Hi everyone. I've looked at various guides, forums, and so forth, and I've found some useful stuff, but so far I haven't found a straightforward answer to the following:

1. How do you encode a stereo WAV that is Pro-Logic (or PL2) compatible with something like Vegas or BeSweet (without having to buy a $600 plugin), using 4 or 5 tracks as a base? I know you dump "Front right" into the right and "Front Left" into left, but I'm confused about the volumes, the scaling, phase inversion, directional steering and so forth. I realize that no matter what you do, it's matrixed and you're going to lose some info upon decoding, but I'd love to be able to encode a stereo file with the surround info in it.

2. Is there any easy method for Dolby Pro-Logic or Pro-Logic II playback on a PC (from a matrixed stereo file)? For instance, you're watching the 2006 Star Wars DVD's on your PC through a set of USB 5.1 surround sound headphones. Is there any inexpensive method or program where you could listen to the matrixed surround in realtime? Or not in realtime? In other words, is there a program where you can put a matrixed stereo file in and get 4 or 5 separate channels out? Obviously this would vary from decoder to decoder, but is there a way to do it?

Thanks so much! I've been looking everywhere for this info,

-TM