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date Wed, 13 Jul 2016 17:35:11 +0200
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1 Does Orthanc support videos?
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2 ============================
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4 The answer to this question really depends on what you mean by
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5 "support" and "video":
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7 * In the world of DICOM, a "video" can either refer to a 2D+t (aka. a
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8 "cine" sequence of individual frames) or a real video (compressed
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9 using H.264 or MPEG2). For instance, ultrasound devices would
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10 generate cine sequences, whereas recent endoscopes would generate
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11 real videos.
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12 * Depending on the context, "support" can mean "*Is Orthanc able to
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13 query/receive/transfer DICOM files?*", or "*Is Orthanc able to
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14 render/play DICOM files?*".
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16 If you "just" want to **query/receive/transfer** DICOM videos, Orthanc
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17 will work fine either with 2D+t or real videos (because Orthanc is a
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18 `Vendor Neutral Archive
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19 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_Neutral_Archive>`__). This
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20 distinction is also discussed in :ref:`another FAQ entry
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21 <supported-images>`.
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23 If you also want to **play** the videos, to the best of our knowledge,
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24 there is currently no Orthanc plugin for H.264 or MPEG2 (though such a
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25 plugin should be developed in the future). However, if your video is a
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26 2D+t (cine) sequence, Orthanc can already display it inside a Web
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27 browser by at least 2 different means:
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29 1. The built-in, administrative interface called :ref:`Orthanc
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30 Explorer <orthanc-explorer>` is able to display the individual
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31 frames and manually navigate between them through keyboard.
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32 2. The official `Web viewer plugin
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33 <http://www.orthanc-server.com/static.php?page=web-viewer>`__ will
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34 allow you to use the mouse scroll wheel to display the successive
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35 frames of the video.
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37 To summarize, if your video is not encoded with MPEG2 or H264, OR if
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38 you do not need to play the video within a Web browser, Orthanc
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39 actually supports video.