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Reduce code duplication in get_path. Also avoid using a pointer to an on-stack array outside the array's scope, a compiler might use its stack area for other variables or it might optimize away all code modifying it right before it leaves the scope, thus completely breaking the code.

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The MPlayer project
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MPlayer was originally written by Árpád Gereöffy and later extended by
a bunch of other people, some of whom are listed here in alphabetical
order. If you think you are missing, feel free to send a patch.

Ackermann, Andreas (Acki) <[e-mail]>
    * LIRC support
    * DGA support in libvo

adland <[e-mail]>
    * support for various Windows DLL codecs (LCW2, ASLC)
    * SMIL playlist parser
    * many streaming bug fixes and improvements
    * libfaad2 update

Anholt, Eric <[e-mail]>
    * CPU detection code

Ashberg, Folke <[e-mail]>
    * native AAlib driver (-vo aa)

Balatoni, Dénes <[e-mail]>
    * XMMS inputplugin support
    * minor features & fixes
    * Sun XVR-100 VO driver port from xine

Barat, Zsolt (joyping) <[e-mail]>
    * ao_alsa9 fixes, AC3 passthrough support
    * ao_alsa unified ALSA audio output driver

Barbato, Luca (lu_zero) <[e-mail]>
    * random AltiVec fixes
    * other minor fixes

Baryshkov, Dmitry (lumag) <[e-mail]>
    * Russian documentation translation
    * FLAC decoding support
    * XML build system

Baudet, Bertrand <[e-mail]>
    * network streaming support author
    * CDDB support

Bedel, Alban (albeu) <[e-mail]>
    * MMS network streaming patches
    * playtree and per-entry config
    * playlist parsers
    * new input layer, slave mode improvements
    * audio only support
    * MP3, WAV and Ogg demuxers, Ogg in AVI fixes
    * support for audio from an external file
    * DXR2 driver
    * vo_aa improvements
    * CDDA support
    * OSD menu
    * new modular config/command line parser code

Behrisch, Michael <[e-mail]>
    * online audio stream switching for MPEG and Matroska files

Belev, Luchezar (lucho) <[e-mail]>
    * hw-accelerated video eq support into x11, gl2 (using DirectColor cmap)

Bérczi, Gábor (Gabucino) <[e-mail]>
    * large parts the original HTML and TXT documentation
    * original Hungarian documentation, homepage, console message translation
    * second homepage design & gfx
    * original homepage content
    * testing, codecs quality & speed comparisons
    * experimental MINIX port :) (what's funny about it?)
    * MPsub subtitle format design
    * AlienMind, BlueHeart, CubicPlayer, MidnightLove, netscape4,
      WMP6, xanim, xine-lcd skins

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

Beregszászi, Alex (al3x) <[e-mail]>
    * second project maintainer
    * alsa5 and alsa9 audio output drivers in libao2
    * ggi video output driver (www.ggi-project.org)
    * XAnim codecs support
    * VIVO files, codecs support
    * TV grabbing support
    * QuickTime hackings
    * libavcodec support in MEncoder
    * RM file format demuxer
    * MEncoder framecopy
    * yuv4mpeg1 support
    * NuppelVideo demuxer changes
    * subconfig
    * VIDIX and libdha hackings
    * Matrox driver port to VIDIX
    * XVIDIX video output driver
    * many other things (in libvo, libmad syncing, dec_audio/video and loader)
    * libmpcodecs / libmpdemux hacking
    * patch review
    * dynamic a/v plugins (external shared ad/vd/.. objects)
    * millions of bug fixes

Bitterberg, Tilmann <[e-mail]>
    * AVI OpenDML read support

Biurrun, Diego (DonDiego) <[e-mail]>
    * documentation all over the place
    * command line option documentation completed
    * README, wishlist, translations.txt
    * random trivial fixes
    * main tester and small fixes for the Cygwin and MinGW ports
    * testing, bug reports
    * homepage content improvements, design7, HTML fixed
    * Hunglish to English translation everywhere
    * head of the Ministry for English Composition
    * ultrafina skin
    * skin review part I
    * patch review
    * build system overhaul
    * shiny new non-recursive build

Blomenkamp, Marcus <[e-mail]>
    * VIDIX patches (Rage128, Radeon 7000)
    * OSS AC3 passthrough fix

