How to find the timestamps of all cuts of a video

[Danny1]

Sorry another newbie question! Thanks for the help so far btw.

I want to compute the sequences of a video. Basically every time the video changes/cut from one scene to the next I want to get that timestamp. You can do that by hand but I want it automated.
Basically. Input: video file. Output: all the timestamps of each cut. (I'm not talking about the scenes of a dvd.)
I define a cut where the image is entirely different from the image before.

Is there a program that do that in any shape or form?

Thank you.

[newpball]

DaVinci can do it, also I believe there is an Avisynth filter for it.

Problem is that it is seldom 100% accurate. What for our minds may be "an entirely different image", the computer may 'argue' that.

[Danny1]

Thanks but this thing "DaVinci" is so not intuitive, I'm giving up on this. Deinstalled. Login? Really? No minimise/maximise? All black windows. No export video? After 10 minutes of fumbling with this demon I can finally add a folder but I still can't export the videos in it. Who made this thing "black magic gangsta" really people.

And Avisynth with a "filter", doesn't help me.

[newpball]

Thanks but this thing "DaVinci" is so not intuitive, I'm giving up on this. Deinstalled. Login? Really? No minimise/maximise? All black windows. No export video? After 10 minutes of fumbling with this demon I can finally add a folder but I still can't export the videos in it. Who made this thing "black magic gangsta" really people.

And Avisynth with a "filter", doesn't help me.

http://avisynth.nl/index.php/MVTools2/MSCDetection

Can't vouch for the quality.

[hello_hello]

VirtualDub can navigate from one scene to the next and you can adjust the sensitivity if you think it's getting it wrong. It's not automated in the sense of giving you a list though. You'd need to use the scene navigation buttons and write down the timecode or frame number yourself each time when it stops on each scene change. I just gave it a test after opening an MKV with the ffmpeg input plugin (as it'll open just about anything) and scene change detection still seemed pretty good using the default settings.

(There's a link to the ffmepg input diver on the VideoHelp VirtualDub page but it's quit old. I guess it must have moved house at some stage. There's a far more recent version here)

[Danny1]

That thing with virtual dub kind of work-ish...the result is not very satisfying and way too slow, I would need to stand on my ass for like 30min for each 1H30 of video. I can just do it all manually then and that would be faster. I haven't made that avisynth work yet, can't open a mkv/mp4... I found another program that does it too, but only the source code I don't know yet how to compile it. By the way it's called Shot transition detection or Shot boundary detection.
I'll look at it later, I'm bit bored with it. For the life of me, I installed like a dozen programs each asking for yet another program to be installed and I'm not there yet.