Post #2609678
2026-04-29 01:23 UTC
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· extremely weird codec specifications
· tons of scary ffmpeg incantations
· special different encoding necessary for Safari only, which doesn’t support transparent WebM
· while creating works, I can’t get transcoding to work
· weird non-transparent pixel row that I cannot get rid of except *cropping while showing*
· not to mention how hard it is to *produce* transparent video to begin with
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Replies (3)
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@mwichary@mastodon.online 2026-04-29 02:57
If you are interested, here’s an example of my results: https://unsung.aresluna.org/if-a-feature-falls-in-a-forest/ It’s not a very *obvious* transparency, but for both the videos you can toggle between dark and light mode and the frames and shadows are going to react really nicely.
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@davidr@hachyderm.io 2026-04-29 02:00
@mwichary@mastodon.online Am I bring naive? gifs can be transparent
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@shovemedia@triangletoot.party 2026-04-30 19:16
@mwichary@mastodon.online do you mind sharing your codec settings / ffmpeg incantations? My browser (webm) experiment “works” including semi-transparency but there’s some kind of bug with edge pixels