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The MPlayer project
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Árpád Gereöffy (A'rpi/ESP-team) [mail to <[e-mail]>]
    * 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, bugfix in mga driver...
    * triple buffering & YUY2 support (for DivX/MPEG4) into mga_vid driver
    * OSD & SUB 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

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

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

Gábor Bérczi (Gabucino) <[e-mail]>
    * documentation writer & maintainer
    * Hungarian translation of documentation, homepage, and help output
    * second homepage design&gfx
    * homepage maintainer
    * testing, codecs quality & speed comparisons
    * IRC channels operator (#MPlayer is user channel)
    * experimental MINIX port :) (what's funny about it?)
    * MPsub subtitle format design

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 homepage design&gfx
    * fourth (current) homepage design&gfx

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

Alex Beregszaszi (al3x) <[e-mail]>
    * ALSA output driver in libao2
    * vo_ggi output driver in libvo (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
    * and other various stuff (in libvo, libmad syncing, dec_audio/video and
      loader)

Andreas Ackermann (Acki) <[e-mail]>
    * LIRC support (see documentation)
    * 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
    * Ogg Vorbis audio support
    * Various aspect ratio code, prescaling support
    * Win32 (Cygwin) port
    * DivX5Linux support
    * AAC decoding support via libfaad2
    * Darwin (MacOS X) port

TeLeNiEkO <[e-mail]>
    * Spanish translation of documentation (outdated)

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)
    * CD-ROM tune info
    * further 3DNow! optimizations into mp3lib and libac3 and FFmpeg
    * Russian translation of documentation (outdated)
    * radeon_vid, rage128_vid, radeonfb
    * libvo driver: vo_vesa
    * VIDIX and libdha design, programming, rage128/radeon vidix drivers

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

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

Marcus Comstedt <[e-mail]>
    * initial Solaris8-x86 support
    * configure fixes

Jürgen Keil <[e-mail]>
    * patched MPlayer to work on Solaris 8 x86
    * various fixes (win32, configure, etc)
    * SUN audio driver in libao2
    * mediaLib support in libavcodec

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

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

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

Alban Bedel <[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 external file
    * DXR2 driver
    * vo_aa improvements
    * CDDA support

Artur Zaprzala <[e-mail]>
    * Complete font generator prog + OSD font (TOOLS/subfont-c)

[e-mail]
    * GIMP font generator plugin (TOOLS/subfont-gimp)

Adam Tla/lka <[e-mail]>
    * osd/sub review, fixes, optimization, utf8 support
    * various fixes

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

Ivan Kalvatchev <[e-mail]>
    * interlaced MPEG2 support (libmpeg2)
    * libvo2 draft
    * configfile parser fixes

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

Michael Niedermayer <[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, speedup of divx decoders
    * runtime CPU detection
    * SSE optimization of liba52
    * various encoder/decoder fixes, improvements in libavcodec, DR support

Sven Goethel <[e-mail]>
    * libvo driver: vo_gl2

joy_ping <[e-mail]>
    * ao_alsa9 fixes, AC3 passthrough support

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

Jiri Svoboda <[e-mail]>
    * AQT type subtitles support
    * CRTC2 YUV support in mga_vid
    * DirectFB video output driver

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

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

David Holm <[e-mail]>
    * DXR3 support

Panagiotis Issaris <[e-mail]>
    * -playlist option
    * NuppelVideo support

Mike Melanson <[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 re-implementation

Tobias Diedrich <[e-mail]>
    * NAS audio output driver
    * DXR2 driver

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

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

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

Johannes Feigl <[e-mail]>
    * original German docs translation
    * some improvements in configure, small patches
    * found somebody (Thilo Wunderlich) who sent a DVB card
    * msg translations (help_mp-XX.h) maintainer

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

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

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

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

Anders Johansson <[e-mail]>
    * audio plugin system, some effect plugins

Roberto Togni <[e-mail]>
    * Open source QT RPZA decoder
    * Open source HuffYUV decoder
    * Open source MSZH/ZLIB decoder

Wojtek Kaniewski <[e-mail]>
    * Mouse wheel support

Fredrik Kuivinen <[e-mail]>
    * OSD/subtitles outside movie - for SDL
    * video filter layer draft, first implementation
    * virtualdub filter support (not yet finised/commited)

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

Jindrich Makovicka <[e-mail]>
    * various bugfixes
    * rewrote v4l video capturing, implemented audio capturing layer
    * freetype2 font rendering support

D Richard Felker III <[e-mail]>
    * various bugfixes
    * soft eq and halfpack video filters

Dominik Mierzejewski <[e-mail]>
    * compiler warning fixes
    * official RPM packages

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Main testers
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Tibor Balázs (Tibcu)
Péter Sasi (SaPe)
Christoph H. Lampert (Gruel)
Attila Kinali (Koth)
Bohdan Horst (Nexus)

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The codecs, libs
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Aaron Holtzman <[e-mail]>
    * ac3dec (and libac3) author [old AC3 audio decoder]
    * the original 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
    * liba52 author [current AC3 audio decoder]

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 technical support

Zdenek Kabelac <[e-mail]>
    * current avifile maintainer
    * some technical help about the win32 stuff, .asf formats and timers

Gerard Lantau <[e-mail]>
    * FFmpeg/libavcodec author,maintainer (open source mpeg, mjpeg,
      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]

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

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

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Their code is not used in current the player version,
but I've got some ideas or other technical help from:
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Avery Lee <[e-mail]>
    * VirtualDub author, help understanding AVI with VBR audio and
      other AVI issues

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

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]