Tool to find blank spots

[nesburf]

Hi all,

I'm looking to see if a tool exists, that will accept the input of either a wav for avi file and scan through it and find all the blank spots, and report the timecodes.

Essentially, what I am doing is capture numerous 2hr 8mm tapes that have 2-3 second blank spots throughout the tape. Instead of manually trying to find them all, I'm wondering if there is a way at least to automate the process of finding the spots. I would then use VirtualDub to remove them.

Thanks.

[AlanHK]

Actually, this is done often to split a single track of a music album into separate tracks.
Look for a feature like"silence detection" in audio tools.

E.g., the Audacity audio editor has this Silence Finder


If you use Avisynth, the final post in this thread looks promising:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=164864