Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your VCD file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert VCD to another file type
To convert VCD Video CDs to another format, you need GTKWave or VLC or other Developer software.
Convert a file to VCD
To convert other file formats to the "Waveform or Disc Image" file type, you need software like GTKWave or VLC or a similar tool.
About VCD files
The .vcd file extension primarily represents either a Value Change Dump file used by hardware engineers for digital logic simulation, or an outdated Video CD disc image. Hardware simulation .vcd files conform to the IEEE 1364 Verilog standard and are typically analyzed using waveform viewers like GTKWave. Video .vcd files are accessed using media software such as VLC media player or mounting utilities like FarStone VirtualDrive. Both formats suffer from severe real-world limitations. Video CD relies on archaic MPEG-1 compression, resulting in poor 352x240 resolution that is incompatible with modern web browsers and streaming devices. Value Change Dump files are entirely uncompressed ASCII text; because they log every single logic signal transition, they routinely explode to hundreds of gigabytes, making them horribly slow to parse and nearly impossible to share. For digital video, convert .VCD to MP4 for universal web and mobile playback. For logic simulations, convert to compressed formats like FST for faster loading, or CSV for database ingestion. Drag and drop your file here to analyze and convert it securely right in your browser with convert.guru.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your VCD file.
If you want to convert VCD file to MP4, USB, DVD, CSV, JSON, XML, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG or CONF, you can use GTKWave or VLC or similar software from the "Logic Simulation or Video CD" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to VCD, try GTKWave or VLC or another comparable tool in the "Logic Simulation or Video CD" category.
The VCD 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 VCD converter.