Help with movie files

I searched for an answer to my problem and couldn't find one...
I am trying to put 6 short mpg movie files into my iDVD project. I know you can't use mpeg video, I used Quicktime to convert the mpeg video to .mov files and lost my audio. I need to be able to put these files into my project with the audio, can someone help me?
Thanks in advance.

I figured it out on my own, thanks anyways.
I used MPEG streamclip to convert to AVI files, and it didn't butcher my audio. Turns out they were MPEG-1 muxed files, I had to demux them.

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