5.1 center channel not working

Soybean

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am using a set of Logitech z640 5.1 speakers on an AOPEN Cobra AW-850 5.1 Sound Card.

I can get sound out of all five speakers when playing DVD movies, but only 4 speakers (not the center channel), when playing mp3s in Winamp.

I thought that I could also get 5.1 surround sound in games such as Call of Duty and UT2004 (demo). When I play them, I set the audio setting to EAX. But I don't get any sound out of the center channel. I get sound out of the 4 satellite speakers and the subwoofer only.

I have set my speaker setting in Windows XP to 5.1. I am also not getting sound out of all speakers when I play media in Windows Media Player.

What is going on? Please help!

 

EeyoreX

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Oct 27, 2002
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As far as WinAMP, if the MP3s are not encoded in 5.1, they won't be output that way. DVDs are set to use 5.1, and that's why they work. Are you sure your games are 5.1 enabled? If the source is not 5.1, the output won't be either.

\Dan