Converting Library from DVD

[EDIT] The formatting was terrible, I was using indentation and the formatter stripped them out.

I have a lot of content that I want to move from DVD to online so that I can play it with my DSM-330, Connected on my PC, and maybe other devices (don't have any others right now, but you have to figure that there will be more.)

Leaving aside Audio and Photos, I'll concentrate on Video.

I have four basic kinds of content:

Television/Animation

Basically children's videos and Tv shows, mostly low-resolution up to about PAL/SECAM. Often there's a subtitle track with closed-captions and typically just one AC3 audio track. The content may be episodic, but it's not very important to know the chapter divisions. This probably is a third of the content I have.

Episodic Content

TV shows with episodes on seperate chapters (not program chains (PGCs)

It's pretty important to get chapters here, but otherwise they are the same as the Television/Animation. This is a pretty small population.

Basic Film Content

Simple movies, often in low resolution. Max would probably be 720p. Often they are old movies, usually with one soundtrack, one or two subtitle tracks. You don't have to have chapters but it would be helpful. Sometimes you have multiple PGCs (i.e., I have several DVDs with "collections" of old movies on them, like a "Alfred Hitchcock the Legend Begins" for $5 from WalMart. The content isn't exactly high-quality, but I like these kinds of movies. I'd like to have all of the data, but I don't want to waste a lot of space on them. This is probably half of the content i have.

High End Film Content

Here I want everything. I want chapters, subtitles, alternate audio. Not for the "extra" content though, I'd classify that as the same as Television/Animation, but the main movie needs to be high fidelity. This is probably 10-15% of the content I have.

Categorizing Content with Codecs and Containers

<br />
Content                Container  Codec     Tool<br />
---------------------- ---------  --------- --------<br />
Television/Animation   .avi/.divx xvid/divx Handbrake<br />
Episodic Content       .mkv       xvid/divx Handbrake<br />
Basic Film Content     .mkv       xvid/divx Handbrake<br />
High End Film Content  .mkv       h.264     MeGUI<br />

Tools

Handbrake

I converted hundreds of things with this. Unfortunately, I learned late how to use the profiles, now I've wasted quite a bit of space because I was converting a lot of content at higher quality than necessary.

It only allows you to have 4 audio tracks and 1 subtitle track, this is fine for everything but the high-end content.

I can't figure out how to get it to work with the DiVX codec. I might be able to patch it, but will they accept the patch? Maybe they have a reason for not using it (probably because they're trying to be multi-platform.)

AutoMKV

Steep learning curve, almost seems to do what I want it to do, but I haven't gotten it to produce anything yet.

MeGUI

Excellent for the high-end content, although it's very tedious and hard to automate.

DiVX Converter

It doesn't seem to put out MKV unless you use H.264, plus it doesn't seem to read subtitles on all of my content.

Dr. DiVX

Doesn't seem to support the new codec yet.