TIFF to TS Converter

How to Convert TIFF to TS Online

1. Upload Your TIFF Files: Click "Add Files" or drag and drop TIFF or TIF images. Multi-image upload builds a single TS slideshow or one TS per image, your choice. Batch is supported.
2. Pick Merge Strategy, Codec and Duration: Default is "Merge images" with H.264 video and AAC audio — the standard pairing for broadcast TS. Switch Merge Strategy to "Video per image" if you need one TS file per TIFF. Under Video Codec, pick H.265/HEVC for smaller files on modern HLS players, or MPEG-2 for legacy DVB or ATSC broadcast hardware that requires it. Set Duration (per image) anywhere from 1/60 second up to 10 seconds.
3. Tune Quality, Resolution and Background (Optional): Under Quality Preset, choose Very High (recommended), High, Medium, Low or Lowest, or switch to Constant Quality (CRF 0-51 for H.264/H.265) for predictable per-frame quality. Set Video Resolution to a preset (4K 2160p, 1080p, 720p, 480p) or enter a custom Width x Height. Set Background Color (Black is default; 20+ colors available) for the letterbox bars when your TIFF aspect ratio doesn't match the video frame.
4. Convert and Download: Click Convert. Files are uploaded over an encrypted connection, processed on our servers, and deleted automatically after a few hours — no sign-up, no watermark, never shared.

Why Convert TIFF to TS?

TIFF (Tagged Image File Format, Adobe revision 6.0, June 1992) is a flexible raster container used by scanners, GIS systems, medical imaging and print workflows. TS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream, ISO/IEC 13818-1, standardized in 1995) is a packet-based video container — 188-byte packets with sync bytes — designed for environments where bits get dropped: terrestrial broadcast, satellite, IPTV, and HLS. Turning a stack of TIFFs into a TS gives you a slideshow that plays inside the broadcast and streaming pipelines that won't touch a JPG, PNG or MP4.

• HLS segment preparation — Apple's HTTP Live Streaming spec recommends 6-second segments, with TS as the original (and still common) segment container. A TIFF slideshow encoded directly to TS slots into an.m3u8 playlist without a remux step.
• Digital signage and IPTV head-ends — Many older signage players and IPTV middleware accept TS over UDP/multicast natively but reject MP4 or MOV. A TIFF-to-TS pipeline is the shortest path from scanned poster or product photo to on-screen content.
• Broadcast contribution feeds — Studio playout systems and SDI-over-IP gateways expect MPEG-TS with H.264 or MPEG-2 video and AAC/AC-3 audio. Use H.264 + AAC for ATSC 1.0 or DVB; H.265 for ATSC 3.0; MPEG-2 + MP2 for legacy SD broadcast chains.
• Time-lapse from scanned negatives or microscopy stacks — Set Duration to 1/24 or 1/30 second and a sequence of TIFFs becomes a 24fps or 30fps time-lapse. TIFF preserves the 16-bit-per-channel data many scientific cameras output before any quantization to 8-bit video happens.
• Archive playout — Newsroom MAM systems and library archive servers often store stills as TIFF but require playout in TS. Converting once at ingest avoids on-the-fly transcoding during live shows.
• Multiplex-friendly delivery — A TS file can carry video, multiple audio tracks and PSI tables in one stream. If you need to drop a TIFF slideshow into a multi-program transport stream, encoding directly to TS skips the demux/remux dance.

TIFF vs TS — Format Comparison

Codec and Container Quick Guide

Frequently Asked Questions

Why convert TIFF directly to TS instead of going through MP4?

Because TS is the container HLS, IPTV and broadcast pipelines actually consume. MP4 is an ISO Base Media file optimized for random access on disk; TS is a packetized stream optimized for lossy transmission. Going TIFF → MP4 → TS means an extra remux that can mis-stamp PTS/DTS timestamps, drop CEA-608/708 captions or break PCR continuity. Encoding straight to TS keeps the timestamps clean.

What codec should I pick for HLS streaming?

H.264 (High profile) + AAC-LC is the safe default — it works with every HLS player on Safari, iOS, Android, Chrome, Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV, smart TVs. Use H.265/HEVC only if your target players are confirmed HEVC-capable; HEVC-in-TS isn't accepted by some older smart TVs and game consoles. Apple's HLS authoring spec lists both as valid.

Will the converter create an.m3u8 playlist too?

No — this page outputs a single.ts file. To split that.ts into HLS segments and generate an.m3u8 playlist, you'll need an HLS packager like ffmpeg's hls_time option, Bento4, or Shaka Packager. The.ts produced here is the source media those packagers consume.

Does this accept multi-page TIFFs?

Each uploaded file is treated as one image, and multi-page TIFFs read the first page only. To use every page of a multi-page TIFF as separate frames, extract the pages first (Photoshop, ImageMagick convert input.tif -scene 1 page-%d.tif) and upload the resulting individual TIFFs.

How do I make a time-lapse from a TIFF sequence?

Upload your sequential TIFFs, set Merge Strategy to "Merge images", and set Duration (per image) to 1/24 second for 24fps, 1/30 for 30fps, 1/60 for 60fps. Total length = number of images divided by frame rate. 240 TIFFs at 1/24 = 10 seconds.

Why is Trim disabled on this page?

Trim cuts a section out of an existing video timeline. Image-to-video conversions don't have a source timeline to cut from — you build the timeline by uploading images and setting Duration. To shorten the output, upload fewer images or reduce Duration; to lengthen it, do the opposite.

What's the difference between TS, M2TS and MTS?

All three are MPEG-2 Transport Stream containers. Plain.ts uses 188-byte packets and is the broadcast/HLS standard..m2ts and.mts add a 4-byte timestamp prefix to each packet (192-byte packets total) and are the AVCHD/Blu-ray variants used by Sony, Panasonic and Canon camcorders. If your target is HLS or broadcast, use.ts. If your target is a Blu-ray authoring tool or an AVCHD camcorder workflow, try TIFF to MTS or the M2TS equivalent.

Does H.265 in a.ts file play everywhere?

No. HEVC-in-TS is supported on iOS 11+, Safari 11+, ATSC 3.0 set-top boxes, recent Roku/Apple TV/Fire TV, and most 2018+ smart TVs. It is not reliably supported on older HLS players, many game consoles before PS5/Xbox Series X, or browsers without hardware HEVC support (Chrome, Firefox don't decode HEVC by default on most platforms). Stick to H.264 if compatibility matters more than file size.

Can I convert TIFF to MP4 here instead?

Yes — use TIFF to MP4 for general-purpose video where MP4 is the right container (web embed, social, editing). Use TIFF to TS only when your downstream system specifically requires transport stream input. Related: TIFF to MPEG for plain MPEG-1/-2 program stream output, and JPG to TS if you're starting from JPEGs instead.