diff --git a/src/lib/exporter/timelineSegments.test.ts b/src/lib/exporter/timelineSegments.test.ts
index cfd835032..5ac0e3b0c 100644
--- a/src/lib/exporter/timelineSegments.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/exporter/timelineSegments.test.ts
@@ -100,6 +100,29 @@ describe("splitBySpeed", () => {
 		]);
 	});
 
+	it("keeps output disjoint when speed regions overlap", () => {
+		expect(splitBySpeed(full, [speed(1000, 5000, 2), speed(4000, 7000, 3)])).toEqual([
+			{ startSec: 0, endSec: 1, speed: 1 },
+			{ startSec: 1, endSec: 5, speed: 2 },
+			{ startSec: 5, endSec: 7, speed: 3 },
+			{ startSec: 7, endSec: 10, speed: 1 },
+		]);
+	});
+
+	// Not a variant of the test above: there the two regions merely overlap, here the
+	// second is fully swallowed by the first. main emitted
+	// `[0-1 x1, 1-8 x2, 3-5 x3, 5-10 x1]` — the third entry starts BEFORE the second
+	// ends, so the list stops being ascending and 5-8 ships twice. `decodeAll` walks
+	// these with a forward-only frame cursor, so that is a backwards seek, not just a
+	// duplicated stretch. Keep both cases.
+	it("ignores a later speed region fully covered by the earliest region", () => {
+		expect(splitBySpeed(full, [speed(1000, 8000, 2), speed(3000, 5000, 3)])).toEqual([
+			{ startSec: 0, endSec: 1, speed: 1 },
+			{ startSec: 1, endSec: 8, speed: 2 },
+			{ startSec: 8, endSec: 10, speed: 1 },
+		]);
+	});
+
 	it("drops sub-segments narrower than the minimum width", () => {
 		// A speed region ending a sliver before the segment end must not emit a 1x crumb.
 		const result = splitBySpeed(full, [speed(0, 9_999.95, 2)]);
diff --git a/src/lib/exporter/timelineSegments.ts b/src/lib/exporter/timelineSegments.ts
index c429651dc..d366c4da6 100644
--- a/src/lib/exporter/timelineSegments.ts
+++ b/src/lib/exporter/timelineSegments.ts
@@ -54,8 +54,14 @@ export function computeKeepSegments(
 
 /**
  * Splits keep-segments by overlapping speed regions, annotating each sub-segment
- * with its playback speed multiplier (defaults to 1×). Regions are assumed
- * non-overlapping; when they do overlap the earliest-starting one wins.
+ * with its playback speed multiplier (defaults to 1×).
+ *
+ * Overlapping regions are handled rather than assumed away: the earliest-starting
+ * one keeps the stretch it already covers, and a later region contributes only the
+ * part past the cursor (nothing at all when it is fully covered). Output is always
+ * disjoint and ascending — `decodeAll` walks it with a forward-only frame cursor,
+ * so an overlap would otherwise duplicate source and seek backwards. Same rule as
+ * the native path's `speed_segments_for_window` in `crates/compositor/src/regions.rs`.
  */
 export function splitBySpeed(
 	segments: TimelineSegment[],
@@ -80,8 +86,11 @@ export function splitBySpeed(
 		for (const sr of overlapping) {
 			const srStart = Math.max(sr.startMs / 1000, segment.startSec);
 			const srEnd = Math.min(sr.endMs / 1000, segment.endSec);
-			if (cursor < srStart) result.push({ startSec: cursor, endSec: srStart, speed: 1 });
-			result.push({ startSec: srStart, endSec: srEnd, speed: sr.speed });
+			if (srEnd <= cursor) continue;
+			const effectiveStart = Math.max(srStart, cursor);
+			if (cursor < effectiveStart)
+				result.push({ startSec: cursor, endSec: effectiveStart, speed: 1 });
+			result.push({ startSec: effectiveStart, endSec: srEnd, speed: sr.speed });
 			cursor = srEnd;
 		}
 		if (cursor < segment.endSec)