Buehler, Andrew (The Wanderer) <[e-mail]>
    * various documentation spelling and grammar corrections
    * mp_msg transition on main source files

Bulgroz, Eviv <[e-mail]>
    * presets support for mp3lame encoding
    * AVI demuxer time/bitrate calculation fixes
    * various bug fixes

Bünemann, Felix (Atmos) <[e-mail]>
    * additional YUV formats fixes
    * new font (mp_font2.zip)
    * png video output driver
    * flipping support (for Indeo 3/4, etc)
    * SDL audio output driver in libao2
    * RAW PCM/WAVE file writer for libao2
    * Ogg Vorbis audio support
    * aspect ratio code improvements, prescaling support
    * Win32 (Cygwin) port
    * DivX5Linux support
    * AAC decoding support via libfaad2
    * Darwin (Mac OS X) port

Bunkus, Moritz (Mosu) <[e-mail]>
    * various OGM hacks/fixes
    * OGMtools author
    * Matroska demuxer

Christiansen, Dan Villiom Podlaski (danchr) <[e-mail]>
    * timer-darwin.c
    * CoreAudio audio output driver for Mac OS X
    * build system cleanups for Darwin

Clagg, Jeff (snacky) <[e-mail]>
    * minor updates and fixes for x264 support
    * x264's encoding guide
    * superficial clarity fixes for mpcf.txt

Comstedt, Marcus <[e-mail]>
    * initial Solaris 8 x86 support
    * configure fixes

Cook, Kees <[e-mail]>
    * dvdnav hacks
    * rawdv demuxer fixes

Curry, Alan (pacman, tcsetattr) <[e-mail]>
    * swscale AltiVec/big-endian fixes
    * misc vo_fbdev fixes

Davies, Stephen <[e-mail]>
    * support for large video files (>2^32 bytes in size)
    * surround sound aop plugin

Di Vita, Piero (Scognito) <[e-mail]>
    * gnome, trium skins
    * new GUI icons
    * skin review part II

Diedrich, Tobias (ranma, ranmachan) <[e-mail]>
    * NAS audio output driver
    * DXR2 driver
    * softpulldown video filter
    * ported Donald Graft's kerndeint video filter
    * AVI OpenDML write support

Dietrich, Florian <[e-mail]>
    * MinGW networking support

Dobbelaere, Jeroen <[e-mail]>
    * original libmad support

Döffinger, Reimar (reimar) <[e-mail]>
    * GL code fixes
    * various fixes all over the place
    * reworked live changing playback speed
    * made MMS over HTTP stream selection work and modified ASF header parsing
    * reimplemented ao_jack without bio2jack dependency
    * musepack demuxer and decoder, based on Reza's patch
    * speex decoder via libspeex
    * MPEG-2 in GXF demuxer
    * vo_gl ported to windows
    * gl_commmon.[ch] to decrease code duplication
    * OpenGL support for OSD, panscan, YUV->RGB conversion, texture buffers,
      custom fragment programs and more

Dolbeau, Romain <[e-mail]>
    * random AltiVec (PowerPC multimedia extensions) stuff
    * vo_quartz YUV support & fixes
    * endianness fixes

Dönmez, İsmail (cartman) <[e-mail]>
    * compile fix for mga_vid to compile with Linux 2.5/2.6 kernels
    * small fixes all around

Edele, Robert (yartrebo) <[e-mail]>
    * remove_logo filter

Egger, Christoph <[e-mail]>
    * vo_ggi updates

Elsinghorst, Paul Wilhelm <[e-mail]>
    * GUI: remote ESD support including software mixer

Ernesti, Bernd <[e-mail]>
    * NetBSD support patches

Falco, Salvatore <[e-mail]>
    * jacosub parsing & dump support
    * overlapping subtitles & sub sorting support
    * SAMI subtitles dump support

Feigl, Johannes (jaf) <[e-mail]>
    * original German docs translation (outdated)
    * some improvements in configure, small patches
    * found somebody (Thilo Wunderlich) who sent a DVB card

Felker, D Richard III (dalias) <[e-mail]>
    * lots of work on inverse telecine including initial support
    * improved MEncoder (getting rid of DivX4 dependency, seeking, ...)
    * antialiased DVD subtitles
    * misc bug fixes and improvements, esp. in video filter/output system
    * tech docs on encoding
    * eq, halfpack, dint, detc, field, decimate, dsize, ilpack, ivtc,
      tfields, pullup video filters

