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Yaowu Xu committed 88e24f07aed
added code to clear 2nd order block when appropriate It is discovered that in rare situations the 2nd order block may produce a few small magnitude coefficients that has no effect on reconstruction. The situations are a combination of low quantizer values (high quality) and low energy in residual signals (content dependent). This commit added code to detect such cases and reset the 2nd order block to all 0. Patch 1 to 4 used code to do all-zero-check on idct result buffer, and tests on derf set showed a consistent gain of .12%-.14% on all metrics.But due to a recent change Ie31d90b, the idct result buffer is not longer populated. So patch 5&6 use an alternative method to detect the situations. Tests on derf set now shows a consistent quality gain of .16%-.20%. As suggested by Jim, Patch 7&8 removed the condition of all first order block not having any coefficient, instead we reset 2nd order coefficients to all 0 if sum of absolute value of the coefficients is small. So it does slightly more than just detecting the oddity as discussed above, but tests on derf set now show a consistent gain of .20%-.23% on all metrics. It is worth noting here that this change does not have any effect on mid/high quantizer range, it only affects the quantizer value 18 or blow. Within this range, the change helps compression by up to 2.5% on clips in the derf set. Change-Id: I718e19cf59a4fc2462cb7070832759beb9f7e7dd