macroblocks upon transitions/movement in h.264 encoding?

[gennadii_mog]

Hi

we are seeing a problem where a lot of pixelezation appears upon h.264 encoding of movement or transition. for example, when a camera 1 would switch to camera 2, we see big macro blocks on the screen which would disappear after a second or two, and the quality would be good again.

same problem is shown when encoding a camera shoot of a moving camera

this happens on a 700Kbps stream.

any ideas what we should change - on h264.par or in the code - to resolve this issue?

thanks

Gennadii

[Chao_Y_Intel]

Gennadii,

Could you post some picturs and test stream that can showthe problem?

thanks,
Chao

[gennadii_mog]

Hi

you can see here clearly the differences in quality between x264 and IPP:

all in 700Kbps.

Fast movement
IPP:
http://www.livestream.com/private/procasterbench1/video?clipId=pla_3a6be8c4-dfe9-40e3-8a60-a232ec9d2fc4&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb

x264: http://www.livestream.com/xfire_drewmega/video?clipId=pla_4f9170b4-cb94-4147-8136-53f672266f52

Slower movement (see the difference in the grass after entering the castle)
IPP: http://www.livestream.com/private/procasterbench1/video?clipId=pla_c3c5cbf7-4fab-46ce-b6e6-c30bf02a8915


IPP:
http://www.livestream.com/private/procasterbench1/video?clipId=pla_a5f7da87-8cdb-4d00-a3af-15f0ca243be6

x264: http://www.livestream.com/xfire_drewmega/video?clipId=pla_4f9170b4-cb94-4147-8136-53f672266f52&utm_source=lslibrary&utm_medium=ui-thumb

these are the parameters from the h264.par we used:

/* CommentLine: H.264 Sequence.*/

1 200 0 /* 1(reserved) , N (# of frames in between I frames), IDR interval. */

2 1 /* Number of B frames between I (or P) and next P, treat B as a reference (only 0 is supported!) */

2 1 4 /* num_ref_frames (2-16), minimum length of list1 for backward prediction (only 1 is supported!), number of slices. */

100 50 /* profile_idc (77-main, 100-high); level_idc (set 0 for automatic selection) (check that num_ref_frames and frame size are in accordance with the level) */

2 /* frame_rate_code [0,8] (0-30 fps,1-15 fps,2-24 fps,3-25 fps,4-30 fps,5-30 fps,6-50 fps,7-60 fps,8-60 fps)*/

1 8 8 /* High profile: chroma_format_idc (0 - monochrom, 1 - 420, 2 - 422), bit_depth_luma [8,12], bit_depth_chroma [8,12] */

0 8 0 0 0 /* High profile: aux_format_idc: [0,3], bit_depth_aux: [8,12], alpha_incr_flag: 0, 1; alpha_opaque_value: [0, 2^(bit_depth_aux + 9) -1]; alpha_transparent_value: [0, 2^(bit_depth_aux + 9) - 1] */

2 30 30 30 1000000 /* RC method(0 - quant_codes, 1 - CBR MBwise, 2 - CBR framewise, 3 - Debug); start qp values for I, P, B slices; bitrate (bits per second) */

2 2 8 8 /* ME method (1-6), subblock split, search x,search_y */

0 0 0 /* weighted prediction, weighted biprediction implicit weighted biprediction (not supported!)*/

1 1 /* direct type (0 - temporal 1 - spatial 2 - auto); direct_inference_flag */

0 0 0 /* disable_deblocking_idc: 1-- off, 0 - on, 2 -- on(without crossing slice boundaries); deblocking_filter_alpha, deblocking_filter_beta */

1 0 0 /* High profile: transform_8x8_mode: 0 -- off, 1 - on; 0 -- use standard, 1 -- use default scaling matrices for 8x8 quantization; qpprime_y_zero_transform_bypass_flag: (0, 1) */

1 2 /* entropy coding mode (0-cavlc,1-cabac); cabac_init_idc (0,1,2) */

0 /* picture coding type (0 - only FRM, 1 - only FLD , 2 - only AFRM, 3 - pure PicAFF(no MBAFF) 4 PicAFF + MBAFF). Only 0 (FRM) is supported! */

3 1 /* speed/quality grade [0,3] (0-maximum speed, 3-maximum quality); OptimalQuantization (0, 1) */

[gennadii_mog]

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