On Sat Apr 08, 2023 at 06:33:43AM -0400, Brad Smith wrote:
> Here is an update to aom 3.6.0.
>
>
> 2023-02-03 v3.6.0
> 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.
>
> - 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.
>
> - 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.
>
> - 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.
>
> - Speedup and Memory Optimizations
> * RTC single-thread encoder speedup:
> o ~6% instruction count reduction for speed 5 and 6.
> o ~15% instruction count reduction for speed 7.
> o ~10% instruction count reduction for speed 8 to 10 (>=360p
> resolutions).
> * RTC multi-thread encoder speedup (beyond single-thread speedup):
> o 5-8% encode time reduction for speed 7 to 10.
> * RTC screen-content encoder speedup:
> o 11% instruction count reduction for speed 9 and 10 (>=720p
> resolutions).
> * ~5% reduction in heap memory requirements for RTC, speed 6 to 10.
> * AVIF:
> o 4-5% speedup for speed 9 in still-picture encoding mode.
> o 3-4% heap memory reduction in still-picture encoding mode for
> 360p-720p resolutions with multiple threads.
>
> - 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.
>
Committed, thanks!
>
> Index: Makefile
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/cvs/ports/multimedia/aom/Makefile,v
> retrieving revision 1.18
> diff -u -p -u -p -r1.18 Makefile
> --- Makefile 17 Nov 2022 06:24:38 -0000 1.18
> +++ Makefile 9 Feb 2023 01:01:17 -0000
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ COMMENT= Alliance for Open Media AV1 vid
>
> GH_ACCOUNT= jbeich
> GH_PROJECT= aom
> -GH_TAGNAME= v3.5.0
> +GH_TAGNAME= v3.6.0
> CATEGORIES= multimedia
>
> SHARED_LIBS= aom 4.0
> Index: distinfo
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/cvs/ports/multimedia/aom/distinfo,v
> retrieving revision 1.15
> diff -u -p -u -p -r1.15 distinfo
> --- distinfo 17 Nov 2022 06:24:38 -0000 1.15
> +++ distinfo 9 Feb 2023 01:01:26 -0000
> @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
> -SHA256 (aom-3.5.0.tar.gz) = AYnqL1rmuIPIOyRTBd54T2XARhvNcAzJi73FirlXxuc=
> -SIZE (aom-3.5.0.tar.gz) = 5213077
> +SHA256 (aom-3.6.0.tar.gz) = K6ITgiyxUotVWNZycSVlThTRstdQW9H8ivo2wunp+Uo=
> +SIZE (aom-3.6.0.tar.gz) = 5268170
> Index: patches/patch-CMakeLists_txt
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/cvs/ports/multimedia/aom/patches/patch-CMakeLists_txt,v
> retrieving revision 1.4
> diff -u -p -u -p -r1.4 patch-CMakeLists_txt
> --- patches/patch-CMakeLists_txt 17 Nov 2022 06:24:38 -0000 1.4
> +++ patches/patch-CMakeLists_txt 22 Jan 2023 06:52:11 -0000
> @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
> Index: CMakeLists.txt
> --- CMakeLists.txt.orig
> +++ CMakeLists.txt
> -@@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ if(ENABLE_EXAMPLES AND "${CMAKE_GENERATOR}" MATCHES "M
> +@@ -824,7 +824,7 @@ if(ENABLE_EXAMPLES AND "${CMAKE_GENERATOR}" MATCHES "M
> endif()
>
> if(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
> Index: patches/patch-build_cmake_aom_configure_cmake
> ===================================================================
> RCS file:
> /home/cvs/ports/multimedia/aom/patches/patch-build_cmake_aom_configure_cmake,v
> retrieving revision 1.9
> diff -u -p -u -p -r1.9 patch-build_cmake_aom_configure_cmake
> --- patches/patch-build_cmake_aom_configure_cmake 17 Nov 2022 06:24:38
> -0000 1.9
> +++ patches/patch-build_cmake_aom_configure_cmake 22 Jan 2023 06:51:58
> -0000
> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ ARM uses compiler intrinsics, so don't r
> Index: build/cmake/aom_configure.cmake
> --- build/cmake/aom_configure.cmake.orig
> +++ build/cmake/aom_configure.cmake
> -@@ -184,16 +184,6 @@ elseif(AOM_TARGET_CPU MATCHES "arm")
> +@@ -188,16 +188,6 @@ elseif(AOM_TARGET_CPU MATCHES "arm")
> endif()
> endif()
> find_program(as_executable_found ${AS_EXECUTABLE})
>