Ferguson, Tim <[e-mail]>
    * open source Cinepak decoder
    * open source CYUV decoder

Finlayson, Ross <[e-mail]>
    * LIVE555 Streaming Media library author
    * RTP/RTSP streaming support

Forghieri, Daniele (xdanny) <[e-mail]>
    * TGA output driver
    * framestep & tile video filters
    * initial Italian man page translation
    * fixes and improvements to lavc audio encoding

Foth, Kilian A. <[e-mail]>
    * slave mode

Franz, Fabian (Fabianx) <[e-mail]>
    * help with the libmpeg2 0.3.0 update
    * playlist improvements
    * KDE screensaver support
    * mini skin

Gansser, Martin <[e-mail]>
    * HP-UX port

George, Nicolas (cigaes) <[e-mail]>
    * small subtitles/ASS improvements and cleanups
    * forced key frames
    * stats audio filter

Gereöffy, Árpád (A'rpi/ESP-team) <[e-mail]>
    * project founder, first project maintainer
    * MPlayer, MEncoder core, A-V sync
    * libmpdemux, demultiplexer for MPEG, ASF, AVI, various fixes in others
    * 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, bug fix in mga driver...
    * triple buffering & YUY2 support (for DivX/MPEG-4) into mga_vid driver
    * OSD & subtitle display code
    * FFmpeg/libavcodec integration
    * DivX4Linux (Project Mayo) support (see documentation)
    * New DVD support using libdvdread
    * MPEG PES output & DVB card support
    * libmpcodecs design, porting video decoders, filters

Giani, Matteo <[e-mail]>
    * PVA demuxer

Giaquinta, Emanuele (exg) <[e-mail]>
    * Darwin/ppc fixes
    * libfaad2 update

Goethel, Sven <[e-mail]>
    * vo_gl2 video output driver
    * PVR Channel Navigation

Gomez Garcia, German <[e-mail]>
    * SPDIF AC3 output for SBLive!

Gottwald, Alexander <[e-mail]>
    * various small bug fixes

Graffam, Michael <[e-mail]>
    * XF86VidMode support to vo_x11 and vo_dga
    * video mode switching code to vo_dga

Gritsenko, Andriy N. (AG_LS) <[e-mail]>
    * drop-deinterlace (dint) video filter
    * muxer layer, and new MPEG-PS muxer

Guyomarch, Rémi (rguyom) <[e-mail]>
    * various fixes
    * unsharp video filter
    * Xvid encoding support

Hall, Julian <[e-mail]>
    * black frame detection filter (vf_blackframe)

Hammelmann, Jürgen <[e-mail]>
    * TOOLS/mencvcd author

Hertel, Christopher R. <[e-mail]>
    * md5sum code used by vo_md5sum. part of uCIFS library.

Hess, Andreas <[e-mail]>
    * upgrading libdvdcss in libmpdvdkit2
    * various small bug fixes

Hickey, Corey <[e-mail]>
    * telecine/interlacing HOWTO for the MEncoder documentation
    * advanced audio usage guide for the MPlayer documentation
    * muxer frame buffer for MEncoder

Hidvégi, Zoltán (Zoli) <[e-mail]>
    * filmdint video filter

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

Hoffman, Marc <[e-mail]>
    * AltiVec, color space converter
    * Blackfin, DSP optimizations

Holm, David (dholm, mswitch) <[e-mail]>
    * DXR3 support

Holt, Jason <jholt [at] google.com>
    * UDP network synchronization

Horst, Bohdan (Nexus) <[e-mail]>
    * FreeBSD support

Hoyos, Carl Eugen (cehoyos) <[e-mail]>
    * improvements to LIVE555 demuxer

Huehner, Stefan (huehner) <[e-mail]>
    * Major code cleanup patches

Hug, Hampa <[e-mail]>
    * LUT-based soft eq video filter (vf_eq2)
    * .ogm demuxer endianness fixes

Hůrka, Tomáš <[e-mail]>
    * Darwin DVD support (mpdvdkit2)
    * various fixes

Hysseo, Jehan <[e-mail]>
    * af_add, af_switch, af_del, af_clr commands.

