Multiple sound tracks on a DVD?

Is there any low cost/free DVD authoring software that would allow me to put 2 alternative sound tracks on a DVD? DVD Studio is out of my reach, especially since I am not sure I will need that functionality again.
Mac software would be preferred, but a PC would work (yech) if it can record a disk image.
Thanks-
Vladimir
12" PB 1 GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Thank you for all the answers. I have solved the problem with a shareware encoder called FFmpegX.
I had a movie (Battleship Potemkin), and I wanted to add the score that Pet Shop Boys wrote for it, and I wanted to have the original score to be there too, so I could switch between them, depending on which one I wanted to play.
FFmpegX has mux and demux tools, so I created the new sound track in iMovie to make sure it is syncronized with the video, then saved it as an mp2 file, and then used FFmpegX to mux it with the original video. This also allowed me to avoid converting the video between DV and MPEG, so helps to preserve the quality.
The resulting MPEG2 file can be used for DVD authoring in FFmpegX, but it produces really bare bones DVD. I am going to try Toast and iDVD. The tracks are switched by pressing the "audio" button on the DVD player remote, or you can select the track if you use VLC for computer playback. I have not figured out how to swith the audio using the Title menu.
The double video solution is not very desirable, because the movie is over an hour long, and on a single layer DVD I would have to drop the bitrate to half the original.
12 PB 1 GHz   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

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