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.
Converting .mts video to .webm means re-encoding the picture and sound into a different container and codec family, and this page does it entirely in your browser. 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.Converting .mts video to .webm means re-encoding the picture and sound into a different container and codec family, and this page does it entirely in your browser. 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 .webm file is an open, royalty-free video container built specifically for the web. It restricts itself to free codecs, VP8, VP9, or AV1 for video with Vorbis or Opus for audio, so any browser can play a .webm without patent licensing concerns. For this route the practical draw is free of patent royalties end to end and vP9 and AV1 deliver excellent compression efficiency — balanced against older iPhones and legacy Safari versions cannot play it, which is worth knowing before you commit a large batch.
The practical trigger for this conversion is usually a mismatch: with .mts, transport-stream packet overhead makes files larger than the same video in MP4. Switching to .webm buys you free of patent royalties end to end, which is why it is the better fit for serving HTML5 video without codec license fees. Because the conversion runs locally, trying it costs nothing but a few seconds of compute on your own machine.
| Aspect | AVCHD video (.mts) | WebM video (.webm) |
|---|---|---|
| Format type | Container — quality depends on the codecs and settings inside | Container — quality depends on the codecs and settings inside |
| How it stores data | uses 192-byte transport packets, standard 188-byte packets plus a 4-byte arrival timestamp, matching Blu-ray's BDAV layout | structured as a deliberately restricted subset of Matroska's EBML layout |
| Strongest at | importing camcorder footage into Premiere, Resolve, or Final Cut | serving HTML5 video without codec license fees |
| Weak spot | transport-stream packet overhead makes files larger than the same video in MP4 | older iPhones and legacy Safari versions cannot play it |
| Metadata | 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 | only a minimal set of Matroska tags such as title and language is defined for WebM; the spec deliberately omits attachments and rich tagging |
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.
Select .webm in the output menu next to each file. The menu only offers targets this engine can genuinely produce, so if WEBM is selectable, the route is real and validated.
Press Convert. The conversion runs on an FFmpeg engine compiled to WebAssembly, executing entirely inside your browser tab.
Each result is signature-checked before the download unlocks, so a failed encode can never masquerade as a valid WEBM file. Outputs keep the original filename with the .webm extension.
Both sides are re-encoded, so expect a small generation loss controlled by the quality setting: mts is container-oriented and webm is container-oriented. For visually or audibly transparent results keep quality high; for smaller files lower it and compare.
Yes — the .mts file is processed inside your browser tab and never uploaded. The conversion runs on an FFmpeg engine compiled to WebAssembly, executing entirely inside your browser tab. Close the tab and the file is gone from memory.
Chrome, Firefox, and Edge have played WebM for over a decade, and Safari added playback in 2021 starting with version 14.1 on macOS, with iOS following in iOS 15. Beyond browsers the picture thins out quickly, since many televisions, set-top boxes, and editors still expect MP4.
It depends on the content: structured as a deliberately restricted subset of Matroska's EBML layout. Convert one representative file first and compare before batch-processing a large set.
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.
Yes — the reverse route exists as a separate tool. Bear in mind that round-tripping .mts → .webm → .mts is not a perfect undo when any lossy step is involved; keep your original if fidelity matters.