.SRF File Extension

File used by Visual Studio .NET applications and processed by the ATL Server engine; may contain both static HTML and script tags that produce dynamically generated content when the page is loaded.

The file "login.srf" is commonly used by secure websites. It processes the user's username and password, sends a cookie identifying the user back to the browser, and redirects the user to the secure page.

An SRF page may also be called a "stencil" since it may contain tags that can be processed by CHtmlStencil.

An SRF file is a video recording file created by select Samsung Smart TVs. It contains content, such as a TV show or movie, recorded on the TV. SRF files are encrypted and can only be opened by the Samsung Smart TV that created them.

Samsung Smart TVs are used by some users as personal video recorders (PVRs) to record digital video to a USB flash drive. The TVs encrypt SRF files because of digital rights management (DRM) issues in order to protect against illegal sharing of recorded content from the TV.

Raw image format saved by Sony digital cameras such as the DSC-F828; stores image data in an uncompressed format exactly as it was captured by the camera's sensor; settings such as color temperature and exposure can be edited after the image is saved on a computer.

3D appearance file created by LightWave 3D, a modeling and rendering application; stores the options selected in the Surface Editor window, which is used to specify the surface appearance of a 3D object; used for saving and reusing presets.

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

Skin file used by Steinberg Cubase, a multi-track recording application; stores an archive of bitmap images as well as the locations of the bitmaps on the Cubase user interface; used for changing the appearance of both the application and associated plug-ins.

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.

Project file created by Surfer, a contouring, gridding, and 3D surface mapping program; stores the data used to generate a visualization as well as the visualization itself; used by scientists and engineers to create visuals for analysis, publication, and presentation.

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

An SRF file is a data file created by Rational Acoustics Smaart, a program used by audio technicians and engineers to measure and analyze the acoustics of an environment. It contains a static "snapshot" of live spectrum measurements, which consist of a measurement signal (the output from a device) and an input signal used for reference. SRF files also store spectrum settings, such as the frequency scale of the graph, slice height of the spectrograph, and RTA display settings.

An SRF file contains a vehicle avatar image that is used to represent the vehicle on the screen of various Garmin GPS devices. It stores multiple bitmap images that make up a 3D avatar and includes image data for various perspectives of the vehicle, such as the 3D and overhead perspectives. SRF files may be created by Garmin or by a Garmin GPS user to share with other users.

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.