EXO Converter

Extract text from offline YouTube videos (EXO)


Drop or upload your .EXO file

How to extract text from your EXO file

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

Convert EXO to another file type

To convert EXO offline videos to another format, you need Google ExoPlayer or other Video software.

Convert a file to EXO

To convert other file formats to the "Video Chunk File" file type, you need software like Google ExoPlayer or a similar tool.


About EXO files

The .EXO file extension represents a YouTube Offline Video chunk, primarily created and managed by Google ExoPlayer. ExoPlayer is an application-level media player for Android that handles streaming protocols like DASH and HLS. When users download videos for offline viewing in apps like YouTube or Facebook, the video stream is split into multiple small .EXO files.

The biggest disadvantage of the .EXO format is its fragmented and proprietary nature. A single .EXO file is completely useless on its own; it is merely a small piece of a larger MPEG-4 fragment stream. Furthermore, these chunks are almost always locked with DRM (Digital Rights Management) encryption. Standard desktop media players like VLC media player or Windows Media Player cannot open, read, or piece these files back together.

Because they cannot be shared or played natively, users frequently need to convert .EXO files into standard video formats. If the chunks belong to a DRM-free video, they must be merged and converted to MP4 for web and mobile playback, or MKV for high-quality archiving. Drag and drop your file to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing software on convert.guru. We will check if your .EXO file is DRM-free and help you convert it into a usable format.

Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your EXO file.

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FAQ

If you want to convert EXO file to MP4, MP3, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, MKV, M4V, 3GP, OGV or ASF, you can use Google ExoPlayer or similar software from the "Offline Video Caching" 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 EXO, try Google ExoPlayer or another comparable tool in the "Offline Video Caching" category.



The EXO 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 EXO converter.