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___________________
The MPlayer project
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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 & 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

Zoltán Ponekker (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)
    * 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 the 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]>
    * subtitle reader
    * screensaver + DPMS disable for libvo

Gyula László (Chass, Tégla) <[e-mail]>
    * first fonts (mp_font1.zip)
    * third and fourth 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
    * many other things (in libvo, libmad syncing, dec_audio/video and loader)
    * libmpcodecs / libmpdemux hacking
    * co-patch-maintainer
    * dynamic a/v plugins (external shared ad/vd/.. objects)
    * millions of bug fixes

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
    * aspect ratio code improvements, prescaling support
    * Win32 (Cygwin) port
    * DivX5Linux support
    * AAC decoding support via libfaad2
    * Darwin (MacOS X) port

TeLeNiEkO <[e-mail]>
    * first Spanish documentation translation (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
    * first Russian documentation translation (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
    * esd driver in libao2

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
    * OSD menu
    * new modular config/commandline parser code

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

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

Adam Tla/lka <[e-mail]>
    * OSD/subtitle review, fixes, optimization, UTF8 support
    * various fixes

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

Ivan Kalvachev (iive) <[e-mail]>
    * interlaced MPEG2 support (libmpeg2)
    * libvo2 draft
    * configfile parser fixes
    * SRT subtitle dump support
    * Bulgarian msg 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)

Pierre Lombard (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, 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

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

Joy Winter <[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]>
    * original libmad support

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

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

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
    * softpulldown video filter
    * ported Donald Graft's kerndeint video filter
    * AVI OpenDML write support

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 (outdated)
    * some improvements in configure, small patches
    * found somebody (Thilo Wunderlich) who sent a DVB card

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 aop plugin

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

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

Roberto Togni <[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 bugfixes and enhancements

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

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

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 (dalias) <[e-mail]>
    * lots of work on inverse telecine including initial support
    * improved MEncoder (getting rid of DivX4 dependency, seeking, ...)
    * antialiased DVD subtitles
    * misc bugfixes 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

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

Diego Biurrun (DonDiego) <[e-mail]>
    * documentation and console output translation (help_mp-XX.h) maintainer
    * README, wishlist, translations.txt
    * random trivial fixes
    * main tester and small fixes for the Cygwin and MinGW port
    * testing, bug reports
    * homepage improvements
    * head of the Ministry for English Composition
    * skin overhaul

Sascha Sommer (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 driver
    * nvidia_vid driver

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

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

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

Hampa Hug <[e-mail]>
    * LUT-based soft eq video filter (-vf eq2)
    * .ogm demuxer endianness fixes

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

Andriy N. Gritsenko <[e-mail]>
    * skip-deinterlace video filter
    * MUXER layer, and new MPEG-PS muxer

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

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

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

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

Rudolf Marek <[e-mail]>
    * gtf code for -vo vesa

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

Colin Leroy <[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

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

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

Rémi Guyomarch <[e-mail]>
    * various fixes
    * 'unsharp' video filter
    * XviD encoding support

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dénes Balatoni <[e-mail]>
    * XMMS inputplugin support
    * minor features & fixes mostly to make MPlayer work better on a PDA

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moritz Bunkus (mosu) <[e-mail]>
    * various OGM hacks/fixes
    * ogm-tools author
    * Matroska demuxer

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

Christian Ohm <[e-mail]>
    * various small bugfixes

Alexander Gottwald <[e-mail]>
    * various small bugfixes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Juan Martin <[e-mail]>
    * Spanish man page translation
    * Spanish documentation translation

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

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

Zoltán Hidvégi <[e-mail]>
    * filmdint filter

Corey Hickey <[e-mail]>
    * telecine/interlacing HOWTO for the MEncoder documentation

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

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

Arwed v. Merkatz <[e-mail]>
    * fontconfig font lookup support

Daniele Forghieri <[e-mail]>
    * TGA output driver
    * framestep & tile filters
    * initial Italian man page translation

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

Romain Dolbeau <[e-mail]>
    * random AltiVec (PowerPC multimedia extensions) stuff

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

MPlayerPL - Polish MPlayer Translation Team (http://mplayerpl.emdej.com)
Translation from scratch:
    * 'Boski Cinek'			<boski_cinek(at)o2(dot)pl>
    * 'Emdej'				<emdej(at)emdej(dot)com>
    * 'Flex'				<flex(at)tenbit(dot)pl>
    * Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski	<dominik(at)rangers(dot)eu(dot)org>
    * Kuba 'Qba' Misiorny		<jim85(at)wp(dot)pl>
    * Lukasz 'Frogu' Proszek		<frogoo(at)o2(dot)pl>
    * Maciek 'paszczi' Paszta		<paszczi(at)go2(dot)pl>
    * Piotr 'Cobra' Michniewski		<cobra_666(at)poczta(dot)onet(dot)pl>
    * Waclaw 'Torinthiel' Schiller	<torinthiel(at)wp(dot)pl>

Reimar Döffinger <[e-mail]>
    * GL code fixes

adland <[e-mail]>
    * support for various Windows DLL codecs (LCW2, ASLC)
    * smil playlist parser

Tilmann Bitterberg
    * AVI OpenDML read support


____________
Main testers
~~~~~~~~~~~~

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


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

Aaron Holtzman <[e-mail]>
    * ac3dec (and libac3) author [old AC3 audio decoder]
    * the original mga_vid driver [Matrox G200/G400 YUV backend scaler]
    * mpeg2dec [Fast MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, currently used in player]

Michel Lespinasse <[e-mail]>
    * 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

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

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

Michael Hipp
    * mpglib author [not used directly but some parts are 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 MPEG1 encoder, used by -vo mpegpes/-vo dxr3]


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

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]