Verified local conversion

VOB to MTS

Pulling the soundtrack out of a .vob video into .mts 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

Runs on your device

Drop VOB 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 DVD video object to AVCHD video

Pulling the soundtrack out of a .vob video into .mts audio keeps what you can hear and drops the picture entirely. A .vob file is a Video Object from a DVD's VIDEO_TS folder, holding the disc's actual movie data. Each .vob multiplexes MPEG-2 video, audio, subtitle subpictures, and navigation commands, split into pieces of about one gigabyte to satisfy the DVD specification.

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. For this route the practical draw is the transport-stream base survives card errors and interrupted recordings well and h.264 essence is often modern enough to re-wrap without re-encoding — balanced against transport-stream packet overhead makes files larger than the same video in MP4, which is worth knowing before you commit a large batch.

Why convert VOB to MTS?

The usual reason to take .mts audio out of a .vob 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, files split at roughly 1 GB boundaries and must be rejoined for continuous playback; on the target side, the payoff is the transport-stream base survives card errors and interrupted recordings well, which is exactly what you want for importing camcorder footage into Premiere, Resolve, or Final Cut.

VOB vs MTS at a glance

AspectDVD video object (.vob)AVCHD video (.mts)
Format typeContainer — quality depends on the codecs and settings insideContainer — quality depends on the codecs and settings inside
How it stores dataan MPEG-2 program stream variant extended with navigation packs (PCI/DSI) that DVD players use for menus and seekinguses 192-byte transport packets, standard 188-byte packets plus a 4-byte arrival timestamp, matching Blu-ray's BDAV layout
Strongest atbacking up home-movie DVDs before the media degradesimporting camcorder footage into Premiere, Resolve, or Final Cut
Weak spotfiles split at roughly 1 GB boundaries and must be rejoined for continuous playbacktransport-stream packet overhead makes files larger than the same video in MP4
Metadatanone inside the VOB itself; titles, chapters, and menu logic live in the accompanying IFO files on the discrecording 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
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Add your VOB file

Drop one or more .vob 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 MTS as the output

Select .mts in the output menu next to each file. The menu only offers targets this engine can genuinely produce, so if MTS 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 MTS file. Outputs keep the original filename with the .mts extension.

VOB to MTS questions, answered

Will converting VOB to MTS lose quality?

Since vob is container-oriented and mts is container-oriented, the conversion preserves the source content exactly as stored; no additional compression pass is applied beyond what .mts itself requires.

Is it private to convert VOB files here?

Yes — the .vob 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 MTS file work?

Editing suites and VLC handle .mts directly, while browsers, phones, and many TVs fail to recognize the extension even though they could decode the H.264 inside. Re-wrapping to MP4 usually restores playback everywhere without touching quality.

Will the MTS file be bigger or smaller than my VOB?

Much smaller — the video stream is usually 80–95% of a .vob 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 VOB 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, none inside the VOB itself; titles, chapters, and menu logic live in the accompanying IFO files on the disc; none of it is transmitted anywhere because the file never leaves your browser.

Can I convert MTS back to VOB?

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