Add your AVI file
Drop one or more .avi files onto the converter above, or browse for them. They load into browser memory only — nothing is uploaded, so there is no size-based pricing and no server queue.
AVI to TS
Pulling the soundtrack out of a .avi video into .ts audio keeps what you can hear and drops the picture entirely. Free, private, and validated — the file never leaves your browser.
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Drop AVI files here
Batch files can each use a different output. Nothing uploads for local conversions.
Working inputs include camera RAW, browser-local audio/video, PDF, CBZ/CBR comics, office documents, ebooks, markup, 3D models, structured text, images, and archives.About converting AVI video to MPEG transport stream
Pulling the soundtrack out of a .avi video into .ts audio keeps what you can hear and drops the picture entirely. An .avi file is Microsoft's Audio Video Interleave container, one of the oldest video wrappers still in circulation. It stores video and audio in alternating chunks inside a RIFF structure, and the extension remains common on older camcorder captures and DivX-era rips.
A .ts file is an MPEG transport stream, the packetized format built to carry television through unreliable channels like antennas, satellites, and cable. DVR recordings, IPTV captures, and HLS streaming segments all use .ts, making it one of the most common raw broadcast formats people encounter. For this route the practical draw is corruption costs a fraction of a second, not the whole file and trivially concatenable without remuxing — balanced against packet overhead runs several percent above an equivalent MP4, which is worth knowing before you commit a large batch.
Why convert AVI to TS?
The usual reason to take .ts audio out of a .avi file is that only the sound matters — a talk, interview, song, or podcast segment. Keeping the video stream would waste storage, and a dedicated audio file is easier to trim, tag, and play. On the source side, no streaming support of any kind; on the target side, the payoff is corruption costs a fraction of a second, not the whole file, which is exactly what you want for saving recordings from DVRs and set-top boxes.
AVI vs TS at a glance
| Aspect | AVI video (.avi) | MPEG transport stream (.ts) |
|---|---|---|
| Format type | Container — quality depends on the codecs and settings inside | Container — quality depends on the codecs and settings inside |
| How it stores data | interleaves audio and video chunks inside a RIFF file, with the codec identified by a four-character FourCC code | fixed 188-byte packets with sync bytes and continuity counters allow receivers to detect and skip corrupted data |
| Strongest at | playing back footage digitized from DV and Hi8 tapes | saving recordings from DVRs and set-top boxes |
| Weak spot | no streaming support of any kind | packet overhead runs several percent above an equivalent MP4 |
| Metadata | rIFF INFO chunks store basic fields such as title, artist, and encoding software, but nothing comparable to ID3 or MP4 atoms exists | broadcast service tables (SDT/EIT) can carry channel names and program-guide data, but there is no field for user tagging |
Pick TS as the output
Select .ts in the output menu next to each file. The menu only offers targets this engine can genuinely produce, so if TS is selectable, the route is real and validated.
Convert on your device
Press Convert. A WebAssembly FFmpeg build demuxes the audio track and re-encodes it locally; the video stream is simply discarded.
Verify and download
Each result is signature-checked before the download unlocks, so a failed encode can never masquerade as a valid TS file. Outputs keep the original filename with the .ts extension.
AVI to TS questions, answered
Will converting AVI to TS lose quality?
Since avi is container-oriented and ts is container-oriented, the conversion preserves the source content exactly as stored; no additional compression pass is applied beyond what .ts itself requires.
Is it private to convert AVI files here?
Yes — the .avi file is processed inside your browser tab and never uploaded. A WebAssembly FFmpeg build demuxes the audio track and re-encodes it locally; the video stream is simply discarded. Close the tab and the file is gone from memory.
Where will the TS file work?
VLC, ffmpeg, and every broadcast tool read .ts natively, and smart TVs often play recordings made by their own tuners. Browsers only consume transport streams indirectly through JavaScript HLS players, so standalone .ts files need conversion for the web.
Will the TS file be bigger or smaller than my AVI?
Much smaller — the video stream is usually 80–95% of a .avi file's weight, and it is discarded entirely. The remaining audio is re-encoded at the bitrate implied by your quality setting.
What happens to the metadata in my AVI file?
This converter strips container metadata deliberately (the FFmpeg command runs with metadata mapping disabled) so exported files do not leak recording details. In the source, rIFF INFO chunks store basic fields such as title, artist, and encoding software, but nothing comparable to ID3 or MP4 atoms exists; none of it is transmitted anywhere because the file never leaves your browser.
Can I convert TS back to AVI?
Yes — the reverse route exists as a separate tool. Bear in mind that round-tripping .avi → .ts → .avi is not a perfect undo when any lossy step is involved; keep your original if fidelity matters.