Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your DVA file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert DVA to another file type
To convert DVA files to another format, you need Oracle Data Visualization or other Data software.
Convert a file to DVA
To convert other file formats to the "Data Visualization Project" file type, you need software like Oracle Data Visualization or a similar tool.
About DVA files
The .DVA file extension serves multiple distinct purposes, but it is primarily a Data Visualization Application project file created by Oracle Data Visualization Desktop. Users export their dashboards, datasets, and visualizations into this format to share business intelligence insights. Secondarily, .DVA acts as a Windows executable plugin for the SEGA Project DIVA game series, a proprietary CCTV digital video recording file for Bosch DIVAR surveillance systems, or an encrypted video lecture used by the Hoven Player. The main disadvantage of the .DVA format is its heavily fragmented, proprietary nature. An Oracle .DVA file requires specific enterprise software to open, while Bosch .DVA files are locked security footage that standard media players like VLC cannot read. Encrypted lecture files require paid access. This vendor lock-in makes these files notoriously difficult to share or archive natively. To share data effectively, users should convert Oracle .DVA files to standard formats like JSON, XML, or CSV by extracting the underlying archive. For Bosch security videos, users typically need the official Bosch player to export the footage to MP4 or AVI. Standard online converters frequently fail to process .DVA files because they lack the proprietary codecs or database structures required to read them. This file format is strictly designed for closed ecosystems, meaning only the original software can properly render the video streams or dashboard layouts. Even when direct conversion fails, our platform can inspect the file's internal hex signature, reveal text, and identify whether your file is a hidden ZIP archive, an EXE, or a video stream, helping you find the right workaround.
Convert.Guru analyzes your DVA file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert DVA file to MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, MKV, M4V, 3GP, OGV, ASF or RM, you can use Oracle Data Visualization or similar software from the "Data Visualization Application Project" 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 DVA, try Oracle Data Visualization or another comparable tool in the "Data Visualization Application Project" category.
The DVA 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 DVA converter.