TS to WAV Converter

How to Convert TS to WAV Online

1. Upload Your TS File: Drag and drop or click "+ Add Files" to select one or more .ts files from your DVR, IPTV recording, HLS download, or camcorder capture. Batch conversion is supported.
2. Pick Quality Preset (Default Very High): Default is "Very High (Recommended)" which produces a 16-bit, 44.1 kHz PCM WAV. Switch to "Highest" to preserve the full dynamic range when archiving, or use "Custom Bitrate" / "Constant Bitrate" if you need to match a specific authoring target.
3. Set Audio Channel, Sample Rate, or Trim (Optional): Force Mono or Stereo (default is Original from the source stream), retarget the Audio Sample Rate (8000 Hz up to 48000 Hz, or leave at Original), and trim a start offset plus duration to extract only the audio segment you actually need.
4. Convert and Download: Click "Convert." Files are processed on our servers over HTTPS and deleted automatically — no sign-up, no watermark, no software install.

Why Convert TS to WAV?

An MPEG-TS (.ts) is a transport-stream container — the ISO/IEC 13818-1 format standardized in 1995 for broadcast, IPTV, and Blu-ray that wraps video plus one or more audio tracks (typically AAC, AC-3, MP2, or E-AC-3) into 188-byte packets. WAV is the opposite: an uncompressed PCM container that holds the raw audio sample-for-sample with no codec layer in between. Converting TS to WAV strips the video, demuxes the audio track, and re-encodes it as linear PCM so any DAW, editor, transcription tool, or analysis script can read it without the original codec dependency.

• Editing recorded broadcasts in a DAW — Audacity, Reaper, Pro Tools, and Logic all open WAV natively but reject TS containers. Convert a TV-recorded interview or podcast feed once and you can scrub, denoise, EQ, and master without VLC sitting in the middle of your workflow.
• Transcription and voice analysis — Whisper, Otter, Rev, and the Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API all accept WAV (16 kHz / 16-bit mono is the recommended ASR input). Whisper specifically resamples everything to 16 kHz internally, so converting TS to WAV at 16 kHz mono cuts upload size by ~6x versus 48 kHz stereo with zero accuracy loss.
• Archiving HLS / IPTV captures — .ts segments downloaded from HLS streams (each typically 2-10 seconds long) often arrive as concatenated chunks. Demuxing once to WAV gives you a single lossless master you can later re-encode to FLAC, MP3, or AAC without compounding generation loss.
• Importing AVCHD / camcorder audio — Sony, Panasonic, and Canon AVCHD camcorders write .ts (or .m2ts) clips. Audio tracks land in AC-3 or LPCM that some NLEs handle poorly on import — WAV is the universal fallback.
• Sampling and looping — Producers ripping radio drops, field recordings, or live-stream captures need a PCM source before slicing in Ableton, FL Studio, or MPC software. WAV preserves the bit-perfect signal sampling tools rely on.
• Long-term preservation — The Library of Congress lists WAVE (PCM) among preferred formats for sound archiving because it has no patent encumbrance and decodes losslessly without dependency on a specific codec.

TS vs WAV — Format Comparison

Bit Depth & Sample Rate Quick Guide

Tip: WAV uses the RIFF chunk header, which caps a single file at ~4 GB (32-bit size field). For longer recordings, output to RF64 / W64 or split into segments — typically only an issue beyond ~6 hours of 16-bit/44.1 kHz stereo.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why does my TS file have a video track if I only need audio?

TS is a transport-stream container designed to multiplex video and one or more audio tracks together — most .ts files originated from a recording of a TV broadcast, HLS stream, or AVCHD camcorder. Our converter demuxes the audio track and discards the video automatically, so you get a clean WAV with only the sound.

What sample rate and bit depth should I pick for transcription?

Use 16,000 Hz / 16-bit mono. OpenAI's Whisper resamples every input to 16 kHz internally, and Google Cloud Speech-to-Text recommends 16 kHz LINEAR16 mono as the optimal input. Anything higher just inflates the upload without improving accuracy. Pick "Mono" under Audio Channel and "16000Hz" under Audio Sample Rate.

Will WAV preserve all the audio quality from the TS file?

The conversion to WAV (PCM) is lossless, but the audio inside the TS is usually already lossy (AAC or AC-3 from a broadcast). You can't recover information that wasn't there — you can only preserve what is. WAV will not degrade the source further, but it also won't make a 128 kbps AAC broadcast sound like a CD master.

How do I extract only a 30-second segment from a long TS recording?

Use the Trim option under Advanced Options. Set the start time (e.g. 00:01:45.000) and duration (e.g. 00:00:30.000), then convert. The output WAV will contain only that range — useful for clipping the punchline from a recorded talk show or a single song from a radio capture without trimming in a separate editor afterward.

Why is my output WAV so much larger than the TS file?

Because TS audio is compressed (typically AAC or AC-3 at 128-384 kbps) and WAV is uncompressed PCM (1,411 kbps for 16-bit 44.1 kHz stereo, 2,304 kbps for 24-bit 48 kHz stereo). Expect ~10 MB per minute for CD-quality stereo WAV versus ~1-3 MB per minute for the source AAC track. If size matters, use TS to MP3 or TS to FLAC instead — FLAC gives you lossless compression at roughly half the WAV size.

Can I batch convert multiple TS files with the same settings?

Yes. Upload several .ts files at once and the quality preset, channel, sample rate, and trim settings apply to every file in the batch. Each finished WAV is downloaded individually or as a zip.

Does this work for .m2ts and .mts AVCHD files too?

Those are sibling formats (BDAV / AVCHD transport streams with longer 192-byte packets) but use separate xconvert pages: see MTS to WAV and M2TS to WAV. The conversion logic is the same — only the input extension differs.

What's the maximum TS file size I can upload?

The free tier is enforced per session rather than a hard byte cap published on the page — practically, multi-gigabyte broadcast recordings work. If a large transcoding job stalls, try splitting the source first or trim before converting to extract only the segment you need.

Do I need to install FFmpeg or any software?

No. The conversion runs server-side and the page is plain HTML/JS — works on Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari 14+ on macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, and Linux. If you'd rather work locally, FFmpeg's ffmpeg -i input.ts -vn -c:a pcm_s16le output.wav does the same job offline.