# Reading Data from HDF5 File
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reading-data-from-hdf5-file/2566
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 16, 2019, 11:36am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reading-data-from-hdf5-file/2566 "2019-09-16T11:36:57Z")
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### Author:  [@Pat](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Pat)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2019, 11:36am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reading-data-from-hdf5-file/2566/1 "2019-09-16T11:36:57Z")
Hello, Has anyone successfully read data from an HDF5 file? I am having difficulties reading in my data which contains ~100 data slices. I can put my H5 into Paraviews pipeline, it will recognize the path within the H5 file but when I hit apply to load/ render the data I get hit with a slew of errors. I am most likely doing something incorrectly when it comes to loading/rendering.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [September 17, 2019, 4:02am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reading-data-from-hdf5-file/2566/2 "2019-09-17T04:02:52Z")
HDF5 is not, in itself, a format.
ParaView supports a few formats based on HDF5 :
- TRUCHAS HDF5 (.h5 files)
- VERA OUT HDF5 (.h5 files)
- H5Part (.h5part files)
- ENZO AMR particles (.boundary .hierarchy files)
- Xdmf2 (.xmf files)
- Xdmf3 (.xmf files)
The most popular of these formats with ParaView is Xdmf2. It is also well documented, so I would suggest using that. Of course, that depends of the actual format of your data.
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2024, 8:18am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/reading-data-from-hdf5-file/2566/3 "2024-01-03T08:18:29Z")
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