Auzentech Prelude X-Fi 7.1 and the Creative X-Fi woes... :(

[finbarqs]

I have an Auzentech Prelude 7.1 X-Fi, and a Standard Xtreme Music X-Fi (all of which had gold plates)

Anyways, I've noticed that my Xtreme Music X-Fi Sound card had Dolby Digital and DTS DECODING, i'm not too worried about encoding as i do not have the hardware for encoding (i.e. external receiver). I've noticed that that on the Prelude hardware, there's SPDIF Input and Output. THe INPUT *SHOULD* have DTS and DD 5.1 decoding, but it doesn't... THe auzentech drivers have "disabled this feature".

Here's a picture of Creative Lab's X-Fi

Creative Labs Mode Switcher Standard, and it has THX, Dolby Digital EX, DVD Audio, DTS ES logos.

And the Auzentech's Prelude 7.1

Picture of the Auzentech Audio Mode Switcher
Notice the Lack of THX, DTS, Dolby Digital logos on this panel. NOT ONLY THAT, but we're only greeted with ONE Dolby Digital LIVE. It's all great and everything (especially now you can get Daniel K's drivers to enable the DDL feature in Creative's own cards) but It's frustrated to see that the Auzentech has ALL these features, but yet it can't be used...

I mean, why bother even having a SPDIF-In if you can't even use it?

What i'm trying to ask is: I know this is ALL SOFTWARE. Is there anyway I can use the creative drivers (anyway to hack it) to get it working on the Auzentech? I miss my Dolby Digital and DTS DECODERS. I dont' want to buy a HUGE receiver for my PC just to get the decoding! ANyone know of any work-around? (I want to connect my PS3 to this!)

 

[PurdueRy]

The SPDIF inputs are for recording stereo from digital sources. It's very useful if you have the means for it. I believe there are no sound cards which can actually decode surround sound on the fly from the SPDIF input. They aren't receivers after all.