[Breakthrough]

Funny you should mention that - initially home videos were what I was doing this with, as I was unable to find any existing programs that could handle them reliably (or had various shortcomings, or weren't hackable/extensible, etc...). Then I realized that what I came up with actually competed pretty well with the existing solutions (benchmarks below [1]), so decided to open source it and share it with the world.

Of course, the project is still very basic in it's current form, but does offer a good platform for testing more advanced scene detection methodologies (and has also been used as a baseline in various research/academic contexts). There's been plenty of suggestions for other detection methods (e.g. using histograms) which I'm very interested in looking into adding for future releases.

Lastly, one thing I do want to address going forwards is the performance, to make the algorithms more suitable for real-time systems (have decided to rewrite the core algorithms in C++ when I have some time, and interface that with the Python library/CLI). That being said, I'm always open to feedback or different ways of approaching things. If you or anyone else has any feedback or suggestions, feel free to create a new issue on the Github issue tracker [2] and I would be happy to discuss the possibility of including it in a future release of PySceneDetect.

[1] https://github.com/albanie/shot-detection-benchmarks

[2] https://github.com/Breakthrough/PySceneDetect/issues