# Install mkvdts2ac3 with Homebrew

Convert DTS audio to AC3 within a matroska file. Version 1.6.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-19.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:mkvdts2ac3
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install mkvdts2ac3
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:mkvdts2ac3
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mkvdts2ac3>
- **Version:** 1.6.0
- **Source summary:** Convert DTS audio to AC3 within a matroska file
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/JakeWharton/mkvdts2ac3>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/JakeWharton/mkvdts2ac3>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/JakeWharton/mkvdts2ac3>
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source archive:** <https://github.com/JakeWharton/mkvdts2ac3/archive/refs/tags/1.6.0.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-19T12:32:39-07:00
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- mkvdts2ac3 (cli)
- mkvdts2ac3 (alias)

## Dependencies

- ffmpeg
- mkvtoolnix

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on all

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 1.6.0
- Package-manager updated: 2026-06-19
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/JakeWharton/mkvdts2ac3
- Upstream latest detected: 1.6.0 (current)
## Project history and usage

mkvdts2ac3 is a shell-script utility by Jake Wharton, with later work involving Chris Hoekstra, for a narrow home-media compatibility task: converting DTS audio inside Matroska files to AC3. The README says it depends on MKVToolNix for Matroska operations and ffmpeg for audio conversion, and its default behavior is to find the first DTS track in an MKV, convert it to AC3, and append it.

### How it is used

The changelog places much of the project's visible development in 2009-2011, including Jake Wharton and Chris Hoekstra version lines, a merged 1.5.0 line, new options for creating a new file, choosing the first audio track, forcing conversion, keeping tracks external, and user-loadable defaults in ~/.mkvdts2ac3.rc. Its package-manager niche is therefore not general video conversion, but a wrapper around mkvtoolnix and ffmpeg for devices or playback chains that accept AC3 more readily than DTS.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mkvdts2ac3>
- <https://github.com/JakeWharton/mkvdts2ac3/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md>
- <https://github.com/JakeWharton/mkvdts2ac3/blob/master/README.md>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** mkvdts2ac3
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 3
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable


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- [ffmpeg](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/ffmpeg/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [mkvtoolnix](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/mkvtoolnix/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mkvdts2ac3.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/mkvdts2ac3.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph