DVD pro 2 - commentary audio / track

Hi all.
I want to add a directors commentary audio track to my DVD 2 project.
I have read the book and bought the T-shirt, but can't see how to add a second audio track and give viewers the option to select audio track 2 as opposed to the one exported with the video.
Any clues?
Cheers.

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Small project and may be all you need. Basically the menu says play the 160 APAC audio or the 256 APAC Audio (BTW both audio has no sound, sorry)
If you press 160 A1 is played, and if 256 A2 is played.
The track has two markers (1 and 2) and has two stories (160 and 256). For the rest open inspector to see what is going on. First press F3 key to set to advanced layout (in the event it does not open like that)
Then click on the 160Stream story, you will see that it has one chapter in it. When you play the story it wwill play until the next chapter (which is 2 and which is NOT in the story. Only include the markers for the parts you want to play)
Then look in the inspector for the story under the general Tab, you will see that Audio Stream 1 is checked and alll others are not for 160, and for 256 Audio Stream 2 is checked, and the others are not.
You can look in the Simulator and see the audio stream in SPRM 2, or (probably better) just bring two different audio files into the tracks so you can here the difference
Let me know if you want some more details or you need something more than this

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