/LivePhotoWeb

How to display Apple Live Photos online

Primary LanguageHTML

LivePhotoWeb

How to display Apple Live Photos on a website. Please be aware that this is just a silly hack. It currently only works in Desktop browsers, though I'm looking into making it work on mobile too.

How does it work

  1. Copy Live Photos from your iPhone with "Image Capture" (OS X), they consist of a IMG_123.JPG and IMG_123.MOV.
  2. Convert the IMG_123.MOV to IMG_123.MP4 with Handbreak.
  3. Embed the image and video like in the index.html example in this repo. You're done :).

Problems with Mobile

  • iOS on iPhone doesn't allow video to be played inline.
  • iOS and Android interprete clicking the image as long press

License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2015 Theo Winter

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