# HG changeset patch
# User Sebastien Jodogne <s.jodogne@gmail.com>
# Date 1461329642 -7200
# Node ID eedc7e9fea4ec728df4e556f2ca9f226b3287cb3
# Parent  1b6f12b8a54bae8ffe29f6cb57540512fd49bec7
Does Orthanc support videos?

diff -r 1b6f12b8a54b -r eedc7e9fea4e Sphinx/source/faq.rst
--- a/Sphinx/source/faq.rst	Fri Apr 22 14:18:42 2016 +0200
+++ b/Sphinx/source/faq.rst	Fri Apr 22 14:54:02 2016 +0200
@@ -34,4 +34,5 @@
    faq/nginx.rst
    faq/https.rst
    faq/same-origin.rst
+   faq/video.rst
    faq/why-orthanc.rst
diff -r 1b6f12b8a54b -r eedc7e9fea4e Sphinx/source/faq/video.rst
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+++ b/Sphinx/source/faq/video.rst	Fri Apr 22 14:54:02 2016 +0200
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+Does Orthanc support videos?
+============================
+
+The answer to this question really depends on what you mean by
+"support" and "video":
+
+* In the world of DICOM, a "video" can either refer to a 2D+t (aka. a
+  "cine" sequence of individual frames) or a real video (compressed
+  using H.264 or MPEG2). For instance, ultrasound devices would
+  generate cine sequences, whereas recent endoscopes would generate
+  real videos.
+* Depending on the context, "support" can mean "*Is Orthanc able to
+  query/receive/transfer DICOM files?*", or "*Is Orthanc able to
+  render/play DICOM files?*".
+
+If you "just" want to **query/receive/transfer** DICOM videos, Orthanc
+will work fine either with 2D+t or real videos (because Orthanc is a
+`Vendor Neutral Archive
+<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_Neutral_Archive>`__).
+
+If you also want to **play** the videos, to the best of our knowledge,
+there is currently no Orthanc plugin for H.264 or MPEG2 (though such a
+plugin should be developed in the future). However, if your video is a
+2D+t (cine) sequence, Orthanc can already display it inside a Web
+browser by at least 2 different means:
+
+1. The built-in, administrative interface called :ref:`Orthanc
+   Explorer <orthanc-explorer>` is able to display the individual
+   frames and manually navigate between them through keyboard.
+2. The official `Web viewer plugin
+   <http://www.orthanc-server.com/static.php?page=web-viewer>`__ will
+   allow you to use the mouse scroll wheel to display the successive
+   frames of the video.
+
+To summarize, if your video is not encoded with MPEG2 or H264, OR if
+you do not need to play the video within a Web browser, Orthanc
+actually supports video.