PySceneDetect Documentation

This documentation covers the PySceneDetect command-line interface (the scenedetect command) and Python API (the scenedetect module). The latest release of PySceneDetect can be installed via pip install scenedetect[opencv]. Windows builds and source releases can be found at scenedetect.com/download. Note that PySceneDetect requires ffmpeg or mkvmerge for video splitting support.

Note

If you see any errors in the documentation, or want to suggest improvements, feel free to raise an issue on the PySceneDetect issue tracker.

The latest source code for PySceneDetect can be found on Github at github.com/Breakthrough/PySceneDetect.

Table of Contents

scenedetect Command Reference 🖥️

scenedetect Python Module 🐍

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