H.264 for HDDVD in DSP

Hello. I am having so much trouble importing H.264 assets *NOT* generated by Compressor into a HDDVD project in DSP, that I start to wonder whether it is possible at all! Has anybody got direct experience of importing H.264 from generic encoders?
No matter what I try I get the "Import Asset. Incompatible format" pop-up when I try to import. MPEG2 works very well, as does MPEG4 in all sort of containers. So, can anybody pls illustrate how to build H.264 assets accepted by DSP? (I mean other than with Compressor's HDDVD for DSP profile; I have tested both x264 and MC Reference, with no success at all.)
Thanks.

Argh, is that true? Can I please have a second confirmation? It's terrible, why on earth would Apple make that choice... ?!?
This is a real problem to me because as of now I haven't managed to create a single encode with the Compressor's DSP HDDVD setting: they all fail with a mysterious error -50 about which I found no documentation if not a reference to being a "wrong argument" generic error. Notice that H264 encodes work well, it's only the DSP HDDVD that fail. I suspect there might be some clash with one of my QuickTime plugins (eg Perian), but I do not really know. So please:
(1) can you confirm you're able to encode with Compressor's DSP HDDVD preset and no problems?
(2) can you suggest where I could look for logs and hints as to what exactly this QuickTime error -50 is, so that I could attempt to fix it?
Thanks.

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