diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/services/ffmpeg.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/services/ffmpeg.ts
index 5731d37bf..a05a22a50 100644
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/services/ffmpeg.ts
+++ b/web/apps/photos/src/services/ffmpeg.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,10 @@ import {
 } from "constants/ffmpeg";
 import { ElectronFile } from "types/upload";
 import ComlinkFFmpegWorker from "utils/comlink/ComlinkFFmpegWorker";
-import { parseFFmpegExtractedMetadata } from "utils/ffmpeg";
+
+import { validateAndGetCreationUnixTimeInMicroSeconds } from "@ente/shared/time";
+import { NULL_LOCATION } from "constants/upload";
+import { ParsedExtractedMetadata } from "types/upload";
 
 /** Called during upload */
 export async function generateVideoThumbnail(
@@ -77,6 +80,70 @@ export async function extractVideoMetadata(file: File | ElectronFile) {
     }
 }
 
+enum MetadataTags {
+    CREATION_TIME = "creation_time",
+    APPLE_CONTENT_IDENTIFIER = "com.apple.quicktime.content.identifier",
+    APPLE_LIVE_PHOTO_IDENTIFIER = "com.apple.quicktime.live-photo.auto",
+    APPLE_CREATION_DATE = "com.apple.quicktime.creationdate",
+    APPLE_LOCATION_ISO = "com.apple.quicktime.location.ISO6709",
+    LOCATION = "location",
+}
+
+function parseFFmpegExtractedMetadata(encodedMetadata: Uint8Array) {
+    const metadataString = new TextDecoder().decode(encodedMetadata);
+    const metadataPropertyArray = metadataString.split("\n");
+    const metadataKeyValueArray = metadataPropertyArray.map((property) =>
+        property.split("="),
+    );
+    const validKeyValuePairs = metadataKeyValueArray.filter(
+        (keyValueArray) => keyValueArray.length === 2,
+    ) as Array<[string, string]>;
+
+    const metadataMap = Object.fromEntries(validKeyValuePairs);
+
+    const location = parseAppleISOLocation(
+        metadataMap[MetadataTags.APPLE_LOCATION_ISO] ??
+            metadataMap[MetadataTags.LOCATION],
+    );
+
+    const creationTime = parseCreationTime(
+        metadataMap[MetadataTags.APPLE_CREATION_DATE] ??
+            metadataMap[MetadataTags.CREATION_TIME],
+    );
+    const parsedMetadata: ParsedExtractedMetadata = {
+        creationTime,
+        location: {
+            latitude: location.latitude,
+            longitude: location.longitude,
+        },
+        width: null,
+        height: null,
+    };
+    return parsedMetadata;
+}
+
+function parseAppleISOLocation(isoLocation: string) {
+    let location = NULL_LOCATION;
+    if (isoLocation) {
+        const [latitude, longitude] = isoLocation
+            .match(/(\+|-)\d+\.*\d+/g)
+            .map((x) => parseFloat(x));
+
+        location = { latitude, longitude };
+    }
+    return location;
+}
+
+function parseCreationTime(creationTime: string) {
+    let dateTime = null;
+    if (creationTime) {
+        dateTime = validateAndGetCreationUnixTimeInMicroSeconds(
+            new Date(creationTime),
+        );
+    }
+    return dateTime;
+}
+
 /** Called when viewing a file */
 export async function convertToMP4(file: File) {
     try {
diff --git a/web/apps/photos/src/utils/ffmpeg/index.ts b/web/apps/photos/src/utils/ffmpeg/index.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 8a4332a7f..000000000
--- a/web/apps/photos/src/utils/ffmpeg/index.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-import { validateAndGetCreationUnixTimeInMicroSeconds } from "@ente/shared/time";
-import { NULL_LOCATION } from "constants/upload";
-import { ParsedExtractedMetadata } from "types/upload";
-
-enum MetadataTags {
-    CREATION_TIME = "creation_time",
-    APPLE_CONTENT_IDENTIFIER = "com.apple.quicktime.content.identifier",
-    APPLE_LIVE_PHOTO_IDENTIFIER = "com.apple.quicktime.live-photo.auto",
-    APPLE_CREATION_DATE = "com.apple.quicktime.creationdate",
-    APPLE_LOCATION_ISO = "com.apple.quicktime.location.ISO6709",
-    LOCATION = "location",
-}
-
-export function parseFFmpegExtractedMetadata(encodedMetadata: Uint8Array) {
-    const metadataString = new TextDecoder().decode(encodedMetadata);
-    const metadataPropertyArray = metadataString.split("\n");
-    const metadataKeyValueArray = metadataPropertyArray.map((property) =>
-        property.split("="),
-    );
-    const validKeyValuePairs = metadataKeyValueArray.filter(
-        (keyValueArray) => keyValueArray.length === 2,
-    ) as Array<[string, string]>;
-
-    const metadataMap = Object.fromEntries(validKeyValuePairs);
-
-    const location = parseAppleISOLocation(
-        metadataMap[MetadataTags.APPLE_LOCATION_ISO] ??
-            metadataMap[MetadataTags.LOCATION],
-    );
-
-    const creationTime = parseCreationTime(
-        metadataMap[MetadataTags.APPLE_CREATION_DATE] ??
-            metadataMap[MetadataTags.CREATION_TIME],
-    );
-    const parsedMetadata: ParsedExtractedMetadata = {
-        creationTime,
-        location: {
-            latitude: location.latitude,
-            longitude: location.longitude,
-        },
-        width: null,
-        height: null,
-    };
-    return parsedMetadata;
-}
-
-function parseAppleISOLocation(isoLocation: string) {
-    let location = NULL_LOCATION;
-    if (isoLocation) {
-        const [latitude, longitude] = isoLocation
-            .match(/(\+|-)\d+\.*\d+/g)
-            .map((x) => parseFloat(x));
-
-        location = { latitude, longitude };
-    }
-    return location;
-}
-
-function parseCreationTime(creationTime: string) {
-    let dateTime = null;
-    if (creationTime) {
-        dateTime = validateAndGetCreationUnixTimeInMicroSeconds(
-            new Date(creationTime),
-        );
-    }
-    return dateTime;
-}