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Depending on your setup, you might could stream the DVDs over your network. Surely you could somehow share the drive.

I appreciate the suggestion. I tried that a few years ago, but Mac OS' built-in DVD sharing only works on discs without copy protection. Then I spent a few nights trying to get VLC to stream a disc from my PC but couldn't get that working either.

If anybody's got experience along this line of thought I'm interested; it could be a viable way forward as I have several desktops (Win/Lin/Mac) with optical drives.

My guess is that sharing from Linux would give you more options in terms of how to work around the copy protection.

I don't know if you use Docker, but a seriously weird sharing workaround could be to use a Samba share to mount in Finder, pointed to your drive on Linux... I made a Docker repo that could probably be modified to fit this use case: https://github.com/jzombie/sshfs-mac-docker

Another solution, that would most definitely work, would be using something like NoMachine or Parsec to just stream the desktop to your other computer. Parsec would probably give you really good quality as well.

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