M2TS to DivX Converter

Convert M2TS to DivX Online

Turn an AVCHD camcorder or Blu-ray .m2ts clip into a DivX-encoded file that mid-2000s DivX-certified DVD players, set-top boxes, and in-car head units can read. DivX is an MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile codec — the same family as Xvid — and it exists on this page for one reason: hardware that was built before H.264 and will not touch an MP4. Everything else about the job is honest below, including the fact that the output file needs one small piece of care before some players will open it.

How to Convert M2TS to DivX

1. Upload Your M2TS File: Drag your .m2ts clip onto the page or click "+ Add Files". This page accepts the .m2ts extension only; camcorder cards that write .MTS have their own page at MTS to DivX. Queue several clips to run them all with the same settings.
2. Pick the Audio Codec: Video Codec offers DivX and nothing else here — that is the point of the page — but Audio Codec is a full dropdown starting on MP3, the pairing legacy DivX hardware expects. AC3, AAC, MP2, EAC3, DTS (DCA), FLAC, Vorbis, Speex, WMA, and 16/24/32-bit PCM are all selectable if your player's manual names one of them.
3. Set File Compression, Video Resolution, or Trim: Quality Preset starts on Very High (Recommended); Specific file size, Constant Bitrate, Variable Bitrate, Constant Quality, and Constraint Quality are the other rate-control modes. Video resolution starts on Keep original with presets from 4320p down to 144p — drop to 480p if your player is standard-definition. Trim → Time Range takes a start time and duration in seconds or HH:MM:SS.sss.
4. Convert and Download: Click "Convert" and save the file. Files upload over an encrypted connection, are processed on our servers, and are deleted automatically after a few hours — no sign-up, no watermark.

What You Actually Get: the .divx File Explained

The file that comes back carries a .divx extension and holds AVI bytes — the RIFF structure that DivX Media Format was built as an extension of. What it is not is a full DivX Media Format container with menus, multiple subtitle tracks, and chapter data; that authoring layer is not part of this conversion. In practice that matters in exactly one place: software and hardware that decide what to do with a file by looking at its extension. A DivX-certified player usually accepts .divx directly, but a desktop editor, a media server, or an older player that only whitelists .avi will refuse it until you rename it. Renaming clip.divx to clip.avi changes nothing about the contents and is the first thing to try if a device claims the file is unsupported.

M2TS vs DivX

Frequently Asked Questions

Is the .divx file I download a real DivX Media Format container?

Not the full authoring format. What you get is an AVI-structured file carrying DivX-encoded video, written out under the .divx extension — which is reasonable, since DivX Media Format was itself defined as an extension to AVI. What is missing is the DMF authoring layer that DivX 6 introduced: interactive menus, multiple selectable subtitle tracks, and chapter structures. For playing a camcorder clip on a certified player, none of that is needed. If you were expecting a menu-driven disc image, this is not the tool.

My player says the file is unsupported — should I rename it to .avi?

Yes, try that first. Plenty of players, media servers, and editors decide what a file is by its extension before they ever look inside, and .divx is not on every whitelist. Renaming clip.divx to clip.avi alters nothing in the file itself — the bytes are already an AVI structure — and it very often makes a stubborn device open it immediately. If the rename does not help, the problem is the profile rather than the extension: your player is probably standard-definition only, and needs the resolution dropped.

What devices actually play DivX files?

DivX-certified DVD players, Blu-ray players, standalone media boxes, and a good many mid-2000s-onward car head units, generally reading from a USB stick or a burned disc. Check the device or its manual for a DivX or Xvid logo — that certification is the reliable signal, not the file extension. Anything made in the last decade almost certainly prefers H.264 in an MP4, so DivX is worth choosing only when a specific older device is the destination.

Why isn't the DivX file much smaller than my M2TS?

Because DivX is not more efficient than what you started with. Your M2TS holds H.264, which needs roughly half the bitrate of MPEG-4 Part 2 for comparable quality, so re-encoding to DivX at the same resolution and a similar look generally costs more bits rather than fewer. Files do shrink when you also downscale — dropping 1080p to a 480p preset removes about three-quarters of the pixels — but that is the resolution doing the work, not the codec. If a smaller HD file is the actual goal, Compress M2TS keeps H.264 and shrinks it properly.

Can I choose a different video codec on this page?

No — Video Codec on the DivX page lists DivX alone, because picking anything else would make the .divx extension a lie. If you want the same legacy AVI-family target with a codec choice, M2TS to AVI exposes the full dropdown, including MPEG-4, Xvid, MS MPEG-4, H.264, MPEG-2, MJPEG, and HuffYUV, and writes a plain .avi file. Audio is a free choice on both pages.

What's the difference between DivX and Xvid?

They share ancestry and a decoding core. When DivX commercialised its encoding code, developers from the OpenDivX project forked off and started Xvid from that same encoder base, so both produce MPEG-4 Part 2 Advanced Simple Profile video. On the playback side they are largely interchangeable: a player certified for one usually reads the other without complaint. Choose based on what your device's spec sheet names — and if it names Xvid specifically, M2TS to Xvid writes that extension.

Do I need to downscale my 1080p AVCHD footage for an old DVD player?

Probably, yes. DivX certification is tiered, and the Home Theater profile — the one most set-top DVD players carry — tops out around 640×480 at 30 fps. Feed it a 1920×1080 file and it will typically stutter, refuse the file, or ignore it entirely. Open Video resolution, choose Preset Resolutions, and pick 480p or 360p; the preset sets the height and the width follows your clip's aspect ratio. If the player's manual quotes a maximum bitrate too, set Constant Bitrate to stay under it.

Why does my converted footage still show comb lines on movement?

Because the source is interlaced and this converter does not change that. AVCHD specifies 60i and 50i modes, and many consumer camcorders recorded 1080i straight out of the box. Each frame is woven from two fields captured moments apart, so anything moving shows comb teeth on a progressive display. There is no deinterlacing step anywhere in this pipeline — no preset enables one, and routing through MP4 or any other format first does not help, because the combing is already baked into the frames. Deinterlace in a desktop editor and convert the progressive export if it matters.

My files are named .MTS — and how long do you keep my upload?

.MTS and .m2ts are the same BDAV transport stream; the camcorder writes the short 8.3-style .MTS name on the card and the clip usually appears as .m2ts once copied to a computer. This page accepts .m2ts only, so send camcorder-named footage to MTS to DivX or rename the file — the contents are identical either way. Your upload travels over an encrypted connection, is processed on our servers, and is deleted automatically after a few hours, with no sign-up, no watermark, and no sharing. There is no fixed size cap; the practical limit is how long a large HD recording takes to upload.