Thanks for the links. I will pass them on to my brother.
I got him a 30gb Ipod with video... since I had to bring it to him from Dallas to France, I "had" to make sure that it functioned properly before he got it. Sitting on my 9 hour flight with a broken IFE system, I was really glad I had uploaded about 5 tv shows into his Ipod. Picture quality was really good. I used Videora which you can find
here.