Zathura-pdf-mupdf does not run media file links (error: Could not determine file type) #44
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On GitLab by @1729absr on Nov 23, 2022, 22:53
It has been a great experience to use Zathura as a document viewer. Zathura-pdf-mupdf works great, and I think it is even better than Zathura's poppler plugin (in terms of speed and its recolor and recolor-keephue). Zathura-pdf-poppler has only one superior point, and that is its ability to open file links:
I use latex-beamer for making presentations. It is well known that it is a nightmare to include videos in a pdf file using latex. A way around the problem is to use links to media flies
\href{run:path/to/file}{Text to be displayed} or
\movie[]{}{file_to_run}
If I click on the generated link, then the file will open in a media player.
This expected behavior will happen in any pdf viewer, and also if I use Zathura-pdf-poppler but in the case of mupdf it will open another Zathura shell, and the following error will be produced:
<error: Could not determine file type>
I love Zathura with mupdf, but just for presentation, I have to use the poppler plugin.
Please have a look into this issue.