Imovie sound loss during dvd burn

Hey there people of the orchard!
What should I do if imovie has sound during imovie but when I burn it into dvd form in idvd the play back has no, as in NO audio!??? I tried to turn minidv footage into a dvd for play back during a family reunion with idvd- but all the burned copies had no sound. i had to resort to playback within imovie, which was ok until screen saver kicked in 1/2 way thru... sheesh, and I was all set to drop the big apple pitch on various relatives. I have reinstalled both quick time and imovie and still no audio onto burned discs.
Any ideas greatly appreciated-
powerbook g4 Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Hi Aaron
Just random shooting and scanning the forum:
- audio from iTunes - make an audio CD .aiff - use this in iMovie project
- mp3 sound gives problems - use .aiff
- low free space on internal hard disk = problems of various kins
- 12-bit sound and OneStep DVD
- version mix: Mac OS X.4.10, iDVD 6.0.3 and QuickTime 7.1.6
Update:
Followed all the directions on this page:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303550
Re-installed quicktime.
Problem persists: good audio in iMovie HD, share it with iDVD, good audio on preview, but when burn to DVD or save as disk image = no audio
Update:
•Problem still persists: no audio on DVDs made/burned from iDVD
But, I have some work-arounds:
#1. If I drop my iMovie project file into the "Toast DVD-Video" window it the result is a DVD with audio.
#2 "MovieGate" also makes and image that has good audio.
Still hoping very much that there will be a solution to this problem posted here
Stu
- more - my thinking
Media type
- I use Verbatim DVD-R (no +R or +/-RW)
- I save a Disk-Image and burn it with Roxio Toast™ at an as slow speed as possibly
(This can also be done with Apple Disk Util tool)
Also to try
- Deleting iDVD pref file
-->/Users/YourName**/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iDVD.plist
- or start a new account - log into this and re-try (do a new iDVD project)
AND I would also
- Run: Repair permisions: Apple Disk Util tool (on hard disk/Applications/Tools/Disk Util tool
and I would also
- Run: Repair hard disk: Apple Disk Util tool - to do this You need to start from
CD/DVD or external hard disk !
Yours Bengt W

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