[Paraview] Newbie Paraview support

[David E DeMarle]

hdf5 is a meta file format, capable of storing anything at all, so vtk
and paraview need help interpreting what the contents actually mean.
The recommended way to do that is to use xdmf, in which a separate
text file describes the data in the file, and in particular the
entries that are spatial in nature and which scientific visualization
tools handle best.

If the data is spatial in nature, you could then write an xdmf file to
help paraview read it, or you could try John Biddiscombe's hdf5
introspector which creates xdmf files for you.

If the data is not spatial in nature you will need to find a different
reader that produce vtkTables and vtkGraphs instead of vtkDataSets.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909



On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:15 AM, Russell Dyson <r.dyson at chester.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm requiring some technical support for Paraview, which I hope will be a
> fantastic tool for realising my research goals.
>
> I'm trying to load a HDF5 file from the Million Song Dataset:
>
> http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/
>
> Presently, I'm testing on a much smaller subset (300mb) of the main 2.8Gb
> file:
>
> http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/millionsong/sites/default/files/AdditionalFiles/msd_summary_file.h5
>
> When I attempt to load this .h5 file into Paraview, I am presented with a
> choice of 'readers'. In short, none of these readers work. They either
> result in an error, or crash Paraview.
>
> Can you offer any assistance as regards successfully loading the HDF5 file?
>
> Thanks in advance in anticipation of your response.
>
>
>
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