GVP Converter

Extract text from video pointer files (GVP)


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

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

Convert GVP to another file type

To convert GVP pointer files to another format, you need EditVoicepack or other Data software.

Convert a file to GVP

To convert other file formats to the "Pointer and Project Files" file type, you need software like EditVoicepack or a similar tool.


About GVP files

The .gvp file extension is primarily associated with four distinct formats. Most commonly, it is an EditVoicepack flight simulator voice pack file used to modify ATC (Air Traffic Control) voices in Microsoft Flight Simulator. Secondly, it is a Google Video Pointer file. Before YouTube dominated, Google Video used .GVP files as small text pointers (like a shortcut) to stream or download actual GVI video files. Since Google Video shut down in 2012, these pointer files are completely obsolete and broken. Additionally, .gvp is used as a workspace project file by Gerbv, an open-source Gerber file viewer, and as an XML-based GIS project file by gvSIG Desktop. Users often want to convert .gvp files because they mistake the pointer or a project file for the actual media or map data. A .gvp pointer file does not contain video data; it only contains URL links and metadata. Similarly, Gerbv and gvSIG project files save workspace states and file paths, not the physical map or PCB layers. Standard online converters fail to process .gvp files because they are highly application-specific configuration files. If you have an EditVoicepack file, you must use the original software to compile the voices. If you have a Google Video pointer, the linked servers have been dead for over a decade. However, just drag and drop your file onto convert.guru to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. Because many .gvp files are essentially plain text or XML, our tool can inspect the internal contents and show you the raw text data, which might help you recover old URLs, GIS layer paths, or Gerber file references.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert GVP file to MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, MKV, M4V, 3GP, OGV, ASF or RM, you can use EditVoicepack or similar software from the "Application Settings & Pointers" 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 GVP, try EditVoicepack or another comparable tool in the "Application Settings & Pointers" category.



The GVP 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 GVP converter.