How to join two jpeg files into one mpo file?

[patmik]

Hello everyone,

does someone know how to join two *.jpg files into one *.mpo file?
(mpo stands for multi picture object file format, which is used by the new stereoscopic cameras such as the Fujifilm Finepix Real 3D W3 or the Panasonic GF2 together with the stereoscopic lens)

I have seen a few posts in this forum which cover the other way around, namely extracting two *.jpg files from one *.mpo file using exiftool, but nowhere I could find a way for combining the jpeg files. However, on the exiftool homepage I found that exiftool is supposed to be able to write *.mpo files. Does anyone know what command to use?

In the end I would like to shoot two single images with a standard camera and join them to one *.mpo file which I can then display using a PS3 and the free application "Play Memories" on the PS3. For this I am trying to get together a tool that will rectify the single *.jpg files so that they are nice to watch as stereoscopic 3D image, but I don't know yet how to generate the *.mpo.

Thanks,
Patrick

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Patrick,

Sorry, but ExifTool does not have the ability to write MPO information.  And I don't recall ever coming across a utility with this feature.

- Phil

[patmik]

Hi Phil,

thank you for the quick reply. I thought that exiftool might be able to do the task because on the homepage under supported file types, mpo is listed as r/w.

I'll try to have a look at the mpo standard. Maybe it's not too difficult to understand.

Regards,
Patrick

[Phil Harvey]

Hi Patrick,

Yes, it would have been more correct to say "ExifTool does not have the ability to write MPF information".  It can write other types of metadata to MPO images (EXIF, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, etc), but the MPF information is what stores the multiple pictures, and ExifTool currently has read-only support for this metadata (as seen in the Supported JPEG Meta Information section of the home page, since MPO is basically JPEG format).

- Phil