changeset 12211:78ef87bd576d

All entries in alphabetical last, first name order, some nicks added.
author diego
date Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:56:06 +0000
parents c941a2362911
children 2e8b305586a0
files AUTHORS
diffstat 1 files changed, 481 insertions(+), 488 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/AUTHORS	Thu Apr 15 07:19:50 2004 +0000
+++ b/AUTHORS	Thu Apr 15 13:56:06 2004 +0000
@@ -7,20 +7,34 @@
 
 For donation requests visit http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/donations.html.
 
-If you think you are missing here, feel free to send a patch.
-
 
 ___________________
 The MPlayer project
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-Árpád Gereöffy (A'rpi/ESP-team) [mail to <mplayer-users@mplayerhq.hu>]
+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) <asackerm@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
+    * LIRC support (see documentation)
+    * DGA support in libvo
+
+adland <adland123@yahoo.com>
+    * support for various Windows DLL codecs (LCW2, ASLC)
+    * smil playlist parser
+
+Anholt, Eric <eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu>
+    * CPU detection code
+
+Árpád, Gereöffy (A'rpi/ESP-team) [mail to <mplayer-users@mplayerhq.hu>]
     * 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...
+    * libvo improvements: adding OpenGL support, bug fix in mga driver...
     * triple buffering & YUY2 support (for DivX/MPEG4) into mga_vid driver
     * OSD & subtitle display code
     * FFmpeg/libavcodec integration
@@ -29,23 +43,40 @@
     * MPEG PES output & DVB card support
     * libmpcodecs design, porting video decoders, filters
 
-Zoltán Ponekker (Pontscho/fresh!mindworkz) <pontscho@makacs.poliod.hu>
-    * 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
+Ashberg, Folke <folke@ashberg.de>
+    * native AAlib driver (-vo aa)
+
+Balatoni, Dénes <pnis@coder.hu>
+    * XMMS inputplugin support
+    * minor features & fixes mostly to make MPlayer work better on a PDA
+
+Barat, Zsolt (joyping) <joy@streamminister.de>
+    * ao_alsa9 fixes, AC3 passthrough support
+
+Baryshkov, Dmitry <mitya@school.ioffe.ru>
+    * Russian documentation translation
+    * FLAC decoding support
+    * XML build system
 
-Gábor Lénárt (LGB) <lgb@lgb.hu>
-    * configure script improvements
-    * Makefile improvements
-    * preliminary DVD support (libcss)
-    * various X11 cleanups and fixes
-    * HTMLization of the documentation
+Baudet, Bertrand <bertrand_baudet@yahoo.com>
+    * network streaming support author, maintainer
+    * CDDB support
 
-Gábor Bérczi (Gabucino) <gabucino@mplayerhq.hu>
+Bedel, Alban (albeu) <albeu@free.fr>
+    * 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
+
+Bérczi, Gábor (Gabucino) <gabucino@mplayerhq.hu>
     * documentation writer & maintainer
     * Hungarian translation of documentation, homepage, and help output
     * second homepage design & gfx
@@ -55,25 +86,14 @@
     * experimental MINIX port :) (what's funny about it?)
     * MPsub subtitle format design
 
-Szabolcs Berecz (Szabi) <szabi@inf.elte.hu>
+Berecz, Szabolcs (Szabi) <szabi@inf.elte.hu>
     * 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) <lez@sch.bme.hu>
-    * subtitle reader
-    * screensaver + DPMS disable for libvo
-
-Gyula László (Chass, Tégla) <chass-@freemail.hu>
-    * first fonts (mp_font1.zip)
-    * third and fourth homepage design & gfx
-
-Zoltán Márk Vicián (Se7en) <se7en@sch.bme.hu>
-    * SVGAlib support in libvo
-
-Alex Beregszaszi (al3x) <alex@fsn.hu>
+Beregszászi, Alex (al3x) <alex@fsn.hu>
     * ALSA output driver in libao2
     * vo_ggi output driver in libvo (www.ggi-project.org)
     * XAnim codecs support
@@ -95,11 +115,29 @@
     * dynamic a/v plugins (external shared ad/vd/.. objects)
     * millions of bug fixes
 
-Andreas Ackermann (Acki) <asackerm@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
-    * LIRC support (see documentation)
-    * DGA support in libvo
+Bitterberg, Tilmann <transcode@tibit.org>
+    * AVI OpenDML read support
 
