FRC Converter

Extract text from Flight Simulator recordings (FRC)


Drop or upload your .FRC file
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How to extract text from your FRC file

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

Convert FRC to another file type

To convert FRC recordings to another format, you need Microsoft Flight Simulator or other Game software.

Convert a file to FRC

To convert other file formats to the "Game Recording File" file type, you need software like Microsoft Flight Simulator or a similar tool.


About FRC files

The .FRC file extension primarily represents a Flight Simulator Recording file. These files are generated by Microsoft Flight Simulator and the popular FS Recorder add-on created by Matthias Neusinger. They are used to record and playback flight sessions. A small percentage of .FRC files are also used as Mandelbrot Explorer Color Settings files by J R Oakley. The main disadvantage of a flight simulator .FRC file is that it is not a standard video format. It does not contain video pixels or audio tracks. Instead, it is a proprietary binary file storing pure telemetry data such as aircraft coordinates, altitude, pitch, yaw, and throttle inputs over time. Because it relies entirely on the game engine to render the visuals, you cannot natively play an .FRC file in a standard media player or upload it to YouTube. This makes sharing your flight recordings extremely difficult for users who do not own the exact same simulator and add-ons. Users constantly look to convert .FRC to .MP4 or .AVI to share their flights. However, standard online video converters will fail because they cannot emulate the 3D game engine required to process the telemetry data into video frames. This file format is notoriously closed and difficult to convert directly. Despite these limitations, just drag and drop your file into convert.guru to identify the format, view its internal hexadecimal or text structure, and see what it is. If our engine detects supported underlying text configurations, viewing or partial conversion may still be possible. The only pragmatic workaround to convert an .FRC file to video is to replay it inside Microsoft Flight Simulator and use a screen capture tool like OBS Studio to record the output as an .MP4.

Convert.Guru analyzes your FRC file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted PDF, GAU, JFR and DEMO files.


FAQ

If you want to convert FRC file to CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF, DAT, DB or SQL, you can use Microsoft Flight Simulator or similar software from the "Game Replay Telemetry Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to FRC, try Microsoft Flight Simulator or another comparable tool in the "Game Replay Telemetry Storage" category.



The FRC 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 FRC converter.