libdca ☆

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Description:
Library for decoding DTS Coherent Acoustics streams

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Multimedia

Tags: audio decoding dts multimedia library

Install: brew install libdca

About:
Libdca is a high-quality, open-source library designed for decoding DTS Coherent Acoustics (DTS) audio streams. It provides a robust decoder for the DTS format, commonly used in DVD and Blu-ray audio tracks. This library is essential for developers building multimedia applications that need to process or convert DTS audio data.

Key Features:

High-fidelity decoding of DTS Coherent Acoustics streams
Lightweight and portable C library design
Provides both a low-level bitstream API and a high-level decoding API
Supports decoding of DTS-ES and other DTS variants

Use Cases:

Integrating DTS audio decoding into custom media players
Transcoding DTS audio tracks for compatibility with other devices
Developing audio processing tools for home theater applications

Alternatives:

FFmpeg – FFmpeg is a much larger, comprehensive multimedia framework that includes DTS decoding, whereas Libdca is a specialized, lightweight library focused solely on this task.
libdcadec – libdcadec is a modern alternative that also decodes DTS, often cited for its clean implementation and performance.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 13, 2024 1:50pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	adebaef7
Dec 1, 2022 12:49pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	1f7e7bd0