🆕 blog! “Extracting Video from Motion Photos on Linux”
Modern Android cameras can take "Motion Photos". They capture a few seconds of video from before and after you hit the shutter button. You can then either select the bit of the photo where no-one is blinking, or you can send the whole thing as a little movie.
Some apps (like WhatsApp) will play the motion photo…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/extracting-video-from-motion-photos-on-linux/
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@Edent I think WordPress may have stripped the other items out of the images when you uploaded it, and it's served up on the blog,
I'm only seeing 964k download size and no embedded video when testing
@ben oooh! You're not wrong!
Looks like image optimisation stuff has been a bit too eager. Will see if I can fix it later.
@Edent I was looking at exactly the same fairly recently - this would have saved me some time!
One slightly surprising effect of the video being embedded in the JPEG file is that you can receive a file that appears to be a static photo, until you forward it to someone else on WhatsApp, at which point it magically becomes a video...
@Edent I tried to see if iPhone's Live Photos are the same standard. I couldn't work out how to transfer the original file to my computer :(
