Current situation for DVD to FCPX since MPEG2 components are gone

I have family videos converted to DVDs with varying degrees of compression. Apparently the recommended approach to importing DVD's into FCPX was to use MPEG Streamclip, with the MPEG2 quicktime components.
My DVD's play fine using VLC or DVD Player, but MPEG Streamclip complains "File open error: unsupported file type" and the MPEG2 components for quicktime no longer seem to be for sale on Apple's website.
I found a product called VOBMerge that's supposed to combine the different VOBs into one file with the MPEG2 encoding, but perhaps I don't understand the layout or nature of VOB files, or the order I'm supposed to put them in, because the resulting combined file didn't play. (Some of the VOBs play individually with VLC, but some don't, so I don't understand that either...)
What does work is using Handbrake to convert the disk to h.264 encoding. Handbrake will also (very quickly) convert the disk to MPEG2 codec, but FCPX shows me a blue screen and some audio if I import the MPEG2 file. Converting to MPEG4 codec using handbrake doesn't seem to work at all.
It seems that if the MPEG2 components for quicktime were still available, I could maybe use vobmerge or handbrake to make MPEG2 files quickly and easily off of my DVDs, and then view them into FCPX. But, since the MPEG2 components do not seem to be available, is my best option converting to H.264? Or is there some other codec I should use? Handbrake only offers three codecs.
What about using VLC or FFMPEG to stream directly out to some other format that FCPX can read?
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For future readers of this thread, I'm going to post the links and instructions. From MPEG Streamclip: I think we should assume these instructions about refusing to install (yet still being required) still apply for Mavericks:
"The installer of the MPEG-2 Playback Component may refuse to install the component in Lion and Mountain Lion. Apple states the component is unnecessary in Lion and Mountain Lion, however MPEG Streamclip still needs it.
To install the component in Lion or Mountain Lion, please download MPEG Streamclip 1.9.3b8 beta above; inside the disk image you will find the Utility MPEG2 Component M. Lion: use it to install the MPEG-2 Playback Component in Lion or Mountain Lion. The original installer's disk image (QuickTimeMPEG2.dmg) is required.
The current versions of MPEG Streamclip cannot take advantage of the built-in MPEG-2 functionality of Lion and Mountain Lion. For MPEG-2 files you still need to install the QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component, which is not preinstalled in Lion and Mountain Lion. You don't have to install QuickTime 7."
This is the component, it says:
"Note:
On OS X Lion and later, MPEG-2 playback functionality is built into QuickTime X. The QuickTime MPEG-2 Playback Component is not required and cannot be installed."
but apparently it's still required and can be installed if you do it right.

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