Movies to ipod and screen problem.

I gave my husband an Ipod touch for Christmas . Is there a way, legally, to put one of his DVD films onto it for use when travelling ? Does he need other software ?
Also, after he has taken the ipod out of itunes his computer screen flashes on and off and he can't restore his screensaver. he has a Mac running Tiger and with the intel.
There wasn't much in the way of info came with the package. Any ideas, please?
Thanks,
Helen

Thanks all for your replies.
The flash is not an alert. The desktop changes to a black screen with some white writing in the top left corner. This goes back to the desktop before we can read it. touching the mouse stops the flash for a few minutes but only choosing sleep stops it.
The screen saver function on the mac will give us the test but that's all.
We buy music from itunes and would have no problem with buying movies if we could get them but we can't. We get the window that we can't have movies except in the US.
The Mac World article looks interesting and I have also found that just googling" itune movies " throws up some interesting sites. I don't know how safe, reliable or legal they are.
Thanks again,
Helen

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