Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your DIX file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert DIX to another file type
To convert DIX Databases to another format, you need ALI Corp STB Tools or other Database software.
Convert a file to DIX
To convert other file formats to the "Proprietary Database File" file type, you need software like ALI Corp STB Tools or a similar tool.
About DIX files
The .DIX file extension represents multiple distinct, proprietary data formats. Most commonly, it acts as a satellite receiver database file used by devices with ALI Corp STB chipsets to store channel lists, transponder data, and system configurations. It is also utilized as a legacy index file in dBASE IV, a digital camera index file for Canon devices, a stenography dictionary for Advantage Software Eclipse CAT, and an export file for DIVA-GIS. Because .DIX is highly fragmented, identifying the exact software needed to open it is frustrating. If it is an ALI Corp database, users typically rely on specific Set-Top Box (STB) editor tools. If it is a legacy database file, dBASE is required. The main disadvantage of the .DIX format is its proprietary, closed nature. You cannot simply open these files in a standard text editor or modern spreadsheet software without encountering scrambled binary data. Users often need to convert .DIX files to standard formats like CSV, XML, or TXT to edit satellite channel lists on a PC or extract legacy database records. However, converting these files risks losing specific hardware metadata or formatting flags unique to the original device. This file format is difficult to open or convert because it lacks a unified standard. Often, only the original software or hardware that created the file can properly read or export the data. Standard online converters fail because they cannot parse the unique binary structure of each specific .DIX variant. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or conversion may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your DIX file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert DIX file to SHP, KML, KMZ, GPX, GEOJSON, TOPOJSON, TIF, TIFF, ECW, SID, IMG or DEM, you can use ALI Corp STB Tools or similar software from the "Satellite & Database Indexing" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert LAZ, KMZ, DTM, CSV, DEM, PRJ, LAS, GPX, DSM, SHP, DBF or KML files to DIX, try ALI Corp STB Tools or another comparable tool in the "Satellite & Database Indexing" category.
The DIX 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 DIX converter.