-Felix Bünemann (Atmos) <atmosfear@users.sourceforge.net>
+Biurrun, Diego (DonDiego) <diego@biurrun.de>
+    * 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
+
+Blomenkamp, Marcus <Marcus.Blomenkamp@epost.de>
+    * VIDIX patches (Rage128, Radeon 7000)
+    * OSS AC3 passthrough fix
+
+Bulgroz, Eviv <ebulgroz@yahoo.com>
+    * presets support for mp3lame encoding
+    * AVI demuxer time/bitrate calculation fixes
+    * various bug fixes
+
+Bünemann, Felix (Atmos) <atmosfear@users.sourceforge.net>
     * SDL driver maintainer
     * additional YUV formats fixes
     * new font (mp_font2.zip)
@@ -114,83 +152,159 @@
     * AAC decoding support via libfaad2
     * Darwin (MacOS X) port
 
-TeLeNiEkO <telenieko@telenieko.com>
-    * first Spanish documentation translation (outdated)
-
-Michael Graffam <mgraffam@idsi.net>
-    * XF86VidMode support to vo_x11 and vo_dga
-    * video mode switching code to vo_dga
-
-Jens Hoffmann <hoffmajs@gmx.de>
-    * additional YUV formats support
-    * found the big BITMAPINFOHEADER problem -> solved ASV2 pixelization
+Bunkus, Moritz (mosu) <moritz@bunkus.org>
+    * various OGM hacks/fixes
+    * ogm-tools author
+    * Matroska demuxer
 
-Nick Kurshev <nickols_k@mail.ru>
-    * 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 <german@piraos.com>
-    * SPDIF AC3 output for SBLive!
-
-Dariusz Pietrzak (Eyck) <eyck@ghost.anime.pl>
-    * Debian packaging support (see debian/* and the documentation)
-    * support for vplayer subtitle format
-    * preliminary support for .RT subtitle format
-
-Marcus Comstedt <marcus@idonex.se>
+Comstedt, Marcus <marcus@idonex.se>
     * initial Solaris8-x86 support
     * configure fixes
 
-Jürgen Keil <jk@tools.de>
-    * 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
+Cook, Kees <mplayer@outflux.net>
+    * dvdnav hacks
+    * rawdv demuxer fixes
+
+Davies, Stephen <steve@daviesfam.org>
+    * support for large video files (>2^32 bytes in size)
+    * surround sound aop plugin
+
+Diedrich, Tobias <ranma@gmx.at>
+    * NAS audio output driver
+    * DXR2 driver
+    * softpulldown video filter
+    * ported Donald Graft's kerndeint video filter
+    * AVI OpenDML write support
+
+Dietrich, Florian <flodt8@yahoo.de>
+    * MinGW networking support
+
+Dobbelaere, Jeroen <jeroen.dobbelaere@acunia.com>
+    * original libmad support
+
+Döffinger, Reimar (reimar) <reimar.doeffinger@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
+    * GL code fixes
+
+Dolbeau, Romain <romain@dolbeau.org>
+    * random AltiVec (PowerPC multimedia extensions) stuff
 
-Vladimir Kushnir <vkushnir@Alfacom.net>
-    * patched MPlayer to work on FreeBSD x86
+Ernesti, Bernd <mplayer@lists.veego.de>
+    * NetBSD support patches
+
+Falco, Salvatore <sfalco@studenti.ing.uniroma1.it>
+    * jacosub parsing & dump support
+    * overlapping subtitles & sub sorting support
+    * SAMI subtitles dump support
+
+Feigl, Johannes <johannes.feigl@aon.at>
+    * original German docs translation (outdated)
+    * some improvements in configure, small patches
+    * found somebody (Thilo Wunderlich) who sent a DVB card
 
-Bertrand Baudet <bertrand_baudet@yahoo.com>
-    * network streaming support author, maintainer
-    * CDDB support
+Felker, D Richard III (dalias) <dalias@aerifal.cx>
+    * 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
 
-Derek J Witt <djw@flinthills.com>
-    * MMS network streaming patches
+Ferguson, Tim <timf@mail.csse.monash.edu.au>
+    * open source Cinepak decoder
+    * open source CYUV decoder
+
+Forghieri, Daniele <guru@digitalfantasy.it>
+    * TGA output driver
+    * framestep & tile filters
+    * initial Italian man page translation
 
