Support for converting "k4arecorder" recordings?

[mantissa-]

We've been building up a simple volumetric capture studio with 4 Azure Kinects and have run in to some limitations using GUI software to record all 4 cameras at once.

I've found I can easily record with all 4 cameras at maximum resolution and frame rate using "k4arecorder" which then outputs an mkv file for each camera with all the data (Color, Depth & IR) embedded in different video channels. Detailed info here and here.

It would be great to have support for those recordings, to be able to convert them in to point clouds, both stills and animations. The Azure Kinect SDK has functions built in to convert the data and I was wondering if it would be possible to access them via python.

This would allow us to record with even more cameras if we wanted to in the future and deal with the conversion separately. Is this something you would be interested in helping me solve?

I understand it's a lot to ask, so I was wondering if there's anything I can do to get the ball rolling? If it's not possible, I will accept that too of course. :)