IDVD Files

Hey Everyone,
I was rummaging through a hard drive tonight and I found an iDVD project I was working on when my daughter was born. I backed up the iDVD project but not the media and I found that the media is still there within the iDVD project but in some weird format. This is the file name of one of them:
V2298A87DFF4ACBAF3CE850904D480DC26D6F7669_6000000_N_S0.000E1269.336
The directory it resides in is daughtersname.dvdproj/Contents/Resources/MPEG/
I believe this project was created in iDVD 5 about 4 years ago when I first got the Macbook Pro.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to convert these files so I can put them back into iMovie and burn them to a DVD? I have tried ffmpegX, VLC player, and a Divx converter. I have also tried to rename the extensions to see if any of these applications would recognize the files.
MediaInfo shows that the files are a MPEG file at 720x480.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

I've not heard of much success in looking inside iDVD projects, but it's worth some effort if you don't have the original media (better quality and easier to edit). You can try software like MPEG Streamclip to see if the iDVD file is in mpeg-2 format (it's free buy you may also need Apple's $20 mpeg-2 plugin) -- look in the forums here for other software options to convert mpeg-2 files.
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