It may be appreciated that pre-processing steps, including downsampling, feature extraction, etc. may reduce the precision of comparisons of media content to some degree. This may provide a benefit, as the systems described herein may identify content that is substantially the same while disregarding negligible differences (e.g., such as differences that may arise during separate encoding processes rather than differences that may arise due to human-originating edits to content). As will be described in greater detail below, systems described herein may compare the media content according to parameters that provide a meaningful degree of precision.

Method 200, at step 220, next includes comparing first temporally sequenced content represented by the first media data object with second temporally sequenced content represented by the second media data object to identify a set of common temporal subsequences between the first media data object and the second media data object.

As mentioned above, systems described herein may compare the first and second temporally sequenced content by comparing segments of the first and second temporally sequenced content. For example, these systems may divide the first temporally sequenced content into a first sequence of segments and may divide the second temporally sequenced content into a second sequence of segments.