-Alban Bedel <albeu@free.fr>
-    * 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
+Foth, Kilian A. <foth@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
+    * -slave mode
+
+Gansser, Martin <mgansser@ngi.de>
+    * HP-UX port
+
+Giani, Matteo <matgiani@ctonet.it>
+    * PVA demuxer
+
+Goethel, Sven <sgoethel@jausoft.com>
+    * libvo driver: vo_gl2
+
+Gomez Garcia, German <german@piraos.com>
+    * SPDIF AC3 output for SBLive!
+
+Gottwald, Alexander <Alexander.Gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
+    * various small bug fixes
+
+Graffam, Michael <mgraffam@idsi.net>
+    * XF86VidMode support to vo_x11 and vo_dga
+    * video mode switching code to vo_dga
+
+Gritsenko, Andriy N. (AG_LS) <andrej@lucky.net>
+    * skip-deinterlace video filter
+    * MUXER layer, and new MPEG-PS muxer
 
-Artur Zaprzala <zybi@fanthom.irc.pl>
-    * complete font generator prog + OSD font (TOOLS/subfont-c)
+Guyomarch, Rémi <rguyom@pobox.com>
+    * various fixes
+    * 'unsharp' video filter
+    * XviD encoding support
+
+Hammelmann, Jürgen <juergen.hammelmann@gmx.de>
+    * TOOLS/mencvcd author
+
+Hess, Andreas <jaska@gmx.net>
+    * upgrading libdvdcss in libmpdvdkit2
+    * various small bug fixes
+
+Hickey, Corey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>
+    * telecine/interlacing HOWTO for the MEncoder documentation
 
-Mihail Milushev <lanzz@lanzz.org>
-    * GIMP font generator plugin (TOOLS/subfont-gimp)
+Hidvégi, Zoltán <mplayer@hzoli.com>
+    * filmdint filter
+
+Hoffmann, Jens <hoffmajs@gmx.de>
+    * additional YUV formats support
+    * found the big BITMAPINFOHEADER problem -> solved ASV2 pixelization
+
+Holm, David (dholm) <dholm@telia.com>
+    * DXR3 support
 
-Adam Tla/lka <atlka@pg.gda.pl>
-    * OSD/subtitle review, fixes, optimization, UTF8 support
+Horst, Bohdan (Nexus) <nexus@irc.pl>
+    * FreeBSD support
+
+Hug, Hampa <hhug@student.ethz.ch>
+    * LUT-based soft eq video filter (-vf eq2)
+    * .ogm demuxer endianness fixes
+
+Hurka, Tomas <tom@hukatronic.cz>
+    * Darwin DVD support (mpdvdkit2)
     * various fixes
 
-Folke Ashberg <folke@ashberg.de>
-    * native AAlib driver (-vo aa)
+Isani, Sidik <lksi@cfht.hawaii.edu>
+    * get_delay() smoothing code (-autosync)
+    * RTC initialization fixes
+    * various small fixes
+
+Issaris, Panagiotis <takis@lumumba.luc.ac.be>
+    * -playlist option
+    * NuppelVideo support
+    * various fixes
 
-Ivan Kalvachev (iive) <iive@yahoo.com>
+Jacobs, Aurelien <aurel@gnuage.org>
+    * standalone C Matroska demuxer
+
+Jelveh, Reza (timebomb) <reza.jelveh@tu-harburg.de>
+    * NSV demuxer
+
+Johansson, Anders <ajh@atri.curtin.edu.au>
+    * old audio plugin system, some effect plugins
+    * new libaf interface design, implementation, plugins
+
+Kalinski, Filip <filon@pld.org.pl>
+    * X11 fulscreen switching fixes/cleanup
+
+Kalvachev, Ivan (iive) <iive@yahoo.com>
     * interlaced MPEG2 support (libmpeg2)
     * libvo2 draft
     * configfile parser fixes
@@ -201,14 +315,152 @@
     * XvMC support (MPlayer & FFmpeg)
     * XviD4 driver import (vd/ve_xvid4.c by GomGom)
 
-Howell Tam (Pigeon) <pigeon@pigeond.net>
-    * native libcaca driver (-vo caca)
+Kaniewski, Wojtek <wojtekka@bydg.pdi.net>
+    * mouse wheel support
+    * made the freetype + RAW font support work together
+
+Kaplan, Kim Minh <kmkaplan@selfoffice.com>
+    * DVD and VobSub subtitles display support
+    * DVD subtitles rip to VobSub
+
+Keil, Jürgen <jk@tools.de>
+    * 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
+
+Kinali, Attila <attila@kinali.ch>
+    * various small fixes in the X11 code
+    * xinerama support
+    * documentation
+    * patch application monkey, mailer daemon
+
+Kovriga, Gregory <gkovriga@techunix.technion.ac.il>
+    * GUI drag & drop support
+    * GUI DVD fixes
+    * various small bug fixes in ASX/URL parser
+
+Kühling, David <dvdkhlng@gmx.de>
+    * libtheora support, ogg/theora demuxing changes
+
+Kuivinen, Fredrik <freku045@student.liu.se>
+    * OSD/subtitles outside a movie for SDL
+    * video filter layer draft, first implementation
+    * virtualdub filter support (not yet finished/committed)
 
