No Sound in Project with Imported MPEG 4

I am new to iDVD.
My first project is to just make a video from a short MPEG 4 movie clip.
I imported the movie into iDVD and dropped it in. It plays fine except there is NO sound.
When I press the select button in the on screen remote it plays the clip with sound.
Any help appreciated.

... fine, you found a workaround ...
the iLife package is a ... ehm... package, a suite of tools, which are intended to work together... therefore, iM is meant to work with firewire connected miniDV (=no mepgs), iDVD is meant to work with output of this app (=dv) ... and so on...-
they are NOT meant as "all-purposes"-app... as many PCuser like to use Word for layouts, Excel for painting, PowerPoint for moviemaking... nooo, in the Apple World simplicity&convience is accomplished by restrictions of the app ..
in other words: you try to teach the old dog new tricks... means: could work, could not work..
and as mentioned above: video codecs is a VERY complicated issues.. there're ~4000 codecs swirrling thru the web...
if you use the iApps as intended, no double-import etc are needed...
think about investing into tools as QTpro or VisualHub (http://www.techspansion.com/visualhub/), which are "converters".. iDVD expects "dv-streams"... THEN it works like charm...
happy editing, encoding, converting ...

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