Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your DXR file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert DXR to another file type
To convert DXR movies to another format, you need Adobe Director or other Video software.
Convert a file to DXR
To convert other file formats to the "Protected Director Movie" file type, you need software like Adobe Director or a similar tool.
About DXR files
The .DXR file format primarily functions as a protected interactive movie created by Adobe Director (formerly Macromedia Director). These files contain multimedia content, timelines, and Lingo scripts used for CD-ROMs, kiosks, and early web games. In a secondary, modern use case, .DXR files act as digital exam answer files generated by Digiexam, storing encrypted student test data in a structured JSON format. The core disadvantage of an Adobe Director .DXR file is its extreme obsolescence. Adobe officially discontinued Director in 2017, and the required Shockwave Player is universally blocked by modern web browsers due to severe security vulnerabilities. Furthermore, .DXR files are strictly playback-only. They are explicitly locked by the author to prevent users from opening, editing, or extracting the original assets (like images, audio, or code) found in the editable DIR equivalent. Attempting to run them today locally requires risky legacy software installations or complex virtual machines. To preserve these obsolete multimedia files, conversion or capture is absolutely necessary. For standard viewing, we recommend converting to a video format like MP4 or WEBM to preserve the visual playback, though interactive elements will be lost. For Digiexam .DXR files, extracting the raw text to JSON or TXT is best for data archival and reading outside the proprietary client. Drag and drop your file to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing software right here at convert.guru.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your DXR file.
If you want to convert DXR file to MP4, DIR, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, MKV, M4V, 3GP, OGV or ASF, you can use Adobe Director or similar software from the "Protected Interactive Multimedia" 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 DXR, try Adobe Director or another comparable tool in the "Protected Interactive Multimedia" category.
The DXR 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 DXR converter.