Due to the great and rapid development in the electronic field, the spread of the Internet, and the diversity of social media, the spread and transmission of data have become an important matter in different areas of life. The video is one of the most important of this information, which includes a lot of information that requires storing and retrieving a large database. Therefore, video structure analysis is the basis for facilitating the video search process based on its contents, indexing, and retrieval. In this research, we will present a survey of the video structure analysis process, the basic concepts and all related processing steps, the procedures used in each method, and the most prominent works used in each step.