TS to F4V Converter

How to Convert TS to F4V Online

1. Upload Your TS File: Drag and drop or click "+ Add Files" to select one or more .ts files from your computer. Batch upload is supported, so you can queue several recordings — DVB-T captures, HLS segment dumps, or Blu-ray rips — and convert them in one pass.
2. Pick Video Codec and Quality Preset: Default Video Codec is H.264 with AAC audio — the only video/audio pair the F4V container officially supports. Under File Compression, pick a Quality Preset (Very High is the default), set a Specific file size in MB, or fine-tune with Constant Bitrate / Variable Bitrate / Constant Quality (CRF).
3. Resize, Trim, or Set Background (Optional): Pick a Preset Resolution (up to 1080p), scale by Resolution Percentage, or set custom Width x Height. Use Trim "Time Range" to clip a start/duration in seconds. Background Color applies when padding letterboxed output.
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. Download the .f4v directly or send the whole batch to a ZIP.

Why Convert TS to F4V?

TS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream) is the broadcast/streaming container used by DVB-T, ATSC over-the-air capture, IPTV recorders, and HLS segment dumps. It's built around fixed 188-byte packets with error correction so a corrupted chunk doesn't kill the whole file — great for transmission, awkward for editing. F4V is Adobe's MP4-derived container (introduced December 3, 2007) built on the ISO base media file format (MPEG-4 Part 12); it shares the same H.264 + AAC backbone as MP4 but uses the .f4v extension expected by legacy Flash Media Server pipelines and older Adobe Animate / Captivate workflows.

• Feed legacy Adobe Flash Media Server / Wowza CDN pipelines — Some on-prem streaming stacks still expect the .f4v extension in their playlist manifests even after Flash Player itself was discontinued on December 31, 2020. Re-wrapping TS as F4V keeps existing playout configs intact without re-encoding.
• Salvage TV captures for Adobe Animate / Captivate import — Older versions of Adobe Animate (CS4 through CC 2015) accept F4V directly on the stage, while raw .ts from a tuner card usually fails the import check.
• Cut the broadcast multiplex down to one program — A typical DVB-T .ts carries an entire 6 MHz multiplex with multiple programs, EPG data, and PSIP tables. Converting to F4V demuxes to a single H.264 + AAC track, dropping unused PIDs and shrinking the file by 20-40% with no quality loss.
• Fix seek and trim issues in NLE timelines — Some non-linear editors choke on TS open-GOP structure mid-clip. F4V with a clean H.264 elementary stream and moov atom seeks frame-accurately in DaVinci Resolve, Premiere, and other MP4-aware editors.
• Replace the container without re-encoding the H.264 stream — When the source TS is already H.264 + AAC (most modern HD broadcasts and HLS), stream-copy to F4V keeps bitrate and quality identical while changing only the wrapper.
• Embed in archival LMS or e-learning packages — Some SCORM-era LMS packages and Articulate Storyline 2 / Captivate 9 projects shipped F4V players that won't accept other extensions; converting upstream avoids re-authoring the package.

TS vs F4V — Format Comparison

Codec & Quality Mode Guide

Frequently Asked Questions

Why convert TS to F4V if Adobe Flash Player is dead?

Flash Player itself shut down on December 31, 2020, but the F4V container outlived it. Legacy Flash Media Server / Adobe Media Server installations, older Wowza and Red5 origin servers, Adobe Animate / Captivate authoring tools, and a long tail of corporate LMS players still expect .f4v on disk. The container is just an MP4-derivative — the bytes inside are the same H.264 + AAC modern players use.

Will the conversion re-encode my H.264 stream and lose quality?

If your source TS already carries H.264 video and AAC audio (most HD broadcasts and HLS streams from the last decade do), xconvert can stream-copy the elementary streams into the F4V container with no re-encoding and no quality loss. If the source is MPEG-2 or AC-3 (older SD broadcasts), a transcode to H.264 + AAC is required and you'll see the usual generation-loss tradeoff — pick Very High quality preset to minimize it.

Can VLC or modern browsers play F4V files after conversion?

VLC plays F4V natively because it treats the file as an MP4 derivative. Most modern browsers will play F4V if you serve it with the video/mp4 MIME type — they ignore the extension and parse the ISO BMFF boxes directly. Hardware media players are hit-or-miss: Plex and Kodi will usually play F4V, but some smart TVs reject the unfamiliar extension. If broad device playback matters more than the .f4v filename, consider TS to MP4 instead.

My TS file has multiple audio tracks and subtitles — will they all transfer?

F4V is designed around a single video + single audio program (it inherits this from the early Flash playback model). The conversion picks the first or default audio track from the TS multiplex and drops the rest, along with any EIT/PSIP metadata, subtitle PIDs, and secondary programs. If you need to preserve multiple audio tracks, MP4 or MKV are better targets — F4V will silently drop them.

How big can my TS upload be?

XConvert processes files on its servers and deletes them automatically after a few hours. For comparison, Convertio caps free uploads at around 1 GB and Media.io applies similar tier limits. A typical hour of 1080i DVB-T at ~12 Mbps is about 5.4 GB — for files that size, processing locally in xconvert is faster than waiting for an upload.

What's the difference between F4V and FLV?

FLV is the older Flash Video container (added in Flash Player 7, 2003) and typically wraps Sorenson Spark or On2 VP6 video — codecs that pre-date H.264. F4V is the 2007 replacement built on ISO BMFF and standardizes on H.264 + AAC. F4V is a strict subset of MP4 capabilities; FLV is an entirely separate, older container. For any new work, F4V is the better Flash-era target.

Can I trim the TS file during conversion instead of re-cutting later?

Yes — expand Advanced Options, scroll to Trim, switch from Unchanged to Time Range, and set start (in seconds) and duration. This is a frame-accurate cut performed during the H.264 pipeline, so you avoid the keyframe-snap artifacts you'd get from a raw .ts cut in some editors. For longer broadcast captures, trimming first cuts conversion time proportionally.

Does converting to F4V make the file smaller than the TS source?

Often yes, by 20-40%, even at the same video bitrate. TS adds fixed-overhead 188-byte packet headers, PAT/PMT tables, EIT metadata, null padding to maintain constant transport rate, and sometimes a second program you don't need. F4V's ISO BMFF wrapper has near-zero overhead. If you also lower the video bitrate or switch from MPEG-2 to H.264, savings can exceed 60%.

What if I need MP4, MKV, or to compress the result?

xconvert has direct paths for TS to MP4, TS to MKV, and TS to FLV using the same H.264 pipeline. If your F4V is too large after conversion, run it through Compress TS on the source first to lower the bitrate, then re-wrap.