintra: multi-threading of calculating differential contrast"
- aomedia:3380 Crashes and ASan and TSan errors in deltaq-mode=3
multithreading code
- chromium:1410766 heap-buffer-overflow in aom_yv12_copy_v_c
- Cannot set level via AV1E_SET_TARGET_SEQ_LEVEL_IDX
- Encoding failure due to the use of loop restoration with unintended use of
lossless mode.
- Signed integer overflow in scan_past_frames
- Signed integer overflow in update_a_sep_sym
- Flickering in AV1 1440p/2160p HDR transcodes
- Fixed artifacts with screen share at encoder speed 10
- Fixed prediction setup for IDTX
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Update to version 3.6.1:
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aomedia:2871: Guard the support of the 7.x and 8.x levels for
AV1 under the CONFIG_CWG_C013 config flag, and only output the
7.x and 8.x levels when explicitly requested.
- aomedia:3382: Choose sb_size by ppi instead of svc.
- aomedia:3384: Fix fullpel search limits.
- aomedia:3388: Replace left shift of xq_active by
multiplication.
- aomedia:3389: Fix MV clamping in av1_mv_pred.
- aomedia:3390: set_ld_layer_depth: cap max_layer_depth to
MAX_ARF_LAYERS.
- aomedia:3418: Fix MV clamping in av1_int_pro_motion_estimation.
- aomedia:3429: Move lpf thread data init to
lpf_pipeline_mt_init().
- b:266719111: Fix undefined behavior in Arm Neon code.
- b:269840681: nonrd_opt: align scan tables.
- rtc: Fix is_key_frame setting in variance partition.
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Build: Fix build with clang-cl and Visual Studio.
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Update to version 3.6.0:
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This release includes compression efficiency and perceptual
quality improvements, speedup and memory optimizations, and
some new features. This release is ABI compatible with the last
release.
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New Features:
- New values 20-27 (corresponding to levels 7.0-7.3 and
8.0-8.3) for the encoder control
AV1E_SET_TARGET_SEQ_LEVEL_IDX (note that the proposal to add
the new levels are still in draft status). The original
special value 24 (keep level stats only for level monitoring)
is renumbered as 32.
- New encoder control AV1E_SET_SKIP_POSTPROC_FILTERING to skip
the application of post-processing filters on reconstructed
frame in all intra mode.
- New encoder option "kf-max-pyr-height": Maximum height of
pyramid structure used for the GOP starting with a key frame
(-1 to 5).
- Make SVC work for screen content.
- Rate control improvements to reduce frame-size spikes for
screen content coding.
- RISC-V architecture support with gcc toolchain.
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Compression Efficiency Improvements:
- Peak compression efficiency in VOD setting is improved by 1%.
- 0.7% - 2.2% RTC encoding BDrate gains for real time speed 8
to 10.
- 15% RTC encoding BDrate gains for screen content speed 10.
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Perceptual Quality Improvements:
- Resolved a visual quality issue that was reported for high
resolution clips (2K) for speed 4 and above in VOD use case.
- Visual quality improvements to screen content coding.
- Quality improvements to temporal layer RTC coding.
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Speedup and Memory Optimizations:
- RTC single-thread encoder speedup:
. ~6% instruction count reduction for speed 5 and 6.
. ~15% instruction count reduction for speed 7.
. ~10% instruction count reduction for speed 8 to 10 (>=360p
resolutions).
- RTC multi-thread encoder speedup (beyond single-thread
speedup):
. 5-8% encode time reduction for speed 7 to 10.
- RTC screen-content encoder speedup:
. 11% instruction count reduction for speed 9 and 10 (>=720p
resolutions).
. 4-5% speedup for speed 9 in still-picture encoding mode.
. 3-4% heap memory reduction in still-picture encoding mode
for 360p-720p resolutions with multiple threads.
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Bug Fixes:
- Added a workaround for an AV1 specification bug which makes
TRANSLATION type global motion models unusable.
- Fixed AddressSanitizer global-buffer-overflow errors in
av1/encoder/arm/neon/av1_fwd_txfm2d_neon.c.
- Fixed AddressSanitizer heap-buffer-overflow error in
av1_wiener_convolve_add_src_neon().
- chromium:1393384 Avoid scene detection on spatial resize.
