Hello, I have spent a couple of hours searching/googling for an answer to this, so if there's a topic already and I've missed it then apologies!

I have a Creative Audigy Platinum Pro ZS and Creative 5.1 speakers. If I play a 5.1 video in Media Player Classic I get 5.1 surround, however if I play the same video in Media Center 2005 I get stereo mixed over all speakers rather than 5.1

Anybody had this problem? or know of a fix?

I have tried with and without Rollup 2 and the problem seems to occur in both situations.

Very confused!!

Check the settings of the DVD decoder that you are using.

I have the Nvidia Pureview Decoder installed. I have used the "Microsoft Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility" and everything is fine, it's set as the default decoder etc.

I was previously using the Cyberlink decoder and had the problem then too. Just to add, I have setup my speakers in MCE as 5.1 and it detected all the speakers fine, but still not working!

Edited January 4, 200719 yr by LeeD

I was not ware that the Audigy series had a ZS card (I am thinking it does not really).

If the sound card driver is like what I am using (Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS), check the Creative Audio Console "Speakers" tab and assure that settings are correct. Also assure that settings of "Sounds and Multimedia Properties" (name string may be different) control panel are correct (View all "Advanced" settings).

Regarding vinodh's comment, for conveinience I uploaded the utility RadLight Filter Manager 1.4 to manage codecs (codec property pages may be accessed) to RapidShare (file too large to attach).

RadLight Filter Manager 1.4

http://rapidshare.com/files/17335447/rlfm_bin1_4.zip.html

211,900 bytes

Edited February 24, 200719 yr by Ascii2

I was not ware that the Audigy series had a ZS card (I am thinking it does not really).

If the sound card driver is like what I am using (Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS), check the Creative Audio Console "Speakers" tab and assure that settings are correct. Also assure that settings of "Sounds and Multimedia Properties" (name string may be different) control panel are correct (View all "Advanced" settings).

Regarding vinodh's comment, for conveinience I uploaded the utility RadLight Filter Manager 1.4 to manage codecs (codec property pages may be accessed) to RapidShare (file too large to attach).

RadLight Filter Manager 1.4

http://rapidshare.com/files/17335447/rlfm_bin1_4.zip.html

211,900 bytes

Yes, 2 ZS if you want to get really anal about it! lol

I had already tried your suggestions before I posted the thread, but thanks anyways. I finally resolved the situation by over riding the AC3 codec settings to output evrything as 5.1 sound

Have you checked the Purevideo config utility? I think you have to start media center and then play the video file and then minimize Media center the get the config util to show in the system tray. not sure how to set it up though but ill think you figgure it out.

another thing could be to install ffdshow and set it up from there

Edited April 14, 200719 yr by Fascix

Try Update Rollup2

It was mentioned in the 1st post the he had already tried using update rollup 2. He has the same problem with or without that update.

Definitely a codec problem.

I finally resolved the situation by over riding the AC3 codec settings to output evrything as 5.1 sound

lol. I hadn't set the AC3/ffdshow codecs up properly. Thanks anyway

Nice to here! Thanks for keeping us updated. Hopefully, this will help prevent others from having the same problem.