Isani, Sidik <[e-mail]>
    * get_delay() smoothing code (-autosync)
    * RTC initialization fixes
    * various small fixes

Issaris, Panagiotis (takis) <[e-mail]>
    * -playlist option
    * NuppelVideo support
    * various fixes

Jacobs, Aurelien <[e-mail]>
    * standalone C Matroska demuxer
    * DTS support

Jelveh, Reza (timebomb) <[e-mail]>
    * NSV demuxer
    * seeking in Real files without index
    * savage_vid VIDIX driver
    * miscellaneous small fixes and improvements
    * first musepack decoding patch
    * swscale AltiVec fixes

Jermann, Jonas (g0th) <[e-mail]>
    * manual page rewrite
    * documentation

Johansson, Anders <[e-mail]>
    * old audio plugin system, some effect plugins
    * new libaf interface design, implementation, plugins

Kain, Nicholas <[e-mail]>
    * strl(cpy|cat) detection and conversion
    * string handling cleanups

Kalinski, Filip (filon) <[e-mail]>
    * X11 fulscreen switching fixes/cleanup

Иван Кълвачев [Ivan Kalvachev] (iive) <[e-mail]>
    * interlaced MPEG-2 support (libmpeg2)
    * configfile parser fixes
    * SRT subtitle dump support
    * vo_svga rewrite
    * various fixes and small improvements
    * XvMC support (MPlayer & FFmpeg)

Kaniewski, Wojtek <[e-mail]>
    * mouse wheel support
    * made the FreeType + RAW font support work together

Kaplan, Kim Minh <[e-mail]>
    * DVD and VOBsub subtitles display support
    * DVD subtitles rip to VOBsub

Kärkkäinen, Samuli <[e-mail]>
    * first DVD ripping guide

Keil, Jürgen <[e-mail]>
    * patched MPlayer to work on Solaris 8 x86
    * various fixes (Win32, configure, etc)
    * sun audio output driver in libao2
    * mediaLib support in libavcodec
    * esd audio output driver in libao2

Kesterson, Robert <[e-mail]>
    * yuv4mpeg video output driver

Kinali, Attila (KotH) <[e-mail]>
    * various small fixes in the X11 code
    * xinerama support
    * documentation
    * patch application monkey, mailer daemon

Kovriga, Gregory <[e-mail]>
    * GUI drag & drop support
    * GUI DVD fixes
    * various small bug fixes in ASX/URL parser

Kühling, David <[e-mail]>
    * libtheora support, Ogg/Theora demuxing changes

Küçük, Onur <[e-mail]>
    * GTK2 port of the GUI
    * Fix compilation in locales like TR, AZ etc.

Kuivinen, Fredrik (ksorim) <[e-mail]>
    * OSD/subtitles outside a movie for SDL
    * video filter layer draft, first implementation
    * VirtualDub filter support (not yet finished/committed)

Kurshev, Nick <[e-mail]>
    * memcpy optimizations for AMD K7 and Intel Pentium III (fastmemcpy.h)
    * CD-ROM tune info
    * further 3DNow! optimizations into mp3lib and libac3 and FFmpeg
    * first Russian documentation translation (outdated)
    * radeon_vid, rage128_vid, radeonfb
    * vesa video output driver
    * VIDIX and libdha design, programming, Rage128/Radeon VIDIX drivers

Kuschak, Brian <[e-mail]>
    * RTP streaming support (reading)

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

Lambley, Dave <[e-mail]>
    * HTTP cookie support

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

Le Gaillart, Nicolas <[e-mail]>
    * French documentation translation
    * documentation updates and fixes
    * 2nd half of the documentation HTML --> XML conversion

Lénárt, Gábor (LGB) <[e-mail]>
    * configure script improvements
    * Makefile improvements
    * preliminary DVD support (libcss)
    * various X11 cleanups and fixes
    * HTMLization of the documentation

Leroy, Colin <[e-mail]>
    * GUI endianness fixes
    * volume control with -ao sdl
    * -ovc lavc endianness fixes
    * -ao pcm endianness fixes
    * libdha on PowerPC Linux
    * mach64 VIDIX driver endianness fixes

Lewis, Derek (delewis) <[e-mail]>
    * AIX port
    * Solaris-related configure fixes

Liljeblad, Oskar <[e-mail]>
    * various OSD related patches

Lin, Sam <[e-mail]>
    * -wid (plugger) patch

Littler, Ben (compn) <[e-mail]>
    * #mplayer user wrangler (2003+)
    * mailing list moderator
    * bugzilla admin
    * number one bug reporter and tester
    * docs updates
    * small non-coding tasks all over the place

