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 dvd2mkv.
One interesting little feature I added is that now you can rip the same disc in one or more session at the same time. Something I don’t recommend in the least, since it increases the disc readtime quite a bit. However, sooner or later, I’ll have it so you can pass bend --rip in one shell, and bend --rip --dvd_device /dev/dvd1 in the other. That can come in handy if you have more than one DVD drive and want to rip more stuff at once.