MYS Converter

Extract text from MYTV channel lists (MYS)


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

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

Convert MYS to another file type

To convert MYS channel lists to another format, you need MYTV Receiver or Cyan Myst or other Data software.

Convert a file to MYS

To convert other file formats to the "Proprietary Video or Settings" file type, you need software like MYTV Receiver or Cyan Myst or a similar tool.


About MYS files

The .MYS file extension is heavily fragmented and associated with several unrelated, obsolete, or highly proprietary formats. Primarily, it is found as a channel list for MYTV satellite receivers, a legacy video file format from the classic video game Myst, an encrypted file created by the MySecret utility, or a captured video from Vineyard Technologies. These formats share a common disadvantage: they are completely disconnected from modern standards. MYTV channel lists are proprietary binary files that cannot be edited without specific satellite receiver firmware tools. The .MYS video files from Myst rely on ancient, undocumented codecs that will not open in modern media players like VLC or web browsers. MySecret files are entirely inaccessible without the original 1990s-era software and the correct decryption password. Users typically want to convert Myst .MYS videos to standard MP4 or MKV to preserve the game media, or convert MYTV lists to CSV or XML to organize channels on a PC. However, standard online converters almost always fail because they do not carry the specific legacy game codecs or reverse-engineered MYTV parsers. This is why this file format is exceptionally difficult to open or convert; often, only the original software can properly read or export the data. Just drag and drop your .MYS file onto convert.guru to identify the format, view its internal structure, and convert it when possible. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or extraction may still be possible.

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

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FAQ

If you want to convert MYS file to MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, MKV, M4V, 3GP, OGV, ASF or RM, you can use MYTV Receiver or Cyan Myst or similar software from the "Proprietary Data or Legacy Video" 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 MYS, try MYTV Receiver or Cyan Myst or another comparable tool in the "Proprietary Data or Legacy Video" category.



The MYS 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 MYS converter.