DicomMediaBridge in action
Dicom Media Bridge is a Dicom codec for media players and video converters.
- With Dicom Media Bridge you can play your Dicom clips with media players or convert them to video files.
- An excellent alternative to the Dicom viewers: View your Dicom clips with Media Player
- Convert your Dicom clips to WMV, DIVX or other video formats using third parties video converter (e.g. Windows Media Encoder)
Click here to download a free evaluation version
The free version displays a small “puntoexe.com” logo on the bottom right of the image.
This version is for personal use only.
Click here to buy Dicom Media Bridge Single user license (39 USD)
The full version of the application doesn’t display any logo over the image.
A site license is also available for 299 dollars.
Click here to view the user manual
The manual includes the description of the available licenses.
Description
Dicom Media Bridge is a dicom codec for Windows(1) that allows multimedia applications to read and display multiframe or single-frame Dicom files.
Now you can view the Dicom thumbnail in the file explorer, convert a Dicom file into an AVI, DIVX, WMV or other media file so they can be included in your documents or Powerpoint(1) presentations, or use your preferred movie player as a dicom viewer for multiframe dicom files.
On Windows XP right-click on a file with .dcm, .dic or .dicom extension and click on “Copy” and voilà, the image can be pasted into any application that can handle images, including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Powerpoint(1), Adobe Photoshop(2), OpenOffice(3) and thousand of other.
With Dicom Media Bridge you can:
- Use your preferred media player (e.g. Windows Media Player(1) or Divx Player(4)) as a dicom viewer
- Transform your Dicom files into Windows Media Video files (WMV) or RealVideo (RV) with the free applications Windows Media Encoder(1) or RealProducer(5)
Prepare nice presentations using Windows Movie Maker(1) or other Video Editing applications - Embed the videos converted with Dicom Media Bridge and the free tool Windows Media Encoder(1) in your PowerPoint presentations
- View thumbnail previews of the Dicom files in your folders (only for the files that have the dcm, dic or dicom extension)
- Dicom Media Bridge can read Dicom files and NEMA files that contain images in one of the following formats:
- Uncompressed
- RLE compressed
- Jpeg lossless (up to 16 bits per color channel)
- Jpeg lossy (up to 12 bits per color channel)
A DICOM file is being played with Windows Media Player and DicomMediaBridge
Dicom Media Bridge fits the Dicom images into a rectangle with the width/height ratio of 4/3, so they will not be stretched by applications that can deal only with video samples (e.g.: Windows Movie Maker).
High resolution images are scaled down to a maximum resolution of 768 by 576 pixels, to avoid artifacts introduced by DirectShow when the video samples’ size exceedes the size of the memory installed in the video card.
A dicom file has been converted to an rm file with RealProducer from RealNetwork
Using Dicom Media Bridge with Windows Media Player.
Once Dicom Media Bridge has been installed, you can view a Dicom file with by double clicking on it. This procedure will open only the Dicom files that have the extension dcm, dic or dicom.
If you want to open a Dicom file that doesn’t have one of the previously specified extensions then you can change the extension of the file to .dcm or .avi, or load it directly from Windows Media Player (using the command Open in the File menu).
(1) Microsoft, Windows, Word, Powerpoint, Windows Media Player, Windows Media Encoder and Movie Maker are trade marks registered by Microsoft
(2) Adobe and Photoshop is a trade marks registered by Adobe
(3) OpenOffice is distributed by OpenOffice.org
(4) Divx is a trade mark registered by Divx, inc
(5) RealProduced is a trade mark registered by Real
System requirements
- Operating system: Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Windows 7, 32 or 64 bit (on 64 bit systems both the 32 and 64 bit version of the codec are installed
- DirectX 8 or newer
- Pentium4 or better
- 512Mb of memory or more
- true colors display
- the visualization of Dicom files as video files requires a media player (Windows Media Player) or other players compatible with the DirectShow technology
- the conversion of Dicom files to video files requires a video converter or video editor compatible with the DirectShow technology (Windows Media Encoder, Windows Movie Maker , RealProducer or others converters and editors compatible with the DirectShow technology)