Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your MVC file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert MVC to another file type
To convert MVC Databases to another format, you need Movie Collector or other Database software.
Convert a file to MVC
To convert other file formats to the "Movie Collection Database" file type, you need software like Movie Collector or a similar tool.
About MVC files
The .mvc extension is a classic example of a "filename collision," where three completely different file types share the same suffix.
Collectorz.com Movie Database: For most home users, an .MVC file is a proprietary database created by Collectorz.com Movie Collector. These files store detailed inventories of DVD, Blu-ray, and VHS collections. The file is a locked, proprietary container, which makes it impossible to open in Excel or Google Sheets directly. Users typically need to convert these to CSV or XML to migrate their data or print simple lists.
Web-Generated PDF (Mislabeled): A significant portion (approx. 25%) of .mvc files are actually standard PDF documents. This occurs when a web application (built on frameworks like ASP.NET MVC) generates a dynamic report but fails to enforce the correct PDF extension during download. The browser simply saves the URL suffix (e.g., download.mvc) as the filename. These files are perfectly valid PDFs disguised by the wrong extension.
Miva Merchant Script: In e-commerce server environments, .mvc files are compiled scripts used by the Miva Merchant platform. These are binary files (byte-compiled from mv source files) used to execute store logic. They are not meant to be opened or edited manually and are generally useless outside a Miva server environment.
Recommendation:
For Movie Lists: Use Movie Collector's internal export tool to save as CSV for spreadsheet editing.
For Documents: Rename the file extension from .mvc to pdf and try opening it in Adobe Acrobat.
For Developers: These files cannot be converted back to source code easily; locate the original mv source file instead.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your MVC file.
If you want to convert MVC file to SBS, MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, MKV, M4V, 3GP, OGV or ASF, you can use Movie Collector or similar software from the "Movie Database or PDF" 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 MVC, try Movie Collector or another comparable tool in the "Movie Database or PDF" category.
The MVC 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 MVC converter.