A favorite way for the kids to pass time in the car on long trips is to watch movies. I've thought for a while it would be better to have their DVD collection on a laptop's hard drive, instead of needing their disc folder (which always seems to end up on the floor of the car, anyway).
I just ran across this post, and can't wait to give it a try. I've used DVD Decrypter before, I just never knew about auto Gordian knot...hopefully, this will make it easy to store movies on the hard drive and watch them at will.