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'''DTS-HD Master Audio''' is selected only as an optional lossless surround sound format for Blu-ray and HD-DVD. It is a competing standard next to Dolby TrueHD.  
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'''DTS-HD''' is a family of audio [[codec|codecs]], primarily used in Blu-ray and HD-DVD – optionally, competing with the Dolby codecs family. It is an extension of the older [[DTS|DTS Coherent Acoustics]] codec found in DVDs, and maintain compatibility with devices that only support those.
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* '''''DTS-HD Master Audio''''', previously known as DTS++, provides for lossless audio.  It is a [[hybrid codec|hybrid lossless/lossy]] codec with a "core" DTS CA stream, for devices only supporting that format, and a correction stream called XLL.  DTS-HD devices will decode both to reconstruct the signal losslessly.  In Blu-ray it supports streams up to 192/24 at 5.1 surround, and up to 96/24 at 7.1 surround.
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* '''''DTS-HD High Resolution''''' works a similar way with an extension stream, but is a lossy codec working at 6 kbit/s or 3 kbit/s constant bit rates (for use when disc space is a constraint). For example, the core stream can be 5.1 at 48 kHz sampling rate, and the extension stream can contain the additional two channels – and even doubling the sampling rate for the extra (inaudible!) ultrasonic octave. 
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The above description is incomplete.  In particular, the DTS-HD codec suite offers configurations not found in Blu-ray, like sacrificing backwards compatibility to operate without core stream (XLL then becomes an ordinary lossless audio codec) – that includes a ''Low Bitrate'' codec / coding profile that can encode 5.1 surround down to 192 kHz sampling rate, intended for streaming purposes when bandwidth is constrained.
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Open source DTS-HD decoders are available through FFmpeg and libdca (used by VideoLAN/VLC).  The Matroska container format supports DTS-HD.
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For additional information: Wikipedia or the [https://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php/DTS-HD Multimedia Wiki entry].
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Latest revision as of 07:23, 17 August 2022

DTS-HD is a family of audio codecs, primarily used in Blu-ray and HD-DVD – optionally, competing with the Dolby codecs family. It is an extension of the older DTS Coherent Acoustics codec found in DVDs, and maintain compatibility with devices that only support those.

  • DTS-HD Master Audio, previously known as DTS++, provides for lossless audio. It is a hybrid lossless/lossy codec with a "core" DTS CA stream, for devices only supporting that format, and a correction stream called XLL. DTS-HD devices will decode both to reconstruct the signal losslessly. In Blu-ray it supports streams up to 192/24 at 5.1 surround, and up to 96/24 at 7.1 surround.
  • DTS-HD High Resolution works a similar way with an extension stream, but is a lossy codec working at 6 kbit/s or 3 kbit/s constant bit rates (for use when disc space is a constraint). For example, the core stream can be 5.1 at 48 kHz sampling rate, and the extension stream can contain the additional two channels – and even doubling the sampling rate for the extra (inaudible!) ultrasonic octave.

The above description is incomplete. In particular, the DTS-HD codec suite offers configurations not found in Blu-ray, like sacrificing backwards compatibility to operate without core stream (XLL then becomes an ordinary lossless audio codec) – that includes a Low Bitrate codec / coding profile that can encode 5.1 surround down to 192 kHz sampling rate, intended for streaming purposes when bandwidth is constrained.


Open source DTS-HD decoders are available through FFmpeg and libdca (used by VideoLAN/VLC). The Matroska container format supports DTS-HD.


For additional information: Wikipedia or the Multimedia Wiki entry.