Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your GCV file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert GCV to another file type
To convert GCV videos to another format, you need ThriXXX Games or other Video software.
Convert a file to GCV
To convert other file formats to the "Game Capture" file type, you need software like ThriXXX Games or a similar tool.
About GCV files
The .GCV file extension is associated with proprietary video recordings generated by ThriXXX 3D interactive simulations. While these files often utilize a RIFF (Resource Interchange File Format) container structure similar to older AVI files, they are encoded using specific internal codecs that are not supported by standard media players or web browsers. A major problem for users is that simply renaming the file to AVI rarely works; the underlying video stream remains unreadable to software like VLC Media Player or Windows Media Player without the original game engine installed. Furthermore, because .GCV files are not web-standard, they cannot be directly uploaded to video sharing platforms or viewed on mobile devices. To make these recordings usable, the best solution is converting them to MP4 for broad compatibility and web streaming, or MKV for high-quality archiving.
Convert.Guru analyzes your GCV file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert GCV file to FC, MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, MKV, M4V, 3GP, OGV or ASF, you can use ThriXXX Games or similar software from the "Game Video Recording" 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 GCV, try ThriXXX Games or another comparable tool in the "Game Video Recording" category.
The GCV 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 GCV converter.