do you still have the original ?
then I would just forget about ovf and instead export the vmdk via vmkfstools
vmkfstools -i esx.vmdk vmplayer.vmdk -d 2gbsparse
then you can copy the vmx and the vmplayer.vmdk and run them in VMplayer
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I do not support Workstation 16 at this time ...