'Can external multimedia files linked to pdf documents launch external applications in the macOS pdf-viewer Preview?

I have generated a beamer pdf containing a link to an external player in order to play a sound. I am opening it with the macOS pdf viewer preview and when I hover the mouse pointer over the clickable text, the location of the .wav file is shown but when I click on the text nothing happens. Here is the minimal working example:

\documentclass{beamer}
\usepackage{multimedia}

\begin{document}
\sound[externalviewer]{test}{sound.wav}
\end{document}
macoslatexpdf-generationbeamerpdf-viewer


Solution 1:[1]

Macs Preview.app is known to not play nicely with the multimedia package.

I suggest to use another pdf viewer instead. For example, your code works fine with

  • adobe reader
  • skim

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