Convert 3GP to TS (MPEG-TS) Online
Convert legacy mobile 3GP videos (H.263, MPEG-4 Part 2) to MPEG Transport Stream for IPTV and broadcast, free, in your browser.
.3gp · up to 100 MB
What it's for
Legacy mobile 3GP to TS: your Nokia and Sony Ericsson videos for IPTV
H.263/MPEG-4 Part 2 to H.264 in TS
Re-encoding from legacy mobile codecs to H.264 compatible with IPTV, broadcast and modern players.
Nokia, Sony Ericsson and 3G phones on TV
Play your Nokia N-series and Sony Ericsson 3GP memories on any TV with IPTV.
Mobile archive for IPTV and DLNA
Integrate your 3G-era personal video collection into your home IPTV infrastructure or DLNA system.
No servers, 100% private
Your personal memories are processed locally with FFmpeg.wasm. They never leave your device.
How it works
Three steps, no hassle
Upload your 3GP file
Drag or select the .3gp from your Nokia, Sony Ericsson, or 2003–2010 era phone archive. Up to 500 MB, no signup.
3GP to TS conversion in the browser
FFmpeg.wasm re-encodes H.263/MPEG-4 Part 2 to H.264 and AMR/AAC to AAC, packaging into 188-byte MPEG-TS. No uploads.
Download the TS for IPTV or broadcast
Transport stream ready for home IPTV retransmission, DLNA distribution, or digital archive preservation.
FAQ
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3GP (Third Generation Partnership Project) is a multimedia container format defined by the 3GPP (the mobile telecommunications standards consortium) in 2000 as part of video standards for 3G networks. It was designed specifically for the limitations of 2G/3G era mobile phones: limited storage capacity (32–64 MB MMC cards), slow processors, and the bandwidth restrictions of GPRS and UMTS (3G) networks. Its main video codecs are H.263 (the ITU-T videoconferencing codec, adapted for mobiles) and MPEG-4 Part 2 (the same DivX/Xvid-era codec, in Simple profile). The audio codec is AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate), designed for voice in telecommunications, with 8 kHz sample rates producing telephone-quality audio. Nokia Series 60, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, and Motorola phones of the 2003–2010 era used 3GP as the default video recording format.
3GP's incompatibility with IPTV has multiple technical causes. The 3GP container is a variant of the MP4 container (ISO/IEC 14496-12), but with codecs incompatible with MPEG-TS: H.263 and MPEG-4 Part 2 are not included in the standard MPEG-TS profiles defined by the DVB Project for European broadcast. The AMR audio codec is specific to mobile telecommunications and is not supported in any IPTV or broadcast profile. Hardware IPTV players (MAG, Formuler, Enigma2) do not include 3GP support. TVHeadend, the reference IPTV server, does not process 3GP either. 3GP-to-TS conversion requires re-encoding both video (H.263/MPEG-4 Part 2 to H.264) and audio (AMR to AAC) to produce a valid broadcast IPTV TS.
The quality of 3GP videos is intrinsically limited by the hardware constraints of phones of the era. Typical resolutions are 176×144 (QCIF, the 3GP standard for basic mobiles), 320×240 (QVGA, Nokia N-series phones from 2006–2008), and occasionally 640×480 (VGA, the most advanced phones at the end of the 3GP era). Bitrates are extremely low: 64–256 kbps for video and 8–12 kbps for AMR audio. The resulting H.264 in the TS preserves this limited quality without degrading it further, but cannot improve what doesn't exist in the source. 3GP-to-TS conversion is worth it for digital preservation of the personal mobile video archive from the 2003–2010 era, for viewing on TV via home IPTV systems, and for cataloguing in professional digital asset management systems.
AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) is the audio codec designed for voice in GSM and UMTS mobile telecommunications. It has sample rates of 8 kHz (AMR-NB, Narrow Band) or 16 kHz (AMR-WB, Wide Band), both far below the standard 44.1 kHz of high-quality audio. The result is telephone-quality audio: intelligible but very limited in musical or ambient audio fidelity. FFmpeg.wasm re-encodes AMR-NB/WB to AAC-LC 128 kbps (rather than 192 kbps, since an 8–16 kHz source doesn't justify a higher bitrate in the output). The resulting AAC-LC in the TS is compatible with all IPTV players, though audible quality remains that of the original AMR audio, limited by the original mobile recording.
Yes, and it's probably the most common use case for this tool. Nokia N-series phones (N70, N73, N80, N95) and Sony Ericsson phones of the 2005–2008 era produced 3GP videos at 176×144 or 320×240 that preserve personal memories of historical and sentimental value. Converting them to TS allows playback on any TV via an IPTV player (Kodi, VLC, smart IPTV player) or home DLNA system. The resulting H.264 TS can be upscaled to 1080p by the TV's interpolation, though the original source is low resolution. For optimal TV viewing experience, a player with good scaling capability is recommended (Kodi on Raspberry Pi, Shield TV, or similar) that can upscale 176×144 to the TV's native resolution.
