[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Make decoding alpha optional for some codecs.

Paul B Mahol onemda at gmail.com
Thu Sep 19 12:50:39 CEST 2013


On 9/19/13, Kirill Gavrilov <gavr.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> Mark Himsley <mark.himsley <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> You have to decode the alpha to use the alpha mask any picture content
>> which is under transparent regions.
>> You cannot display the video correctly without multiplying the alpha with
>> the video content
>>
>
> Mark Himsley <mark.himsley <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Is this currently done with ffplay (or MPlayer or vlc)?
>
> *
> My player supports alpha channel but only for known RGBA formats.
> I have just checked what happens when RGBA image converted to RGB using
> swscale and unfortunately result is incorrect (alpha just discarded).

What it should do instead?

>
> I think most universal players based on FFmpeg fall back to swscale when
> unknown pixel format appears and current situation looks not good - if I
> haven't missed special flags.
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