Playing Games and Music, 

Analog/Digital 

and Watching Movies

Out jack

with 4.1 or 5.1 Digital Speaker 

Systems

Minijack to DIN   

   cable

FourPointSurround

Digital

or DeskTop Theater 

DIN

Digital Speakers

Connects to the 

Optical Digital I/O card 

Sound Blaster 

or Live! Drive

Live! card

(see next page).

Analog Line and Rear Inputs

Playing Games and Watching Movies

Triple stereo 

Watching DVD Movies 

Connect for downmix audio only when 

audio cable

a Dolby Digital (AC 3) decoder 

with an Analog 5.1 channel speaker 

or Playing DVD Games

speaker system is not available.

system*

with Creative PC DVD 

and DeskTop Theater 5.1

Digital Speaker System

Dolby Digital (AC 3) 

SPDIF Out jack

Analog 

5.1 Channel 

Front, Rear 

Analog Speaker 

MPEG2 decoder card

and Centre/ 

System*

RCA cable

Sub Inputs

* e.g., DTT2200 Speaker 

Dolby Digital 

Digital

System from Cambridge 

(AC 3) 

DIN

SoundWorks

SPDIF In

DeskTop Theater 5.1 Digital 

Speaker System

Figure 1 4:   Connecting peripherals to the Sound Blaster Live! card.

1 6 Installing Sound Blaster Live! Player 5.1