# Failure with .h5 time series
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/failure-with-h5-time-series/14468
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [April 23, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/failure-with-h5-time-series/14468 "2024-04-23T14:07:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@ProcyonFTA](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ProcyonFTA)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2024, 2:07pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/failure-with-h5-time-series/14468/1 "2024-04-23T14:07:59Z")
Hello everyone,
I want to visualize a 3d cubic dataset stored in h.5 files named as following : test\_0001.h5, test\_0002.h5 etc. I’m using Paraview 5.12 on Linux, the application manages to recognize a group of files, but, when I try to open the group, only one of the file appears in the pipeline. I’ve read a bit on related topics, I’ve tried to add a .series file in the same folder, it doesn’t change anything.
Is this something that can be done ?
Thanks in advance,
Procyon
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### Author:  [@ProcyonFTA](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ProcyonFTA)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2024, 2:09pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/failure-with-h5-time-series/14468/2 "2024-04-23T14:09:19Z")
P.S. here is the .series I’ve used :
[test.h5.series](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/7gtXUzX2i9owl9hlCKh7B9yYzMl.series) (299 Bytes)
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2024, 2:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/failure-with-h5-time-series/14468/3 "2024-04-23T14:11:34Z")
.h5 is not a format, its a container. Which HDF5 specification is this using ?
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### Author:  [@ProcyonFTA](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ProcyonFTA)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/failure-with-h5-time-series/14468/4 "2024-04-23T14:15:38Z")
I hope this answer the question :
HDF5 “test\_0000.h5” {
GROUP “/” {
DATASET “pim” {
DATATYPE H5T\_IEEE\_F64LE
DATASPACE SIMPLE { ( 128, 128, 128 ) / ( 128, 128, 128 ) }
}
DATASET “pp” {
DATATYPE H5T\_IEEE\_F64LE
DATASPACE SIMPLE { ( 128, 128, 128 ) / ( 128, 128, 128 ) }
}
DATASET “pre” {
DATATYPE H5T\_IEEE\_F64LE
DATASPACE SIMPLE { ( 128, 128, 128 ) / ( 128, 128, 128 ) }
}
}
}
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/failure-with-h5-time-series/14468/5 "2024-04-23T14:16:52Z")
Well not really. Unless this correspond to an actual standard, you will need to implement your own reader using python and the libhdf5.
There is no “Raw HDF5 Reader” in ParaView afaik.
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### Author:  [@ProcyonFTA](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ProcyonFTA)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 7:55am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/failure-with-h5-time-series/14468/6 "2024-04-24T07:55:14Z")
Would you have any suggestion for an actual standard specification ?
In any case thank you for your comprehensive reply.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2024, 9:30am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/failure-with-h5-time-series/14468/7 "2024-04-24T09:30:40Z")
They are many hdf5 implementation supported by ParaView.
- VTKHDF
- xdmf
- Flash
- Fluent CFF
- Converge CFD
- Chombo
- GTC
- …