Drive-in 1.0.0.43 review

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Drive-in is an innovative application that allows you to store your personal DVD movie library on your Mac.

License: Freeware
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 1K
Developer: Telestream
Price: $0.00
Updated: 30 Dec 2006
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Drive-in is an innovative application that allows you to store your personal DVD movie library on your Mac. It is now available as a public beta.

Using Drive-in you can create an image of a DVD disc on your laptop or home entertainment system. The image preserves the quality, navigation and special features of the original DVD and can be played using Apple’s DVD Player or Front Row.

Drive-in preserves the DVD’s original content protection. Drive-in allows you to play your images on any computer that you own but does not allow you to share your images with others.

To simplify the way you search and access your videos, we've added some helpful information like the DVD cover art, names of actors, movie description, etc.  
Once you've stored movies to your HDD - just browse, select and play!

What's New:
You can now select your local Amazon server for downloading movie information.
Drive-in now supports EANs (European Article Numbers) and JANs (Japanese Article Numbers) in addition to UPCs (Universal Product Codes).
The new expiration date for this public beta is January 16th, 2007.
Fixed a bug that prevented the physical DVD from being ejected using the "Eject Disc" menu item in the "DVD" menu.
Fixed a bug that occasionally caused a crash when closing a case window.
Valet is now stored inside the Drive-in application bundle, to avoid confusion. You will never need to launch it yourself.
Control over what application gets launched when a DVD is inserted is now available in Drive-in's preference dialog. You can choose to launch Drive-in, DVD Player, another application, or to be prompted each time.
Hitting the return key while editing an image file name will cause the editing to end, and the next cell in the column will not become editable.
Drive-in can now distinguish between when a case is opened from the Finder, and when it is opened using the Open Recent menu. Therefore, Drive-in will no longer automatically insert and/or play any cases that are opened from the Open Recent menu.
Drive-in will now warn you if DVD Player is running when you are about to create a DVD image. Drive-in will also prevent you from playing a disc while your are imaging that disc, because having two programs simultaneously reading the disc can slow your computer down dramatically.
Fixed a bug that caused DVD Player to crash when you tried to play an image and DVD Player was already playing something else. Drive-in now tells DVD Player to quit and relaunches it each time you want to play an image.
The DVD images table now responds to double clicking on the icon for an image by playing it. Double clicking on the name still responds by allowing you to edit the name.
When you are asked if you are sure you want to add the DVD image to a case, the icon of the dialog is now the case thumbnail, and the name of both the DVD and the case are now displayed.
The imaging thread now makes sure that the new image file has a filename that is unique to the case it resides in. This is done silently and improves on the previous method that displayed a sheet explaining that you had to rename the existing image yourself.
All pending edits to the metadata or the image file table are committed when you save.
Fixed a bug that caused the case icons to be generic file icons whenever the Finder window containing them was open while they were saved.
Any metadata field that has a value of nothing, or of only whitespace, or of the keyword "Unknown" (any capitalization) will not appear when the info is locked. It will appear if the info is editable. This allows you to hide unwanted fields by making them empty.
Drive-in will no longer allow you to delete an image while it is mounted, and displays a dialog explaining that you must eject the image before you can delete it.
Added code to prevent the Finder from allowing a physical DVD from being ejected (or unmounted) while we are imaging it.
Fixed a display problem that caused the shadows under raised editor fields to not be redrawn when the field editor resized.
Drive-in now prevents you from changing image is not rendered unplayable.

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