SPDIF DTS + Analog stereo

Hello folks!
I need my pc to output multichannel DTS sound on the SPDIF, while at the same time output analog stereo from the same?source?when i watch movies or listen to music.
Is this possible?
Is any creative-soundcards able to do this?
Maybe dual soundcards?
Does anyone have any suggestions?

I can't be sure about other CLs soundcards, but my Audidy 2 outputs over spdif and analog at the same time, even while using the dts encoder. Both output 5. though because you can't set individual speaker setups for analog and digital.
Of course you could always go about it in reverse.
Decode your DD/dts using osftware decoders and output that over analog, and without either the dts or dolby decoders running your spdif will always output a stereo signal.

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