-Pierre Lombard (pl) <p_l@gmx.fr>
+Kurshev, Nick <nickols_k@mail.ru>
+    * 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
+
+Kuschak, Brian <bkuschak@yahoo.com>
+    * RTP streaming support (reading)
+
+Kushnir, Vladimir <vkushnir@Alfacom.net>
+    * patched MPlayer to work on FreeBSD x86
+
+Lambley, Dave <mplayer@davel.me.uk>
+    * HTTP cookie support
+
+László, Gyula (Chass, Tégla) <chass-@freemail.hu>
+    * first fonts (mp_font1.zip)
+    * third and fourth homepage design & gfx
+
+Le Gaillart, Nicolas <n@tourmentine.com>
+    * French documentation translation
+    * documentation updates and fixes
+    * 2nd half of the documentation HTML --> XML conversion
+
+Lénárt, Gábor (LGB) <lgb@lgb.hu>
+    * configure script improvements
+    * Makefile improvements
+    * preliminary DVD support (libcss)
+    * various X11 cleanups and fixes
+    * HTMLization of the documentation
+
+Leroy, Colin <colin@colino.net>
+    * 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 <oskar@osk.mine.nu>
+    * various OSD related patches
+
+Lin, Sam <itrs@softwell.com.tw>
+    * -wid (plugger) patch
+
+Lombard, Pierre (pl) <p_l@gmx.fr>
     * new configure script
     * general code maintaining, fixes, patch committing
 
-Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
+lucho <lucho@haemimont.bg>
+    * hw-accelerated video eq support into x11, gl2 (using DirectColor cmap)
+
+Madick, Puk <pingy@swirvemail.com>
+    * KDE/GNOME2 fullscreen fix
+    * configparser fixes
+
+Makovicka, Jindrich <makovick@KMLinux.fjfi.cvut.cz>
+    * various bug fixes
+    * rewrote v4l video capturing, implemented audio capturing layer
+    * freetype2 font rendering support
+
+Marek, Rudolf <MAREKR2@cs.felk.cvut.cz>
+    * gtf code for -vo vesa
+
+Martin, Juan <nauj27@teleline.es>
+    * Spanish man page translation
+    * Spanish documentation translation
+
+Megyer, László (Lez, Laaz) <lez@sch.bme.hu>
+    * subtitle reader
+    * screensaver + DPMS disable for libvo
+
+Melanson, Mike (tmmm) <melanson@pcisys.net>
+    * 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
+
+Mierzejewski, Dominik (Rathann) <dominik@rangers.eu.org>
+    * compiler warning fixes
+    * official RPM packages
+    * Polish documentation translation
+
+Milushev, Mihail <lanzz@lanzz.org>
+    * GIMP font generator plugin (TOOLS/subfont-gimp)
+
+Mistry, Nehal (Nehal) <nehalmistry@gmx.net>
+    * various audio driver fixes
+
+Mohari, András <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>
+    * skin documentation
+    * various docs updates and fixes
+    * 1st half of the documentation HTML --> XML conversion
+
+MPlayerPL - Polish MPlayer Translation Team (http://mplayerpl.emdej.com)
+    * Waclaw Schiller (Torinthiel) <torinthiel@wp.pl>
+    * Kuba Misiorny (Qba) <jim85@wp.pl>
+    * Lukasz Proszek (Frogu) <frogoo@o2.pl>
+    * Maciek Paszta (paszczi) <paszczi@go2.pl>
+    * Piotr Michniewski (Cobra) <cobra_666@poczta.onet.pl>
+    * (Boski Cinek) <boski_cinek@o2.pl>
+    * (Emdej) <emdej@emdej.com>
+    * (Flex) <flex@tenbit.pl>
+
+Niedermayer, Michael (michaelni) <michaelni@gmx.at>
     * new, GPL postprocessing code (with deinterlacing etc...)
     * software scaling with MMX/MMX2/3DNow support (swscale.c)
     * various RGB/YUV bpp converters
@@ -222,136 +474,66 @@
     * boxblur, fil, hue, il, noise, perspective, qp, rgbtest, sab, smartblur,
       spp, swapuv, test video filters
 
