.SRF File Extension

Some users use Samsung Smart TVs to save television content as digital videos on a USB flash drive. These videos are saved as SRF files.

To prevent Samsung Smart TV users from sharing copyrighted content, the TVs encrypt videos saved as SRF files. This prevents users who do not have a Samsung Smart TV, or another way to decrypt SRF files, from playing the files.

SRF files are meant to be opened and played on Samsung Smart TVs. However, you can also use the DeSTRoi - Decrypt Samsung TV Recordings program (Windows) to decrypt SRF files and transfer them from a TV to your PC.

SRF files are saved in the Sony RAW format, which is utilized by various Sony digital camera models. Sony also develops the Sony RAW 2 (.SR2) and Sony Alpha Raw (.ARW) image formats. The SR2 and ARW formats are utilized by select Sony digital cameras, such as the R-1 (SR2) and a7R III (ARW).

The SRF format is one of many raw image formats utilized by various camera manufacturers. Other raw file types include:

• Canon - .CR2 files
• Minolta - .MRW and .MDC files
• Nikon - .NEF and .NRW files
• Olympus - .ORF file
• Ricoh - .J6I file
• Hasselblad - .3FR and .FFF files
• Samsung - .MRW and .MDC files

You can open SRF files with the software bundled with the Sony digital cameras that capture images in the SRF format.

You can also open SRF files with third-party applications, such as Adobe Photoshop (Windows and macOS), Adobe Photoshop Elements (Windows and macOS), and ACD Systems Canvas (Windows). Not only do these programs allow you to view SRF images, but they also enable you to edit them.

Surface files save information such as color, shading, luminosity, specularity, glossiness, and transparency.

For Windows installations, SRF files are typically stored in the skins directory within the Cubase application installation directory. For Mac OS X, they are commonly found in the Contents/​Resources directory of the application bundle. SRF files are saved in a proprietary format and often have the name skin.srf.

NOTE: SRF files are forward compatible among versions, but not backward compatible.

You will most likely only encounter an SRF vehicle avatar file if you use a Garmin Nuvi GPS device for navigation purposes and are looking to alter the vehicle that appears on the screen of the device. Various websites allow users to share custom SRF vehicle avatars, with some SRF files containing images of real vehicles and others storing fictional vehicle images, such as the Tron light cycle, Star Wars BB-8 droid, and Breaking Bad camper.

Most users that encounter an SRF vehicle avatar file have downloaded it from a website compressed in a .ZIP archive. If this is how you acquired the file, you can use the Zip utility bundled with Windows (Microsoft File Explorer) or macOS (Apple Archive Utility) to extract the image.

You can use the Garmin software packaged with the GPS device to open the SRF vehicle image to view it and import it to the /​Garmin/​Vehicle/​ folder on your Garmin GPS device. You can also use Garmin Express to import SRF files to your GPS device.

There are various user-made programs that can convert SRF images to other image formats. The "nüvi utilities" online program can convert SRF images to .PNG format or PNG images to SRF format.