TS to AIFC Converter

How to Convert TS to AIFC Online

1. Upload Your TS File: Drag and drop your .ts recording (DVR clips, IPTV captures, camcorder AVCHD streams) onto the page, or click "+ Add Files" to browse. Batch upload is supported — settings apply to every file.
2. Pick the AIFC Audio Codec: TS containers carry AC-3, AAC, or MPEG-1 Layer 2 audio; converting to AIFC re-wraps that into Apple's compressed AIFF container. Default output is signed 16-bit big-endian PCM (NONE). For smaller files at telephony quality, pick G.711 µ-law or A-law from the codec list.
3. Adjust Audio Channel and Sample Rate (Optional): Leave both as "Original" to preserve the source, or downmix to Mono and set Sample Rate to 44100 Hz (CD), 48000 Hz (broadcast), or 8000 Hz (voice). Use the Trim controls to clip a specific start time and duration if you only need a portion of the recording.
4. Convert and Download: Click "Convert". Files are processed on our servers and held for a few hours, then deleted. No sign-up, no watermark, no email required.

Why Convert TS to AIFC?

A .ts file is an MPEG-2 Transport Stream — a packetised container designed for broadcast and IPTV that ATSC, DVB, and Blu-ray all use. AIFC (Audio Interchange File Format — Compressed) is Apple's 1991 extension of AIFF that adds optional compression codecs while keeping AIFF's big-endian chunk structure intact. Pulling the audio out of a transport stream and writing it as AIFC gives you a single self-contained audio file that Apple's pro audio tools handle natively.

• Logic Pro and Final Cut Pro projects — Logic and Final Cut import AIFF/AIFC directly via Apple Loops, with markers and instrument metadata preserved in the chunk structure. Re-wrapping a TS recording's audio as AIFC sidesteps the transport-stream demuxing step inside the app.
• GarageBand and Soundtrack libraries — drop the AIFC file into a GarageBand audio track or save it to ~/Library/Audio/Apple Loops for tagging and reuse across sessions.
• Archive broadcast captures — DVB and ATSC recordings often contain AC-3 surround audio at 384-448 kbps; converting to AIFC with 16-bit PCM preserves the waveform exactly while removing the AC-3 dependency for long-term storage on macOS.
• Smaller-than-WAV on macOS — AIFC with G.711 µ-law cuts file size to roughly one-quarter of an uncompressed 16-bit stereo AIFF (8-bit logarithmic samples at 8 kHz), useful for voicemail-style archives where 8 kHz speech fidelity is enough.
• Voice-over and dialogue extraction — strip the audio track from a TS news capture or webinar recording for transcription, podcast re-edit, or accessibility caption work.

TS vs AIFC — Format Comparison

AIFC Codec Quick Guide

G.711 µ-law is the North American/Japanese telephony standard; A-law is the European/international standard. Both encode 14-bit dynamic range into 8-bit samples — fine for speech, not for music.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why convert TS to AIFC instead of AIFF or WAV?

AIFC is AIFF — same FORM container, same big-endian chunk layout — with one extra field in the Common chunk that names a compression codec. If you pick the NONE codec, an AIFC file is byte-equivalent to an uncompressed AIFF and macOS treats them identically. The reason to choose AIFC specifically is when you want compressed audio (G.711 µ-law/A-law for speech) inside Apple's preferred audio container, or when a downstream tool (older Logic projects, Apple Loops library, Soundtrack Pro) expects the .aifc extension.

Will my TS file's AC-3 5.1 surround track be preserved?

No — AIFC does not carry multichannel AC-3. The conversion decodes AC-3 to PCM and downmixes to the channel layout you select (Stereo by default, or Mono). If you need to keep the 5.1 surround intact, choose a video container that supports AC-3 instead — converting TS to MP4 keeps the audio and video together and is more permissive about multichannel codecs than AIFC.

My TS file is several gigabytes — will it upload?

Long DVR or IPTV captures often run 4-8 GB. Conversion happens on our servers and large transport-stream files take longer to upload than the audio extraction itself takes to run. If you only need a portion of the recording, set a Trim start time and duration in step 3 before clicking Convert — the server can seek into the stream and process only the requested segment, which is faster than uploading the full file.

Why is the AIFC output so much smaller than an AIFF would be?

If you picked one of the G.711 codecs (µ-law or A-law), AIFC stores each sample as an 8-bit logarithmic value instead of a 16-bit linear sample, which cuts the byte count roughly in four. If you picked NONE and the file is still smaller than a comparable AIFF, the most likely reason is that the source TS audio was mono or recorded at a sample rate below 44.1 kHz — broadcast TV audio is often 48 kHz stereo but news and webinar captures are sometimes 32 kHz or 22.05 kHz mono.

Does Windows Media Player or VLC on Windows play AIFC?

VLC plays AIFC on Windows reliably for PCM and G.711 variants. Windows Media Player has inconsistent AIFC support and often falls back to "format not supported" for compressed AIFC. If your audience is mostly Windows, convert TS to WAV or convert TS to MP3 instead — both have universal Windows playback.

What's the difference between .aif, .aiff, and .aifc?

.aif and .aiff are interchangeable extensions for the original 1988 Apple AIFF format, which is uncompressed PCM only. .aifc is the 1991 compressed variant; the container reports AIFC in its form-type field instead of AIFF. macOS and most audio editors treat all three extensions as the same file family, but some older tools key off the extension specifically — if a script or DAW rejects .aifc, try converting AIFC to AIFF (which just changes the form type to AIFF and forces the NONE codec).

Can I extract only the audio without re-encoding it?

Not when going to AIFC. AIFC's codec list (PCM, G.711 µ-law/A-law, IEEE float) does not include AC-3 or AAC, so the audio must be decoded to PCM and then optionally re-encoded to µ-law/A-law on the AIFC side. The conversion is still lossless for PCM output — decoding AC-3 once to 16-bit PCM and writing it to AIFC preserves the full audible result, but it is not a bit-for-bit copy of the source codec.

Is AIFC actually used by anyone today?

It's a legacy format, but Apple's pro audio tooling still produces and consumes it. Apple Loops in Logic Pro and GarageBand are technically AIFC files with extra chunks for tempo and key metadata. Final Cut Pro and Compressor write AIFC for archive-quality audio exports. Outside the Apple ecosystem, FLAC and WAV dominate — if you don't specifically need AIFC for an Apple workflow, convert TS to AIFF for uncompressed Apple-native or convert TS to MP3 for portability is usually a better choice.