Hmm, are you saying it should work *without the patch* if I give mpv and my terminal app accessibility permissions? Because I already did:
<img width="352" alt="screen shot 2018-09-26 at 3 50 35 pm" src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4149852/46105448-ff308500-c1a3-11e8-9640-62e3d7edd3a7.png">
Anyway, living with the patch is okay for me.
FYI opening files with an app bundle (in my case not even the app bundle provided by mpv, just an automator app running a shell script that launches mpv with certain computed arguments) is fine if accessibility privilege is granted, but using mpv from the command line doesn't seem to benefit from the setting:
```console
$ mpv ...
Assertion failed: (self->_mk_tap_port != nil), function -[EventsResponder startMediaKeys]_block_invoke, file ../osdep/macosx_events.m, line 413.
[1] 3828 abort mpv
```
Pretty annoying.
Edit: Using the #5953 [patch](https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/mpv-player/mpv/pull/5953.diff) for now.