Cambridge soundworks dtt 2500 digital 5.1 on audigy 2

Hello,I hope you can help me...Here is my problem:I have the speaker-system:cambridge soundworks desktop theatre 5. dtt 2500 digitaland now a Audigy 2 ZS.Everything is ok but the centre-speaker won't talk to me... I've connected the card with the spdif but I have to set the dtt decoder to 4 point surround to hear something from the rear speaker. Without setting to 4 point I can only hear the front speaker (stereo).Now I have deactivated the intern decoder of the audigy 2 zs. Now it is possible to hear dvd in dolby digital 5.!
But only dvd!
In the system management I can check the channels seperately but when I see the acoustic waves (symbolic on screen) from the centre speaker but I can't hear anything!
Please help me...

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