-Sven Goethel <sgoethel@jausoft.com>
-    * libvo driver: vo_gl2
+Noring, Fredrik <noring@nocrew.org>
+    * -vo DGA fixes
+
+Ohm, Christian <chr.ohm@gmx.net>
+    * various small bug fixes
+
+Parrish, Joey <joey@nicewarrior.org>
+    * various fixes
+    * -vo gif89a author
+    * gif demuxer author
+    * Windows support improvements
+    * Windows installer package maintainer
 
-Joy Winter <joy@pingfm.org>
-    * ao_alsa9 fixes, AC3 passthrough support
+Pietrzak, Dariusz (Eyck) <eyck@ghost.anime.pl>
+    * Debian packaging support (see debian/* and the documentation)
+    * support for vplayer subtitle format
+    * preliminary support for .RT subtitle format
+
+Ponekker, Zoltán (Pontscho/fresh!mindworkz) <pontscho@makacs.poliod.hu>
+    * 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
 
-Eric Anholt <eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu>
-    * CPU detection code
+Ran, Lu <hephooey@fastmail.fm>
+    * Chinese documentation translation
+    * various VobSub related patches
+    * improved seeking in realmedia format
+
+Reder, Uwe <Uwe.Reder@3SOFT.de>
+    * various x11/vm/fs fixes
+    * subtitle/OSD control fixes
+
+rgselk <rgselknospam@yahoo.com>
+    * Real RTSP range support
 
-Jiri Svoboda <Jiri.Svoboda@seznam.cz>
-    * AQT type subtitles support
-    * CRTC2 YUV support in mga_vid
-    * DirectFB video output driver
+Rune <runner@mail.tele.dk>
+    * adapter selection support for vo directx
+
+Sabbi, Nico <nsabbi@tiscali.it>
+    * DVB input support
+    * MPEG TS support
 
-Oliver Schoenbrunner <oliver.schoenbrunner@jku.at>
+Sauerbeck, Tilman <tsauerbeck@users.sourceforge.net>
+    * TGA decoder (rle/uncomp), -mf tga support
+
+Schneider, Florian <flo-mplayer-dev@gmx.net>
+    * RealVideo codec libraries interface, .rm demuxer fixes
+
+Schoenbrunner, Oliver <oliver.schoenbrunner@jku.at>
     * SGI audio driver
     * MIPS support
 
-Jeroen Dobbelaere <jeroen.dobbelaere@acunia.com>
-    * original libmad support
-
-David Holm <dholm@telia.com>
-    * DXR3 support
-
-Panagiotis Issaris <takis@lumumba.luc.ac.be>
-    * -playlist option
-    * NuppelVideo support
-    * various fixes
-
-Mike Melanson <melanson@pcisys.net>
-    * 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 <ranma@gmx.at>
-    * NAS audio output driver
-    * DXR2 driver
-    * softpulldown video filter
-    * ported Donald Graft's kerndeint video filter
-    * AVI OpenDML write support
-
-Kilian A. Foth <foth@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
-    * -slave mode
-
-Tim Ferguson <timf@mail.csse.monash.edu.au>
-    * open source Cinepak decoder
-    * open source CYUV decoder
-
-Sam Lin <itrs@softwell.com.tw>
-    * -wid (plugger) patch
-
-Johannes Feigl <johannes.feigl@aon.at>
-    * original German docs translation (outdated)
-    * some improvements in configure, small patches
-    * found somebody (Thilo Wunderlich) who sent a DVB card
-
-Kim Minh Kaplan <kmkaplan@selfoffice.com>
-    * DVD and VobSub subtitles display support
-    * DVD subtitles rip to VobSub
-
-Brian Kuschak <bkuschak@yahoo.com>
-    * RTP streaming support (reading)
-
-Stephen Davies <steve@daviesfam.org>
-    * support for large video files (>2^32 bytes in size)
-    * surround sound aop plugin
-
-Rik Snel <rsnel@cube.dyndns.org>
+Snel, Rik <rsnel@cube.dyndns.org>
     * zr video output driver
 
