AUDIGY 2 ZS AND GIGAWORKS DVD PLAYBACK H

Hi
I have just purchased an Audigy 2 ZS and the Gigaworks speakers, I have a problem that is driving me nuts.
Whether I use Power DVD or Windows media player I cant get DVDS to sound right
If i use Dolby prologic 2 or CLMEI-2 settings I get either a robotic kind of sound or low bass
If I use no effects in the DVD software and the CMSS or 2 I get my 7. sound but the voices in DVDs are coming from the side and rear speakers too. As far as Im aware I should only be getting ambient sounds and the voices should only be coming from the front.
Could anyone please shed some light on this, what settings should i use to get:
7. sound with the bass sounding loud
Voices only coming from front/center speakers
Thanks for any advice.

Hi asamp,
I reckon both you and me are "PC DVD Enthusiasts" (though I do also play a hell lots of games).
() Regarding Hardware / Software Decoding
IMHO, hardware decoding (by your soundcard) should be much better than software decoding (by your DVD software), both in terms of sound quality and efficiency (any latency), along with alleviating workload from your CPU. Hardware solution is almost always better than Software solution.
(2) Regarding EAX with DVD Movies
IMHO, EAX are perfect for games but bad for music & movies. In games surely we all want positional audio along with realistic environmental effects such as reverb and occlusion. But for ordinary MP3 playback and especially for DVD movies, I definitely wouldn't want any artificial funky effects such as "Opera Hall" or "Jazz Club".
(3) Regarding CMSS with DVD Movies
CMSS is good for upmixing ordinary stereo contents to simulated surround sounds (or "parallel stereo" mode), similar in functions to Dolby Pro Logic II or DTS Neo:6. But for DVD movies (and I mean DVD movies, not those lame DivX / XVid rips), audio contents are already encoded by Dolby Digital / Dolby Digital EX / DTS / DTS-ES for "real" surround sounds. There is definitely no need to enable CMSS which won't do you any good at all but bad. A quote from Guru 3D about CMSS with DVD movies:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/sound/246/4/
<EM><FONT color=#0033ff>I tried to enable 3D Creative MultiSpeaker Surround, or 3D CMSS for short. As I explained pages ago, this feature will simulate surround sound on two speakers (CMSS2) or it will simulate surround sound on 5. or 6. system from a stereo source (CMSS). With multi-channel the effect is not subtle and actually is highly dis-recommended. Things change though when you are watching a movie that does not have multi-channel sound. As stated earlier, XVID and DIVX, a large sum of these movies are recorded in 2 channel Stereo or 2.0 DD sound. That's where 3D CMSS comes in quite handy. Much like Dolby Pro Logic the spatial orientation of 3D CMSS kicked in nicely as you get a feeling of an Dolby Digital 5. movie. Voices are placed to the middle speaker, you can hear action in the rear, the explosions came from the subwoofer, yes Shrek 2 was sounding awesome I know this is a bit of a subjecti've yet bold statement, but 3D CMSS on the X-Fi might even sound better then Dolby Pro Logic (2). Ehm, I don't think it can get much better then this in this 2 channel mode. Of course Dolby Digital and DTS (ES) is the much preferred option here as it blows all this away.</EM>

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    DVD playback in Kaffeine with Xine engine is really blurry. Does anybody know what the reason could be? There's a lot of options for xine engine parameters in Kaffeine, but I don't have a clue about them. Any tipps appreciated.
    I've also tried kmplayer, but the image there has small black horizontal lines in it, which looks really weird. I thinks that's called interlaced, right? I'm a total video noob. ^^
    TIA,
    Blackhole

    [timetrap@darkstar ~]$ mplayer dvd://
    MPlayer 1.0rc2-4.2.3 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
    CPU: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2060 @ 1.60GHz (Family: 6, Model: 14, Stepping: 12)
    CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
    Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
    115 audio & 237 video codecs
    mplayer: could not connect to socket
    mplayer: No such file or directory
    Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
    Playing dvd://.
    There are 9 titles on this DVD.
    There are 1 chapters in this DVD title.
    There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
    number of audio channels on disk: 0.
    number of subtitles on disk: 0
    MPEG-PS file format detected.
    MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound.
    VIDEO: MPEG2 720x480 (aspect 3) 29.970 fps 8000.0 kbps (1000.0 kbyte/s)
    ==========================================================================
    Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
    VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES)
    Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
    Opening video filter: [scale]
    The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
    Try appending the scale filter to your filter list,
    e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp.
    VDecoder init failed :(
    Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
    Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
    ==========================================================================
    Audio: no sound
    Starting playback...
    VDec: vo config request - 720 x 480 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12)
    VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
    Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
    VO: [xv] 720x480 => 854x480 Planar YV12
    V: 0.3 2/ 2 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0
    Exiting... (End of file)
    [timetrap@darkstar ~]$
    For reference I am trying to play: Planet Earth; From the BBC; Disc 4
    mplayer VERY briefly flashes up a window then writes Exiting. . .

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