Image to TS Converter

How to Convert Images to TS Video Online

1. Upload Your Images: Click "+ Add Files" or drag and drop JPG, PNG, HEIC, WEBP, GIF, BMP, TIFF, PSD, or any of the 36 supported formats — including camera RAW (CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, DNG, ORF, RAF, RW2, PEF, X3F). Batch upload is supported, so you can build a slideshow from a whole shoot in one pass.
2. Pick a Merge Strategy: Choose "Merge images" to assemble every photo into a single MPEG-TS stream, or "Video per image" to emit one .ts file per source image (useful when you need individual HLS-ready segments).
3. Set Duration, Resolution, and Background Color (Optional): "Duration" controls how long each image holds — defaults to 5 seconds per frame, and goes from 1/60s (single-frame at 60fps) up to 10s. Use "Fixed Resolutions" or "Preset Resolutions" to pick 4K UHD, 1440p, 1080p, 720p, or social presets like 1080×1920 portrait; "Width (Keep aspect ratio)" preserves your input ratio. "Background Color" (default Black) fills letterbox bars when an image's aspect ratio doesn't match the canvas.
4. Set Quality and Convert: "Quality Preset" defaults to "Very High (Recommended)" with H.264 encoding. Click "Convert" and download your .ts file. No sign-up, no watermark.

Why Convert Images to TS?

MPEG-TS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream, ISO/IEC 13818-1) is a 188-byte packetized container designed for environments where bytes can be lost or the stream must be joinable mid-flight — terrestrial DVB and ATSC broadcast, satellite, IPTV, and HLS adaptive streaming over HTTP. Converting an image set straight to .ts produces a video that broadcast equipment, set-top boxes, and HLS packagers can ingest without remuxing.

If you just want a slideshow video file for YouTube, social, or email, convert images to MP4 instead — MP4 is smaller on disk and more universally accepted by consumer apps. Pick TS specifically when:

• HLS segment generation — you're building a manifest where each .ts segment must contain a single MPEG-2 program with a Program Association Table and Program Map Table per RFC 8216. Per-image .ts output gives you pre-segmented input for your packager.
• Digital signage and IPTV playlists — many signage players and IPTV middleware platforms accept .ts files but struggle with MP4's moov atom needing the whole file before playback. TS plays from any packet boundary.
• Concatenation without remuxing — TS streams concatenate cleanly with simple byte-level append (after PCR/PTS adjustment), so a "title card .ts + main video .ts + outro .ts" workflow is faster than re-encoding MP4.
• Broadcast and OTA testing — DVB-T, DVB-S, and ATSC test signals are typically loaded as TS; image-based test patterns and station IDs are common as TS slates.
• AVCHD-style camera ingest — some prosumer camcorders and security DVRs record .ts/.m2ts natively, and an image-to-TS slate matches their bitrate and packet structure for clean editing.

TS vs MP4 vs MKV — Container Comparison

Duration and Resolution Quick Guide

Frequently Asked Questions

What video codec does the output .ts file use?

H.264 (AVC) at the "Very High" quality preset by default. The TS container itself is codec-agnostic per ISO/IEC 13818-1 and supports H.264, H.265 (HEVC), MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, MPEG-1, and others — but H.264 is the right pick for almost every modern workflow because it's the codec mandated by HLS for TS segments and is universally hardware-decoded.

Why is there no audio track?

Source images contain no audio, so the converter doesn't fabricate a silent track. If your downstream player or broadcast server requires an audio PID, mux a silent AAC track in afterwards with a tool like FFmpeg, or convert the .ts and a separate audio file together with a video editor.

Can I use the output as HLS .ts segments directly?

For pre-segmented HLS, use "Video per image" so each .ts file becomes one segment, and pick a resolution and duration matching your manifest's EXT-X-TARGETDURATION (typically 2-6 seconds per Apple's HLS authoring guidance). You'll still need an HLS packager to write the .m3u8 playlist, set the EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE, and align timestamps — xconvert produces the segments, not the playlist.

Why is my .ts file larger than an equivalent MP4?

MPEG-TS adds a 4-byte header to every 188-byte packet for synchronization and PID metadata, plus periodic Program Association and Program Map Tables. That overhead is roughly 2-3% versus MP4's nearly-flat overhead. The tradeoff buys you packet-level error recovery and the ability to join the stream from any packet boundary — exactly what broadcast and HLS need.

What aspect ratios and resolutions should I pick for broadcast?

For ATSC (North America) and DVB (Europe) HD broadcast, use 1920×1080 at 16:9 — the converter exposes this as "Fixed Resolutions → 1920×1080". For SD legacy systems use 720×480 (NTSC) or 720×576 (PAL). For HLS adaptive streaming, generate multiple renditions: 1920×1080, 1280×720, and 854×480 are typical rungs.

Does it preserve image quality, or does H.264 compress my photos?

H.264 is lossy, so a 24-megapixel RAW will be downsampled to your chosen output resolution and re-encoded with quantization. The "Very High (Recommended)" preset produces visually transparent output for typical viewing, but if you need pixel-perfect frames pick "Constant Quality" mode. For lossless still-frame archival, TS is the wrong container — use a TIFF or PNG sequence instead.

How does this differ from converting images to MP4 then remuxing to TS?

Direct image-to-TS skips the intermediate MP4 file and the second muxing pass — fewer rounding errors on PTS/DTS timestamps, no moov atom to write and rewrite, and a single re-encode. If you already have an MP4 you're happy with, MP4 to TS is the faster path; if you're starting from images, going straight to .ts is cleaner.

Can I convert .ts back to MP4 later?

Yes — TS to MP4 does the inverse, and because both containers commonly carry H.264, the conversion can often be a stream copy with no re-encode and no quality loss.

What input formats are supported?

JPG/JPEG, PNG, HEIC/HEIF, WEBP, GIF (first frame), BMP, TIFF, ICO, JFIF, PPM, PSD, EPS, XCF, AVIF, ODD, ODG, PUB, plus camera RAW formats: 3FR (Hasselblad), ARW (Sony), CR2/CR3 (Canon), CRW, DCR, DNG (Adobe/Leica/Pentax), ERF, MOS, MRW, NEF (Nikon), ORF (Olympus), PEF (Pentax), RAF (Fujifilm), RW2 (Panasonic), and X3F (Sigma). 36 formats total per the converter's accepted-extensions list.