Convert from MPEG-1-film to iMovie

I have some video sequences from a Kiwi friend sent to me back in 1993 on a cd. They run easily on my pc (Compaq), but I would like to include them with a newer footage.
However I cant open the files and iMovie 8 keeps telling me that the files are not a movie file?
When I look at the file it says
Name: 1993 Denmark4f.mpg
File type: MPEG-1-film
Size: 233 MB
What shall I do to get access to the film on my iMac4,1 with an intel core duo processor

oh...and Jon, the mac recgonizes my files as mpeg-1...in the preview screen there is NO thumbnail and next to "kind" it says MPEG-1 Movie. ???
QT applications tend to be somewhat non-specific with muxed compression formats. If you check using different "Info" windows you may find the file described as "Muxed MPEG Stream", "Muxed MPEG-2", "MPEG-1", etc. Remember, QT is not based on "muxed" synchronization technology and identifications may well depend on trapping programmed into the given application you are using at any given time. Best source for info would be the MPEG Streamclip "Show Stream Info" window. It will correctly identify the audio and video compression formats, their data rates, audio sampling rate, recognized aspect ratio for the video, etc.
I had some teenagers at my house last week and let them play around on my "super-cool" imac...I thought maybe one of them had accidentally changed a setting???
Probably not a factor. Recognition process is automatic for the most part. Some have said that mixing HD with SD content creates problems. (Believe the fix was to download all SD content and then delete it before downloading the HD.) Others say the setup order is all important to prevent getting stuck in one "mode" or the other. I also prefer capturing manually which seems to work 100% of the time for me as long as I first play back as sample of the camcorder file first to "reset" the current capture mode. (E.g., HDV shows a "blue screen" until I am actually playing HDV content and press the import button.) Suspect you either discovered and later forgot the "proper" work flow for your camera or, as some have said, the v7.1 update modified the routine so it doesn't work as well as it first did. Suspect only time will tell for sure. Remember, this is all newly charted ground as far as Apple is concerned and frankly, I think their still trying to "iron out the bugs."

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Hi there,
I feel like I'm going insane with this.
I had the same problem on '08 as I do on '09.
I make youtube videos and I am trying to open some clips that were edited on a PC by other youtube users (who have emailed them to me for a group project). They won't open in imovie. If I convert the file to .avi or .m4v or even .mp4 using Handbrake, they still won't import into imovie.
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iMovie does not work with muxed MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 clips
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42996
But Dan shows you how..
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A fascinating project!
My older brother had 4 hours of (silent) 8mm cine film dating back to 1958-1980 (when he finally bought a video camera!). He wanted me to convert them to carefully edited DVDs, with music, sound effects, titles and so on. Like a madman I accepted the challenge! To make life easier he lives in Belgium and uses a PC!
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At considerable expense he had all the film transferred to four DVDs in some PC-only friendly mpeg codec, and sent them to me.
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