# 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
- **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>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-19T12:32:39-07:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- mkvdts2ac3 (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.6.0
## 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


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mkvdts2ac3.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/mkvdts2ac3.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- cross-ecosystem install command graph