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Does Orthanc support videos?
| author | Sebastien Jodogne <s.jodogne@gmail.com> |
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| date | Fri, 22 Apr 2016 14:54:02 +0200 |
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| 1 Does Orthanc support videos? | |
| 2 ============================ | |
| 3 | |
| 4 The answer to this question really depends on what you mean by | |
| 5 "support" and "video": | |
| 6 | |
| 7 * In the world of DICOM, a "video" can either refer to a 2D+t (aka. a | |
| 8 "cine" sequence of individual frames) or a real video (compressed | |
| 9 using H.264 or MPEG2). For instance, ultrasound devices would | |
| 10 generate cine sequences, whereas recent endoscopes would generate | |
| 11 real videos. | |
| 12 * Depending on the context, "support" can mean "*Is Orthanc able to | |
| 13 query/receive/transfer DICOM files?*", or "*Is Orthanc able to | |
| 14 render/play DICOM files?*". | |
| 15 | |
| 16 If you "just" want to **query/receive/transfer** DICOM videos, Orthanc | |
| 17 will work fine either with 2D+t or real videos (because Orthanc is a | |
| 18 `Vendor Neutral Archive | |
| 19 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_Neutral_Archive>`__). | |
| 20 | |
| 21 If you also want to **play** the videos, to the best of our knowledge, | |
| 22 there is currently no Orthanc plugin for H.264 or MPEG2 (though such a | |
| 23 plugin should be developed in the future). However, if your video is a | |
| 24 2D+t (cine) sequence, Orthanc can already display it inside a Web | |
| 25 browser by at least 2 different means: | |
| 26 | |
| 27 1. The built-in, administrative interface called :ref:`Orthanc | |
| 28 Explorer <orthanc-explorer>` is able to display the individual | |
| 29 frames and manually navigate between them through keyboard. | |
| 30 2. The official `Web viewer plugin | |
| 31 <http://www.orthanc-server.com/static.php?page=web-viewer>`__ will | |
| 32 allow you to use the mouse scroll wheel to display the successive | |
| 33 frames of the video. | |
| 34 | |
| 35 To summarize, if your video is not encoded with MPEG2 or H264, OR if | |
| 36 you do not need to play the video within a Web browser, Orthanc | |
| 37 actually supports video. |