Handbrake 0.9.3 is Out!
HandBrake is without a doubt the easiest way to get a DVD onto my iPod Touch (and iTunes). You put in the DVD, it gets all the structural information off the DVD and you can then optimize the destination format and type in the chapter titles and then rip the DVD. It's smooth, fast, and effortless. After it's ripped, you just import it into iTunes, add the album artwork and the info for the title and you're ready to go.
The news is that they have released 0.9.3 and removed the DVD decryption from HandBrake. Instead, they look for VLC's libraries in the Applications directory, and use that. You need to have VLC 0.9.x or better to have this work, and because I had the older 0.8.5 I had to update it as well.
Interestingly, the latest VLC is a lot less invasive than the previous version. I use Perian for most of the content viewing, but it's nice to have it be less intrusive, and I had to get it to make HandBrake work. It'll be interesting to see what's different about the experience of ripping.