Hi guys.

I am running windows media player 9 series, I have fully set up a 5.1 surround system using a Sound blaster Live 24-bit Sound Card. When I test the speakers on the Creative Speaker Test bar, each speaker says, "front left, Front right, Rear left" etc... Hoewver, when I play an Mp3 or Avi File in Media Player, I am only getting audio output in the front left and right speakers.
I have enabled 5.1 output in control panel/Audio/speaker settings, but still no joy.

The man who built my PC tells me Media Player neeeds a codec to support 5.1 sound. Is this the case? What should I do next?

Many thanks in advance.

hello thistle, i'm not too sure if this is your answer but i would have thought to get all of you speakers firing you would need to input a 5.1 source. To my understanding MP3 and avi's are stereo or mono only. Does your setup work when you play a 5.1 enabled dvd?

Hi thistle, I just bought and installed 5.1 surround. I'm using WMP 10 and all is fine. The first time i changed my audio speaker settings to 5.1 surround, i just clicked on ok, instead of apply and ok ! when i restarted my computer it went back to desktop speakers!! The next thing i did is on the volume control i went to options, then properties and added the volume bars for the rear, center and sub to adjust them individually, sounds better too !! Don't know if this will help but i hope it does!! I didn't need any codecs !!

~Rolly~