Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your TS file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert TS to another file type
To convert TS files to another format, you need VLC media player or other Video software.
Convert a file to TS
To convert other file formats to the "Transport Stream Video" file type, you need software like VLC media player or a similar tool.
About TS files
The .ts file extension primarily represents two entirely different formats. Most often, it is an MPEG Transport Stream video file used for digital television broadcasts. Alternatively, it is a TypeScript source code file created by Microsoft that adds static typing to JavaScript. A smaller percentage of these files are XML-based Qt Translation Source documents used by Qt Linguist. For video users, .ts files are notoriously difficult to handle. They are built for live broadcast streaming with built-in error correction overhead, resulting in massive file sizes. They lack native support in modern web browsers via standard HTML5 tags and frequently fail to open in default system media players like Windows Media Player or macOS QuickTime. While you can view them using VLC media player, sharing or editing them is highly impractical. To solve these playback and size limits, you must convert the file. For seamless web playback and universal device compatibility, convert .ts video to MP4 (H.264/AAC). If you need to preserve multiple broadcast audio tracks or DVB subtitles, convert to MKV. For developers, .ts source code is normally compiled to JS using a compiler, but you can inspect it instantly. Drag and drop your file to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing software.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your TS file.
If you want to convert TS file to MP4, JS, MKV, MP3, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, M4V, 3GP or OGV, you can use VLC media player or similar software from the "Broadcast Video & Source Code" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MTS, MOV, RMVB, DIVX, RM, H264, WMV, VOB, MP4, XVID, AVI or ASF files to TS, try VLC media player or another comparable tool in the "Broadcast Video & Source Code" category.
The TS Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our TS converter.