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Port details
py-scenedetect OpenCV-based video scene detection program and Python library
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Maintainer: atanubiswas484@gmail.com search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2025-09-01 22:39:06
Last Update: 2025-09-01 22:36:33
Commit Hash: 2eb0008
Also Listed In: python
License: BSD3CLAUSE
WWW:
https://www.scenedetect.com/
https://github.com/Breakthrough/PySceneDetect/
Description:
PySceneDetect is a command-line application and a Python library for detecting scene changes in videos, and automatically splitting the video into separate clips.
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FreshPorts has no man page information for this port.
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
There is no configure plist information for this port.
USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • no SUBR information found for this port
Dependency lines:
  • ${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}scenedetect>0:multimedia/py-scenedetect@${PY_FLAVOR}
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/multimedia/py-scenedetect/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install multimedia/py-scenedetect
  • pkg install py311-scenedetect
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
NOTE: This is a Python port. Instead of py311-scenedetect listed in the above command, you can pick from the names under the Packages section.
PKGNAME: py311-scenedetect
Package flavors (<flavor>: <package>)
  • py311: py311-scenedetect
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1756240360 SHA256 (scenedetect-0.6.7.tar.gz) = 1a2c73b57de2e1656f7896edc8523de7217f361179a8966e947f79d33e40830f SIZE (scenedetect-0.6.7.tar.gz) = 164213

Packages (timestamps in pop-ups are UTC):
py311-scenedetect
ABIaarch64amd64armv6armv7i386powerpcpowerpc64powerpc64le
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Dependencies
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
Build dependencies:
  1. py311-setuptools>=63.1 : devel/py-setuptools@py311
  2. py311-wheel>=0.37 : devel/py-wheel@py311
  3. python3.11 : lang/python311
  4. py311-build>=0 : devel/py-build@py311
  5. py311-installer>=0 : devel/py-installer@py311
Test dependencies:
  1. py311-pytest>=7,1 : devel/py-pytest@py311
  2. python3.11 : lang/python311
Runtime dependencies:
  1. py311-numpy>=1.16,1<1.27,1 : math/py-numpy@py311
  2. py311-click>=8.0 : devel/py-click@py311
  3. py311-platformdirs>0 : devel/py-platformdirs@py311
  4. py311-tqdm>0 : misc/py-tqdm@py311
  5. ffmpeg : multimedia/ffmpeg
  6. mkvmerge : multimedia/mkvtoolnix
  7. opencv>=0 : graphics/opencv
  8. python3.11 : lang/python311
There are no ports dependent upon this port

Configuration Options:
No options to configure
Options name:
multimedia_py-scenedetect
USES:
python
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  1. https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/s/scenedetect/
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Port Moves

Number of commits found: 2

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
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0.6.7
01 Sep 2025 22:36:33
commit hash: 2eb00081541dc88e41f83b2bc6418384d748fba6commit hash: 2eb00081541dc88e41f83b2bc6418384d748fba6commit hash: 2eb00081541dc88e41f83b2bc6418384d748fba6commit hash: 2eb00081541dc88e41f83b2bc6418384d748fba6 files touched by this commit
Vladimir Druzenko (vvd) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Atanu Biswas
multimedia/py-scenedetect: Update 0.6.6 => 0.6.7, take maintainership

Changelog:
https://www.scenedetect.com/changelog/#pyscenedetect-067-august-24-2025

- Change the master site from GitHub to PYPI as per the FreeBSD Python
  policy.
- Add multimedia/ffmpeg since upstream supports and mentions in the doc
  that it can use mkvmerge or ffmpeg.

PR:	289116
0.6.6
01 Sep 2025 22:36:32
commit hash: ecc9690759d2c653a046e60ad5322936ec12a66dcommit hash: ecc9690759d2c653a046e60ad5322936ec12a66dcommit hash: ecc9690759d2c653a046e60ad5322936ec12a66dcommit hash: ecc9690759d2c653a046e60ad5322936ec12a66d files touched by this commit
Vladimir Druzenko (vvd) search for other commits by this committer
Author: Atanu Biswas
multimedia/py-PySceneDetect: Rename to multimedia/py-scenedetect

Renamed the port to scenedetect, as this is the name that is used in
PYPI: https://pypi.org/project/scenedetect/
Following "Python Ports Policy":
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Python/PortsPolicy#PORTNAME

PR:	289116

Number of commits found: 2