Audigy 2 ZS and Home Theatre Recei

I'm having trouble getting my Audigy 2 ZS to pass a multi-channel signal to my Digital Recei'ver. I have the Digital Dongle that you guys sell and I have it connected to the Coax in on my Denon Dolby Digital/DTS receiver, but sound only comes out of the front right and left speakers, nothing else. How do I get the soundcard to pass the multi-channel audio from a game or DVD to the receiver, so that it'll play a DD/DTS signal?

Bisk,
When you are playing music/games through a coaxial/optical SPDIF connection, then that is normal. Those types of connections can only pass over either a stereo PCM signal, or an encoded stream.
You can find more information on this page:
http://us.creative.com/support/kb/ar...p?l=2&sid=4438
If you're playing a DVD it should work fine, as the signal you're passing through is AC3 (encoded stream). Just make sure you set the audio option (for the decoder) on the card to Passthrough, and the same for the DVD playback software.
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