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 .webp 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 .webp 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 .webp file is Google's web-oriented image format, offering both lossy and lossless compression plus alpha and animation in one container. At equivalent visual quality, .webp files typically undercut JPEG by 25-35 percent, which is why CDNs and site optimizers convert to it aggressively. For this route the practical draw is smaller than JPEG for photos and usually smaller than PNG for graphics and one format covers lossy, lossless, alpha, and animation — balanced against mandatory 4:2:0 subsampling in lossy mode caps color fidelity below high-quality JPEG or AVIF, 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 .webp at the video's native resolution — useful because smaller than JPEG for photos and usually smaller than PNG for graphics.
| Aspect | MPEG transport stream (.ts) | WebP image (.webp) |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | lossy mode encodes VP8 intra frames with block prediction; lossless mode uses its own dedicated coding with spatial predictors and color transforms |
| Strongest at | saving recordings from DVRs and set-top boxes | serving photos and graphics on websites where bandwidth and Core Web Vitals matter |
| Weak spot | packet overhead runs several percent above an equivalent MP4 | mandatory 4:2:0 subsampling in lossy mode caps color fidelity below high-quality JPEG or AVIF |
| Metadata | broadcast service tables (SDT/EIT) can carry channel names and program-guide data, but there is no field for user tagging | eXIF and XMP travel in dedicated RIFF chunks and ICC profiles are supported, though a fair amount of conversion software strips metadata by default when writing WebP |
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 .webp in the output menu next to each file. The menu only offers targets this engine can genuinely produce, so if WEBP 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 WEBP file. Outputs keep the original filename with the .webp 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.
Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari (since version 14 in 2020) all decode WebP natively, as do Android and current versions of Windows and macOS system viewers. Older tools from before roughly 2020 — legacy Photoshop releases, older email clients, many kiosk printers — commonly fail on it, so JPEG or PNG remains the safer handoff format outside the browser.
A single .webp 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.