Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your VP6 file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert VP6 to another file type
To convert VP6 videos to another format, you need VLC media player or other Video software.
Convert a file to VP6
To convert other file formats to the "TrueMotion Video File" file type, you need software like VLC media player or a similar tool.
About VP6 files
The .VP6 file extension represents a TrueMotion VP6 video file. Developed by On2 Technologies, this codec was heavily utilized in the mid-2000s for delivering high-resolution video at low bitrates. It served as the primary video engine for Adobe Flash Player 8 (often embedded inside FLV containers) and was widely used for full-motion video cutscenes in PC games by publishers like Electronic Arts. Today, the .VP6 format suffers from major disadvantages. It is a proprietary, legacy format that is officially discontinued. Modern web browsers, smartphones, and default operating system players like Windows Media Player or Apple QuickTime cannot open these files natively. Playing a raw .VP6 file usually requires hunting down obsolete codecs or installing third-party tools like VLC media player. To make these videos usable on modern hardware, you must convert them. For universal playback across mobile devices and the web, convert .VP6 to MP4 (using the H.264 codec). For lossless archiving, convert to MKV. For HTML5 integration, convert to WEBM. Drag and drop your file to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing software using convert.guru.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your VP6 file.
If you want to convert VP6 file to MP4, AVI, MOV, WMV, FLV, WEBM, MKV, M4V, 3GP, OGV, ASF or RM, you can use VLC media player or similar software from the "Legacy Video Encoding" 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 VP6, try VLC media player or another comparable tool in the "Legacy Video Encoding" category.
The VP6 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 VP6 converter.