Google Live Photo extractor - Extracts static photo and video from the live photo taken by Google Camera.

googlelive_extract.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
#
# Google Live Photo extractor
# Extracts static photo and video from the live photo taken by Google Camera
#
# Usage:
# $ googlelive_extract.py <image.jpg>
#
# Creates two new files - image_static.jpg and image_video.mp4
#
# License: MIT
# Copyright (c) 2018 Jasper Li-Heng Yu
#
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import sys
import os

try:
	filename = sys.argv[1]
except:
	print("Usage: googlelive_extract.py <image.jpg>")
	exit(0)

statinfo = os.stat(filename)
filesize = statinfo.st_size

with open(filename, 'rb') as f:
    s = f.read()

video_start = s.find(b'\xff\xd9\x00\x00\x00\x18') + 2
video_length = filesize - video_start

print("Photo Size: %d bytes" % video_start)
print("Video Size: %d bytes" % video_length)

with open(os.path.splitext(filename)[0] + '_static.jpg', 'wb') as f:
    f.write(s[0:video_start])
    f.close()

with open(os.path.splitext(filename)[0] + '_video.mp4', 'wb') as f:
    f.write(s[video_start:filesize])
    f.close()