Sandboxing rule MplayerX leaves Mac App Store
The open-source multimedia player MplayerX will leave the Mac App Store. The announced the main developer and told to meet Apple's sandboxing requirement the player software would have to lose a lot of features, which MplayerX would degenerate into a lame QuickTime X alternative - that will be the designer, have debated three months with Apple not accept.
Similar arguments had already led to even the text expander 4 the Mac App Store recently absent. Since 1 June 2012 calls from new Apple apps that are sold in the Mac App Store sandboxing support - applications can thus only in severe form of access to the system and other apps. MplayerX the developers explained that this was a good protection against malware, the player software would thereby however features like the automatic loading of subtitles or Advancing to the next movie impossible.
In the recently published and available on the project website version 1.0.16 the developer has implemented an additional mechanism to facilitate the automatic updating of the open-source software which is based on the code of FFmpeg and MPlayer. He also hopes to soon be able to bring a version 1.0.15 in the Mac App Store, but it will offer limited functionality and the final version will be published there.
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