Any alternatives to HDFView software?

Hello,

Are there any other sources of an HDF viewer software other than HDFView from The HDF Group? In particular, one that is installed via a .exe file rather than a .msi file.

I had been using HDFView, but our new IT Group Policy prevents us from installing .msi files (the HDFView installer is a .msi file).

I realize that Matlab has the h5info function, which is helpful, but not as useful as HDFView for viewing the contents of an h5 file.

Answer 1

[Shadaab Siddiqie]

From my understanding you want to view contents from a h5 file. Please refer h5disp.

[Anthony Cook]

Thank you; I was not aware of h5disp.

While h5disp is also useful, it still has two shortcomings compared to HDFView software:

1) Complex hdf files with many groups and group levels can be cumbersome to view in a long text-style display printout.

2) HDFView allows a user to view the groups and subgroups in a folder-type graphical format, and also allows the user to drill down into each data group and do a quick view of the data contents, which is sometimes useful when in development mode.

Using the text-display-style output of h5disp and saving the output of h5info to a MATLAB structure will be suitable for the short term, while still searching to find an alternative 3rd party software similar to HDFView.

Answer 2

[Xinyue Ma]

A simple hdf5 viewer: https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/157826-hdf5viewer