Verified local conversion

MTS to TS

Pulling the soundtrack out of a .mts video into .ts audio keeps what you can hear and drops the picture entirely. Free, private, and validated — the file never leaves your browser.

Private for supported formats — processed in your browser

Convert supported files

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Drop MTS 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 AVCHD video to MPEG transport stream

Pulling the soundtrack out of a .mts video into .ts audio keeps what you can hear and drops the picture entirely. An .mts file is AVCHD footage as written to a camcorder's memory card, containing H.264 video inside an MPEG transport stream. Sony and Panasonic camcorders from the late 2000s onward filled SD cards with .mts clips, so the extension is familiar to anyone importing family or event video.

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 MTS to TS?

The usual reason to take .ts audio out of a .mts 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, transport-stream packet overhead makes files larger than the same video in MP4; 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.

MTS vs TS at a glance

AspectAVCHD video (.mts)MPEG transport stream (.ts)
Format typeContainer — quality depends on the codecs and settings insideContainer — quality depends on the codecs and settings inside
How it stores datauses 192-byte transport packets, standard 188-byte packets plus a 4-byte arrival timestamp, matching Blu-ray's BDAV layoutfixed 188-byte packets with sync bytes and continuity counters allow receivers to detect and skip corrupted data
Strongest atimporting camcorder footage into Premiere, Resolve, or Final Cutsaving recordings from DVRs and set-top boxes
Weak spottransport-stream packet overhead makes files larger than the same video in MP4packet overhead runs several percent above an equivalent MP4
Metadatarecording date, camera settings, and GPS coordinates on some models are stored in the AVCHD folder's clip-info files rather than in the .mts stream itselfbroadcast service tables (SDT/EIT) can carry channel names and program-guide data, but there is no field for user tagging
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Add your MTS file

Drop one or more .mts 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

MTS to TS questions, answered

Will converting MTS to TS lose quality?

Since mts 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 MTS files here?

Yes — the .mts 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 MTS?

Much smaller — the video stream is usually 80–95% of a .mts 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 MTS 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, recording date, camera settings, and GPS coordinates on some models are stored in the AVCHD folder's clip-info files rather than in the .mts stream itself; none of it is transmitted anywhere because the file never leaves your browser.

Can I convert TS back to MTS?

Yes — the reverse route exists as a separate tool. Bear in mind that round-tripping .mts → .ts → .mts is not a perfect undo when any lossy step is involved; keep your original if fidelity matters.