Ah, you mean converting it to something like an AVI file?

A quick google finds this.

http://www.wikihow.com/Rip-a-DVD-to-an- ... Using-DVDx

I tried to find a German equivalent on the German Wikihow page, but my language knowledge is not good enough.

DVD Fab Decrypter will rip the files directly. It's very quick and can be played by any software that plays DVDs (VLC is my choice). It also retains full quality. The downside is it's the full size of the DVD, usually 5-10GB. There is also AVI conversion, but I don't have a program for that, you will need it to put it on your iPod, though.

5-10gb is fairly huge! I guess you can then use a convert to downgrade the size and delete the original though. Or does that program have the option of choosing a size or something.

BTW, this forum doesn't condone people doing this as it is illegal!

It's not illegal to make a personal backup, just the RIAA and co would like it to be.

My program literally rips the entire DVD byte for byte, you could burn it to another (dual layer) DVD and it would work in a DVD player, hence the size. Bordering on illegal, but aslong as it's personal use, it's fine.

I'm sure a personal backup was also illegal but obviously I stand corrected .

I guess so, I'm interested in this (but would prefer a smaller size possibly) as then I could burn my favourite dvds without having the extra crap to carry between uni and home.

You would need a converter, such as an AVI ripper. They take longer, but produce filesizes typically less than 1GB a movie, depending on length and quality.

My link was a Google search

To put it on an iPod you need an AVI/mp4/etc ripper program.