Windows Media Audio 5.1 on 4 speaker system

[kallekill]

I have a Cambridge Desktop Theater 5.1 with a build in Dolby digital decoder. I am trying to get Windows media 5.1 to work and I have chosen 4 speaker setup in windows to get 4 channel audio. I downloaded the test audio files from the Windows Media site and I can get 4 channel audio from the .wav file but not from the .wma file. With the wav file I get front left, front right, rear left, rear right and the center through the two front speakers. Why doesn't it work with the .wma file? With it I get front and rear left through both the front left and the rear left speakers at once. The same applies for the right channels.

[tiki4]

Which OS are you using?

You need Windows XP Home or Professional and Windows Media Player 9 in order to play WMA9Pro 5.1 files. On all other systems the file gets downmixed to stereo. Don't ask me why, I think this is just marketing. Win2K and WinXP aren't so much different.

tiki4

[kallekill]

Originally posted by tiki4
Which OS are you using?

You need Windows XP Home or Professional and Windows Media Player 9 in order to play WMA9Pro 5.1 files. On all other systems the file gets downmixed to stereo. Don't ask me why, I think this is just marketing. Win2K and WinXP aren't so much different.

tiki4

That sucks. I am running Win2k. Isn't there a hack for this? I can't understand why it shouldn't work in windows 2000.