DTS to OPUS Converter

DTS (Digital Theater Systems) is a multi-channel audio codec originally engineered for cinema sound, now a staple of home theater and Blu-ray releases. Conceived by DTS, Inc. and first showcased theatrically alongside the 1993 film Jurassic Park, the technology delivers up to 5.1 discrete channels of surround sound at bit rates typically between 768 kbps and 1.5 Mbps. Unlike competing codecs that lean on aggressive psychoacoustic modeling, DTS allocates a higher data budget to each channel, preserving finer spatial detail and low-level dynamics. The format encodes audio using sub-band ADPCM combined with vector quantization, producing a perceptibly rich sound field. Its extended variant, DTS-HD Master Audio, adds a lossless extension layer for bit-for-bit accuracy up to 24-bit/192 kHz. Key strengths include broad hardware adoption across AV receivers, gaming consoles, and automotive infotainment systems, along with robust error concealment that masks minor disc or stream glitches. For anyone working with surround-sound content intended for physical media or high-end streaming, DTS provides a proven pathway from studio mix to living room.

Opus is a versatile, open audio codec standardized by the IETF as RFC 6716 in 2012. It fuses two coding approaches — SILK for speech and CELT for music — into one algorithm that blends between them based on content type and bitrate. This hybrid design lets Opus outperform virtually every other codec across a wide range of uses: low-latency voice at 6 kbps, high-fidelity music at 128 kbps, and everything in between. It supports bitrates from 6 to 510 kbps, sample rates up to 48 kHz, and frame sizes as small as 2.5 ms, giving it the lowest algorithmic latency of any mainstream audio codec. Three advantages make Opus especially compelling. It is completely royalty-free and open-source, removing licensing barriers that hold back proprietary codecs. It achieves transparent quality at roughly half the bitrate of MP3 and beats AAC at equivalent rates. And its low latency makes it the mandatory codec for WebRTC, so every modern browser ships with an Opus decoder. WhatsApp, Discord, Zoom, and YouTube all rely on Opus for real-time audio.