- aomedia:3308 Remove color artifacts under high motion.
- aomedia:3310 Avoid out of memory failures with Visual Studio
2017, 2019, and 2022 for Win32 x86 builds.
- aomedia:3346 Make SVC work properly for screen content.
- aomedia:3348 Fix a bug where an uninitialized search_site is
used.
- aomedia:3365 Work around what seems like a Visual Studio 2022
compiler optimization bug.
- aomedia:3369 Incorrect PSNR values reported by libaom for
12-bit encode.
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Update to version 3.5.0:
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This release is ABI compatible with the last one, including
speedup and memory optimizations, and new APIs and features.
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New Features
- Support for frame parallel encode for larger number of
threads. --fp-mt flag is available for all build
configurations.
- New codec control AV1E_GET_NUM_OPERATING_POINTS
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Speedup and Memory Optimizations
- Speed-up multithreaded encoding for good quality mode for
larger number of threads through frame parallel encoding:
. 30-34% encode time reduction for 1080p, 16 threads, 1x1
tile configuration (tile_rows x tile_columns)
. 18-28% encode time reduction for 1080p, 16 threads, 2x4
tile configuration
. 18-20% encode time reduction for 2160p, 32 threads, 2x4
tile configuration
- 16-20% speed-up for speed=6 to 8 in still-picture encoding
mode
- 5-6% heap memory reduction for speed=6 to 10 in real-time
encoding mode
- Improvements to the speed for speed=7, 8 in real-time
encoding mode
- Improvements to the speed for speed=9, 10 in real-time screen
encoding mode
- Optimizations to improve multi-thread efficiency in real-time
encoding mode
- 10-15% speed up for SVC with temporal layers
- SIMD optimizations:
. Improve av1_quantize_fp_32x32_neon() 1.05x to 1.24x faster
. Add aom_highbd_quantize_b{,_32x32,_64x64}_adaptive_neon()
3.15x to 5.6x faster than "C"
. Improve av1_quantize_fp_64x64_neon() 1.17x to 1.66x faster
. Add aom_quantize_b_avx2() 1.4x to 1.7x faster than
aom_quantize_b_avx()
. Add aom_quantize_b_32x32_avx2() 1.4x to 2.3x faster than
aom_quantize_b_32x32_avx()
. Add aom_quantize_b_64x64_avx2() 2.0x to 2.4x faster than
aom_quantize_b_64x64_ssse3()
. Add aom_highbd_quantize_b_32x32_avx2() 9.0x to 10.5x faster
than aom_highbd_quantize_b_32x32_c()
. Add aom_highbd_quantize_b_64x64_avx2() 7.3x to 9.7x faster
than aom_highbd_quantize_b_64x64_c()
. Improve aom_highbd_quantize_b_avx2() 1.07x to 1.20x faster
. Improve av1_quantize_fp_avx2() 1.13x to 1.49x faster
. Improve av1_quantize_fp_32x32_avx2() 1.07x to 1.54x faster
. Improve av1_quantize_fp_64x64_avx2() 1.03x to 1.25x faster
. Improve av1_quantize_lp_avx2() 1.07x to 1.16x faster
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Bug fixes including but not limited to
- aomedia:3206 Assert that skip_width > 0 for deconvolve
function
- aomedia:3278 row_mt enc: Delay top-right sync when intraBC is
enabled
- aomedia:3282 blend_a64_*_neon: fix bus error in armv7
- aomedia:3283 FRAME_PARALLEL: Propagate border size to all
cpis
- aomedia:3283 RESIZE_MODE: Fix incorrect strides being used
for motion search
- aomedia:3286 rtc-svc: Fix to dynamic_enable spatial layers
- aomedia:3289 rtc-screen: Fix to skipping inter-mode test in
nonrd
- aomedia:3289 rtc-screen: Fix for skip newmv on flat blocks
- aomedia:3299 Fix build failure with CONFIG_TUNE_VMAF=1
- aomedia:3296 Fix the conflict --enable-tx-size-search=0 with
nonrd mode --enable-tx-size-search will be ignored in non-rd
pick mode
- aomedia:3304 Fix off-by-one error of max w/h in
validate_config
- aomedia:3306 Do not use pthread_setname_np on GNU/Hurd
- aomedia:3325 row-multithreading produces invalid bitstream in
some cases
- chromium:1346938, chromium:1338114
- compiler_flags.cmake: fix flag detection w/cmake 3.17-3.18.2
- tools/*.py: update to python3
- aom_configure.cmake: detect PIE and set CONFIG_PIC
- test/simd_cmp_impl: use explicit types w/CompareSimd*
- rtc: Fix to disable segm for aq-mode=3
- rtc: Fix to color_sensitivity in variance partition
- rtc-screen: Fix bsize in model rd computation for intra
chroma
- Fixes to ensure the correct behavior of the encoder
algorithms (like segmentation, computation of statistics,
etc.)
