C2R Converter

Extract text from Media Center recording files (C2R)


Drop or upload your .C2R file
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How to extract text from your C2R file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your C2R file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert C2R to another file type

To convert C2R Recording files to another format, you need Windows Media Center or other Settings software.

Convert a file to C2R

To convert other file formats to the "Click-To-Record File" file type, you need software like Windows Media Center or a similar tool.


About C2R files

A .C2R file is a Windows Media Center Click-To-Record File created by Microsoft. It acts as a system shortcut containing scheduling data that instructs Windows Media Center to record a specific TV broadcast. A major disadvantage of this format is that it does not contain any actual video or audio data. Users often mistake it for a media file and experience errors when trying to open it in modern players like VLC. Furthermore, the format is entirely obsolete because Microsoft discontinued Windows Media Center in Windows 10, meaning you cannot natively open or execute these files on modern operating systems. Standard video converters will always fail to process this file because there is no media stream to convert into an MP4 or AVI. It is strictly a proprietary settings file for a dead application. If our analysis detects a supported underlying embedded format, viewing the original broadcast schedule data is still possible.

Convert.Guru analyzes your C2R file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.


FAQ

If you want to convert C2R file to INI, CFG, CONF, CONFIG, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, ENV, PROPERTIES or RC, you can use Windows Media Center or similar software from the "TV Recording Schedule Metadata" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert ZSHRC, CONF, RCFILE, GITCONFIG, RC, PLIST, BASHRC, CONFIG, PROFILE, INI, PREFS or CFG files to C2R, try Windows Media Center or another comparable tool in the "TV Recording Schedule Metadata" category.



The C2R 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 C2R converter.