Problems playing a mpeg-file

Hello,
years ago I had substandard films digitalized and put on disk.
Now I thought I could take bits from those films and make it into a short movie using iMovie...as a little Christmas surprise for the family.
But not only can't I open the file in iMovie, I also can't open it with Quicktime, nor with VLC. Can someone help me solve this issue?
Down below you see a screenshot with the 4 folders of the disk and the contents of each of them. It even shows the Quicktime symbol...but when I try to open it a small screen opens and it says "convert". Shortly after that the player tells me it cannot open the file.
Thanks for your help.

Perian is a great extension to quick time that will extend its ability. This is the product description:
Perian aims to provide a single package for all your playback needs. It is a collection of QuickTime components incorporating several libraries:
• libavcodec, from the ffmpeg project, along with code from the old FFusion component:
• MS-MPEG4 v1 & v2
• DivX
• 3ivx
• H.264
• Flash Video
• Flash Screen Video
• On2 VP3, VP6, VP8
• H263I
• HuffYUV and ffvhuff
• Indeo 2, 3 & 5
• MPEG-1, 2 & 4 Video (in supported formats)
• Fraps (up to v4)
• Windows Media Audio v1 & v2
• Flash ADPCM
• Xiph Vorbis (in Matroska)
• MPEG Layer I and II audio
• DTS Coherent Acoustics audio
• Snow wavelet video
• DosBox video
• Nellymoser ASAO audio
• libavformat, from the ffmpeg project. along with AVIImporter.component:
• AVI file format
• FLV file format
• NUV file format
• libmatroska, along with matroska-qt.component:
• MKV file format
• Subtitles:
• (Advanced) SubStation Alpha
• SRT
• SAMI
• VobSub
• liba52, via A52Codec:
• AC3 audio"
As you can see, it is very powerful and easy to install. You can download this extension from here: http://www.perian.org/
Feel free to ask if you have any questions about installation or usage.

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