diff --git a/web/app/src/sequencer/SequencerCodecProbe.ts b/web/app/src/sequencer/SequencerCodecProbe.ts
index faa58274f..4355a8cbc 100644
--- a/web/app/src/sequencer/SequencerCodecProbe.ts
+++ b/web/app/src/sequencer/SequencerCodecProbe.ts
@@ -129,6 +129,19 @@ export async function probeSequencerCodec(
   return probeMovie(request, source);
 }
 
+/** Probe a movie with the browser decoder first, then use the local ffmpeg.wasm
+ * Worker when Chromium cannot decode the container/codec. */
+export async function probeSequencerMovieCodecWithFallback(
+  requestValue: unknown,
+  source: ArrayBuffer,
+  signal?: AbortSignal,
+): Promise<SequencerCodecProbeResultIR> {
+  const browserResult = await probeSequencerCodec(requestValue, source);
+  if (browserResult.status === "READY") return browserResult;
+  const { probeMovieWithFFmpeg } = await import("./FFmpegMovieProbe");
+  return probeMovieWithFFmpeg(requestValue, source, signal);
+}
+
 export function createSequencerCodecProbeRequest(
   stripType: SequencerCodecProbeRequestIR["stripType"],
   mimeType: string,
diff --git a/web/app/src/sequencer/SequencerMediaProxyCache.ts b/web/app/src/sequencer/SequencerMediaProxyCache.ts
index 6d188e1e2..97ad390c0 100644
--- a/web/app/src/sequencer/SequencerMediaProxyCache.ts
+++ b/web/app/src/sequencer/SequencerMediaProxyCache.ts
@@ -88,6 +88,21 @@ export async function generateInitialSequencerMovieProxyFrame(
     throw new SequencerMediaCacheValidationError("SEQUENCER_CACHE_SOURCE_MISMATCH", "Movie proxy source bytes failed identity verification");
   }
   cancelled(signal);
+  if (capability.backend === "FFMPEG_WASM") {
+    try {
+      const { decodeMovieFrameWithFFmpeg } = await import("./FFmpegMovieProbe");
+      const frame = await decodeMovieFrameWithFFmpeg(source, sourceData, profile.width, profile.height, signal);
+      cancelled(signal);
+      return {
+        manifest: await createSequencerMediaCacheManifest(source, capability, profile, 0, frame.rgba),
+        data: frame.rgba,
+      };
+    }
+    catch (error) {
+      if (error instanceof DOMException && error.name === "AbortError") throw new SequencerMediaCacheValidationError("SEQUENCER_CANCELLED", "Movie proxy generation was cancelled");
+      throw new SequencerMediaCacheValidationError("SEQUENCER_CODEC_UNSUPPORTED", "ffmpeg.wasm movie proxy frame decode failed");
+    }
+  }
   if (typeof document === "undefined" || typeof HTMLMediaElement === "undefined") {
     throw new SequencerMediaCacheValidationError("SEQUENCER_CODEC_UNSUPPORTED", "HTML media proxy generation is unavailable");
   }