[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Add DICOM Support

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 09:18:13PM +0530, Shivam wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>     The code is to add DICOM Support. The patch is only for uncompressed
> dicom files using explicit value representation. I would extend it, once i
> clarify some doubts.     As dicom image files contain lots of metadata about
> the patient. So, should i display that data while demuxing or should i
> ignore and only demux the image data ?. In the current patch, i have made an
> option "-metadata", which when used will print the data on the terminal
> while demuxing.

metadata should be exported to be usable by applications.

For teh API design a one test is that it should be possible to have a
dicom file as input and a format with similar features as output and not 
loose any significant data.
Printing to the terminal cannot achieve that easily.

Either way i would suggest to support only a subset of these 4000 elements
for now but try to ensure that the deisgn can handle most of the important
elements


> 
> 
> Also, in the dicomdict.c ( which is only required for implicit dicom files,
> and for metadata), till now i have only specified ~200 data elements. but
> the dicom specification, specifies a total of ~4000 data elements (would do
> binary search if all the tags are needed ). So, is there a better way to
> specifiy that data?. (I mean if we ignore the metadata about the patient,
> then we only need to specify ~150 data elements for image data).
> 
> 
> I have uploaded some samples of dicom files with explicit value
> representation here (in case needed).
> 
> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1V8HUNeX3EYiPLj_dcFt8C68tAh7C7v4X?usp=sharing
> 
> 
> Please comment,

breaks fate tests

make: *** [fate-codec_desc] Error 1
make: *** [fate-source] Error 1


Thanks

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