Bin Cue files to iMovie

Hi all,
A friend sent me some of his home movie data for me to edit and to put onto DVD for him. The problem is, they are in Bin_Cue files made on 'that other kind of computer' for burning as VCDs. He doesn't have the original VCDs either. Is there any way to convert these files to DV or Mov or even an Mpeg stream that I can use in iMovie? I've tried ffmpegX, visual hub, VLC, disc mounter, QT Pro, toast Titanium 7.1 and nothing will have a bar of it. Am I missing something or can it just not be done?
Also, I tried making a VCD with the Bin_Cue files with Toast and it come out black and white. Would anybody have ideas on this one please? - (Please excuse me, this is not a Mac specific question)
I'll look forward to your input.
Thanks in advance.
SR

I guess you could use vcdXrip in GNU vcdtoolsX to extract the MPEGs from the .bin file:
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_aMacintosh.html#retrieve
I wouldn't convert the MPEG1 in a VCD to .dv. Instead, I'd do minimal MPEG-editing if necessary and burn it as a video-DVD. That preserves any quality there is. You only have to resample the 44.1 kHz VCD audio to the 48 kHz video-DVDs use:
http://www.sjoki.uta.fi/~shmhav/SVCDon_aMacintosh.html#CVD

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