Re: mat file opening

[Ben Abbott]

On Apr 13, 2012, at 3:27 PM, Levente Torok wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
> 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Moving this discussion to the help list.
>> 
>> On 13 April 2012 09:56, Levente Torok <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I have a problem in opening a mat file from matlab.
>>> https://rapidshare.com/files/3338344935/cora_wd.mat
>> 
>> Ew, rapidshare. Re-uploaded:
>> 
>>    http://jordi.platinum.linux.pl/tmp/cora_wd.mat
>> 
>>> Is there a good way I can debug this case, or can anybody help me what
>>> the problem is?
>> 
>> I don't know much about Matlab formats, but is this an HDF5 file using
>> compression?
>> 
>> - Jordi G. H.
> 

> Hi Jordi,
> 
> Well I don't know how to reverse engineer this format.
> hdfview doesn't like it at all.
> How did the developers of load function do it before?
> 
> Someone using windows + total commander might be more successful with
> opening it and checking the content have a hint on the format.
> I have no clue where to go with it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Lev


The first line indicates the file was supposed to be Matlab -v5. That's an old 
format, and is not dependent on HDF5.

        MATLAB 5.0 MAT-file, Platform: PCWIN64, Created on: Fri Feb 11 20:43:10 
2011

My guess, is the file has been corrupted.

Ben