Best handbrake settings for DVD rips?

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Hello all, I plan on ripping some of my TV shows that are on DVD’s. They are shows from the 80’s and 90’s and are about 25 minutes per episode. Could some of you handbrake experts point me in the right direction and help me what settings would be optimal in my situation? I am running an old Synology 1512+ NAS, and my I have many plex clients that run on:

  1. MacBook running on macOS Big Sur
  2. iPhones on iOS 14
  3. iPads on ipadOS 14
  4. Apple TV 4K on tvOS 14
  5. 2019 Samsung TV with Plex App
  6. 2013 Samsung TV (tizen OS) with deprecated version of Plex by orca.

My goal here is to match the source quality for both video/audio and be able to direct play without transcoding to all my Plex clients. I heard its best to use MP4 as the container, and for codec to use is H.264. But what about the new H.265? I heard it can keep the quality while keeping the filesize smaller than H.264. I am concerned however, with this new format that my NAS will have transcode any files that is using H.265 down to H.264? I’m confused on what to use. Would appreciate some help here.

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If I were to take the 2013 out of the equation would you say it’s best recommended that I use H.265 codec vs H.264? And btw I have an NVIDIA GTX 1080 card, so should I use the codec that has (NVENC) instead? I’m assuming that the H.26x(NVENC) codec is optimized for those with NVIDIA GPUS and will encode faster?

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