diff --git a/video/out/gl_video.c b/video/out/gl_video.c
index 0f50403687..af1d3e166b 100644
--- a/video/out/gl_video.c
+++ b/video/out/gl_video.c
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ const struct gl_video_opts gl_video_opts_hq_def = {
     .npot = 1,
     .dither_depth = 0,
     .dither_size = 6,
-    .fbo_format = GL_RGB16,
+    .fbo_format = GL_RGBA16,
     .scale_sep = 1,
     .scalers = { "lanczos2", "bilinear" },
     .scaler_params = {NAN, NAN},