TS to OGA Converter

How to Convert TS to OGA Online

1. Upload Your TS File: Drag and drop your .ts transport stream onto the page, or click "+ Add Files" to select one or more from your computer. Batch is supported — queue several recordings at once and they convert with the same settings.
2. Pick Quality Preset (or Custom Bitrate): Default is Highest, which preserves the source bitrate. Drop to High, Medium, Low, or Lowest to shrink the file, or switch to Custom Bitrate for Constant Bitrate (e.g. 192 kbps) or Variable Bitrate. You can also target a Specific file size if you need to fit a hard cap.
3. Set Audio Channel, Sample Rate, and Trim (Optional): Leave Audio Channel and Audio Sample Rate at ORIGINAL to inherit from the source, or force Mono / Stereo and a fixed rate like 44100 Hz or 48000 Hz. Use Trim to keep a single segment by setting start time and duration.
4. Convert and Download: Click Convert. Your .oga audio file is ready when the progress bar finishes — no sign-up, no watermark, no install.

Why Convert TS to OGA?

TS (MPEG-2 Transport Stream) is a container for broadcast and capture: DVB, ATSC, IPTV recordings, and HDHomeRun / TVHeadend dumps all land as .ts. The video and audio are interleaved into 188-byte packets designed to survive bit errors on a satellite or cable link — useful for transport, but awkward for a music library where you only want the audio track. OGA is the Xiph.Org Foundation's recommended extension for audio-only Ogg files (since 2007), and it's a clean home for the underlying Vorbis, Opus, FLAC, or Speex bitstream stripped out of the transport stream.

• Strip audio from a TV or radio capture — pull the soundtrack off a recorded broadcast, podcast feed, or IPTV stream and keep just the audio track without re-encoding the video.
• Archive a long recording at a smaller size — a 2-hour MPEG-2 capture is often 4-8 GB; the same audio at 128-192 kbps Vorbis lands under 200 MB and plays on any Ogg-aware player.
• Open-format library — OGA is royalty-free and patent-unencumbered, unlike AAC in an .m4a wrapper. Useful if you publish under Creative Commons, distribute to Linux users, or want to avoid MPEG-LA licensing on bulk archives.
• Feed an audio-only workflow — Audacity, ffmpeg pipelines, podcast publishing tools, and game engines (Godot, Unity with plugins, Unreal) all accept Ogg audio natively, so converting once means the rest of your toolchain just works.
• Cleaner than .ogg for tagging — some media players and indexers still treat .ogg as ambiguous (audio or video). The .oga extension tells the OS and apps unambiguously that this is audio, which keeps your library tidy.
• Smaller than FLAC for casual listening — if your TS source was already lossy (broadcast usually is), there's no benefit to lossless storage. Vorbis at 160-192 kbps inside an .oga is usually transparent for spoken-word and most music.

TS vs OGA — Format Comparison

Quality Preset and Bitrate Guide

If your TS capture was already at a lower bitrate than the preset target, the output won't gain quality — pick a preset at or below the source rate to avoid wasting space. For lossless preservation, see the related TS to FLAC page instead.

Frequently Asked Questions

What's the difference between .oga and .ogg?

Both are Ogg containers from the Xiph.Org Foundation. Since 2007 Xiph has recommended that .ogg be reserved for Ogg Vorbis audio and .oga be used for any other audio-only Ogg stream (FLAC, Opus, Speex, OggPCM). In practice most desktop players and the Firefox/Chrome HTML5 audio element treat the two extensions interchangeably, but .oga is the technically correct label when you want unambiguous "this is audio."

Which codec does this converter put inside the .oga file?

By default, Vorbis — it's the most widely supported Ogg audio codec and what nearly every player expects when it sees .oga or .ogg. If you need Opus (better at low bitrates) or FLAC (lossless), pick those output formats directly from the related pages: TS to Opus or TS to FLAC.

Can I just demux the audio without re-encoding?

If the audio track inside your TS file is already MP2, AC-3, or AAC, those codecs aren't valid Ogg payloads — so a true demux-to-.oga isn't possible. The converter decodes the source audio and re-encodes to Vorbis (or your chosen Ogg codec). Expect a small generational loss, similar to going MP3 → Vorbis at the same bitrate. For lossless extraction without re-encoding, target a container that matches the original codec (e.g. TS to MP3 won't be lossless either — you'd need TS to AAC only if the source is AAC).

Will OGA play on iPhone or in Safari?

Safari and iOS do not include native Vorbis or Opus decoding in 2026 — Apple has historically declined to ship Xiph codecs in the OS. OGA plays in Firefox, Chrome, Edge, VLC, foobar2000, Audacity, and most Android players. If you need playback on Apple devices without a third-party app, convert to AAC/M4A or MP3 instead.

What sample rate and channel layout should I pick?

Leave both at ORIGINAL unless you have a reason to change them — that keeps the source's 48 kHz stereo (typical for ATSC / DVB) or 44.1 kHz stereo (typical for radio captures) intact. Forcing Mono cuts file size roughly in half and is fine for spoken-word. Picking 22050 Hz only makes sense for very low-bitrate voice; downsampling below 32 kHz audibly hurts music.

Why is my output .oga larger than I expected?

Two common reasons: you left the preset on Highest (which can land near the source bitrate) or your TS file had a high-bitrate AC-3 5.1 track that's being downmixed to stereo Vorbis at the same bitrate budget. Drop to High or Medium, or set a Custom Bitrate (e.g. 160 kbps CBR), and re-run. The Specific file size option lets you cap the output to an exact MB target.

Can I trim the recording before converting?

Yes. Expand the Trim controls, set a Start time and Duration, and only that segment is encoded. This is the easiest way to cut a commercial break, isolate a single song from a long radio capture, or shorten a 4-hour DVR file to a single show before producing the .oga.

Are my files private?

Files upload over HTTPS and are processed on xconvert servers, then deleted automatically. No account is required and we don't watermark or stamp the output. For media you can't upload at all, run a local tool like ffmpeg (ffmpeg -i input.ts -c:a libvorbis -q:a 5 output.oga) instead.