Lombard, Pierre (pl) <[e-mail]>
    * new configure script
    * general code maintaining, fixes, patch committing

Madick, Puk <[e-mail]>
    * KDE/GNOME2 fullscreen fix
    * configparser fixes

Makovička, Jindřich (henry, x0rph) <[e-mail]>
    * various bug fixes
    * rewrote v4l video capturing, implemented audio capturing layer
    * FreeType 2 font rendering support

Marek, Rudolf <[e-mail]>
    * gtf code for -vo vesa
    * NeoMagic TV out support through VESA VBE

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

Melanson, Mike (tmmm) <[e-mail]>
    * MS Video1 codec open source implementation
    * FLI demuxer, decoder
    * unified ADPCM decoder (supports IMA/DVI, MS ADPCM, several others)
    * FILM (.cpk) file demuxer
    * RoQ file demuxer, audio/video decoder
    * QT SMC decoder
    * QT RLE decoder
    * MS RLE decoder reimplementation

von Merkatz, Arwed <[e-mail]>
    * fontconfig font lookup support

Merritt, Loren (pengvado) <[e-mail]>
    * x264 encoding support
    * x264 documentation
    * some libavcodec documentation

Mierzejewski, Dominik (Rathann) <[e-mail]>
    * compiler warning fixes
    * official Red Hat RPM packages
    * Polish documentation translation

Milushev, Mihail <[e-mail]>
    * GIMP font generator plugin (TOOLS/subfont-gimp)

Mistry, Nehal (Nehal) <[e-mail]>
    * various audio driver fixes

Mohari, András <[e-mail]>
    * skin documentation
    * various docs updates and fixes
    * 1st half of the documentation HTML --> XML conversion

Mueller, Steven <[e-mail]>
    * first implementation of live changing playback speed

Murrell, Brian J. <[e-mail]>
    * black frame detection filter (vf_blackframe)

Neundorf, Alexander <[e-mail]>
    * raw DV demuxer
    * demuxer packet refcounting

Niedermayer, Michael (michaelni) <[e-mail]>
    * new, GPL postprocessing code (with deinterlacing etc...)
    * software scaling with MMX/MMX2/3DNow! support (swscale.c)
    * various RGB/YUV bpp converters
    * new, better IDCT code for libavcodec, DivX decoder speedup
    * runtime CPU detection
    * liba52 SSE optimization
    * various encoder/decoder fixes, improvements in libavcodec, DR support
    * lrintf() bugs
    * many bug fixes
    * patch review
    * boxblur, fil, hue, il, noise, perspective, qp, rgbtest, sab, smartblur,
      spp, swapuv, test video filters

Noring, Fredrik <[e-mail]>
    * -vo DGA fixes

Ohm, Christian <[e-mail]>
    * various small bug fixes

Ötvös, Attila <[e-mail]>
    * A huge pile of printf to mp_msg patches
    * Various patches for Teletext

Parrish, Joey <[e-mail]>
    * various fixes
    * -vo gif89a author
    * GIF demuxer author
    * Windows support improvements
    * Cygwin installer package

Petrov, Georgi (gogothebee) <[e-mail]>
    * Direct3D VO driver

Pietrzak, Dariusz (Eyck) <[e-mail]>
    * Debian packaging support (see debian/* and the documentation)
    * support for vplayer subtitle format
    * preliminary support for .RT subtitle format

Plourde, Nicolas <[e-mail]>
    * quartz video output driver for Mac OS X
    * CoreVideo video output driver for Mac OS X
    * Darwin VCD/SVCD support

Poettering, Lennart <[e-mail]>
    * audio driver for the PulseAudio sound server

Poirier, Guillaume (poirierg) <[e-mail]>
    * French documentation translation and synchronization
    * Xvid documentation
    * libavcodec turbo mode
    * lots of updates of MEncoder's documentation
    * code fixes to support GCC-4.0
    * patch review

