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I am a bit new to home computing so any help would be appreciated. I am using an Audigy 2 ZS with Creative 7. speakers. I have connected the "spdif" cable from my Audigy 2 ZS to my DVD Rom player.My question is this - when using my Cyberlink Power DVD player,if I select the audio option to use my "spdif" will I get all the surround sound options(dts,dolby digital 5. etc.) to work even though it says that my current version of Power DVD(version 5)does not support all these sound options.Does the spdif connection to my Audigy card mean that it will decode all the various surround sound options regardless of what my DVD player can decode.

I?d recommend you to upgrade to WINDVD 6 or PowerDVD 6 (WinDVD is better). but if u can't...
If u want to use 7. channel audio with PowerDVD 5,these are the things u need configured:
) Speaker Settings Panel: 7. speaker option selected.
Digital Output Only disabled.
2) Explorer --> Control Panel --> Audio HQ --> Device Controls --> Decoder --> Settings --> Enable Dolby Digital EX and Enable DTS-ES Matrix 6.
3) PowerDVD 5 --> In the Speaker settings select the SPDIF Output option. (In this case, the software player sends the digital signal through spdif to the soundboard and since the soundboard has Dolby EX and DTS-ES built-in decoding).
This SPDIF option doesn?t mean that u get ONLY spdif output (although u get it) but that the signal is processed by whatever "thing" (software or hardware) is receiving it, instead of being processed by PowerDVD.
Hope this helps you.
The Magnificent Wonderbra.

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