Add your M2TS file
Drop one or more .m2ts 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.
Pulling the soundtrack out of a .m2ts video into .m4r audio keeps what you can hear and drops the picture entirely. Free, private, and validated — the file never leaves your browser.
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.Pulling the soundtrack out of a .m2ts video into .m4r audio keeps what you can hear and drops the picture entirely. An .m2ts file is a BDAV transport stream, the container Blu-ray discs and AVCHD software use for high-definition video. Open a Blu-ray's BDMV/STREAM folder and every title is an .m2ts file pairing H.264, VC-1, or HEVC video with multichannel audio.
An .m4r file is an iPhone ringtone: AAC audio in an MPEG-4 container, identical to an .m4a in everything but the extension. Apple uses .m4r purely as a routing marker so iTunes and iOS file the audio under Tones instead of Music. For this route the practical draw is the only ringtone format iOS accepts and full AAC quality, indistinguishable from the source track — balanced against tones over 40 seconds are rejected outright, which is worth knowing before you commit a large batch.
The usual reason to take .m4r audio out of a .m2ts 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, file sizes are very large, often tens of gigabytes per title; on the target side, the payoff is the only ringtone format iOS accepts, which is exactly what you want for turning a favorite song's hook into a custom iPhone ringtone.
| Aspect | Blu-ray transport stream (.m2ts) | Apple ringtone (.m4r) |
|---|---|---|
| Format type | Container — quality depends on the codecs and settings inside | Lossy — discards detail it judges invisible to shrink files |
| How it stores data | 192-byte packets whose arrival timestamps enable the precise buffer control disc players require | shares the ISO base media layout of .m4a, carrying AAC-LC audio |
| Strongest at | archiving personal Blu-ray projects and camcorder discs | turning a favorite song's hook into a custom iPhone ringtone |
| Weak spot | file sizes are very large, often tens of gigabytes per title | tones over 40 seconds are rejected outright |
| Metadata | chapter and playlist information lives in separate CLPI and MPLS files on the disc, not inside the .m2ts stream | standard iTunes atoms apply, though iOS shows only the title in the ringtone picker |
Drop one or more .m2ts 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.
Select .m4r in the output menu next to each file. The menu only offers targets this engine can genuinely produce, so if M4R is selectable, the route is real and validated.
Press Convert. A WebAssembly FFmpeg build demuxes the audio track and re-encodes it locally; the video stream is simply discarded.
Each result is signature-checked before the download unlocks, so a failed encode can never masquerade as a valid M4R file. Outputs keep the original filename with the .m4r extension.
Since m2ts is container-oriented and m4r is lossy-oriented, the conversion preserves the source content exactly as stored; no additional compression pass is applied beyond what .m4r itself requires.
Yes — the .m2ts 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.
iPhones accept .m4r only through iTunes or Finder sync and GarageBand export, and every Apple device can play it since the audio is ordinary AAC. Other platforms open the file happily after a rename, though Android sources its ringtones from plain MP3 or OGG instead.
Much smaller — the video stream is usually 80–95% of a .m2ts file's weight, and it is discarded entirely. The remaining audio is re-encoded at the bitrate implied by your quality setting.
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, chapter and playlist information lives in separate CLPI and MPLS files on the disc, not inside the .m2ts stream; none of it is transmitted anywhere because the file never leaves your browser.