alpha

The alpha element adds an alpha channel to a video stream. The values of the alpha channel can be either be set to a constant or can be dynamically calculated via chroma keying, e.g. blue can be set as the transparent color.

Sample pipeline:

 gst-launch-1.0 videotestsrc pattern=snow ! mixer.sink_0 \
   videotestsrc pattern=smpte75 ! alpha method=green ! mixer.sink_1 \
   videomixer name=mixer sink_0::zorder=0 sink_1::zorder=1 ! \
   videoconvert ! autovideosink

This pipeline adds a alpha channel to the SMPTE color bars with green as the transparent color and overlays the output on top of a snow video stream.

Hierarchy

GObject
    ╰──GInitiallyUnowned
        ╰──GstObject
            ╰──GstElement
                ╰──GstBaseTransform
                    ╰──GstVideoFilter
                        ╰──alpha

Factory details

Authors: – Wim Taymans , Edward Hervey , Jan Schmidt

Classification: – Filter/Effect/Video

Rank – none

Plugin – alpha

Package – GStreamer Good Plug-ins

Pad Templates

`sink`

video/x-raw:
         format: { AYUV, ARGB, BGRA, ABGR, RGBA, Y444, xRGB, BGRx, xBGR, RGBx, RGB, BGR, Y42B, YUY2, YVYU, UYVY, I420, YV12, Y41B }
          width: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
         height: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
      framerate: [ 0/1, 2147483647/1 ]

Presence – always

Direction – sink

Object type – GstPad

`src`

video/x-raw:
         format: { AYUV, ARGB, BGRA, ABGR, RGBA, Y444, xRGB, BGRx, xBGR, RGBx, RGB, BGR, Y42B, YUY2, YVYU, UYVY, I420, YV12, Y41B }
          width: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
         height: [ 1, 2147483647 ]
      framerate: [ 0/1, 2147483647/1 ]

Presence – always

Direction – src

Object type – GstPad

Properties

alpha

“alpha” gdouble

The value for the alpha channel

Flags : Read / Write

Default value : 1

angle

“angle” gfloat

Size of the colorcube to change

Flags : Read / Write

Default value : 20

black-sensitivity

“black-sensitivity” guint

Sensitivity to dark colors

Flags : Read / Write

Default value : 100

method

“method” GstAlphaMethod *

How the alpha channels should be created

Flags : Read / Write

Default value : set (0)

noise-level

“noise-level” gfloat

Size of noise radius

Flags : Read / Write

Default value : 2

prefer-passthrough

“prefer-passthrough” gboolean

Don't do any processing for alpha=1.0 if possible

Flags : Read / Write

Default value : false

target-b

“target-b” guint

The blue color value for custom RGB chroma keying

Flags : Read / Write

Default value : 0

target-g

“target-g” guint

The green color value for custom RGB chroma keying

Flags : Read / Write

Default value : 255

target-r

“target-r” guint

The red color value for custom RGB chroma keying

Flags : Read / Write

Default value : 0

white-sensitivity

“white-sensitivity” guint

Sensitivity to bright colors

Flags : Read / Write

Default value : 100

Named constants

GstAlphaMethod

Members

set (0) – Set/adjust alpha channel

green (1) – Chroma Key on pure green

blue (2) – Chroma Key on pure blue

custom (3) – Chroma Key on custom RGB values

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