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========================== The MPlayer project: ===============================

Árpád Gereöffy (A'rpi/ESP-team):  <[e-mail]>
- player code (mpeg stream demultiplexer and avi/asf parser, A-V sync, seek...)
- mp3lib, based on mpglib sources  [MP3 audio decoder]
- getch2  [keyboard handler]
- some changes in libmpeg2 code (progressive frames, bitrate & fps support)
- libvo improvements: adding OpenGL support, bugfix in mga driver...
- triple buffering & YUY2 support (for DivX/MPEG4) into mga_vid driver 
- scripts in the TVout directory (TVout on Matrox G400DH, read DOCS/TVout-G400)
- hacking DivX/Mpeg4 VfW codecs to get YUV output
- opendivx decoder speed optimizations (see opendivx/ChangeLog)
- OSD & SUB display code

Zoltán Ponekker (Pontscho/Fresh!):  <[e-mail]> 
- configure script and Makefiles for easy compile
- GUI system (near complete!?)
- 3DNow! support into mp3lib
- 3DNow! support into fastmemcpy.h
- various X11 driver changes (keyboard handling, fullscreen, bpp detect, etc)
- libvo: adding xmga driver, and fullscreen support to xv
- audio mixer (volume) support

Gábor Lénárt (LGB): <[e-mail]>
- ./configure script improvements
- Makefile improvements
- prelimenary DVD support
- another GUI code (is that so..?)
- various X11 cleanups and fixes

Gábor Bérczi (Gabucino):  <[e-mail]>
- documentation maintainer
- hungarian translation of documentation
- second webpage design&gfx
- webpage maintainer
- testing, codecs quality & speed comparsions
- IRC channel #MPlayer operator
- experimental MINIX port

Szabolcs Berecz (Szabi): <[e-mail]>
- codecs.conf file parser
- config file and command line parser
- mga_vid fixes, module option etc.
- fbdev support in libvo
- type #7 subtitle support

László Megyer (Lez, Laaz): <[e-mail]>
- SUB reader
- screensaver+DPMS disable for libvo

Gyula László (Chass, Tégla): <[e-mail]>
- first fonts (mp_font1.zip)
- third (current) homepage design&gfx

Zoltán Márk Vicián (Se7en): <[e-mail]>
- SVGAlib support in libvo
- native AAlib driver (coming soon)

Alex Beregszaszi (Al3x): <[e-mail]>
- ALSA output driver in libao2
- vo_ggi output driver in libvo (www.ggi-project.org)

Andreas Ackermann (Acki):  <[e-mail]>
- LIRC support (see DOCS/LIRC)
- DGA support in libvo

Felix Bünemann (Atmos): <[e-mail]>
- SDL driver maintainer
- Additional YUV formats fixes
- New font (mp_font2.zip)
- PNG file output support in libvo
- flipping support (for Indeo 3/4, etc)
- SDL audio driver in libao2
- RAW PCM/WAVE file writer for libao2

TeLeNiEkO: <[e-mail]>
- spanish translation of documentation

Michael Graffam: <[e-mail]>
- XF86VidMode support to vo_x11 and vo_dga
- Video mode switching code to vo_dga

Jens Hoffmann: <[e-mail]>
- Additional YUV formats support
- found the big BITMAPINFOHEADER problem -> solved ASV2 pixelization

Nick Kurshev: <[e-mail]>
- memcpy optimizations for AMD K7 and Intel Pentium III  (fastmemcpy.h)
- CDROM tune info
- further 3DNow! optimizations into mp3lib and libac3
- russian translation of documentation

German Gomez Garcia: <[e-mail]>
- DVD .ifo parser and chapter selection [not yet in the main trunk]
- SPDIF AC3 output for SBLive!  [not yet in the main trunk]

Dariush Pietrzak (Eyck): <[e-mail]>
- debian packaging support (see debian/* and DOCS/DEBIAN)
- support for vplayer subtitle format
- prelimenary support for .RT subtitle format

Jürgen Keil and Marcus Comstedt: <[e-mail]> <[e-mail]>
- patched MPlayer to work on Solaris 8 x86
- configure fixes
- SUN audio driver in libao2

Vladimir Kushnir: <[e-mail]>
- patched MPlayer to work on FreeBSD x86

Bertrand BAUDET: <[e-mail]>
- network streaming support

Main testers:
  Tibor Balázs (Tibcu)
  Péter Sasi (SaPe)
  Christoph H. Lampert
  Attila Kinali
  Dirk Vornheder

========================== The codecs, libs: =================================

Aaron Holtzman:  <[e-mail]>
- ac3dec (and libac3) author  [AC3 audio decoder]
- mga_vid driver  [Matrox G200/G400 YUV Back-end Scaler]
- mpeg2dec        [Fast MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, currently used in player]

Michel Lespinasse:  <[e-mail]>
- did large libmpeg2 changes for better speed and mpeg conformance

Eugene Kuznetsov:  <[e-mail]>
- avifile author  [AVI player library for linux, using Win32 VfW/ACM codecs]
- technical help about AVI and ASF formats, and how to get YUV using VfW...
- divx4linux techical support

Zdenek Kabelac:  <[e-mail]>
- current avifile maintainer(?)
- some technical help about the win32 stuff and timers

Gerard Lantau: <[e-mail]>
- ffmpeg/libavcodec author,maintainer  (opensource mpeg & divx en/decoder)

Project Mayo:  [http://www.projectmayo.com]
- the OpenDivX codec authors

Michael Hipp:
- mpglib author   [isn't used directly but some parts in mp3lib]

Mark Podlipec:
- xa_gsm.c author  [MS-GSM audio codec]
                   [from a GSM library by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann]

Their code is not used in current player version, but I've got some ideas or
other technical help from:

John F. McGowan   http://www.jmcgowan.com/
- AVI FAQ author/collector. [site with many useful docs on codecs and avi fmt]

Dirk Farin:      <[e-mail]>
- dvdview author  [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in v0.5-v0.8]

Adam Williams:   <[e-mail]>
- libmpeg3 (and xmovie) author  [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in v0.1-v0.4]