No audio on idvd

I took a video on my iphone and wanted to send it to my sister who does not have a computer. I was told I could create a dvd using idvd. However when I finished it did not have any audio. I'm somewhat of a novice and don't know what to do next.

Thanks for replying...
I do not have the QT pluggin to read DVDs so I'm unable to test that. However, the DVD audio does not work on my Windows XP laptop either. Other than an intro song (mp3 from iTunes), the audio is part of the video clip. The audio plays well while in iMovie. I reimaged my Mac from an imaged from this last summer (10.4.2), made a small iMovie file, burned it, and the audio was working. Then, I did all updates, made another iMovie file, burned it, and the audio worked. So, I totally recreated my project from scratch, burned it, and no audio again. In iDVD preferences, I had to set the Encoder Settings to Best Performance due to lack of hard drive space. So, I installed a much bigger drive, reimaged it with my summer 10.4.2 image, and I'm going to try to burn my project again.

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an iMovie project. i created an .img, a
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• An archive is a backup copy of something. The purpose of the archive is to preserve the thing as it exists today. An archive of an iMovie project "captures" it as it exists today. If necessary, months from now you can use the archive to re-create the project as it exists today.
• The archive can take many forms. It can be stored as a disk image — a file stored on your computer that uses a .dmg suffix and looks and acts like a hard disk. Or it can be a ".zip" file created in the Finder. Or it can be a simple duplicate of the project stored on a hard disk or DVD. (A disk image file or zip file does not save significant hard disk space. An iMovie project can't be compressed to any significant extent.)
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• Software exists, however, that lets us back up an iMovie (or iDVD) project across multiple DVDs. These include Toast and Retrospect, the pre-eminent Mac backup software.
• iMovie projects stored on DVDs have one huge disadvantage, however. We must copy the project back to the hard drive to open it in iMovie. iMovie doesn't let us open a project stored on a DVD, for Movie can't write to the disc. (The DVD is, by definition, a locked medium.)
Note too that if the backup DVD is created by Retrospect, Retrospect is required to copy it back to the hard disk. (Sorry, I'm not familiar with Toast.)
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First time posting, so please excuse any naivete
Hi there, I'm having the opposite problem of many of the questions I've read on here- the audio on my burned disc won't play on my computer but is fine on my TV. I am running the latest version of idvd on a 2008 macbook. The music for the menu is a .m4a file (?) imported from itunes and the movie is an imported project from imovie. Both play fine in idvd preview and I have burned discs of this project before with no problems. This time I burned one disc through idvd, discovered the missing audio, deleted the encoded assets and re- encoded before saving the disk image and burning another dvd through disk utility. Both dvds are having this problem . I checked sound on my system preferences, it's on- though I can't find the "main audio" that was mentioned in another thread. Maybe I don't have enough space on my startup disk? I've been trashing some things to free up space, but I'm not sure where to check to see how much space I have.
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It should take you 60 min max. Beyond that there's something wrong.
(I Posted this at other thread)
This is the cause in my case:
During iDVD encoding you can see the little movie icon of "Asset encoding..". Watch if iDVD repeatedly hangs at one same spot of the encoded movie.
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TIP: you can differ if iDVD hangs or crunching slow by using Apple's Activity Monitor. If "CPU" and "Disk Activity" bar-graph are both flat, you can be sure that iDVD indeed hangs. If either graph is active iDVD may be crunching data. Make sure to turn of any other applications, iTune, Safari, etc.
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