HandBrake Lite
I recently got an iPod video and I use it to watch movies while I pedal and climb on the machines at the gym. It makes the time go by so quickly that I sometimes stay on the machine for an extra five minutes or so during especially good parts of a movie. This is a miracle for me.
I use a fantastic free application called HandBrake Lite to transfer my DVDs to a format playable on the iPod. It's free and couldn't be simpler to use. You stick a DVD into your Mac, click "Open" to select the DVD, then click "Rip." That's it.
On my G3 eMac, it takes about 2 hours to convert a movie. The final size is about 500 MB.
I like watching classic movies on the iPod the best, because they fill the entire iPod screen. Newer letterbox movies become thin horizontal strips.
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I used Handbrake Lite to rip all of my Simpsons and Futurama DVDs for my iPod. It made the process much simpler, and they look great. It would be nice to see the developer add a queue feature or something, but it doesn't sound like that's going to happen. Still, it's a great little app.
It's worth noting that Handbrake supports a queue, and works great, so if you can stand having to set your own parameters (via a pop-up menu, it's not tough) just use the original version of the app instead.