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Update to version 3.4.0:
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This release includes compression efficiency and perceptual
quality improvements, speedup and memory optimizations, and
some new features. There are no ABI or API breaking changes in
this release.
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New Features:
- New --dist-metric flag with "qm-psnr" value to use
quantization matrices in the distortion computation for RD
search. The default value is "psnr".
- New command line option "--auto-intra-tools-off=1" to make
all-intra encoding faster for high bit rate under
"--deltaq-mode=3" mode.
- New rate control library aom_av1_rc for real-time hardware
encoders. Supports CBR for both one spatial layer and SVC.
- New image format AOM_IMG_FMT_NV12 can be used as input to the
encoder. The presence of AOM_IMG_FMT_NV12 can be detected at
compile time by checking if the macro AOM_HAVE_IMG_FMT_NV12
is defined.
- New codec controls for the encoder:
o AV1E_SET_AUTO_INTRA_TOOLS_OFF. Only in effect if
--deltaq-mode=3.
o AV1E_SET_RTC_EXTERNAL_RC
o AV1E_SET_FP_MT. Only supported if libaom is built with
-DCONFIG_FRAME_PARALLEL_ENCODE=1.
o AV1E_GET_TARGET_SEQ_LEVEL_IDX
- New key-value pairs for the key-value API:
o --auto-intra-tools-off=0 (default) or 1. Only in effect if
--deltaq-mode=3.
o --strict-level-conformance=0 (default) or 1
o --fp-mt=0 (default) or 1. Only supported if libaom is built
with -DCONFIG_FRAME_PARALLEL_ENCODE=1.
- New aomenc options (not supported by the key-value API):
o --nv12
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Compression Efficiency Improvements:
- Correctly calculate SSE for high bitdepth in skip mode, 0.2%
to 0.6% coding gain.
- RTC at speed 9/10: BD-rate gain of ~4/5%
- RTC screen content coding: many improvements for real-time
screen at speed 10 (quality, speedup, and rate control), up
to high resolutions (1080p).
- RTC-SVC: fixes to make intra-only frames work for spatial
layers.
- RTC-SVC: quality improvements for temporal layers.
- AV1 RT: A new passive rate control strategy for screen
content, an average of 7.5% coding gain, with some clips of
20+%. The feature is turned off by default due to higher bit
rate variation.
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Perceptual Quality Improvements:
- RTC: Visual quality improvements for high speeds (9/10)
- Improvements in coding quality for all intra mode
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Speedup and Memory Optimizations:
- ~10% speedup in good quality mode encoding.
- ~7% heap memory reduction in good quality encoding mode for
speed 5 and 6.
- Ongoing improvements to intra-frame encoding performance on
Arm
- Faster encoding speed for "--deltaq-mode=3" mode.
- ~10% speedup for speed 5/6, ~15% speedup for speed 7/8, and
~10% speedup for speed 9/10 in real time encoding mode
- ~20% heap memory reduction in still-picture encoding mode for
360p-720p resolutions with multiple threads
- ~13% speedup for speed 6 and ~12% speedup for speed 9 in
still-picture encoding mode.
- Optimizations to improve multi-thread efficiency for
still-picture encoding mode.
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Bug Fixes:
- b/204460717: README.md: replace master with main
- b/210677928: libaom disable_order is surprising for
max_reference_frames=3
- b/222461449: -DCONFIG_TUNE_BUTTERAUGLI=1 broken
- b/227207606: write_greyscale writes incorrect chroma in
highbd mode
- b/229955363: Integer-overflow in linsolve_wiener
libyuv was added new in version 20230517+a377993.
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