Thanks, Nathan. Looks like more trouble than it's worth. I tried a down and 
dirty 'strings <path> | grep compress | more' and came up with two instances of 
the word "compression", but no other info. So, I guess I'll just use the "Does 
it take lots longer to cache?" testing method!  ;^)

Rich


On May 21, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Nathan Rusch wrote:

> No, it isn’t.
>  
> Depending on the context from which you need to check the compression scheme, 
> if Python proves too unwieldy, you could also resort to 
> parsing/pattern-matching the output of the exrheader executable.
>  
> -Nathan
> 
>  
> From: Rich Bobo
> Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 11:32 AM
> To: Nuke user discussion
> Subject: Re: [Nuke-users] How to check zip compression type for EXR images...?
>  
> I found this reference and it looks like the OpenEXR module would have what I 
> need, but I'm not sure if it's part of Nuke's Python installation or not...
>  
> http://excamera.com/articles/26/doc/openexr.html
>  
>  
> Rich
>  
> On May 21, 2012, at 2:24 PM, Rich Bobo wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>  
>> Anyone know a quick way to check EXR images to see if they were saved as 
>> 16-scanline zips or single-scanline zips?  ViewMetaData reveals nothing 
>> about the compression type. I'm sure there's a command line invocation that 
>> will show more - I just can't find it...
>>  
>> Thanks for any help,
>>  
>> Rich
>> 
>> 
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