Inaudible sound from rear speak

hi,
i recently brought a soundblaster li've 24 bit sound card , and creative inspire 5. speakers. When i try to play dvds on powerdvd with prologic on, on power dvd software i can hardly hear any sound at all from my rear speakers. And also please explain what is the difference between software decoder prologic on power dvd and the hardware decoder ddts-00. will the surround quality be better on the ddts 00 decoder

NOOOO, wait. If you enable CMSS, you will get the same STEREO signal to all speakers. You will not get 5.. CMSS is for a 2 channel stereo signal to be sent to all speakers. Its mainly for music and not 5. DVDs.
EG: If you have a Divx movie which is 2 channel then you can turn on CMSS to get all speakers working, but this is not 5..
What you need to do is dissable CMSS.
Make sure everything is set to 5. also in windows control panel.
Now with WMP 0 you then need to go into the options for sound and also set it up to use 6 channels. This is 5..
You can also get WIN DVD as it will give you 5.
The best way to know what is going on is do this.
Play a movie with CMSS on, like you have it.
Now while playing the movie open up media CC. and then go to Surround mixer. Now go to advance and play with the sliders for all speakers. Lower the centre one to Zero. You will still hear vocals, This is not right. Lower the front and centre speakers and you will still hear all sound FX. This is not 5. my freind. Try it for your self and then you will see what I mean..

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