MIME type 'image/webp' could not be instantiated.

[ncowan]

When uploading any .webp image using the following function it throws an error.
The image it saves will have the same .webp extension.

ResizeAndSaveImage(fileUploadObject.PostedFile.InputStream, 925, 600, ImageName);

public static void ResizeAndSaveImage(Stream inputStream, int width, int height, string saveLocation)
 {
     var resizeSettings = new ProcessImageSettings()
     {
         Width = width,
         Height = height,
         ResizeMode = CropScaleMode.Max
     };
     using (inputStream)
     {
         MagicImageProcessor.ProcessImage(inputStream, saveLocation, resizeSettings);
     }
 }

Stacktrace:

System.Web.HttpUnhandledException (0x80004005): Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown. ---> System.NotSupportedException: The WIC decoder with CLSID '7693e886-51c9-4070-8419-9f70738ec8fa' for MIME type 'image/webp' could not be instantiated. This codec should be unregistered.
at PhotoSauce.MagicScaler.WicImageDecoder.TryLoad(Guid clsid, String mime, Stream stream, IDecoderOptions options)
at PhotoSauce.MagicScaler.WindowsCodecExtensions.<>c__DisplayClass1_0.<getWicCodecs>b__1(Stream stm, IDecoderOptions opt)
at PhotoSauce.MagicScaler.CodecCollection.GetDecoderForStream(Stream stm, IDecoderOptions options)
at PhotoSauce.MagicScaler.MagicImageProcessor.ProcessImage(Stream imgStream, String outPath, ProcessImageSettings settings)

[saucecontrol]

The error message says it all: the Windows (WIC) WebP codec can't be instantiated. You have two possible solutions:

1. Figure out why the WIC codec can't be instantiated. (You really need to provide information about your environment if you're asking for help of this nature)

2. Use the libwebp native codec plugin, which does not rely on WIC.

[ncowan]

Fair enough, I did wonder if it was an issue on my end. I'll probably just go with libwebp.
Thanks for your help.