Is there program that can locate commercial breaks?

[althor74]

Is there a program that I can use to locate commercial breaks in an mpeg or avi video file? It seems that there should be a way to run a program that would scan the file and report back that commercials are found at like 3:35-4:37, 15:21-16:18, and 21:23-22:25 for instance... I'd think that the program could simply scan for black space, programs like Tivo can skip commercials so I figured that there'd be a PC program for identifying them as well. Then I can load those times into TMPGEnc to remove the commercials.

One solution I tried was Nandub which allows you so scan to the next "scene". But it jumps to each actual scene change, not commercial spots. I tried changing the scene preference settings with no better luck.

I just hate to spend 15-20 minutes visually scanning a program when there is likely a slick way to automatically do it with another program. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Dennis1968]

Use TMPGEnc. I use it 100% for commerical edits. it is NOT what you are looking for in a TiVo type skip and rebuild.