Category Archives: bend / dvd2mkv
wrapper script for disc_id
I wrote a little wrapper script for disc_id tonight, available here. disc_id is a little binary that ships with libdvdread, or at least, it used to in older versions. I use disc_id to give me a unique 32-character string of … Continue reading
Filed under bend / dvd2mkv, Gentoo, Multimedia, Programming
playlist resume
I wrote about this a little bit a while back, wrt mplayer-resume, that I wanted to work on a way to resume playback from a playlist as well using MPlayer. Well, I finally sat down and figured it out last … Continue reading
Filed under bend / dvd2mkv, Gentoo, Multimedia, MythTV
bend, drip, mythvideo
Here’s something I haven’t written about in a long time — bend, my custom written CLI PHP5 scripts to rip and encode TV shows. I actually rewrote the entire thing over Labor Day weekend. What’s amazing is it took so … Continue reading
Filed under bend / dvd2mkv, Gentoo, Multimedia
mplayer-resume-1.5
A bug in MythVideo inspired me to work on fixing mplayer-resume tonight, so that it can properly handle movies with filenames. I don’t know why I didn’t think about this before, but it’s simple if the file is properly escaped … Continue reading
Filed under bend / dvd2mkv, Entertainment, Gentoo, MPlayer, Multimedia, MythTV
preparing for dts
Now that I’ve got my mythbox all setup properly (I screwed up LVM2 and lost all my data, twice, trying to remove harddrives … meh), I’m back to ripping my DVDs again. This time I’m using dvd2mkv, my custom little … Continue reading
Filed under bend / dvd2mkv, Entertainment
dvd ripping scripts
I was lucky enough to catch Martin’s post on Planet Larry today about undvd, a script he’s working on — very cool, Martin, I love it. I’m actually working on one of my own, or have been for a while, … Continue reading
Filed under bend / dvd2mkv, Gentoo, Multimedia
dvds, cartoons, audio tracks and matroska
The bug has once again bitten me to get all my multimedia on demand, even though it is an enormous time-consuming and costly process. This is probably round three or four for me trying to do this. This time around, … Continue reading
Filed under bend / dvd2mkv, MPlayer
download mplayer-resume
It’s far from glamorous, but I’ve setup a directory where you can download the latest version of mplayer-resume, in all of its 2.7k glory! Sweet. I also submitted the “project” to freshmeat, so hopefully that will give it a little … Continue reading
Filed under bend / dvd2mkv, Computers, MPlayer, Multimedia
absolute insanity
Uncle Scrooge always had a great saying that he said someone taught him — “Work smarter, not harder.” Gosh, I still remember that Duck Tales episode from fifteen years ago or so. Now that’s crazy. That’s what I’m doing though … Continue reading
Filed under bend / dvd2mkv, Computers, MPlayer, Multimedia, Transcode
fun with mplayer: save / resume playback script
I must be on a roll. I just got my other big problem with mplayer solved: resuming playback. It turns out that MPlayer has a lot more slave / LIRC events than I knew about, and one of them is … Continue reading
Filed under bend / dvd2mkv, Computers, MPlayer, Multimedia
