
I re-encoded the whole thing again since they were too dark (thanks for the help Moth3r!). There was a (big) brightness difference between capturing with video or s-video cable. The DVDs now have the brightness of the s-video and the detail of the video. Yes, there's more detail when capturing with video instead of s-video. There's also more dotcrawl but the overall picture of the video capture is better then the s-video capture.
I think my transfer is close to the laserdisc image.