Add your TS file
Drop one or more .ts 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.
Grabbing a .jpg still from a .ts video is the quickest way to get a thumbnail, preview, or poster frame without opening an editor. 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.Grabbing a .jpg still from a .ts video is the quickest way to get a thumbnail, preview, or poster frame without opening an editor. 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.
A .jpg file is a photograph or other continuous-tone image compressed with the JPEG standard, the most widely used image codec ever shipped. Nearly every camera, phone, and website produces or accepts .jpg files, which makes it the default interchange format for photos. For this route the practical draw is opens everywhere, from 1990s software to the newest phone and excellent size-to-quality ratio for photographic content — balanced against every re-save re-compresses the image, so quality erodes across editing generations, which is worth knowing before you commit a large batch.
A still frame answers a different need than the video itself: thumbnails, link previews, cover art, and quick visual checks. Instead of screenshotting your player (which captures UI and compression artifacts at display size), this route decodes the actual .ts stream and hands you a clean .jpg at the video's native resolution — useful because opens everywhere, from 1990s software to the newest phone.
| Aspect | MPEG transport stream (.ts) | JPEG image (.jpg) |
|---|---|---|
| Format type | Container — quality depends on the codecs and settings inside | Lossy — discards detail it judges invisible to shrink files |
| How it stores data | fixed 188-byte packets with sync bytes and continuity counters allow receivers to detect and skip corrupted data | compresses 8x8 pixel blocks with a discrete cosine transform followed by quantization, which is where detail is discarded |
| Strongest at | saving recordings from DVRs and set-top boxes | publishing photographs on websites where file size and universal support matter |
| Weak spot | packet overhead runs several percent above an equivalent MP4 | every re-save re-compresses the image, so quality erodes across editing generations |
| Metadata | broadcast service tables (SDT/EIT) can carry channel names and program-guide data, but there is no field for user tagging | carries EXIF (camera settings, GPS, orientation), XMP, and IPTC records in APPn marker segments, plus embedded ICC color profiles and thumbnails |
Drop one or more .ts 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 .jpg in the output menu next to each file. The menu only offers targets this engine can genuinely produce, so if JPG is selectable, the route is real and validated.
Press Convert. A WebAssembly FFmpeg build decodes the opening video frame and encodes it as a still image without any upload.
Each result is signature-checked before the download unlocks, so a failed encode can never masquerade as a valid JPG file. Outputs keep the original filename with the .jpg extension.
You are extracting a single decoded frame from the ts stream, so the result is as sharp as the video itself at that instant. Choosing .png keeps it pixel-exact; .jpg and .webp apply mild, adjustable compression suited to sharing.
Yes — the .ts file is processed inside your browser tab and never uploaded. A WebAssembly FFmpeg build decodes the opening video frame and encodes it as a still image without any upload. Close the tab and the file is gone from memory.
JPEG is supported by every mainstream operating system, browser, image editor, and printer driver in use today. It decodes natively on iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux without any add-on codecs, and every browser has rendered it since the format reached the web in the 1990s.
A single .jpg frame is a tiny fraction of any video: expect kilobytes to a few megabytes depending on resolution, versus the megabytes-per-minute of the .ts source.
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, broadcast service tables (SDT/EIT) can carry channel names and program-guide data, but there is no field for user tagging; none of it is transmitted anywhere because the file never leaves your browser.