![]() What I find most interesting about Drive-in is that it achieves the one goal that buying movies from the iTunes Store or using a tool like Handbrake to extract video from a DVD cannot - providing access to commentary and other special features. To prevent piracy, Drive-in also ties each image file it creates to the registration code of the user who creates it (though that code can be used on multiple computers). That file can then be mounted and is treated by the Mac as if it were an actual DVD that you had inserted into the computer. This is because Drive-in is actually copying the entire DVD to a disk image file. This means that you have access to all the DVD menus and special features, including alternate audio tracks and commentary. The most well known such tool is probably Handbrake, which allows you to easily encode video for playback within iTunes (or for syncing to an iPod or Apple TV).ĭrive-in is different in that it captures the entire contents of the DVD. Tools for capturing video from a DVD and storing it on your Mac are not new. Flip4Mac recently announced the public beta of Drive-in, an application that allows you to create and store disk images of DVD movies for playback on your Mac (their FAQ indicates they may also be working on a Windows version - no big surprise given that Flip4Mac is best known for developing Windows Media Components for QuickTime and thus enabling Mac users to view Windows Media files).
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