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dolby digital on sounblaster live 5.1 digital

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zoyvod

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I recently bought the creative inspire 5.1 5500 digital
My soundcard is a soundblaster live 5.1 digital .I have the latest drivers for XP and I set the posotioning of AudioHQ to 5.1 speakers with only digital output ticked.I connected the decoder of the speakers from coaxial to digital output of my soundblaster but I can't enable the dolby digital in the decoder.the indication on the decoder stays to stero or dolby surround it doesn't go to dolby digital(it is supposed to turn automatically to D.D when a D.D DVD plays).During games or music the sound comes from 5.1 but with power DVD for example and a dolby digital DVD I can't listen the dolby digitalI have connected my Hitachi 7500 spdif out to the spdif in of the card.In the audio option of power dvd xp I have selected the"use spdif"
Does anyone have an idea or a solution ?
 
Welcome to ze forum.

Since you are using an external decoder then in the AudioHQ Decoder tab, select the SPDIF passthrough option and on the Sampling tab select 48KHz (if a decoder is capable of 96KHz that could be selected instead but then its Dolby Surround effects might not be able to be used).

The Surround Mixer > Speaker Settings should have no effect (although headphone actually filters the sound so I leave it at 2/2.1 rather than anything else including 5.1 because of the way it affects CMSS 3D options even though I generally do not use them. Make sure to disable CMSS 3D and all effects for testing. As far as games and music, they should not have been playing from 5.1 if all PC and decoder effects were off.

The SPDIF output on the DVD drive is not used for DVD, but only for CD digital music.

The cable must be coaxial 75ohm (such as a video cable) and not an audio cable or audio adapter. The best adapter to use is one without any cable -just a mini plug and RCA jack in one.

Finally make sure the source has a 5.1 soundtrack and that you select it from the DVD menu (sometimes they default to a Dolby Surround track even when both are available). You may also want to confirm you have the latest version of PowerDVD.

I hope this helps and you get it working!
 
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