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HDFVIEW is pretty good, but are there any alternatives?

It would be great to be able to change things like chunking/compression settings - hdfview doesn't have that functionality - without having to resort loading the files in using Java/python/whatever.

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    A list of software is available at https://support.hdfgroup.org/tools5desc.html – lib Dec 07 '16 at 10:46
  • @lib Link is dead as of Dec 2017. Pretty sure this is the new path: https://support.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5_tools/ – DeusXMachina Dec 12 '17 at 17:20
  • Anyone still looking here, HDFCompass works very well for me (ubuntu 18.04) although it doesn't support editing: https://support.hdfgroup.org/projects/compass/ It's available in ubuntu software center. – Deruijter Apr 01 '19 at 09:09

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You can check out vitables. It can read both pytables and HDF5 formats.

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  • Annoyingly, I can't get it to install as it requires python 2.7: The following packages have unmet dependencies. vitables: Depends: python (>= 2.7.1-0ubuntu2) but 2.6.5-0ubuntu1 is to be installed – tdc Jan 18 '12 at 11:03
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    vitables can edit group nodes. data in leaves can not be edit yet – zhangailin May 24 '13 at 02:59
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    Never a good sign when you have to build the documentation, and there's no documentation for how to build the documentation. Especially for a user interface project. And there are dependencies for building the documentation. – Josh Sep 22 '14 at 15:31
  • Seems quite outdated using `collections.Iterable` which is not working in new Python versions. When I fixed this had problems reading my h5 files claiming variable length strings are not supported yet. So it is not a good option. – VojtaK Jun 26 '23 at 10:25
  • Try `pip install hdf5view` use `hdf5view -f h5` AD2023. – VojtaK Jul 12 '23 at 14:58
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Panoply has worked quite well for me in terms of visualization: it draws maps! Seeing the raw data... that's a bit harder.

Panoply screenshot

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