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Soundblaster Live! 5.1 won't acknowledge all 5 channels (speakers) using SDPIF

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Madcowz

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I have my receiver hooked up to the SPDIF on my live! platinum 5.1 and seemingly It's giving me problems. No matter what I set the speakers as in liveware; whether it be 5.1 or live!surround, I ONLY GET 2 channels! I can only emulate the 4 or 5 by choosing pro logic or theater mode on my receiver but emulation is crap! You see when I do the test in the surround mixer I hear the front left and right speaker being called for, but the center and rears are just "passed" over. I did the test in WinDVD also and I get the same thing. What gives? I tried plugging in the receiver through the Digital miniplug and I get the same results. It appears the Digital minijack is considered SPDIF since when I have SPDIF output only selected in my software DVD player, it will still play and pass through the digital signal through the digital minijack just like the spdif.
Anyways here are the attributes from PowerDVD:
Audio Coding mode : Dolby AC-3
Sampling Rate : 48kHz
Audio application mode : Not specified
Number of Audio channels : 2
Bit Rate : 192.00 Kbps
Number of Audio streams : 3
Multispeakers Audio Device : Creative SBLive! (not in use)
S/PDIF Output Device : Creative SBLive! (in use)
WinDVD:
Current Audio Track:
Dolby Digital

Atrributes:
16Bit/48K/2channels

Anyways this is very odd, is there any way I can remedy this?

Also I hear the SPDIF on the Soundblaster live stinks horribly... does the same apply to the toslink? I know in past discussions it has been argued that SPDIF is generally better, but would the Live! be the exception w/ quality being better w/ an optical digital cable?
 
I'm using windowsME w/ HT speakers. I had this problem w/ my old Cambridge DTT2500 set where the Live! would not acknowledge the center or rears upon testing. This was the plain live and I had it (DTT2500) hooked up to the digital din AND the SPDIF at the same time
 
Can someone please explain what the exact problem is with the Soundblaster Live 5.1 series with Windows 2000? What's a SMP system and what's the deal with Liveware not working with nVidia? I'm using Windows 2000 Server, just bought the Cambridge Desktop Theater DTT2500 speaker and plan on getting the Soundblaster Live MP3+ 5.1 (which I get is the best value if I plan to play MP3's and watch DVD's on my system and I don't care for the games bundled with the X-Gamer 5.1?). Please enumerate all problems involving the Soundblaster Live 5.1/Windows 2000 Server setup and any ways around it. Thanks in advance!
 
I hear there is no digital AC-3 passthrough what-so-ever on win2k. And yea I did post over at 3dsoundsurge but I haven't received an answer to my problems yet... keep it comin!
 
Madcowz: I thought Creative says the Live 5.1 series is supported under Win2K? Please post here if you find a solution to the problem and i'll try to do the same.
 
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