dcadec(1)

💿 dcadec — like, the DTS decoder bestie 💿

okay so real talk, this is dcadec(1) from the General Commands Manual section, and she's here to decode DTS Coherent Acoustics audio streams. no cap. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

dcadec — decode DTS Coherent Acoustics audio streams 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dcadec [-h] [-s [track]] [-t pid] [-c] [-r] [-o mode] [file]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

dcadec plays DTS Coherent Acoustics audio streams. iconic behaviour honestly.

If you don't hand her a file, she takes input from stdin — she's flexible like that, main character energy fr fr.

🫶 the options (she ate, no crumbs)

• -h — display help and the available audio modes ✨ (this is your vibe check, do it first)
• -s — use the program stream demultiplexer, with track 0-7 or 0x80-0x87 🎀
• -t pid — use the transport stream demultiplexer, with pid 0x10-0x1ffe 🚌
• -c — use the c implementation, which disables all accelerations 💀 (yes bestie, that means the fast stuff is off, she's going slow-mode on purpose)
• -r — disable dynamic range compression 🔇
• -o mode — use the audio output driver mode. you can get a whole list of modes by using the -h option, iykyk 👑

👑 AUTHORS 👑

the literal legends behind this:

• Michel Lespinasse <walken@zoy.org>
• Aaron Holtzman <aholtzma@ess.engr.uvic.ca>
• And many others on the net. 🌈

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

found a bug? not the vibe, but okay — report it to <libdca-devel@videolan.org> 🐛💌

💖 COPYRIGHT 💖

Copyright © 2000-2003 Michel Lespinasse

Copyright © 1999-2000 Aaron Holtzman

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

⚠️ bestie this is the important part: NO warranty. like, not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. so don't come for her if things go sideways, she told you upfront 🙈

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• extract_dca(1) — go check on her, she's the sibling 🧚

and that's the whole page!! 💜 this was dcadec from the General Commands Manual, and the man page signs off as plain old dcadec(1) — no fancy version numbers or dates on this one, just vibes. slay, go decode something. periodt. 🎀✨