Ponekker, Zoltán (Pontscho/fresh!mindworkz) <[e-mail]>
    * the original configure script and Makefiles for easy compilation
    * GUI system
    * 3DNow! support into mp3lib and fastmemcpy.h
    * various X11 driver changes, fixes (keyboard handling, fullscreen,
      bpp detect, etc)
    * xmga video output driver
    * audio mixer (volume) support

van Poorten, Ivo (ivop) <[e-mail]>
    * multiple directory support for vo_jpeg
    * vo_jpeg suboptions parser
    * vo_pnm video output driver
    * vo_md5sum video output driver
    * af_ladspa LADSPA plugin loader
    * vf_blackframe cleanup and simplification

Ran, Lu <[e-mail]>
    * Chinese documentation translation
    * various VOBsub related patches
    * improved seeking in RealMedia format

Reder, Uwe <[e-mail]>
    * various x11/vm/fs fixes
    * subtitle/OSD control fixes

rgselk <[e-mail]>
    * Real RTSP range support

Rune Petersen <[e-mail]>
    * adapter selection support for vo_directx

Saari, Ville <[e-mail]>
    * divtc & phase video filters

Sabbi, Nico <[e-mail]>
    * DVB input support
    * MPEG TS support

Sandell, Björn <[e-mail]>
    * various *BSD fixes

Sanderson, Mark <[e-mail]>
    * -vo s3fb driver

Sauerbeck, Tilman <[e-mail]>
    * TGA decoder (RLE/uncomp), -mf tga support

Savchenko, Andrew <[e-mail]>
    * build system enhancements
    * improvements in config/command line parser
    * Russian documentation translation
    * various bug fixes, testing

Scherthan, Frank <[e-mail]>
    * added OSD handling for live changing playback speed

Schneider, Florian <[e-mail]>
    * RealVideo codec libraries interface, .rm demuxer fixes

Schoenbrunner, Oliver <[e-mail]>
    * SGI audio driver
    * MIPS support

Shimon, Oded (ods15) <[e-mail]>
    * multiple file support for MEncoder
    * small cleanups, mostly to EDL
    * -speed for MEncoder
    * -edl and -hr-edl-seek for MEncoder
    * -delay for MEncoder
    * some changes to vf_dsize and vf_expand

Simon, Peter <[e-mail]>
    * TOOLS/wma2ogg.pl author

Snel, Rik (rik) <[e-mail]>
    * zr video output driver
    * zr2 video output driver
    * zrmjpeg video filter

Sommer, Sascha (Faust3) <[e-mail]>
    * DirectX VO driver
    * Windows waveout AO driver
    * QuickTime audio+video decoding, video encoding (using Win32 DLLs) support
    * MinGW port, Cygwin fixes
    * winvidix video output driver
    * cvidix video output driver
    * nvidia_vid VIDIX driver
    * dhahelperwin for direct hardware access under Windows NT/2000/XP

Stepanov, Evgeniy (eugeni, Azzy) <[e-mail]>
    * SSA/ASS subtitle renderer
    * Matroska chapter seeking

Strasser, Alexander (beastd) <[e-mail]>
    * string handling security audit
    * EWMH fullscreen
    * suboption parser

Strzelecki, Kamil < esack at browarek.net >
    * first version of ao_jack, using bio2jack

Svoboda, Jiří (zar) <[e-mail]>
    * AQT type subtitles support
    * CRTC2 YUV support in mga_vid
    * DirectFB video output driver

Swain, Robert <[e-mail]>
    * CQM support and turbo multipass mode in x264 interface
    * Profile support in Xvid interface

Syrjälä, Ville <[e-mail]>
    * -vo dfbmga driver (G400 DVDMax-like feature using dfb 0.9.14)

Szecsi, Gabor <[e-mail]>
    * directsound AO driver

Tartler, Reinhard <[e-mail]>
    * release assistance
    * various backports from trunk
    * official Debian and Ubuntu packages

Tackaberry, Jason <[e-mail]>
    * second DVD ripping guide
    * multichannel audio fixes
    * support for 8 channel audio
    * various minor features and bug fixes

Tam, Howell (Pigeon) <[e-mail]>
    * native libcaca driver (-vo caca)

Tlalka, Adam (atlka) <[e-mail]>
    * OSD/subtitle review, fixes, optimization, UTF-8 support
    * various fixes

Tiesi, Gianluigi (Sherpya) <[e-mail]>
    * AC3 passthrough support for ao_win32
    * avisynth demuxer

