Please see this excellent post by fellow b5er William Lehman (heh I couldn’t remember his last name right now… go figure! It’s a tough one).
I definately plan to do some of this for my own use.
I have a dvd recorder and it would be great to take some of those shows I have on DVD.
Then I can watch them on my mp4 player. plus some movies would be great for long trips…
Anyway here’s the link:
http://www.decloned.com/life/how-to-copy-movies-to-your-ipod-using-free-software-on-windows