ICO to MTS Converter

Convert ICO to MTS: What This Tutorial Covers

An ICO file is a static Windows icon, and .MTS is the camcorder spelling of an AVCHD transport stream — so what you get here is the icon held motionless for a set duration as a silent .MTS clip, not an animation. This is a deliberately niche conversion: the honest reason to do it is to drop a logo or icon into an AVCHD-era editing or disc-authoring workflow that only ingests transport-stream footage. This walk-through explains the one setting that decides whether the result looks acceptable — resolution — because an icon is tiny and turns soft when you stretch it into an HD frame.

How to Convert ICO to MTS

1. Upload Your ICO File: Drag and drop your .ico onto the page or click "+ Add Files" to browse. You can queue several icons at once and convert them with the same settings.
2. Set the Duration: Open Image Duration and use the Duration control to choose how long the icon is held on screen — from a single frame up to 10 seconds, with a 5-second default. This is the full length of your finished clip, since nothing moves.
3. Choose a Resolution and Background Color: Under Video resolution, keep the icon's original size or pick a Fixed or Preset resolution to scale it up; set the Background Color (default Black) to fill any area around a non-matching aspect ratio. The codec stays on H.264 by default, which is what AVCHD tools expect.
4. Convert and Download: Click "Convert" and save the silent .MTS file. No sign-up, no watermark.

Walk-through: Picking a Resolution That Doesn't Look Blocky

A single image inside an ICO file is at most 256×256 pixels in standard use — Microsoft has allowed larger images since Windows Vista but does not recommend it, so most icons top out at 256×256 or smaller (16×16, 32×32, and 48×48 are common). That is far below an HD video frame, so the resolution choice is what decides whether your .MTS looks crisp or pixelated. The converter cannot invent detail that isn't in the icon, so the realistic outcome is that the icon sits small-but-sharp at its native size, or fills the frame but looks soft.

• If you only need a small placeholder clip: leave Video resolution on "Keep original." The frame matches the icon, the file stays tiny, and there is no upscaling blur.
• If the .MTS must fill a 720p or 1080p frame: pick a Preset resolution such as 1280×720 (HD) or 1920×1080 (Full HD). The icon is scaled up, so expect soft or blocky edges — a 32×32 icon stretched to 1920×1080 is being enlarged about 60×. Start from the largest image the ICO contains (ideally 256×256) for the cleanest result.
• If the icon's shape doesn't match the target frame (a square icon in a 16:9 video): the Background Color fills the empty bars on the sides. Black is the default; match it to your icon's background if you want it to blend.

Common Errors and How to Fix Them

• "The video looks blocky or blurry" — You scaled a small icon up to a large frame. Re-export with Video resolution closer to the icon's real size, or start from an ICO that contains a 256×256 image.
• "There are colored bars around the icon" — The icon is square and the video frame is widescreen. This is expected; set the Background Color to blend the bars, or choose a square Fixed resolution that matches the icon.
• "My AVCHD editor or authoring tool won't import the file" — Leave the codec on the H.264 default. H.264 is the codec the AVCHD specification is built around; H.265 produces a smaller file but is not part of the AVCHD spec and is commonly rejected by AVCHD-era tools.
• "The clip is too short or too long" — Adjust the Duration control under Image Duration; it sets exactly how long the still icon is held, and that is the whole runtime.
• "The .MTS has no sound" — That's correct. A still icon has no audio, so the output is silent by design even though AVCHD itself carries an audio track.

When This Doesn't Work

If you actually want motion — an animated logo or a sequence of frames — converting a single static ICO won't produce it, because the source has no animation. For a moving result, build the video from real frames instead: convert a set of stills with PNG to MP4. If you only need the icon as a larger flat image rather than video, use ICO to PNG — though the same upscaling limit applies, since a 256×256 icon has no extra detail to recover. And if you do not specifically need the legacy .MTS extension, ICO to MP4 gives you the same still-as-video in a smaller file that plays almost everywhere. Corrupted or non-standard ICO files (some favicons are PNG or GIF data renamed to .ico) may also fail; re-save the icon from an image editor and try again.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is my ICO-to-MTS video so small or low resolution?

Because an ICO holds small images — at most 256×256 pixels in standard use, and often just 16×16 or 32×32. The .MTS inherits that size unless you upscale it under Video resolution, and stretching a tiny icon to 720p or 1080p will look soft because the converter cannot add detail the icon never had. For the sharpest result, use an ICO that contains a 256×256 image and avoid enlarging beyond it.

Does the MTS actually move, or is it a still image?

It's a still image held for the duration you set. A standard ICO is a static icon with no animation, so the output is a single fixed frame shown for several seconds, not a moving clip. In our testing, a 256×256 icon set to a 5-second hold produced a silent .MTS of one unchanging frame for the full five seconds.

Is MTS the same as M2TS, and which should I use?

.MTS and .m2ts are the same AVCHD transport stream. AVCHD camcorders write the file as .MTS, and the identical stream is referred to as .m2ts once it is imported to a computer or written to a Blu-ray disc — you can rename one to the other without re-encoding. Choose .MTS here only when an AVCHD-era editor or authoring tool specifically expects that extension; otherwise the same video fits more conveniently in an MP4.

Which codec should I leave it on for an AVCHD workflow?

Leave it on the H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC) default. H.264 is the codec the AVCHD specification — developed by Sony and Panasonic in 2006 for HD camcorders — is built around, so it imports most cleanly into AVCHD editors and authoring templates and plays on the widest range of older hardware. H.265 makes a smaller file but is not part of the AVCHD spec and is commonly refused by AVCHD-era tools.

Will this play off an SD card like a real camcorder clip?

Not as a card structure. What you download is the bare transport stream — the part that lives inside an AVCHD card's BDMV/STREAM/ folder — without the playlist and clip-information files a camcorder writes alongside it. Copying it onto an SD card will not reproduce a browsable AVCHD volume. It does play in software players like VLC and imports into AVCHD-aware editors and authoring tools that build the surrounding structure for you.

What happens to my icon after I convert it?

Your ICO is uploaded over an encrypted connection, processed on our servers, and deleted automatically a few hours after the conversion. There is no sign-up, no watermark, and your files are never shared or made public.