How to tell the colorspace of an AVI file

[troyvcd1]

I have avi files that were captured from my minidv cam. I have been assuming that they were YUY2 when I do my AVIsynth conversions but I dont know for sure. I tried looking at them with gspot and this does not tell the colorspace. Is there some free utility that can do this for me.

[ImaWeTodd]

From the Avisynth Manual

Info(clip clip)

Present in v2.5. It gives info of a clip printed in the left corner of the clip. The info consists of the colorspace, size, fps, whether it is field or frame based, whether there is audio, the number of channels, sample type and the samplerate.

example:

AviSource("C:\filename.avi").Info # results in a video with information in the left corner:

ColorSpace: YV12
Width 480, Height 576
fps: 25
fieldbased video: no
parity: parity unknown
video pitch: 960 bytes
has audio: yes
audio channels: 6
sample type: integer 16 bit
samples per second: 44100

[troyvcd1]

Thanks that sounds good. I am still using avisynth 2.08 for now. Any other meathod?????

[sterno]

I think if you open the file in VirtualDub and get the file information it shows you the colorspace (and a number of other useful things).