No sound on movies once burned to disk

I have no idea if this is the correct place to ask my questions, but hopefully someone can help me. I made an iDVD project consisting of three movies imported from my camera and a slide show. I can view all three movies perfectly when I open from the desktop version of the project. I burned the project onto a DVD, and there is no sound when I play the movies. There is music during the slideshow and music at the opening, but no luck with each independent movie. PLEASE HELP- I have so many small movies of my kids and would love to make more DVDs out of them! Thanks so much.

Welcome to the forums, lylas.
From your description, the +three movies imported from my camera"+ have the audio problem. It's possible they're in a format that needs to be converted.
.avi movies can cause this kind of problem (yourfilename.avi). Possible workaround - If you open the camera video in iMovie, does it play correctly? And, if you Export from iMovie to iDVD, does that video play correctly?
There is software to change audio/video formats if necessary (Quicktime Pro, MPEG Streamclip, Roxio Toast, etc.). Tell us more about your video.
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