[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec/mpegvideo: Remove spec-incompliant inverse quantisation

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2023 at 02:11:27PM +0100, Andreas Rheinhardt wrote:
> Section 7.4.4 of the MPEG-2 specifications requires that the
> last bit of the last coefficient be toggled so that the sum
> of all coefficients is odd; both our decoder and encoder
> did this only if the bitexact flag has been set (although
> stuff like this should be behind AV_CODEC_FLAG2_FAST).
> This patch changes this by removing the spec-incompliant
> functions.

This commit message should include benchamarks documenting the speed loss
(of the unquantize, the IDCT and overall)
It is expected that the speed of some IDCTs will be impacted negativly
as the non zero terms will prevent the skiping of some significant code

as well as information about how much PSNR improves (to the encoder input)

Also the change is a +-1 in one spot before the IDCT, the IDCT is not bitexactly
specified in MPEG-2 so one could think of this as a
correct implementation followed by a IDCT that was sometimes +-1 off
instead of spec non compliance

Only after the benchmarks and PSNR is presented should we decide if this
is a change we want

thx

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