diff --git a/src/background/index.ts b/src/background/index.ts
index 8ebd119..2f5cb92 100644
--- a/src/background/index.ts
+++ b/src/background/index.ts
@@ -153,21 +153,43 @@ async function getVideoBufferFromOffscreen(): Promise<VideoBufferResponse> {
         // RESEARCH.md Pattern 3.
         const wireSegments =
           (msg as { segments?: TransferredVideoSegment[] }).segments ?? [];
-        const segments: VideoSegment[] = [];
-        for (const wire of wireSegments) {
+        // WR-07 fix: filter empty wire segments BEFORE base64 decode.
+        // An empty wire.data would decode to a zero-byte Blob; the
+        // SW-side mergeVideoSegments would then concat it into the
+        // output WebM, producing a stray empty EBML segment that
+        // breaks Chrome playback. We split into two passes (filter →
+        // decode → filter-non-empty) so the iteration semantics stay
+        // declarative (no early-return in the loop body).
+        const nonEmptyWires = wireSegments.filter((wire) => {
+          const isEmpty = !wire.data || wire.data.length === 0;
+          if (isEmpty) {
+            logger.warn(
+              'Skipping empty wire segment (zero-length base64)',
+              'timestamp:', wire.timestamp,
+            );
+          }
+          return !isEmpty;
+        });
+        const segments: VideoSegment[] = nonEmptyWires.flatMap((wire) => {
           try {
-            segments.push({
-              data: base64ToBlob(wire.data, wire.type || VIDEO_MIME_FALLBACK),
-              timestamp: wire.timestamp,
-            });
+            const blob = base64ToBlob(wire.data, wire.type || VIDEO_MIME_FALLBACK);
+            if (blob.size === 0) {
+              logger.warn(
+                'Skipping segment that decoded to zero bytes',
+                'timestamp:', wire.timestamp,
+              );
+              return [];
+            }
+            return [{ data: blob, timestamp: wire.timestamp }];
           } catch (err) {
             logger.warn(
               'base64ToBlob failed; skipping segment',
               'timestamp:', wire.timestamp,
               'error:', err,
             );
+            return [];
           }
-        }
+        });
         resolve({ segments });
       }
     };
diff --git a/src/shared/binary.ts b/src/shared/binary.ts
index 18bb4c0..ec8fdee 100644
--- a/src/shared/binary.ts
+++ b/src/shared/binary.ts
@@ -65,6 +65,17 @@ export async function blobToBase64(blob: Blob): Promise<string> {
  * @returns A Blob whose bytes match the original encoded blob exactly.
  */
 export function base64ToBlob(b64: string, mimeType: string): Blob {
+  // WR-07 fix: defensive early-return for empty input. `atob('')` returns
+  // an empty string and the resulting Blob has size 0 — currently no
+  // caller filters zero-size segments, which would corrupt the
+  // concatenated WebM with a stray empty EBML segment. Return an
+  // explicit empty Blob here so the SW-side filter on
+  // `segment.data.size > 0` (see src/background/index.ts
+  // getVideoBufferFromOffscreen) can pre-filter cleanly without an
+  // extra atob round-trip.
+  if (b64.length === 0) {
+    return new Blob([], { type: mimeType });
+  }
   const binary = atob(b64);
   const bytes = new Uint8Array(binary.length);
   for (let i = 0; i < binary.length; i++) {
diff --git a/tests/offscreen/port-serialization.test.ts b/tests/offscreen/port-serialization.test.ts
index 8c5bc66..9cb70ca 100644
--- a/tests/offscreen/port-serialization.test.ts
+++ b/tests/offscreen/port-serialization.test.ts
@@ -193,3 +193,44 @@ describe('port serialization (GREEN — pins the eventual fix contract)', () =>
     expect(merged.size).not.toBe(75); // the bug is gone in the fixed form.
   });
 });
+
+describe('binary.ts adversarial input (WR-07 + sweep target #6)', () => {
+  // These tests exercise the PRODUCTION helpers in src/shared/binary.ts,
+  // not local re-implementations. They pin the WR-07 + sweep-#6
+  // defensive contracts:
+  //   1. Empty-string input → zero-byte Blob (early-return shortcut,
+  //      no atob('') round-trip).
+  //   2. Invalid base64 input → throws DOMException-like InvalidCharacterError,
+  //      caller is expected to wrap in try/catch.
+  //
+  // The empty-segment filter in SW's getVideoBufferFromOffscreen relies
+  // on (1) so the multi-EBML-header concat output never includes a stray
+  // zero-byte segment. The error-classification step relies on (2) being
+  // a regular throw so the per-segment try/catch can drop a single bad
+  // entry without aborting the whole transfer.
+
+  it('base64ToBlob("") returns a zero-byte Blob with the requested MIME', async () => {
+    const { base64ToBlob } = await import('../../src/shared/binary');
+    const blob = base64ToBlob('', 'video/webm');
+    expect(blob).toBeInstanceOf(Blob);
+    expect(blob.size).toBe(0);
+    expect(blob.type).toBe('video/webm');
+  });
+
+  it('blobToBase64(emptyBlob) round-trips through base64ToBlob to zero bytes', async () => {
+    const { blobToBase64, base64ToBlob } = await import('../../src/shared/binary');
+    const original = new Blob([], { type: 'video/webm' });
+    const b64 = await blobToBase64(original);
+    expect(b64).toBe('');
+    const restored = base64ToBlob(b64, 'video/webm');
+    expect(restored.size).toBe(0);
+  });
+
+  it('base64ToBlob throws on invalid base64 alphabet (caller wraps with try/catch)', async () => {
+    const { base64ToBlob } = await import('../../src/shared/binary');
+    // Characters outside the base64 alphabet — atob throws InvalidCharacterError
+    // synchronously. The SW caller (getVideoBufferFromOffscreen) has a
+    // try/catch that drops a single bad segment without aborting the batch.
+    expect(() => base64ToBlob('!!!not-base64!!!', 'video/webm')).toThrow();
+  });
+});