iSquint

I read somewhere on here about isquint being 5 times faster than quicktime at converting files intio a format that ipod can use but it keeps crashing on me. Also another supposedly handbrake with h264 is supposed to rip the dvd then put directly into a format that ipod can use, however i have not been able to do this, i convert it once from dvd to mp4 and then i have to use quicktime to convert it to m4v, otherwise itunes gives me an error that it is in the wrong format and this is costing me a lot of time, there has to be any easier way,