Hey Matt!
This post is from your future self. Because our main computer crapped out and we don't have access to the video we converted way back then, I decided to revisit again. Check out this thread for more details about how I did it his time and got much better results:
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.p...57#post1908957
Hope that helps. Be sure to get a Synology NAS box sooner than later. Also, Plex is great to access the home video content but comes with it's own issues as well.
Take care! Come see me some time.