Multistream avi/mpeg/etc.

[emotionalone]

Hello all,
I'm not new to DVD ripping but I'm pretty much a newbie. I first started ripping my anime dvd's back in 2002 >_<
Now I'm ripping movie DVD's to keep on my laptop.
I've been using DVDDecrypter lately for ifo and iso ripping and DiVx converter to create video files with mutiple audio and subtitle streams. I am, though, yet to compare the output files of divx converter to any other video encoder output. so basically I would like to know how I can achieve the same results, multiple streams in one file, but with different codes. I would like to try h264 and v70 and any you may suggest, but again, with multiple streams for I want to keep all the streams the original dvd has.

Thanks in advance.

[Inspector.Gadget]

Matroska (MKV) is the way to go as far as multiple video, audio, subs, etc. streams. Generally, you can encode however you want and then use mkvmerge(GUI) to make Matroska files containing everything. There are a few issues to be awae of, mostly the fact that if you're making a file without chapters or other controls as to playback order of segments - in other words, if you're making a regular old Matroska file - you need to account for any audio delay consistently. You can't, for instance, add in both AC3 and MP3 audio, correct the delay of one, and expect it to attach to the other. All streams are pretty much independent, save for situations where you can set up a file and a splitter (Haali's, for instance) to call certain streams when certain others are selected.