Determine current colorspace of a video file?

[mlong30]

Hi All,

How can I check to see what the current color space is of a video file?

Thanks.

[poisondeathray]

ffmpeg -i input.ext

or info() in avisynth

But avisynth results will depend on how you've loaded the video; some decoders may output different colorspace . ffmpeg will always use libav for decoding

If you know some details about the file, you can often determine the result just by that knowledge (e.g. DVD will always be YV12)

mediainfo can provide some details as well, but it's not always correct