1. An article of manufacture comprising: a non-transitory machine-readable medium; and instructions stored on the medium and operable to cause a programmable processor to perform: providing an option to a user to search for a slideshow type video file, along with a query that specifies video file content to be searched; receiving a search query for video files of a desired type; extracting at least a portion from a video file corresponding to the content of the search query to determine if the video file is a slideshow type video file, comprising: generating a frame difference based histogram and an active pixel based histogram for the portion, wherein the active pixel based histogram is generated based on count of pixels above a threshold value in the frame difference based histogram; providing the frame difference based histogram and the active pixel based histogram to a machine learning tool; determining an indicator for the portion based on a plurality of parameters, wherein the plurality of parameters comprise sign vectors, feature vectors, weight vectors and threshold vectors associated with the portion; classifying the video file as the desired type based on the indicator; and responsive to the video file comprising a slideshow type video file, providing the video file to the user.