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 "id": "dts-coherent-acoustics-dca-audio",
 "name": "DTS Coherent Acoustics (DCA) Audio",
 "category": "audio",
 "identifiers": {
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   "dts"
  ],
  "mime": [
   "audio/vnd.dts"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/973"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q44299010",
   "Q50374892"
  ],
  "magic": [
   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "7ffe8001",
    "notes": "DTS Audio"
   },
   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "7ffe8001fc3c"
   }
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "DTS Audio",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "7ffe8001"
     }
    ]
   }
  ],
  "loc_fdd": [
   "fdd000232"
  ]
 },
 "status": "writable",
 "summary": "DTS Coherent Acoustics is a consumer-level audio codec employed as part of the DVD, Laserdisc and Blu-ray specifications.",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "FFmpeg",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org",
   "license": "LGPL-2.1-or-later / GPL-2.0-or-later",
   "open_source": true,
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Adobe Encore",
   "url": "https://www.adobe.com/products/encore/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "EZ CD Audio Converter",
   "url": "https://www.poikosoft.com/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "Q3898244",
   "url": "https://MediaArea.net/MediaInfo",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "BSD licenses / GNU General Public License / GNU Lesser General Public License",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "thousand tunes player",
   "url": "http://music.taihe.com/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "proprietary license"
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Digital_Theater_Systems",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/973",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/973",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q50374892",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50374892",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "converters",
   "ffw",
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-24",
 "conversions": [
  {
   "to": "flac-free-lossless-audio-codec-1-2-1",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.dts out.flac",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Lossless for decoded audio; a lossy source stays as degraded as it was. WAV may reduce bit depth or drop metadata.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "waveform-audio",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.dts out.wav",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Lossless for decoded audio; a lossy source stays as degraded as it was. WAV may reduce bit depth or drop metadata.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "mpeg-1-2-audio-layer-3",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.dts out.mp3",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy re-encoding.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "ogg",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.dts out.ogg",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy re-encoding.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "mpeg-4-part-14",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.dts out.mp4",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "matroska-1-4",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.dts out.mkv",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "webm",
   "tool": "FFmpeg",
   "command": "ffmpeg -i in.dts out.webm",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Re-encoded with lossy codecs by default; try `-c copy` to remux without re-encoding when the codecs fit the container.",
   "url": "https://ffmpeg.org"
  }
 ],
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": []
}