-Anders Johansson <ajh@atri.curtin.edu.au>
-    * old audio plugin system, some effect plugins
-    * new libaf interface design, implementation, plugins
-
-Roberto Togni (rxt) <r_togni@tiscali.it>
-    * 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 <wojtekka@bydg.pdi.net>
-    * mouse wheel support
-    * made the freetype + RAW font support work together
-
-Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>
-    * OSD/subtitles outside a movie for SDL
-    * video filter layer draft, first implementation
-    * virtualdub filter support (not yet finished/committed)
-
-Florian Schneider <flo-mplayer-dev@gmx.net>
-    * RealVideo codec libraries interface, .rm demuxer fixes
-
-Jindrich Makovicka <makovick@KMLinux.fjfi.cvut.cz>
-    * various bugfixes
-    * rewrote v4l video capturing, implemented audio capturing layer
-    * freetype2 font rendering support
-
-D Richard Felker III (dalias) <dalias@aerifal.cx>
-    * 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 (Rathann) <dominik@rangers.eu.org>
-    * compiler warning fixes
-    * official RPM packages
-    * Polish documentation translation
-
-Diego Biurrun (DonDiego) <diego@biurrun.de>
-    * 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) <saschasommer@freenet.de>
+Sommer, Sascha (Faust3) <saschasommer@freenet.de>
     * DirectX VO driver
     * Windows waveout AO driver
     * QuickTime audio+video decoding, video encoding (using Win32 DLLs) support
@@ -360,320 +542,131 @@
     * nvidia_vid driver
     * dhahelperwin for direct hardware access under Windows NT/2000/XP
 
-Sidik Isani <lksi@cfht.hawaii.edu>
-    * get_delay() smoothing code (-autosync)
-    * RTC initialization fixes
-    * various small fixes
+Svoboda, Jiri <Jiri.Svoboda@seznam.cz>
+    * AQT type subtitles support
+    * CRTC2 YUV support in mga_vid
+    * DirectFB video output driver
 
-Fredrik Noring <noring@nocrew.org>
-    * -vo DGA fixes
-
-Kees Cook <mplayer@outflux.net>
-    * dvdnav hacks
-    * rawdv demuxer fixes
+Syrjälä, Ville <syrjala@sci.fi>
+    * -vo dfbmga driver (G400 DVDMax-like feature using dfb 0.9.14)
 
-Hampa Hug <hhug@student.ethz.ch>
-    * LUT-based soft eq video filter (-vf eq2)
-    * .ogm demuxer endianness fixes
+Sandell, Björn <biorn@dce.chalmers.se>
+    * various *BSD fixes
+
+Tam, Howell (Pigeon) <pigeon@pigeond.net>
+    * native libcaca driver (-vo caca)
 
-Uwe Reder <Uwe.Reder@3SOFT.de>
-    * various x11/vm/fs fixes
-    * subtitle/OSD control fixes
+TeLeNiEkO <telenieko@telenieko.com>
+    * first Spanish documentation translation (outdated)
 
-Andriy N. Gritsenko (AG_LS) <andrej@lucky.net>
-    * skip-deinterlace video filter
-    * MUXER layer, and new MPEG-PS muxer
-
-Joey Parrish <joey@nicewarrior.org>
+Tlalka, Adam <atlka@pg.gda.pl>
+    * OSD/subtitle review, fixes, optimization, UTF8 support
     * various fixes
-    * -vo gif89a author
-    * gif demuxer author
-    * Windows support improvements
-    * Windows installer package maintainer
 
-Juergen Hammelmann <juergen.hammelmann@gmx.de>
-    * TOOLS/mencvcd author
+Togni, Roberto (rxt) <r_togni@tiscali.it>
+    * 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
 
-Martin Gansser <mgansser@ngi.de>
-    * HP-UX port
+Tropea, Salvador Eduardo <salvador@inti.gov.ar>
+    * subtitle parsing/displaying related patches
 
-Matteo Giani <matgiani@ctonet.it>
-    * PVA demuxer
+von Merkatz, Arwed <v.merkatz@gmx.net>
+    * fontconfig font lookup support
 
-Rudolf Marek <MAREKR2@cs.felk.cvut.cz>
-    * gtf code for -vo vesa
+Vajna, Miklós (VMiklos) <mamajom@axelero.hu>
+    * TOOLS/divx2svcd author
 
-Tilman Sauerbeck <tsauerbeck@users.sourceforge.net>
-    * TGA decoder (rle/uncomp), -mf tga support
+Wigren, Per <wigren@home.se>
+    * bmovl - Bitmap Overlay video filter
 
-Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net>
-    * 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
+Witt, Derek J <djw@flinthills.com>
+    * MMS network streaming patches
 
-Mark Zealey <mark@zealos.org>
+Young, Alan <ayoung@teleport.com>
+    * fixed support of RealMedia & XAnim binary plugins on Alpha
+
+Zaprzala, Artur (zybi) <zybi@fanthom.irc.pl>
+    * complete font generator prog + OSD font (TOOLS/subfont-c)
+
+Zealey, Mark <mark@zealos.org>
     * -vo tdfxfb driver
     * -geometry window positioning code
 
-Gregory Kovriga <gkovriga@techunix.technion.ac.il>
-    * GUI drag & drop support
-    * GUI DVD fixes
-    * various small bugfixes in ASX/URL parser
-
-Rémi Guyomarch <rguyom@pobox.com>
-    * various fixes
-    * 'unsharp' video filter
-    * XviD encoding support
-
-Salvatore Falco <sfalco@studenti.ing.uniroma1.it>
-    * jacosub parsing & dump support
-    * overlapping subtitles & sub sorting support
-    * SAMI subtitles dump support
-
-Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi>
-    * -vo dfbmga driver (G400 DVDMax-like feature using dfb 0.9.14)
-
-Björn Sandell <biorn@dce.chalmers.se>
-    * various *BSD fixes
-
-lucho <lucho@haemimont.bg>
-    * hw-accelerated video eq support into x11, gl2 (using DirectColor cmap)
-
-Per Wigren <wigren@home.se>
-    * bmovl - Bitmap Overlay video filter
-
-Nicolas Le Gaillart <n@tourmentine.com>
-    * French documentation translation
-    * documentation updates and fixes
-    * 2nd half of the documentation HTML --> XML conversion
-
-Lu Ran <hephooey@fastmail.fm>
-    * Chinese documentation translation
-    * various VobSub related patches
-    * improved seeking in realmedia format
-
-András Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>
-    * skin documentation
-    * various docs updates and fixes
-    * 1st half of the documentation HTML --> XML conversion
-
-Dénes Balatoni <pnis@coder.hu>
-    * XMMS inputplugin support
-    * minor features & fixes mostly to make MPlayer work better on a PDA
-
-Oskar Liljeblad <oskar@osk.mine.nu>
-    * various OSD related patches
-
-Bernd Ernesti <mplayer@lists.veego.de>
-    * NetBSD support patches
-
-Eviv Bulgroz <ebulgroz@yahoo.com>
-    * presets support for mp3lame encoding
-    * AVI demuxer time/bitrate calculation fixes
-    * various bugfixes
-
-Matan Ziv-Av <matan@svgalib.org>
+Ziv-Av, Matan <matan@svgalib.org>
     * vo_svga fixes, improvements
     * svgalib kernel helper support for VIDIX/libdha
 
-Puk Madick <pingy@swirvemail.com>
-    * KDE/GNOME2 fullscreen fix
-    * configparser fixes
-
-Tomas Hurka <tom@hukatronic.cz>
-    * Darwin DVD support (mpdvdkit2)
-    * various fixes
-
-Moritz Bunkus (mosu) <moritz@bunkus.org>
-    * various OGM hacks/fixes
-    * ogm-tools author
-    * Matroska demuxer
-
-Filip Kalinski <filon@pld.org.pl>
-    * X11 fulscreen switching fixes/cleanup
-
-Christian Ohm <chr.ohm@gmx.net>
-    * various small bugfixes
-
-Alexander Gottwald <Alexander.Gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
-    * various small bugfixes
-
-Andreas Hess <jaska@gmx.net>
-    * upgrading libdvdcss in libmpdvdkit2
-    * various small bugfixes
-
-Salvador Eduardo Tropea <salvador@inti.gov.ar>
-    * subtitle parsing/displaying related patches
-
-Marcus Blomenkamp <Marcus.Blomenkamp@epost.de>
-    * VIDIX patches (Rage128, Radeon 7000)
-    * OSS AC3 passthrough fix
-
-Alan Young <ayoung@teleport.com>
-    * fixed support of RealMedia & XAnim binary plugins on Alpha
-
-Attila Kinali <attila@kinali.ch>
-    * various small fixes in the X11 code
-    * xinerama support
-    * documentation
-    * patch application monkey, mailer daemon
-
-Nico Sabbi <nsabbi@tiscali.it>
-    * DVB input support
-    * MPEG TS support
-
-Andoni Zubimendi <andoni@lpsat.net>.
-    * Spanish documentation translation
-
-Juan Martin <nauj27@teleline.es>
-    * Spanish man page translation
-    * Spanish documentation translation
-
-Dmitry Baryshkov <mitya@school.ioffe.ru>
-    * Russian documentation translation
-    * FLAC decoding support
-    * XML build system
-
-rgselk <rgselknospam@yahoo.com>
-    * Real RTSP range support
-
-Zoltán Hidvégi <mplayer@hzoli.com>
-    * filmdint filter
-
-Corey Hickey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>
-    * telecine/interlacing HOWTO for the MEncoder documentation
+Zoltán, Márk Vicián (Se7en) <se7en@sch.bme.hu>
+    * SVGAlib support in libvo
 
