BUP Converter

Extract text from BUP files


Drop or upload your .BUP file
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How to extract text from your BUP file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your BUP file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert BUP to another file type

To convert your BUP file to another format, you need VLC media player or other Backup software.

Convert a file to BUP

To convert other file formats to the "DVD Navigation File" file type, you need software like VLC media player or a similar tool.


About BUP files

A .bup file acts as a critical fail-safe within the DVD-Video architecture, serving as an exact binary copy of the IFO (Information) file. Located inside the VIDEO_TS directory, these files contain navigation menus, chapter structures, and audio track data, but notably do not contain the actual video footage (which resides in VOB files). Users frequently encounter .bup files when attempting to rip old DVDs or when browsing disc contents on a computer, often finding that standard media players like QuickTime or Windows Media Player cannot open them directly. Because the file is purely metadata, attempting to "play" a .bup file results in errors. To make the content usable, the practical solution is not to convert the .bup file in isolation, but to convert the parent DVD structure. For modern playback on TVs and mobile devices, the best workflow is converting the associated VOB content to MP4 (H.264) or WebP for web use. For archiving the exact disc structure without physical media, packaging the files into an ISO disk image is the industry standard.

Convert.Guru analyzes your BUP file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted IFO, VOB, DVD, VIDEO_TS, VTS, MP4, VCD, BUF, BOP, DAT, CD, VTC and PUB files.


FAQ

If you want to convert BUP file to MP4, MOV, VOB, MP3, BAK, BACKUP, OLD, TMP, TEMP, ARC, ZIP or TAR, you can use VLC media player or similar software from the "DVD Structure Recovery" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert SNAPSHOT, OLD, IMG, RESTORE, ISO, COPY, VMDK, TMP, VHD, BAK, ARCHIVE or BACKUP files to BUP, try VLC media player or another comparable tool in the "DVD Structure Recovery" category.



The BUP Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our BUP converter.