Apple DVD Player Surround Sound

Hello
I recently purchased a M-Audio Firewire 410 and will buy the M-Audio LX4 5.1 set.
I will use these for monitoring and voice over for feature films.
I've been getting familiar with the FW-410 and with Soundtrack Pro everything works perfectly and the sound goes to the channels I selected.
After that I was trying to play back a DVD (Bad Boys 2) in Apples DVD Player to see if the sound was outputted to the correct channels 1,2,3,4,5 and 6. It did not work and the sound was outputting through channels 1 and 2 only. I've tried several preferences in DVD Player, Audio MIDI Setup and FW-410's Driver Settings. Anyone have any suggestions to how I might solve this ?
Also I have the most recent drivers and updates.

Thanks, I've tried to change those settings in Audio MIDI Setup but once I change the sound to Encoded it won't allow me to use the FW-410 as an output. So I tried using the Built in Optical Out and pluggin it into the S/PDIF input of the FW-410 hoping it would then output it decoded into the correct channels, unfortunatly it didn't work...
Now I tried VLC with a diferent film and it changed the channels orders again, in Bad Boys the center channel was in number 6 and in the next film in channel 4... this might get annoying if I'm going to have to change the wires for each movie I watch...
Is there any other DVD players for Mac out there that will give you the options of controlling the audio outputs ?
If not I guess I'll have to stick with VLC.

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