3G2 (also written .3g2) is the variant of the 3GP container defined by 3GPP2, the CDMA network standards consortium (used primarily in the US, Japan, South Korea, and Latin America in the 2003–2012 period). CDMA phones such as Motorola RAZR, Samsung SCH-series, and CDMA-era models from Verizon/Sprint in the US used 3G2. The codecs in 3G2 are the same as in 3GP (H.263, MPEG-4 Part 2 for video; AMR, AAC for audio), so the technical conversion is identical. If you have .3g2 files, the tool processes them the same way as .3gp.
Convert 3GP to TS: Nokia and Sony Ericsson mobile videos for IPTV, broadcast and DLNA distribution
The 3GP (Third Generation Partnership Project) format was the standard video format for mobile phones roughly between 2003 and 2012, defined by the 3GPP in Release 4 of its technical specifications (3GPP TS 26.234). Nokia Series 60, Sony Ericsson Cybershot and Walkman, Samsung, Motorola, LG, and virtually all camera-capable phones of the 2G/3G era generated 3GP files using H.263 or MPEG-4 Part 2 codecs for video and AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate, the GSM/UMTS mobile voice codec designed to perform well at as little as 4.75 kbps) for audio. These files represent the personal video archive of an entire generation: birthdays, concerts, parties, and everyday moments recorded on Nokia N70, N73, N80, N95 (the iconic first N-Series smartphone with a 5-megapixel camera, launched in 2007), Sony Ericsson K750i, K800i Cybershot, W800i Walkman, and the first Samsung camera-enabled models between 2003 and 2010. This personal mobile video archive has irreplaceable sentimental and historical value, yet is completely incompatible with modern playback infrastructure: IPTV players don't support 3GP, smart TVs don't natively play it, digital signage and broadcast systems don't process it, and streaming platforms such as Plex and Jellyfin require active transcoding to display it. 3GP-to-MPEG-TS conversion is the definitive modernisation step to rescue this personal digital heritage and make it fully playable on any modern screen. With the widespread transition to Android and iOS smartphones from 2010 to 2012, the 3GP format became completely obsolete — but the files accumulated on hard drives from that era remain irreplaceable as personal documents of a time before the smartphone revolution fully took hold.
The technical conversion of 3GP to MPEG-TS involves complete re-encoding of all streams, as 3GP codecs are incompatible with the standard broadcast MPEG-TS profiles defined by the DVB Project and 3GPP. For video, H.263 (the ITU-T videoconferencing codec, originally published in 1995 and updated in 1998, adopted in 3GP because it was the only video codec that the ARM processors of 2000–2005 mobile phones could decode in real time) and MPEG-4 Part 2 (the same base codec as DivX/Xvid, in Simple profile for mobiles, used in the more advanced 3GP-era phones such as Nokia N-Series from 2006 onwards) are re-encoded to H.264 with libx264 and CRF 23. Typical 3GP resolutions (QCIF 176×144, QVGA 320×240, VGA 640×480) are fully preserved in the resulting TS without artificial upscaling that would mask the original resolution: what the Nokia recorded is what you'll have in the TS. For audio, AMR-NB (8 kHz, rates of 4.75 to 12.2 kbps) and AMR-WB (16 kHz, rates of 6.6 to 23.85 kbps) are re-encoded to AAC-LC 128 kbps, sufficient for the limited quality of the AMR source without wasting space with a higher bitrate. The H.264+AAC combination in TS produces a file perfectly compatible with all modern IPTV infrastructure, at the resolution and quality permitted by the original 3G-era mobile source video. For 3GP files with AAC audio (some advanced models like the Nokia N95 could record AAC audio directly), audio stream copy is used without re-encoding, preserving the original quality. The tool also supports 3G2 (.3g2) files — the sister format defined by 3GPP2 for CDMA networks — using the same conversion pipeline since the codec set is identical.
Convertir.ai executes 3GP-to-MPEG-TS conversion entirely in the browser via FFmpeg.wasm, without uploading files to any external server and processing data exclusively on the local device. This is especially important for personal videos of an intimate or family nature — the most private content that exists — whose privacy is guaranteed because processing is 100% local and never leaves the user's device. The resulting TS uses the standard 188-byte-per-packet structure with correctly formed PAT and PMT tables, and is compatible with Kodi for TV playback via IPTV Simple or the local media library, Plex and Jellyfin for organising and playing personal video libraries across the home network, VLC for DLNA streaming on the home network to any compatible smart TV or player, and TVHeadend for those who want to integrate personal videos into a themed home IPTV channel. It also supports 3G2 (.3g2), the sister format to 3GP used by North American CDMA phones of the same era (Motorola RAZR, Samsung SCH-series, Verizon/Sprint models). For users looking to digitise and modernise their Nokia and Sony Ericsson era personal mobile video archive, or for digital archivists and conservators working with legacy mobile video collections from the 2000s, this tool provides the necessary conversion without installing any additional software and with total privacy guaranteed. No account registration is required, there are no usage limits, and the conversion works offline once the page has loaded. For users who want to play their Nokia videos on a modern TV via Kodi or a hardware IPTV player, this TS output is the perfect starting point — and the entire process takes less than a minute for typical short mobile clips from the 3GP era.