VP7 Converter

Extract text from TrueMotion videos (VP7)


Drop or upload your .VP7 file
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How to extract text from your VP7 file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your VP7 file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert VP7 to another file type

To convert VP7 videos to another format, you need VLC media player or other Video software.

Convert a file to VP7

To convert other file formats to the "Encoded Video File" file type, you need software like VLC media player or a similar tool.


About VP7 files

.vp7 is a legacy video file format encoded with the TrueMotion VP7 codec, developed by On2 Technologies. It was used in the mid-2000s for high-quality video streaming and conferencing software. You can open these files using VLC media player or convert them using FFmpeg. Read more about the format on Wikipedia. Today, the .vp7 format is obsolete and comes with severe disadvantages. It is not natively supported by modern web browsers, smartphones, or smart TVs. You must install legacy decoding libraries to view the content, and it lacks hardware acceleration on modern processors. You should convert your .vp7 files to MP4 (H.264) for maximum compatibility or WEBM to use newer open-source codecs. Transcoding will involve a slight quality loss due to moving between lossy formats. .vp7 is notoriously difficult for standard online converters to process because it is a proprietary, closed-source format that requires specific, outdated decoding libraries. If our analysis detects a supported underlying video stream, viewing or conversion may still be possible.

Convert.Guru analyzes your VP7 file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.


FAQ

If you want to convert VP7 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 VP7, try VLC media player or another comparable tool in the "Legacy Video Encoding" category.



The VP7 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 VP7 converter.