Encoder

  • Improve the tradeoffs for the random access mode across presets M1-M13: (!2120)
  • Speeding up the higher quality presets by 30-40%
  • Improving the BD-rate by 1-4% for the faster presets
  • Improve the tradeoffs for the low delay mode for both screen content and non-screen content encoding modes (!2122, !2118)
  • Add a toggle to remove the legacy one-frame buffer at the input of the pipeline allowing the low delay mode to operate at sub-frame processing latencies
  • Add a new API allowing the user to specify quantization offsets for a region of interest per frame

Build, cleanup and bug fixes

  • Various cleanups and functional bug fixes
  • Fix the startup minigop size BD-rate loss
  • Add ability to run the ci-testing offline