Category Archives: bend / dvd2mkv

ask, and ye shall receive

One of my biggest beefs about media players (if you haven’t noticed yet) is the lack of support for my favorite media wrapper, Matroska. If you don’t know what that is, just ask me next time I’m around, and watch … Continue reading

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changeset #10

I’ve run out of interesting titles for my ‘bend’ updates, so I figure the changeset # is just as non-entertaining. I hit a critical point today in the coding — I’m finally at a point (again) where I’d use the … Continue reading

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another update

I only worked on ‘bend’ a little bit today. The main new feature is that ripping works 100% now, and I’ve cleaned up a lot of old bugs. Encoding is the last thing left, and then I can finish up … Continue reading

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big changes

I’m a little tired. I ended up working on bend all day today (check out the huge changelog, I just checked it in). I got a lot of good stuff done though, and learned lots too. I’ve done a rewrite … Continue reading

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cleaning up old code

I’m working on my ‘bend’ script tonight, cleaning up some old code that’s been irking me. Ugh. This is one of those projects that it would have gone a lot smoother if I had put all my pseudo code on … Continue reading

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new trac setup

I setup a new trac project for bend: http://wonkabar.org/bend I included a very mini howto on the wiki if you want to try it out — dvd2mkv, at least … bend would be far too complex and confusing right now. … Continue reading

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bend / dvd2mkv madness

You know you’ve been neglecting your pet project for a while when you try to run it and your system is missing one of the required libraries. Whoops. Just yesterday I found a program that is going to help me … Continue reading

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dvd2mkv magic

My little dvd2mkv script is coming along. You can actually pop in a DVD, run the script and come back a few hours later and you’ll have a nice shiny Matroska file complete with chapters and all. I’m actually pretty … Continue reading

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bend and dvd2mkv

I’ve been working on bend a lot lately (my PHP script to rip DVDs), and am taking a break to work on a different script — dvd2mkv. dvd2mkv will basically be a somewhat interactive PHP script to rip a DVD, … Continue reading

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