Batch process is continuing... over 2200 source videos have been compressed to VP9 so far, of the 120k+ total in the system.
Seeing big improvements in overall compression, though it's hard to tell how representative the subset of conversions done so far is. I'll post occasional updates to the transcode report charts at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:TimedMediaHandler/VP9_transition/reports In the histograms you can see that not only is the average bitrate down for VP9 vs VP8, but there's a larger "spread" between low and high bandwidth in the VP9 versions thanks to the constrained-quality configuration vs the old fixed bitrate target. This allows files that compress well to use fewer bits, while those that have high frame rates or lots of detail/motion use more bits to encode higher quality than they did before. It will take at least a few weeks to recompress everything, and we may or may not want to increase the number of simultaneous jobs (so far the servers are running beautifully, but are a bit under-loaded). -- brion On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 5:51 PM Brion Vibber <bvib...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Configuration has been updated and VP9 mode swapped in. Newly uploaded > videos should start encoding as VP9 starting now. > > I'll start the backfill batch process tonight or tomorrow, and will likely > stop and restart it a few times over the coming weeks if anything needs > adjustment. Please file tasks in phabricator and/or give me a ping on IRC > if any issues come up with the new conversions, or with old files! > (Existing VP8 files will be left as-is for now until we're sure > everything's up to snuff.) > > Big thanks to everybody who's helped prepping this, with libvpx and ffmpeg > deployments, with the patches and review, and with final deployment which > always takes longer than you expect. :) This'll be a nice improvement to > our video output for now, and lays a lot of groundwork for next steps. > > -- brion > > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 5:47 PM Brion Vibber <bvib...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> Oh and one more thing! >> >> For the VP9 configuration I'll be enabling 1440p and 2160p ("4K") >> resolutions, which people can manually bump up to when watching videos with >> a suitable 4K source on a high-res screen. They use higher data rates, but >> only a small fraction of input files are 4K so should not significantly >> increase disk space projections for now. >> >> These can take a long time to compress, so if we find it's problematic >> we'll turn them back off until the jobs can be split into tiny chunks >> (future work planned!), but it works in my testing and shouldn't clog the >> servers now that we have more available. >> >> (Note that the ogv.js player shim for Safari will not handle >> greater-than-HD resolutions fast enough for playback, even on a fast Mac or >> iPad; for best results for 4K playback use Firefox, Chrome, or a >> Chromium-based browser.) >> >> -- brion >> >> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 5:39 PM Brion Vibber <bvib...@wikimedia.org> >> wrote: >> >>> Ok, after some delay for re-tweaking the encoding settings for higher >>> quality when needed, and pulling in some other improvements to the config >>> system, all related updates to TimedMediaHandler have been merged. :D >>> >>> If all goes well with the general deployments in the next few days, >>> expect the beginning of VP9 rollout starting next week. >>> >>> Changes since the earlier announcement: >>> * the new row-multithreading will be available, which allows higher >>> threading usage at all resolutions; encoding times will be more like 1.5-2x >>> slower instead of 3-4x slower. >>> * switch to constrained quality with a larger max bitrate: many files >>> will become significantly smaller in their VP9 versions, but some will >>> actually increase in exchange for a huge increase in quality -- this is >>> mostly 60fps high-rate files, and those with lots of motion and detail that >>> didn't compress well at the default low data rates. >>> >>> -- brion >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 9:46 AM Brion Vibber <bvib...@wikimedia.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Awesome sauce. Thanks Moritz! >>>> >>>> -- brion >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 7:39 AM Moritz Muehlenhoff < >>>> mmuhlenh...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 01:54:18PM -0700, Brion Vibber wrote: >>>>> > Current state on this: >>>>> > >>>>> > * still hoping to deploy the libvpx+ffmpeg backport first so we >>>>> start with >>>>> > best performance; Moritz made a start on libvpx but we still have to >>>>> > resolve ffmpeg (possibly by patching 3.2 instead of updating all the >>>>> way to >>>>> > 3.4) >>>>> >>>>> I've completed this today. We now have a separate repository component >>>>> for stretch-wikimedia (named component/vp9) which includes ffmpeg >>>>> 3.2.10 >>>>> (thus allowing us to follow the ffmpeg security updates released in >>>>> Debian >>>>> with a local rebuild) with backported row-mt support and linked against >>>>> libvpx 1.7.0. >>>>> >>>>> I tested re-encoding >>>>> >>>>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_of_Death_-_Pitts_Todeswand_2017_-_Jagath_Perera.webm >>>>> (which is a nice fast-paced test file) from VP8 to VP9, which results >>>>> in >>>>> a size reduction from 48M to 31M. >>>>> >>>>> When using eight CPU cores on one of our video scaler servers, >>>>> enabling row-mt >>>>> gives a significant performance boost; encoding time went down from >>>>> 5:31 mins >>>>> to 3:36 mins. >>>>> >>>>> All the details can be found at >>>>> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T190333#4324995 >>>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Moritz >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wikitech-l mailing list >>>>> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
