Dicom Media Bridge is a codec that allows multimedia applications to read Dicom files and adds some Dicom features to the Windows File Explorer.

With Dicom Media Bridge you can:

• Display your Dicom files with Windows Media Player (available for free at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/)
• Convert your Dicom files into Windows Media Video (WMV) by using Windows Media Encoder, available for free at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx
• Transform your Dicom files into RealVideo using RealProducer Basic (available for free at http://www.realnetworks.com/products/producer/)
• Transform your Dicom files into Divx files using a Divx Converter (http://www.divx.com)
• Dicom Media Bridge can read Dicom3 files and NEMA files.

The images embedded into the Dicom files can have 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)
• When used as a DirectX codec then Dicom Media Bridge fits the Dicom images into a rectangle with the width/height ratio of 4/3 (16/9 for the HD version), 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 (1920 by 1080 for the HD version).

System requirements:

• Operating system: Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7
• DirectX8 or newer
• Windows Media Player
• Pentium Pro, Pentium 2 or better
• 256Mb of memory or more
• true colors display