VIX Converter

Convert VIX files online for free


Drop or upload your .VIX file
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How to convert your VIX file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your VIX file.
  2. You'll see a preview.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.

Convert VIX to another file type

The converter easily converts your VIX file to various formats - free and online. No VLC or extra software needed.

  • VIX to MP4
  • VIX to AVI
  • VIX to MOV
  • VIX to WMV
  • VIX to FLV
  • VIX to WEBM
  • VIX to MKV
  • VIX to M4V
  • VIX to 3GP
  • VIX to OGV
  • VIX to ASF
  • VIX to RM

Convert a file to VIX

The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Database formats to VIX with high quality output.

  • MTS to VIX
  • MOV to VIX
  • RMVB to VIX
  • DIVX to VIX
  • RM to VIX
  • H264 to VIX
  • TS to VIX
  • WMV to VIX
  • VOB to VIX
  • MP4 to VIX
  • XVID to VIX
  • AVI to VIX

About VIX files

The .VIX extension is a classic example of a "helper" file format that often confuses users by appearing alongside important data. Most commonly (61%), it is a Database Index file used by legacy Genesis Database Systems (often found in older Sage accounting setups). These files do not contain your actual accounting records; they function like a card catalog, helping the software locate data within the main database files (often DBF or similar). Users often try to open these to recover lost data, but they are proprietary binary maps that are illegible in text editors.

Alternatively, a .VIX file may be a multimedia index generated by Lightworks video editing software or the ViX image viewer. In these contexts, the file allows the software to seek through video frames or organize image thumbnails rapidly. Crucially, the .VIX file is not the video or image itself. Converting a 50KB .VIX file to MP4 or JPG is technically impossible because the pixel data resides in a separate, much larger file on your disk. Finally, in engineering contexts, it might be a Virtual Instrument source file for National Instruments LabVIEW. For archiving or data recovery, your best path is typically re-exporting from the original software to CSV or XML, or simply using convert.guru to inspect the file header and determine which specific software created it.

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

Users also converted VIKX, MP4, INDEX, IND and TBI files.



The VIX 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 VIX converter.