No sound Creative Sound Blaster 5.1 USB and Vi

Hey guys,
Just purchased the external card from Creative. My setup:
DTS - Recei'ver
Optical Cable
Creative SB 5. USB
Laptop with Vista
The plan is to make use of files with dts and dolby digital.
At first I thought I didn't have sound at all, but the systemsounds do work (just had to turn it up). But I there isn't any sound when I use a mediaplayer, for example VLC or Mediaplayer classic. Of course the mediafiles do have sound when the card is disconnected
I've read the faq but that doesn't tell me much, except for the statement 'select spdif-passthrough'. I don't know where I can find that option, but since I can hear the systemsounds, I don't expect that to be the problem.
Hope you guys can help me out!
Thanks in advance,
Kevin
The Netherlands
Message Edited by Kevf on 05-22-2008 0:32 PM

hi,
i don't know about the MAC OS suppport, but the support for "newer" windows is terrible, since some years, since Vista.
I use atm the onBoard sound for gaming. my very expensi've X-FI-Gaming-card is useless (and that hurts^^ so I try to sell it, and buy me a Xonar^^...without software support EAX is dead at all too, on a newer OS), because there are no good drivers & software without massi've sound-bugs for Win7. and this problem has nearly every Win7 user.
at the moment I would not buy so things before i know about realy working drivers

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