diff --git a/crates/rustmotion-core/src/engine/renderer/assets.rs b/crates/rustmotion-core/src/engine/renderer/assets.rs
index ac7bd585..9121f48e 100644
--- a/crates/rustmotion-core/src/engine/renderer/assets.rs
+++ b/crates/rustmotion-core/src/engine/renderer/assets.rs
@@ -251,9 +251,43 @@ pub fn ffmpeg_available() -> bool {
         .unwrap_or(false)
 }
 
+/// Rejects a `src` that names a network URL rather than a local file path.
+///
+/// `extract_video_frame` below hands `src` to `ffmpeg -i` verbatim; ffmpeg's
+/// own demuxer understands its full built-in protocol set (`http://`,
+/// `rtmp://`, `concat:`, …), which turns an unfiltered `src` into an SSRF
+/// primitive — a scenario author can point it at
+/// `http://169.254.169.254/...` (the cloud metadata endpoint) or an internal
+/// service, and read the exit status as a port-scan oracle. Remote
+/// video was never a designed feature here — this module's own `is_remote`
+/// doc, a few functions below, and `rustmotion info`'s identical assumption
+/// both already treat every `src` as a local path — so this closes an
+/// accidental reach rather than opening an allowlist for one.
+fn reject_remote_video_src(src: &str) -> Result<()> {
+    let Some(scheme_end) = src.find("://") else {
+        return Ok(());
+    };
+    let scheme = &src[..scheme_end];
+    let looks_like_scheme = !scheme.is_empty()
+        && scheme.starts_with(|c: char| c.is_ascii_alphabetic())
+        && scheme
+            .chars()
+            .all(|c| c.is_ascii_alphanumeric() || matches!(c, '+' | '-' | '.'));
+    if looks_like_scheme {
+        return Err(RustmotionError::Generic(format!(
+            "video src '{src}' names a '{scheme}://' URL — rustmotion does not fetch video \
+             over the network, only local file paths are accepted"
+        )));
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 pub fn extract_video_frame(src: &str, time: f64, width: u32, height: u32) -> Result<Vec<u8>> {
+    reject_remote_video_src(src)?;
     let output = std::process::Command::new("ffmpeg")
         .args([
+            "-protocol_whitelist",
+            "file",
             "-ss",
             &format!("{:.3}", time),
             "-i",
diff --git a/crates/rustmotion-core/tests/audit_ws_h.rs b/crates/rustmotion-core/tests/audit_ws_h.rs
index 0e8d7242..0fd3a042 100644
--- a/crates/rustmotion-core/tests/audit_ws_h.rs
+++ b/crates/rustmotion-core/tests/audit_ws_h.rs
@@ -25,15 +25,23 @@ fn shared_http_agent_has_finite_global_and_connect_timeouts() {
 
 #[test]
 fn extract_video_frame_rejects_a_remote_src_before_it_ever_reaches_ffmpeg() {
-    let result = extract_video_frame(
+    // Asserting `is_err()` alone would also pass for the wrong reason: on a
+    // machine with no route to this address, ffmpeg itself fails to connect
+    // and returns a non-zero exit status. The fix under test is that the
+    // src is refused *before* any subprocess runs at all — so the assertion
+    // has to be on the specific rejection message, which only the fix
+    // produces; an ffmpeg spawn/exit failure would carry a different one.
+    let err = extract_video_frame(
         "http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/iam/security-credentials/",
         0.0,
         16,
         16,
-    );
+    )
+    .expect_err("a scheme-prefixed src must be rejected outright, not handed to ffmpeg");
+    let msg = err.to_string();
     assert!(
-        result.is_err(),
-        "a scheme-prefixed src must be rejected outright, not hand ffmpeg a URL to dereference"
+        msg.contains("does not fetch video over the network"),
+        "expected the scheme-rejection error, not an ffmpeg spawn/exit failure: {msg}"
     );
 }
 
@@ -42,7 +50,8 @@ fn extract_video_frame_does_not_reject_a_plain_local_path() {
     let result = extract_video_frame("/no/such/file/on/disk.mp4", 0.0, 16, 16);
     let err = result.expect_err("a missing local file is still an error");
     assert!(
-        !err.to_string().contains("does not fetch video"),
+        !err.to_string()
+            .contains("does not fetch video over the network"),
         "a plain local path must fail on ffmpeg/the missing file, not on the scheme check: {err}"
     );
 }