Split video at sceene cuts?

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Hey everyone, I was considering working on a simple H.264 parallel encoding program, yes, others exist like ELDER and x264farm, but I would like to make one that suits my needs, and I havent coded anything in awhile, so i thought it would be fun.

So, I was planning to split the video track into multiple pieces and encode each separately on different machines and then combine them all back when finished. Then I thought that it would be better if the video track was split at scene cuts, that way there would be less of a chance that it would mess up I frame placement.

So, (1) am I correct in this assumption? or does it not matter? or am I missing something still? (2) How can I go about splitting the video at these scenecuts? I know some muxing tools (mkvmerge) can split the output at certain sizes, lengths, or timecodes, but I cant find anything to split it at scenecuts.

Thanks