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The converter easily converts your SAN file to various formats - free and online. No VLC or extra software needed.
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Game formats to SAN with high quality output.
The .SAN extension represents a collision of two very different worlds: vintage gaming and industrial paint mixing.
Most commonly, a .SAN file is a LucasArts Smush Animation, a proprietary video container used in classic 90s adventure games like The Dig and Star Wars: Rebel Assault. These files store cutscenes using the obscure Smush codec. Because this format is obsolete and strictly proprietary, standard media players like VLC Media Player cannot open them directly. Users typically want to convert these files to MP4 or MKV to watch game cinematics without running the full game engine or emulator. Tools like ScummVM or specialized extraction utilities like SANM player are often required to decode the stream.
Alternatively, in an industrial context, a .SAN file is a data package used by Santint automated paint mixing machines. These files often contain color formulas and calibration data internally compressed using GZIP. The friction here is that the operating system doesn't recognize the .san extension as an archive. Users needing to view this data usually just want to see the text or XML inside. The practical workaround is often to treat the file as a GZ archive - renaming the extension to .gz allows you to decompress it with 7-Zip or WinRAR to reveal the readable data source.
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Users also converted PDF, BLOB, POF and CBF files.
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 SAN converter.