Motion Photo Extractor

A simple command line tool to extract video and photo parts from the Motion Photos created by Samsung phones.

Usage as command line tool

Usage:
    mpe [OPTIONS...]

  -i, --input path Input file (motion photo)
  -v, --video path [optional] Video file to extract from motion photo
  -p, --photo path [optional] Photo file to extract from motion photo
  -h, --help              Print this help information

Example usage to extract both video and photo parts from the input file:
    mpe -i motion_photo.jpg -v video.mp4 -p photo.jpg

You can optionally ommit either output photo path or output video path.

Install

Using terminal in any folder where you would like to download the application:

1. git clone https://github.com/eduard-netsajev/motion-photo-extractor.git
2. cd motion-photo-extractor
3. cmake .
4. make
5. (Optional) sudo make install

The last step will make the mpe binary be available through the local user bin folder (i.e. it will be available globally). Or you can just do whatever you want with the built binary file.

Example usage to mimic viewing on a smartphone

Flexible interface allows to chain this tool with other applications. For example one can use feh image viewer and its custom action command to mimic viewing images on a smartphone:

feh -A ";""mpe -i %F -v /dev/shm/mpe.mp4 && vlc /dev/shm/mpe.mp4 --intf dummy --play-and-exit --no-video-title --no-repeat --no-loop --quiet -f" -Z -F

With such command pressing action_0 key (Enter by default) extracts the video part from the opened motion photo into /dev/shm and immediately opens VLC media player without any interface and which closes itself after the file is finished playing.