[Paraview] timestepping

[Thomas Geenen]

dear paraview users,

I would like to be able to store multiple time steps in a single
vtk_xml file (no problem) and process them with paraview.
Storing multiple time steps is supported in the vtk xml format however
when opening such a file paraview tells me that there is only a single
timestep. googling for some usefull comments resulted in some
unsettling info. It seems that this is indeed not supported in
paraview and that i will have to use the paraview format. however
however this file type is more or less a list of vtk xml files (if I
understood correctly). Does that mean that if i want to use any vtk
based storage method i will have to store each time step in a separate
file? and does this also mean that i will have to store the mesh info
for each time step? We work with a fixed mesh and i am looking at
storing hundreds of timestep.

thanks
Thomas