Can Orthanc receive video files?

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Hello!

I’ve searched the Orthanc Book, the forum and where I could, but I can’t understand if Orthanc supports receiving video files.

From what I’ve understood, Orthanc can only receive DICOM files, and if you want to send a video to an Orthanc Server, you need to put an array of images inside the dicom file for example (and there’s even tools that can “convert” a video file to a dicom file doing that it seems?).

When I try to send a video file with the REST API (I’ve tried mp4, mpeg4, avi, mov, h264) I’ve got an error “Bad file format”. Same thing using the Orthanc Explorer but I think it uses the REST API behind the scenes.

So my question is just… can we send video files (pure mp4 files) to an Orthanc server?
I’m asking this because an echographist can record video files on his echograph, and there’s an option to send this mp4 video file.

I understand that there is absolutely no data associated with the video file, and if you send the video file of a patient, you won’t have the patient info associated with it… That may be why it’s not supported :slight_smile:

Thanks!

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Hi Yohan,

Indeed, you can only send valid DICOM files to Orthanc.
So if you want to store mp4 video file, the first step is a dicomization of the file…
HTH,

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Thanks a lot!

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Hello,

As a small complement to BC’s answer, there is a note about creating a plugin to convert raw video files to DICOM on this page:
https://book.orthanc-server.com/contributing.html

There is also a FAQ about DICOM videos:
https://book.orthanc-server.com/faq/video.html

Sébastien-

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