Audigy ca0106-dat hardware dolby decod

hi! just to clarify wif the specs of the audigy ca006-dat.my friend just purchased the audigy value pci soundcard. after installing the card and the drivers, everything went well until he tried to playback dvds. there is no audio output. he has to turn off spdif output in the dvd playback software to have audio output. updating the drivers to the latest version does not solve the root problem. i am currently using the MSI diamond plus motherboard with built-in audigy se. also using the dsp chip "ca006-dat". but the dsp on his card is the "ca006-dat lf". i believe they are the same, correct me if i am wrong. the strange thing is my onboard audigy has audio output when playback dvds?regardless spdif is on or off. after some investigations, it turn out that there is no decoder tab under the device control panel at my friends' side. for my side, mine has the decoder tab to turn on dolby digital ex and dolby pro-logic decoders. so therefore, since they are using same type of dsp chip, does the ca006-dat dsp actually perform decoding in hardware? why the pci audigy value does not have docoder whereas the onboard audigy se have decoders since both use the same dsp chip?

there is no dolby decoding chip in any of the soundblaster card. the ca006-dat chip or whatever you call it is not a dolby chip. all decoding is done via creative dolby driver. it's nothing to do with whether they have the same chip or not. it's a matter of whether creative wanted to bundled these decoder driver in the package or not.

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