No surround with XBMC

When playing movies in XBMC I only get sound from my front (left & right) speakers but no sound from center or rear speakers. The HTPC (upgraded Dell Optiplex GX620) is connected to the TV through HDMI and to my Marantz SR8300 AV-Recei'ver with use of a optical cable.
I've selected below options in XBMC under Settings / System / Audio output:
- Optical / Coaxial
- 5.1
- DTS capable receiver
- Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio
Remark: another strange thing is when I select Dolby Digital (AC3) Capable Recei'ver, I get the following error message: failed to initialize audio device / check your audio settings. This is strange because although my receiver is 7 years old in my understanding it is AC3 capable. See link for specs on the receiver. www.marantz.eu/attachments/products/39/SR8300_manual_en.pdf
I know for sure that the AV-Recei'ver is set up correctly and cabling is done right as well because when I play a movie with PowerDVD I get 5.1 sound. (Use S/PDIF selected in PowerDVD)
Anyway I hope somebody on the forum can help me as I'm already searching the internet for 3 days to find a solution for my problem.
Additional info:
- Sound card = Creative Labs X-Fi Xtreme Audio PCI-E 7.1 PCI-E
- Onboard video and audio is disabled in BIOS

Well I give up I'm already searching the internet for days now (there goes my holidays) and asked for help in various forums without any luck. All I hear and read is that the Creative X-Fi cards are a pain in the ass when used with optical cable (SPDIF) to your AV-Recei'ver.
So tomorrow my search will start to a new sound card from a different brand and hopefully this one will give me more luck.

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Thanks for your reply John.
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Hi, I didn't believe the filesystem was the issue, so I didn't put that information in, my mistake not to have posted results which didn't happen to be the issue.
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If it was a matter of integrity checking, flac files store their md5 sum inside. If the sum is off the player will refuse to play the file, it would give error. Also, decoding the flac file to a wav file would fail. This is not the case, as the huge flac files both play and decode to proper sized wav files. So something is a miss with xbmc's flac creation mechanism, and I'm trying to determine if I'm either missing a dependency or if there is a problem with Arch's XBMC package.
Looking at the other "subforum" (as you call it), "Community Contributions", the title below it is "A place for true innovation. Share your own created utilities with the Arch community." Since the XBMC package comes from the Community Repo, it seemed like the place to put my topic. It still seems like the place that it should go in. If I am trying to get the attention of the XBMC package developer and the people who use Arch's Community XBMC package (my target audience for this problem) then "Community Contributions" is still the best subforum to get the problem noticed, and possible resolved. Placing me in "Multimedia and Games" is definately not the right place to be, as XMBC is not a game nor is the issue multimedia based (i.e. faac/faad package based), but in fact a problem with how XBMC is creating / writing flac files. I would still like my topic back in it's original subforum for best noticibility and results.
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Great Question!
The output on the notebook is 2.0 unless specified.
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Phil Journy wrote:
Hi everyone
I'm producing and mixing an album with logic pro 8 in surround mode 5.1
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Hi. I believe DVD-A is still not a free protocol, and DVD-A players are rare. and though Logic can make DVD-A, there is no program for the Mac that can actually play them. I'll try a little search, there has been a comprehensive thread on exactly this topic - though more than a year ago, if I remember correctly...
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+To be continued...+

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