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• Announcing the World’s Worst VP8 Encoder

  5 octobre 2010, par Multimedia Mike — Outlandish Brainstorms, VP8

  I wanted to see if I could write an extremely basic VP8 encoder. It turned out to be one of the hardest endeavors I have ever attempted (and arguably one of the least successful).

  Results
  I started with the Big Buck Bunny title image :

  
  
  

  And this is the best encoding that this experiment could yield :

  
  
  

  Squint hard enough and you can totally make out the logo. Pretty silly effort, I know. It should also be noted that the resultant .webm file holding that single 400×225 image was 191324 bytes. When FFmpeg decoded it to a PNG, it was only 187200 bytes.

  The Story
  Remember my post about a naive SVQ1 encoder ? Long story short, I set out to do the same thing with VP8. (I wanted to the same thing with VP3/Theora for years. But take a good look at what it would entail to create even the most basic bitstream. As involved as VP8 may be, its bitstream is absolutely trivial compared to VP3/Theora.)
  

  With the naive SVQ1 encoder, the goal was to create a minimally compliant SVQ1 encoded bitstream. For this exercise, I similarly hypothesized what it would take to create the most basic, syntactically correct VP8 bitstream with the least amount of effort. These are the overall steps I came up with :

  • Intra-only
  • Create a basic bitstream header that disables any extra features (no modification of default tables)
  • Use a static quantizer
  • Use intra 16×16 coding for each macroblock
  • Use vertical prediction for the 16×16 intra coding

  For coding each macroblock :

  • Subtract vertical predictor from each row
  • Perform forward transform on each 4×4 sub block
  • Perform forward WHT on luma plane DCT coefficients
  • Pack the coefficients into the bitstream via the Boolean encoder

  It all sounds so simple. But, like I said in the SVQ1 post, it’s all very much like carefully bootstrapping a program to run on a particular CPU, and the VP8 decoder serves as the CPU. I’m confident that I have the bitstream encoding correct because, at the very least, the decoder agrees precisely with the encoder about the numbers represented by those 0s and 1s.

  What’s Wrong ?
  Compromises were made for the sake of getting some vaguely recognizable image encoded in a minimally valid manner. One big stumbling block is that I couldn’t seem to encode an end of block (EOB) condition correctly. I then realized that it’s perfectly valid to just encode a lot of zero coefficients rather than signaling EOB. An encoding travesty, I know, and likely one reason that the resulting filesize is so huge.

  More drama occurred when I hit my first block that had all zeros. There were complications in that situation that I couldn’t seem to avoid. So I forced the first AC coefficient to be 1 in that case. Hey, the decoder liked it.

  As for the generally weird look of the decoded image, I’m thinking that could either be : A) an artifact of forcing 16×16 vertical prediction or ; or B) a mistake in the way that I transformed and predicted stuff before sending it to the decoder. The smart money is on a combination of both A and B.

  Then again, as the SVQ1 experiment demonstrated, I shouldn’t expect extraordinary visual quality when setting the bar this low (i.e., just getting some bag of bits that doesn’t make the decoder barf).