Convert Psygnosis videos (YOP) online for free
The converter easily converts your YOP videos to various formats - free and online. No FFmpeg or or other Video software needed.
To convert other file formats to the "Game Cutscene Video" file type, you need software like FFmpeg or a similar tool.
The .YOP file format is a proprietary video container originally developed by Psygnosis, a British video game developer. These files were primarily used to store full-motion video (FMV) cutscenes in 1990s PC and console games. Today, the format is obsolete and unsupported by modern mainstream operating systems.
Because .YOP is a closed, proprietary game asset, standard media players and modern video editors cannot open it natively. The files often use obscure video and audio codecs that were highly specific to the hardware limitations of early multimedia CD-ROM systems. This makes them extremely difficult to view, share, or edit without specialized legacy software or advanced command-line tools like FFmpeg.
If you want to watch or edit these game cutscenes today, you must convert the .YOP file to a standard modern format like MP4, MKV, or AVI. Converting to MP4 (using H.264/AAC codecs) ensures maximum compatibility across web browsers, smartphones, and smart TVs, though some original color palette indexing might be altered during conversion.
Standard online converters fail to process .YOP files because they lack the specific legacy demuxers required to read the game data. Just drag and drop your file to convert.guru to identify the format, view its internal structure, and convert it when possible. If our analysis detects the underlying video and audio streams, viewing or extracting the content may still be possible.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your YOP file.
If you want to convert YOP file to EXE, ISO, BIN, CUE, PAK, WAD, PK3, PK4, BSP, MAP, SAV or DAT, you can use FFmpeg or similar software from the "Legacy Game Video File" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert MOD, BIN, CFG, SCX, DAT, MPQ, LOG, CUE, INI, EXE, SCM or ISO files to YOP, try FFmpeg or another comparable tool in the "Legacy Game Video File" category.
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 YOP converter.