DESC Converter

Extract text from DESC files


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

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

Convert DESC to another file type

To convert your DESC file to another format, you need Notepad++ or other Text software.

  • DESC to CSV
  • DESC to JSON
  • DESC to XML
  • DESC to YAML
  • DESC to YML
  • DESC to TOML
  • DESC to INI
  • DESC to CFG
  • DESC to CONF
  • DESC to DAT
  • DESC to DB
  • DESC to SQL

Convert a file to DESC

To convert other file formats to the "Configuration Metadata" file type, you need software like Notepad++ or a similar tool.

  • DBF to DESC
  • XML to DESC
  • SQLITE to DESC
  • XLSX to DESC
  • SQL to DESC
  • TSV to DESC
  • ACCDB to DESC
  • YAML to DESC
  • MDB to DESC
  • CSV to DESC
  • ODS to DESC
  • JSON to DESC

About DESC files

A .desc file is a multipurpose metadata container primarily associated with Battlefield 2 map descriptions or Topfield PVR video recordings. In the gaming context, it stores plain text configuration data - such as map size, modes, and initialization settings - used by the Refractor 2 engine. For PVR users, the file accompanies a REC video file, containing vital program details like the show title, timestamp, and duration. A major source of friction is that operating systems treat .desc as an unknown binary format, leaving users unable to double-click and view the contents. Furthermore, PVR-generated .desc files are often proprietary binary or obfuscated text, making them unreadable without specific decoding tools or media center software like DVBViewer.

For most users, the most practical solution is converting the file to TXT to inspect the underlying data or XML to parse the metadata structure. If you are archiving game assets or medical records (where .desc is occasionally used for DICOM exports), converting to PDF ensures the metadata is preserved in a human-readable, universal format. While you cannot "convert" a .desc file into a playable video (since it contains no pixel data), converting it to text allows you to recover information about lost or corrupt media files.

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

Users also converted TML, LICENSE and RML files.



The DESC 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 DESC converter.