annotate DOCS/AUTHORS @ 644:88eb1a3f7bfb

Changed code, should be faster on Athlon/K6 but slower on PIII with SSE, more portable.

                            AUTHORS:
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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 mpg123 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...
- YUY2 support into mga_vid driver (for DivX/MPEG4)
- YUY2, RGB/BGR 15/16/24/32 support into libvo drivers (for AVI codecs)
- scripts in the TVout directory (allows using TVout on Matrox G400 DH on fb)
- hacking DivX/Mpeg4 VfW codecs to get YUV output
- opendivx decoder speed optimizations (see opendivx/ChangeLog)
- OSD & SUB display code
- everything that isn't listed elsewhere

Zoltán Ponekker (Pontscho/Fresh!):  <[e-mail]> 
- configure script and Makefiles for easy compile
- GUI system (/still/ coming soon!)
- 3DNow! support into mp3lib
- 3DNow! support into fastmemcpy.h
- various X11 driver changes (keyboard handling, fullscreen, bpp detect, etc)
- libvo: adding xmga driver (similar to Xv but works under X3.3.x)
- mixer support

Gábor Lénárt (LGB): <[e-mail]>
- testing and some improvements in mpeg player's user interface (options)
- ./configure script improvements
- Makefile improvements
- prelimenary DVD support

Gábor Bérczi (Gabucino):  <[e-mail]>
- documentation maintainer, hun-eng translator
- web design
- testing, codecs quality & speed comparsions
- IRC channel #MPlayer operator

Szabolcs Berecz: <[e-mail]>
- codecs.conf file, config file and command line parser
- mga_vid fixes, module option stc.
- fbdev support in libvo

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

Gyula László (Chass, Tégla): <[e-mail]>
- fonts
- new homepage design&gfx (coming soon)

Zoltán Márk Vicián (Se7en): <[e-mail]>
- SVGAlib support in libvo

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

Felix Bünemann: <[e-mail]>
- SDL driver fixes
- Additional YUV formats fixes
- New font (coming soon!?)
- PNG file output support in libvo

TeLeNiEkO: <[e-mail]>
- debian packaging support (see debian/* and DOCS/DEBIAN)
- spanish translations (see DOCS/Spanish/*)

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
- CDROM tune info

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

========================== The Codecs: ===================================

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...

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

Michael Hipp:
- mpg123 author   [free mpeg audio player, isn't used directly but in mp3lib]

Mark Podlipec:
- xanim author    [I'm using its aLaw audio decoder]

Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann:
- xa_gsm.c authors  [MS-GSM audio codec]

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]