Why We Switched to Streaming Frame Extraction for Mobile Video Editing

When we first started building ClipCrafter's browser-based video engine, our biggest enemy wasn’t the complexity of FFmpeg—it was something much more silent and deadly: Memory Exhaustion. If you are working with high-resolution clips or long durations in a Web Worker, there is an invisible wall you will eventually hit. We call it "The OOM (Out Of Render) Wall." Recently, we noticed that while our desktop users were enjoying smooth multi-clip stitching, mobile Chrome and Safari users on mid-range