Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your DIR file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert DIR to another file type
To convert DIR movies to another format, you need Adobe Director or other Video software.
Convert a file to DIR
To convert other file formats to the "Director Movie File" file type, you need software like Adobe Director or a similar tool.
About DIR files
A .DIR file is primarily an interactive multimedia project or movie created by Adobe Director (previously Macromedia Director). These files store timelines, Lingo scripts, and media assets used to author CD-ROMs and interactive kiosks using the internal RIFX format. The main disadvantage of the .DIR format is that it is entirely obsolete and proprietary. Adobe discontinued Director in 2017. Standard browsers no longer support Shockwave, and opening the raw file requires a paid, legacy software license. The uncompiled project data also results in unnecessarily large file sizes. Users typically need to convert .DIR files to modern video formats like MP4 and MOV, or package them as executable EXE files. However, standard online converters fail because the proprietary RIFX container relies on interactive scripts rather than a standard video stream, meaning only the original software can properly read or export the data. Because this is a closed, proprietary format, traditional tools often fail. Even if full conversion is restricted, our system can inspect the file, reveal text, and potentially extract embedded media. Note: If your .DIR file is a Xiaomi phone backup, it is actually just a standard ZIP archive.
Convert.Guru analyzes your DIR file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert DIR file to MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, MKV, M4V, 3GP, OGV, ASF or RM, you can use Adobe Director or similar software from the "Interactive Multimedia Project File" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MTS, MOV, RMVB, DIVX, RM, H264, TS, WMV, VOB, MP4, XVID or AVI files to DIR, try Adobe Director or another comparable tool in the "Interactive Multimedia Project File" category.
The DIR 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 DIR converter.