Turn TS files into WAV
Pull the sound out of your TS and keep it as a WAV, leaving the picture behind. A TS file is what TV tuners, camcorders and streaming downloads produce, often arriving as several chunks. The practical difference is that the result opens anywhere, which TS files do not. Your file never leaves your computer.
How to convert TS to WAV
- 1 Drop your TS .ts or .mts or .m2ts file onto the page, or click to browse for it.
- 2 Choose the sound quality, or lift the existing track out untouched where that is possible.
- 3 Convert. The work happens on your own machine, so how long it takes depends on your computer and the file.
- 4 Download the WAV, or add more files and do the whole set in one go.
Why convert TS to WAV
- A TS will not open in a browser, so anything going onto a web page, into a document or into a message has to become a WAV first.
- You only want the sound: a lecture, an interview, a podcast that was filmed, or a track to listen to with the screen off.
- You want a copy that will not get any worse each time you edit and save it, and WAV gives you that.
- Exactly as recorded, with nothing to unpack before it plays.
- Universally readable by audio software.
TS compared with WAV
How the two formats differ on the things that decide whether a conversion is worth making.
| Property | TS | WAV |
|---|---|---|
| File extension | .ts | .wav |
| Compression | Lossy | Uncompressed |
| Typical file size | Smaller | Largest |
| Browser support | No browser support | Every browser |
| Introduced | 1995 | 1991 |
| Developed by | ISO/IEC MPEG | Microsoft and IBM |
Quality and what changes
Whether anything is lost depends on the codec. If the track already matches the target, it can be copied out untouched and the audio is bit for bit what was in the TS. Choosing a different codec means decoding and re-encoding, which is a second generation of lossy compression on top of whatever the video already applied. Encoding at 192 kbps or above keeps that second generation inaudible for most material.
- One WAV limitation to keep in mind: roughly ten times the size of a good MP3.
Questions about TS to WAV
Does converting TS to WAV improve the quality?
No. WAV preserves what it is given perfectly, including the compression artefacts already present in the TS. It stops further loss from happening, which is worth doing before editing, but it cannot recover detail that was discarded.
Why is my WAV bigger than the TS?
Because TS was discarding data and WAV is not. A lossless format has to write out every pixel it is handed, artefacts included, so growing several times over is normal and does not mean anything went wrong.
Does extracting the audio re-encode it?
Only when the target codec differs from the one in the TS. Where they match, the track is copied and the result is identical to the audio inside the video. Converting to a different codec means one extra generation of lossy compression.
Is my TS file uploaded anywhere?
No. The whole thing runs inside the browser tab you already have open. Your TS is read straight from your own disk, converted on your machine and handed back as a WAV. Nothing is sent anywhere, nothing is stored and there is no account.
Is there a file size limit?
There is no server-side limit because no server sees the file. The real ceiling is your device memory, since the input and the output both have to fit in the tab. A few hundred megabytes is usually fine on a desktop machine and considerably less on a phone.
Can I convert several TS files at once?
Yes. Add as many as you like and they are processed one after another, then offered as separate WAV downloads or as a single ZIP. Speed depends on your own processor rather than on a queue.
Does the converter work offline?
Yes, after the page has loaded once. The engine is cached by the browser, so you can disconnect, reload and keep converting. That falls out of doing the work locally rather than being a separate mode you switch on.