-Aurelien Jacobs <aurel@gnuage.org>
-    * standalone C Matroska demuxer
-
-Dave Lambley <mplayer@davel.me.uk>
-    * HTTP cookie support
-
-Arwed v. Merkatz <v.merkatz@gmx.net>
-    * fontconfig font lookup support
-
-Daniele Forghieri <guru@digitalfantasy.it>
-    * TGA output driver
-    * framestep & tile filters
-    * initial Italian man page translation
-
-David Kühling <dvdkhlng@gmx.de>
-    * libtheora support, ogg/theora demuxing changes
-
-Romain Dolbeau <romain@dolbeau.org>
-    * random AltiVec (PowerPC multimedia extensions) stuff
-
-Miklós Vajna (VMiklos) <mamajom@axelero.hu>
-    * 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>
-
-Florian Dietrich <flodt8@yahoo.de>
-    * mingw networking support
-    
-Nehal Mistry (Nehal) <nehalmistry@gmx.net>
-    * various audio driver fixes
-    
-Reimar Döffinger (reimar) <reimar.doeffinger@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
-    * GL code fixes
-
-Rune <runner@mail.tele.dk>
-    * adapter selection support for vo directx
-
-adland <adland123@yahoo.com>
-    * support for various Windows DLL codecs (LCW2, ASLC)
-    * smil playlist parser
-
-Tilmann Bitterberg
-    * AVI OpenDML read support
-
-Reza Jelveh (timebomb) <reza.jelveh@tu-harburg.de>
-    * NSV demuxer
-
-
-____________
-Main testers
-~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Tibor Balázs (Tibcu)
-Péter Sasi (SaPe)
-Christoph H. Lampert (Gruel)
-Attila Kinali (KotH)
-Bohdan Horst (Nexus)
+Zubimendi, Andoni <andoni@lpsat.net>.
+    * Spanish documentation translation
 
 
 ________________
 The codecs, libs
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-Aaron Holtzman <aholtzma@engr.uvic.ca>
+Bellard, Fabrice <fabrice.bellard@free.fr>
+    * FFmpeg/libavcodec author, maintainer (open source MPEG, MJPEG,
+      Divx, WMA, DV etc audio/video en/decoder)
+
+Chappelier, Vivien and Vincent, Damien
+    * libFAME authors [fast MPEG1 encoder, used by -vo mpegpes/-vo dxr3]
+
+Hipp, Michael
+    * mpglib author [not used directly but some parts are in mp3lib]
+
+Holtzman, Aaron <aholtzma@engr.uvic.ca>
     * 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 <walken@zoy.org>
-    * large libmpeg2 changes for better speed and MPEG conformance
-    * liba52 author [current AC3 audio decoder]
+Janovetz, Jake
+    * remez.c author [Used to calculate audio filter coefficients]
 
-Eugene Kuznetsov <divx@euro.ru>
+Kabelac, Zdenek <kabi@informatics.muni.cz>
+    * current avifile maintainer
+    * some technical help about the Win32 stuff, ASF formats and timers
+
+Kuznetsov, Eugene <divx@euro.ru>
     * 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 <kabi@informatics.muni.cz>
-    * current avifile maintainer
-    * some technical help about the Win32 stuff, ASF formats and timers
+Lespinasse, Michel <walken@zoy.org>
+    * large libmpeg2 changes for better speed and MPEG conformance
+    * liba52 author [current AC3 audio decoder]
 
-Fabrice Bellard <fabrice.bellard@free.fr>
-    * FFmpeg/libavcodec author, maintainer (open source MPEG, MJPEG,
-      Divx, WMA, DV etc audio/video en/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
 
-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 <phaeron@virtualdub.org>
+Farin, Dirk <farin@ti.uni-mannheim.de>
+    * dvdview author [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in v0.5-v0.8]
+
+Lee, Avery <phaeron@virtualdub.org>
     * VirtualDub author, help understanding AVI with VBR audio and
       other AVI issues
 
-John F. McGowan <http://www.jmcgowan.com>
+McGowan, John F. <http://www.jmcgowan.com>
     * AVI FAQ author/collector. [site with many useful docs on codecs
       and avi format]
 
-Dirk Farin <farin@ti.uni-mannheim.de>
-    * dvdview author [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in v0.5-v0.8]
-
-Adam Williams <broadcast@earthling.net>
+Williams, Adam <broadcast@earthling.net>
     * libmpeg3 (and xmovie) author [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in
       v0.1-v0.4]