Importing VTS.VOB files to imovie via MPEG Streamclip 1.7

About a year ago, I converted all of my home movies from the past 20 years to DVD via an external DVD Burner attached directly to my camera/VHS.
I recently converted to a Mac from a PC (And have never been happier ) and discovered imovie. I have been converting my DVD's into imovie with MPEG Streamclip 1.7 with no problem until I started trying to import more recent movies (i.e. movies I put on DVD directly from the camera as opposed to from a VHS).
Both types of files are VTS.VOB files but the ones imported from a camera are "unsupported file types". Does anyone know why this is and/or how to fix it? Thanks!

No, I have never used ffmpegX for this, but if you need to convert the VOB files back to DV which iMovie is designed to handle you need mpegStreamclip:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/video/mpegstreamclip.html
which is free, as well as the the Apple mpeg2 plugin :
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/mpeg2/
which is a mere $20.
Another possibility is to use DVDxDV:
http://www.dvdxdv.com/NewFolderLookSite/Products/DVDxDV.overview.htm
which costs $25.
Obviously the foregoing only applies to DVDs you have made yourself, or other home-made DVDs that have been given to you. It will NOT work on copy-protected commercial DVDs, which in any case would be illegal.

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Obviously the foregoing only applies to DVDs you have made yourself, or other home-made DVDs that have been given to you. It will NOT work on copy-protected commercial DVDs, which in any case would be illegal.
If you are running Lion:
From the MPEG Streamclip homepage
The installer of the MPEG-2 Playback Component may refuse to install the component in Lion. Apple states the component is unnecessary in Lion, however MPEG Streamclip still needs it.
To install the component in Lion, please download MPEG Streamclip 1.9.3b7 beta above; inside the disk image you will find the Utility MPEG2 Component Lion: use it to install the MPEG-2 Playback Component in Lion. The original installer's disk image (QuickTimeMPEG2.dmg) is required.
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ok thanks, I have tried that... but not found anything fitting.
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