diff --git a/libavcodec/libvpxenc.c b/libavcodec/libvpxenc.c
index c823b8ad8b..feb52ea0dd 100644
--- a/libavcodec/libvpxenc.c
+++ b/libavcodec/libvpxenc.c
@@ -978,7 +978,7 @@ static int queue_frames(AVCodecContext *avctx, AVPacket *pkt_out)
        are only good through the next vpx_codec call */
     while ((pkt = vpx_codec_get_cx_data(&ctx->encoder, &iter)) &&
            (!ctx->is_alpha ||
-            (ctx->is_alpha && (pkt_alpha = vpx_codec_get_cx_data(&ctx->encoder_alpha, &iter_alpha))))) {
+            (pkt_alpha = vpx_codec_get_cx_data(&ctx->encoder_alpha, &iter_alpha)))) {
         switch (pkt->kind) {
         case VPX_CODEC_CX_FRAME_PKT:
             if (!size) {