Preserve alpha in raw AVIF and HEIF encoding - #455
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What changed
Preserve alpha when AVIF or HEIF is encoded from a supported raw RGBA input.
RGBA1010102orRGBAHalfFloat).RGBA8888SDR base image.Previously, the RGB-to-YCbCr conversion discarded alpha before encoding, so accepted RGBA inputs always decoded as fully opaque. For API-0, alpha must come from the original HDR input because the internally tone-mapped SDR image has already been made opaque.
Half-float alpha is quantized to 8-bit, matching the current 8-bit base-image encoding. The public C API and non-RGBA paths are unchanged.
Testing
Added public-API regression coverage for both AVIF and HEIF:
RGBA1010102RGBAHalfFloat0,85,170, and255)All six cases fail on current
mainbecause decoded alpha is always255; they pass with this change. The full unit suite also passes: 1,073 passed, with 224 existing parameter skips.Compressed-input/API-4 AVIF/HEIF transcoding is outside this focused fix and is tracked separately in #454.