PySceneDetect v0.6.4

Release Notes

Includes new histogram and perceptual hash based detectors (thanks @wjs018 and @ash2703), adds flash filter to content detector, and includes various bugfixes. Below shows the scores of the new detectors normalized against detect-content for comparison on a difficult segment with 3 cuts:

Feedback on the new detection methods and their default values is most welcome. Thanks to everyone who contributed for their help and support!

Changelog

• [feature] New detectors:
  • detect-hist / HistogramDetector #295 #53
  • detect-hash / HashDetector #290
• [feature] Add flash suppression filter for detect-content / ContentDetector (enabled by default) #35 #53
  • Reduces number of cuts generated during strobing or flashing effects
  • Can be configured using --filter-mode option
  • --filter-mode = merge (new default) merges consecutive scenes shorter than min-scene-len
  • --filter-mode = suppress (previous default) disables generating new scenes until min-scene-len has passed
• [feature] Add more templates for save-images filename customization: $TIMECODE, $FRAME_NUMBER, $TIMESTAMP_MS (thanks @Veldhoen0) #395
• [bugfix] Remove extraneous console output when using --drop-short-scenes
• [bugfix] Fix scene lengths being smaller than min-scene-len when using detect-adaptive / AdaptiveDetector with large values of --frame-window
• [bugfix] Fix crash when decoded frames have incorrect resolution and log error instead #319
• [bugfix] Update default ffmpeg stream mapping from -map 0 to -map 0:v:0 -map 0:a? -map 0:s? #392