Connect Audigy 2 Value to Recei

I am currently using the digital out from the card and connect to the coaxial input of the receiver. Everything works fine, except when I play DVD on the computer the receiver won't automatically detect the Dolby settings. Also, When I try to test the speakers using the software provided by the sound card, only the front two speakers will work, the other three speakers do not have the static sound coming out of them. Please give me some help on how to set up this correctly. Thanks

chenchr,
Make sure you have disable the soundcard decoder and your DVD playback software decoder(eg. WinDVD). To disable your soundcard decoder, go to the Creative Audio Console application, under decoder tab set it to SPDIF Passthrough. As for your DVD software, go to the audio setting and set it to something similar too.
Also, you can check out this sticky for digital connection usage and limits.
Jason

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