My browser video compressor choked on a 2.2 GB AVI. Here's why

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I run SquishyFile, a video compressor that works entirely in the browser. Most files go through WebCodecs with Mediabunny. Files the browser can't decode natively, like AVI, MPG, MTS and FLV, fall back to ffmpeg.wasm. The same fallback kicks in when a browser has no working H.264 encoder. Last week a user sent me a bug report.

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