diff --git a/src/backends/beamcoder.ts b/src/backends/beamcoder.ts
index a02269e..7ce5757 100644
--- a/src/backends/beamcoder.ts
+++ b/src/backends/beamcoder.ts
@@ -27,13 +27,24 @@ const createDecoder = ({
     streamIndex: number;
     threadCount: number;
 }): Decoder => {
-    return beamcoder.decoder({
-        demuxer: demuxer,
+    const commonParams = {
         width: demuxer.streams[streamIndex].codecpar.width,
         height: demuxer.streams[streamIndex].codecpar.height,
-        stream_index: streamIndex,
         pix_fmt: demuxer.streams[streamIndex].codecpar.format,
         thread_count: threadCount,
+    };
+
+    if (demuxer.streams[streamIndex].codecpar.name === 'vp8') {
+        return beamcoder.decoder({
+            ...commonParams,
+            name: 'libvpx',
+        });
+    }
+
+    return beamcoder.decoder({
+        ...commonParams,
+        demuxer: demuxer,
+        stream_index: streamIndex,
     });
 };
 
diff --git a/test/__image_snapshots__/framefusion-test-ts-test-framefusion-test-ts-frame-fusion-can-get-frame-from-webm-with-alpha-1-snap.png b/test/__image_snapshots__/framefusion-test-ts-test-framefusion-test-ts-frame-fusion-can-get-frame-from-webm-with-alpha-1-snap.png
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e8f798d
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diff --git a/test/framefusion.test.ts b/test/framefusion.test.ts
index e12d658..b1b4762 100644
--- a/test/framefusion.test.ts
+++ b/test/framefusion.test.ts
@@ -145,6 +145,27 @@ describe('FrameFusion', () => {
         await extractor.dispose();
     });
 
+    it('can get frame from webm with alpha', async() => {
+        // Arrange
+        const extractor = await BeamcoderExtractor.create({
+            inputFileOrUrl: './test/samples/webm-with-alpha.webm',
+            threadCount: 8,
+        });
+
+        // Act and Assert
+        const imageData = await extractor.getImageDataAtTime(100);
+        const canvasImageData = createImageData(imageData.data, imageData.width, imageData.height);
+
+        const canvas = createCanvas(imageData.width, imageData.height);
+        const ctx = canvas.getContext('2d', { alpha: true });
+
+        ctx.putImageData(canvasImageData, 0, 0);
+        expect(canvas.toBuffer('image/png')).toMatchImageSnapshot();
+
+        // Cleanup
+        await extractor.dispose();
+    });
+
     it('can get the same frame multiple times', async() => {
         // When smaller increments are requested, the same frame can be returned multiple times. This happens when the
         // caller plays the video at a lower playback rate than the source video.
diff --git a/test/samples/webm-with-alpha.webm b/test/samples/webm-with-alpha.webm
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