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feel free to fix this as you see fit... i want to be sure people will not take interest in this option and look it up and try using it. just enough for those already know it and still stubborn enough to use it.

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The MPlayer project
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MPlayer was originally written by Árpád Gereöffy (for a more complete history
see DOCS/HTML/en/history.html) and later extended by a bunch of other people,
some of which 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 mostly to make MPlayer work better on a PDA

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

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
    * ao_macosx
    * 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

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

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

Dönmez, Ismail (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]>
    * LIVE.COM 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Kalvachev, Ivan (iive) <[e-mail]>
    * interlaced MPEG-2 support (libmpeg2)
    * libvo2 draft
    * configfile parser fixes
    * SRT subtitle dump support
    * Bulgarian console message translation (help_mp-bg.h)
    * vo_svga rewrite
    * various fixes and small improvements
    * XvMC support (MPlayer & FFmpeg)
    * XviD4 driver import (vd/ve_xvid4.c by GomGom)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Makovicka, Jindrich (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

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

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

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
    * macosx CoreVideo output driver for Mac OS X
    * Darwin VCD/SVCD support

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

Poirier, Guillaume (poirierg) <[e-mail]>
    * French documentation translation and synchronization
    * XviD documentation
    * libavcodec turbo mode
    * lots of updates for the MEncoder documentation

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

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

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

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 <[e-mail]>
    * zr video output driver

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

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, Jiri (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

Tackaberry, Jason <[e-mail]>
    * second DVD ripping guide

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 <[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

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

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

Verdejo Pinochet, Reynaldo H. (reynaldo) <[e-mail]>
    * improved EDL support
    * mp_msg transition on unmaintained libao2 drivers

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

Zaprzala, 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


________________
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]

Kabelac, Zdenek (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]


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Translation
~~~~~~~~~~~

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

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

Krämer, Sebastian <[e-mail]>
    * German man page 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)
    * Waclaw Schiller (Torinthiel) <[e-mail]>
    * Kuba Misiorny (Qba) <[e-mail]>
    * Lukasz Proszek (Frogu) <[e-mail]>
    * Maciek Paszta (paszczi) <[e-mail]>
    * Piotr Michniewski (Cobra) <[e-mail]>
    * Marcin Biernat (Boski Cinek) <[e-mail]>
    * Marek Jarycki (Emdej) <[e-mail]>
    * Leszek Kaplita (Flex) <[e-mail]>

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


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GUI skins
~~~~~~~~~

unknown author
    * iTunes, iTunes-mini

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

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

Tyr, Jiri jun. <[e-mail]>
    * DVDPlayer

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

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

Vigvary, Balasz (Toky)
    * avifile

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

Whitmore, Gary Jr.
    * krystal

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