Does anyone know of any good mac programs that convert dvd to itunes formatt to watch on ipods and so on?

HandBrake.

Handbrake is the best. I tried heaps and handbrake is easiest and best quality.

yea thanks, it works great.

cool what a good program for windows?

HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.

Website
From the front page of their website:

Universal input

HandBrake is no longer limited to DVDs: it will now accept practically any type of video as a source. This massive enhancement was achieved by tapping into the power of libavcodec and libavformat from the FFmpeg project.

Don't people even bother checking websites anymore? Does it work on windows? does it work on any file?

last edited by whoop at 08:22:00 27/Dec/08

is it just for dvds? or can it be used for avi files?

Sorry Whoop, but I'll only use open-source, multi-threaded programs.