Export mpeg-2 movie for Internet streaming

I have QuickTime Pro 7 with the mpeg-2 playback component. My source files are in a DVD movie. I am able to play the DVD fine in Windows Media player and Real Media Player, but Quicktime is able to play only the video and there is no audio output. My objective is to convert the DVD mpeg-2 muxed videos to quicktime .mov files that are prepared for progressive playback (web streaming: fast start).
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks,
SriV

get mpeg stream clip to do the video conversion to .mov
http://www.squared5.com
Then use quicktime pro to ready the video for internet
Good Luck
Bruce

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