Togni, Roberto (rxt) <[e-mail]>
    * open source QT RPZA decoder
    * open source HuffYUV decoder
    * open source MSZH/ZLIB decoder
    * open source QT 8BPS decoder
    * mp_help-it.h updates
    * Realaudio (ra) demuxer, 14_4 and 28_8 codec support
    * Misc bug fixes and enhancements
    * documentation

Tresoldi, Paolo "PaulTT" (ptt) <[e-mail]>
    * mplayer -endpos option
    * -name, -title and -use-filename-title options
    * Italian man page and console messages translations
    * Italian documentation translation

Tropea, Salvador Eduardo <[e-mail]>
    * subtitle parsing/displaying related patches

Ulion <ulion2002 gmail.com>
    * ad_hwac3 passthrough improvement
    * osd menu improvement
    * mac osx port improvement

Urpala, Uoti (uau) <[e-mail]>
    * A/V sync fixes

Vajna, Miklós (VMiklos) <[e-mail]>
    * TOOLS/divx2svcd author
    * TOOLS/ directory documentation

Verdejo Pinochet, Reynaldo H. (reynaldo) <[e-mail]>
    * improved EDL support
    * mp_msg transition / translatables to help_mp helper
    * .wpl playlist support hack
    * karaoke audio filter
    * major code cleanups
    * TOOLS/qepdvcd.sh

Voroshilov, Vladimir <[e-mail]>
    * Radio support
    * Russian documentation translation
    * Russian man page translation
    * TV support for win32 (dshow driver)

Wigren, Per <[e-mail]>
    * bmovl - Bitmap Overlay video filter

Witt, Derek J <[e-mail]>
    * MMS network streaming patches

Young, Alan <[e-mail]>
    * fixed support of RealMedia & XAnim binary plugins on Alpha

Zaprzała, Artur (zybi) <[e-mail]>
    * complete font generator prog + OSD font (TOOLS/subfont-c)

Zealey, Mark <[e-mail]>
    * -vo tdfxfb driver
    * -geometry window positioning code

Ziv-Av, Matan <[e-mail]>
    * vo_svga fixes, improvements
    * svgalib kernel helper support for VIDIX/libdha

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

Zores, Benjamin (ben) <[e-mail]>
    * RTSP input layer in stream.
    * PVR input layer for IVTV based cards.
    * IVTV h/w MPEG decoder ao/vo driver.
    * split of stream layer from libmpdemux to stream.
    * VIDIX core and drivers.
    * Linux AppleIR remote support.

________________
The codecs, libs
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Bellard, Fabrice <[e-mail]>
    * FFmpeg/libavcodec author (open source MPEG, MJPEG,
      DivX, WMA, DV etc audio/video en/decoder)

Chappelier, Vivien and Vincent, Damien
    * libFAME authors [fast MPEG-1 encoder, used by -vo mpegpes/-vo dxr3]

Hipp, Michael
    * mpglib author [not used directly but some parts are in mp3lib]

Holtzman, Aaron <[e-mail]>
    * ac3dec (and libac3) author [old AC3 audio decoder]
    * the original mga_vid driver [Matrox G200/G400 YUV backend scaler]
    * mpeg2dec [Fast MPEG-1/MPEG-2 video decoder, currently used in player]

Janovetz, Jake
    * remez.c author [Used to calculate audio filter coefficients]

Kabeláč, Zdeněk (kabi) <[e-mail]>
    * avifile author
    * some technical help about the Win32 stuff, ASF formats and timers

Kuznetsov, Eugene <[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 technical support

Lespinasse, Michel <[e-mail]>
    * large libmpeg2 changes for better speed and MPEG conformance
    * liba52 author [current AC3 audio decoder]

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

Project Mayo <http://www.projectmayo.com>
    * the OpenDivX codec authors


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

Farin, Dirk <[e-mail]>
    * dvdview author [MPEG-1/MPEG-2 video decoder, used in v0.5-v0.8]

Lee, Avery <[e-mail]>
    * VirtualDub author, help understanding AVI with VBR audio and
      other AVI issues

McGowan, John F. <http://www.jmcgowan.com>
    * AVI FAQ author/collector. [site with many useful docs on codecs
      and AVI format]

Williams, Adam <[e-mail]>
    * libmpeg3 (and xmovie) author [MPEG-1/MPEG-2 video decoder, used in
      v0.1-v0.4]


