FIELD: information technology.
SUBSTANCE: predetermined additional data related to the content item are received, the additional data comprising attribute data describing substantially the whole content item, a content-analysis processor is used for analysing the content stream so as to detect whether the content stream corresponds to the attribute data, and the boundary of the content item is identified in the content stream when the correspondence changes to non-conformity with predetermined attributes, or vice versa. The attribute data may indicate the genre of a movie, the music style of a song or a sequence of genres/music styles. The content-analysis processor utilises the attribute data to detect whether the content stream belongs to the content item by analysing the content stream so as to detect the correspondence of the content stream to the attribute data.
EFFECT: high accuracy of finding content boundaries.
12 cl, 3 dwg
