Windows 10 & Sony 4k player hard drive HELP!! :D (images and specs)

[sickdocholiday]

Hello everyone and my deepest apologies if this has been covered already. I removed the hard drive from my 4k player in order to use in my pc. all of my movies are in EFV format. is there a way to play the files in VLC? I no longer have a 4k tv but i dont want to lose the movies. thank you so much for any and all help.

[sickdocholiday]

when i try to play the main file i get this------Codec not supported:
VLC could not decode the format "fpcm" (No description for this codec)

https://ibb.co/e2PCnx
https://ibb.co/gxNMfH

[sickdocholiday]

Is this just an anti piracy measure?

You're here because you have a file that has a file extension ending in .efv. Files with the file extension .efv can only be launched by certain applications. It's possible that .efv files are data files rather than documents or media, which means they're not meant to be viewed at all.

[Lotesdelere]

Please upload a short sample of a problematic file to either Zippyshare.com (200 MB max) or to EmbedUpload.com, the latter will upload the file for you to several other hosts (use the default ones) and then post the link to the file here.

If needed cut it with DGsplit and read here about how to do it:
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=57724&p=193335#p193335
50 MB max should be enough.

[sickdocholiday]

I didnt think anyone was going to reply formatted the drive and installed it in my pc. Thank you very much. curiosity still plauges me and I think that would be valuable information to pursue so Im going to attempt to get that same format files from a friend who has another 4k box. at that time i will follow your instructions and see if we cant come up with a solution for someone in the future.

[robUx4]

`fpcm` sounds like floating point PCM. We certainly can support that. For the rest, I guess we'll never know.

[Johnny5Alive]

Same issue here. There appear to be two files: an .sfv and an .efv. The .efv appears to be the actual video and audio file. In playing around with a Sony 4K player (xmp-f10) I inherited, I'm thinking there's an online verification that takes place before the file will be played. These are all 4K video files, so they're not little. Smalled .efv on the drive is .5GB.

The screenshots here are a snapshot of the files.
https://imgur.com/a/hhpJM1V

Let me know if you think there is anyway to use these files without the original launcher, otherwise I'll just salvage the hard drive out of the 4K player.