Problem burning video dvds

[mrfreeze]

Ok Tmepgenc has me on my last nerve. Basically it is shit. It will convert the movies from avi to .mpeg just fine 99% of the time, but at least half the time the finished mpeg has no audio track. I try ripping the audio from the source with virtual dub and having the program add it while converting, it says that the .wav file virtual dub makes is an unrecognized file format. So does Ulead Movie Studio for that matter. So I need some suggestions on decent, fairly easy to use (I'm a newb after all) programs that will actually fucking work when I want them to.

<P ID="signature">Are you doing nothing? Or something?</P>