PS3 Sound through Soundcard to Surround-System?

Hey guys! I'm new here, my name is Daniel and I'm from Germany (so my English might not be as good as you wish ). I have the following problem:
I want to connect my Playstation 3 to my PC-Speakers and use the soundcard as "decoder" for incoming digital signal.
Then I want to pass the encoded signal through to my speakers (they are connected via Cinch, so it's an analog Speaker System) so that I'm able to enjoy 5. sound.
Here is what I found out:
I tried to connect my PS3 with an optical cable to my SoundBlaster X-Fi Titanium Fatalty Professional Series.
It worked but the only thing I got was Stereo Sound. When I set the PS3 outgoing audio signal to DD/ DTS 5. encoding, I got no more sound.
Is there any way to get 5. (DTS/ DD decoding) over the soundcard and give the sound out to my Teufel Concept G THX 7.? Is there maybe a software-decoder, which can be used to decode (as I know, the soundcard has no integrated decoder) the signal?
I would be glad, if I get some help.
Greetz, Daniel

I had to connect my Apple TV directly to my home
theater system with an optical cable to get past the
problem. It looks like these Sharp TVs simply will
not pass sound input from an HDMI cable through to
the optical audio output.
I have one of the new Sharp LC-32GP1U 1080p LCD sets, and I have exactly the same problem:
Apple TV goes out via HDMI to TV; TV audio goes out via optical to Samsung receiver. The TV itself can play the audio, but the receiver cannot.
However, my HD cable box also goes out to the TV via HDMI (and then out via optical to the receiver also), and the receiver plays that audio just fine. So, at least for me, it is not an issue of the Sharp TV refusing to pass along HDMI audio to the optical output.
Is it possible that the Apple TV is the source of the problem? Maybe my receiver doesn't like the audio format (PCM? Dolby Digital?) the Apple TV sends?

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