cuts is then calculated a frame having the desired ratio is selected the ratio of the selected frame is compared to a threshold value a scene cut is reported as detected responsive to a determination that the ratio of the selected frame satisfies the threshold value application_number US 1496301 A description in accordance with the principles of the present invention scene cut detection is performed by collecting data on the number of forward and backward predicted macroblocks in each inter frame p or bi directional b frame analyzing them on a sub gop level each anchor frame along with preceding b frames without considering each frame independently it is to be understood that the present invention may be implemented in various forms of hardware software firmware special purpose processors or a combination thereof in one exemplary embodiment the present invention is implemented in software as an application program tangibly embodied on a program storage device the application program may be uploaded to and executed by a machine comprising any suitable architecture preferably the machine is implemented on a computer platform having hardware such as one or more central processing units cpu a random access memory ram and input output i o interface s the computer platform also includes an operating system and micro instruction code the various processes and functions described herein may either be part of the micro instruction code or part of the application program or a combination thereof which is executed via the operating system in addition various other peripheral devices may be connected to the computer platform such as an additional data storage device s and a printing.