___________
Translation
~~~~~~~~~~~

Fargas, Marc (TeLeNiEkO) <[e-mail]>
    * first Spanish documentation translation (outdated)

Heryán, Jiří <[e-mail]>
    * Czech man page and documentation translation
    * some other Czech translation related work

Krämer, Sebastian (kraymer) <[e-mail]>
    * German man page translation
    * German documentation translation

Lettmaier, Kurt ([e-mail]
    * German documentation translation

López, Juan Martin (nauj27) <[e-mail]>
    * Spanish man page translation
    * Spanish documentation translation

Mizda, Gábor (Gabrov) <[e-mail]>
    * Hungarian translation

MPlayerPL - Polish MPlayer Translation Team (http://mplayerpl.emdej.com)
    * Wacław Schiller (Torinthiel) <[e-mail]>
    * Kuba Misiorny (Qba) <[e-mail]>
    * Łukasz Proszek (Frogu) <[e-mail]>
    * Maciek Paszta (paszczi) <[e-mail]>
    * Piotr Michniewski (Cobra) <[e-mail]>
    * Marcin Biernat (boskicinek) <[e-mail]>
    * Marek Jarycki (Emdej) <[e-mail]>
    * Leszek Kaplita (Flex) <[e-mail]>

Zhu Tian (JRaSH) <[e-mail]>
    * Simplified Chinese documentation translation

Zubimendi, Andoni <[e-mail]>.
    * Spanish documentation translation


_________
GUI skins
~~~~~~~~~

unknown author
    * iTunes, iTunes-mini

Azrael <[e-mail]>
    * brushedGnome

Bekesi, Viktor (FRD)
    * standard, plastic, slim

bleachie <[e-mail]>
    * bluecurve

Burt.S. <[e-mail]>
    * mplayer_red

caparuni <[e-mail]>
    * PowerPlayer

Carpenter, Andrew <[e-mail]>
    * handheld

DogFaceMonk <[e-mail]>
    * OSX-Mod

Foucault, Charles <[e-mail]>
    * QuickSilver

[e-mail]
    * Dushku

ghostman <[e-mail]>
    * sessene

Gyimesi, Attila (JiM) <[e-mail]>
    * JiMPlayer

Hertroys, Alban <[e-mail]>
    * disappearer

hwsw.hu
    * hwswskin

Javipa <[e-mail]>
    * new-age

Kiss, Balint (Blint) <[e-mail]>
    * Terminator3

krivilli <[e-mail]>
    * Cyrus

Kuehne, Andre <[e-mail]>
    * tvisor

Kuhlmann, Rüdiger
    * KDE

LUIGI <[e-mail]>
    * Corelian

[e-mail]
    * hayraphon

Naumov, Dan (Jago) <[e-mail]>
    * moonphase

Northam, Ryan
    * OSX-Brushed

nostrildamus <[e-mail]>
    * xmmplayer

Oyarzun Arroyo, Juan Pablo (jpoyarzun) <[e-mail]>
    * changuito

Park, DongCheon <[e-mail]>
    * CornerMP, CornerMP-aqua

Pehrson, Jurgen <[e-mail]>
    * phony

Pizurica, Nikola <[e-mail]>
    * Industrial, XFce4

Ptak, Oliwier (aleczapka) <[e-mail]>
    * mentalic, neutron

Quiana <[e-mail]>
    * QPlayer

Riccio, Pasquale <flash@@the-realworld.de>
    * proton

Schultz, Jesper <[e-mail]>
    * plastik

siTe <[e-mail]>
    * OpenDoh

Sudrien
    * softgrip

Sulmicki, Adam <[e-mail]>
   * profiling and menu fixes

Szumiela, Marcin <[e-mail]>
    * divxplayer

Tisi, Massimo <[e-mail]>
    * clearplayer

Týř, Jiří jun. <[e-mail]>
    * DVDPlayer

Vasilev, Ognian <[e-mail]>
    * Orange

Veres, Imre <[e-mail]>
    * Canary

Vesko, Radic <[e-mail]>
    * Linea

Vigvary, Balasz (Toky)
    * avifile

Weber, Andrew (Webby) <[e-mail]>
    * webby, smoothwebby

Whitmore, Gary Jr.
    * krystal

Wilamowski, Franciszek (Xenomorph) <[e-mail]>
    * Abyss, Blue, Blue-small

Zeising, Michael <[e-mail]>
    * productive