From dae3d3475179fd796e2901e7d1f9e00aeb515a2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: comfyanonymous <121283862+comfyanonymous@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:15:06 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Use pyav to load images instead of pillow. (#13594)

On failure (ex: animated webp files) fallback to old pillow code.

This should fix the extra precision in high bit depth images (like 16 bit PNG) being discarded when loaded by Pillow and potentially add support for more image formats.
---
 nodes.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/nodes.py b/nodes.py
index fb83da896..e73a0712e 100644
--- a/nodes.py
+++ b/nodes.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ import comfy.controlnet
 from comfy.comfy_types import IO, ComfyNodeABC, InputTypeDict, FileLocator
 from comfy_api.internal import register_versions, ComfyAPIWithVersion
 from comfy_api.version_list import supported_versions
-from comfy_api.latest import io, ComfyExtension
+from comfy_api.latest import io, ComfyExtension, InputImpl
 
 import comfy.clip_vision
 
@@ -1716,6 +1716,10 @@ class LoadImage:
     def load_image(self, image):
         image_path = folder_paths.get_annotated_filepath(image)
 
+        components = InputImpl.VideoFromFile(image_path).get_components()
+        if components.images.shape[0] > 0:
+            return (components.images, 1.0 - components.alpha[..., -1] if components.alpha is not None else torch.zeros((components.images.shape[0], 64, 64), dtype=torch.float32, device="cpu"))
+
         img = node_helpers.pillow(Image.open, image_path)
 
         output_images = []