Sadly, this is how I hear C-3PO's voice in the prequels ..... like he's on some PAL related helium binge ..... LOL.

Anyways, it's nice to see others wanting to archive what they have and share with others. Another suggestion might be getting a standalone DVD recorder unit so that you can just do each movie outright to it's own disc and work from there. Granted, you may have to synch audio to it or you could leave what ever the standalone would give you. My Panasonic does 256kbps DD 2.0 audio. It's not as desirable as I'd like but for straight transfers to mpeg2 it is sufficient enough.

Some standalone units even allow you to alter some settings but they're usually very basic when it comes to the recording side of things. Most of what you need you'd probably do in post anyways.