Digital decoding returned?

I have a X-Fi Xtreme Music (SB460). Recently bought a frontal panel from Sound Blaster Audigy 2 and it works correctly with my X-FI, even digital decoding. Just check.
Sound Blaster X-FI.jpg
I tested it with the Xbox 360 and it works: No CMSS but true dolby surround.
DTS decoding is enabled too.
I use the recent 2013 driver from Creative, without hacks.

My card always has Dolby and DTS decoding for internal media. As many people knows, you only have to switch the output to spdif and activate decoding in Creative Console Launcher. All that in the first X-Fi generation.
But i never got the SPIDF input working in decode mode, it always looked gray and forbbiden.
I bought the little i/o module and never got dolby digital and DTS decoding for external devices, only PCM reception. Later I read that this feature was cut off for some legal restrictions and bitstreams decoding was preserved only for internal sources. So i declined to go on, but i bought the i/o drive and that was all, the feature apeared.
It is not perfect: I noticed a little delay and the audio sounds diferent, not such as decoding internal media. It sounds as a diferent decoder: There is already a crossover bass redirection and the dolby decoding sounds always like in Theater Mode. Listening that, i prefer the Extigy for decoding the XBOX 360 audio.
That was my experience.

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