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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) <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
    * many streaming bug fixes and improvements

Anholt, Eric <eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu>
    * CPU detection code

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 (lumag) <mitya@school.ioffe.ru>
    * Russian documentation translation
    * FLAC decoding support
    * XML build system

Baudet, Bertrand <bertrand_baudet@yahoo.com>
    * network streaming support author, maintainer
    * CDDB support

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
    * 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

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

Beregszászi, Alex (al3x) <alex@fsn.hu>
    * 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

Bitterberg, Tilmann <transcode@tibit.org>
    * AVI OpenDML read support

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)
    * 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

Bunkus, Moritz (mosu) <moritz@bunkus.org>
    * various OGM hacks/fixes
    * ogm-tools author
    * Matroska demuxer

Comstedt, Marcus <marcus@idonex.se>
    * initial Solaris8-x86 support
    * configure fixes

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) <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

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 (jaf) <johannes.feigl@aon.at>
    * 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) <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

Ferguson, Tim <timf@mail.csse.monash.edu.au>
    * open source Cinepak decoder
    * open source CYUV decoder

Forghieri, Daniele (danny) <guru@digitalfantasy.it>
    * TGA output driver
    * framestep & tile filters
    * initial Italian man page translation

Foth, Kilian A. <foth@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
    * -slave mode

Gansser, Martin <mgansser@ngi.de>
    * HP-UX port

Gereöffy, Árpád (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, bug fix 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

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

Guyomarch, Rémi (rguyom) <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

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, mswitch) <dholm@telia.com>
    * DXR3 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

Isani, Sidik <lksi@cfht.hawaii.edu>
    * get_delay() smoothing code (-autosync)
    * RTC initialization fixes
    * various small fixes

Issaris, Panagiotis (takis) <takis@lumumba.luc.ac.be>
    * -playlist option
    * NuppelVideo support
    * various fixes

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) <filon@pld.org.pl>
    * X11 fulscreen switching fixes/cleanup

Kalvachev, Ivan (iive) <iive@yahoo.com>
    * 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)

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 (ksorim) <freku045@student.liu.se>
    * OSD/subtitles outside a movie for SDL
    * video filter layer draft, first implementation
    * virtualdub filter support (not yet finished/committed)

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

López, Juan Martin (nauj27) <nauj27@teleline.es>
    * Spanish man page translation
    * Spanish documentation translation

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 (henry) <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

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>
    * Marcin Biernat (Boski Cinek) <boski_cinek@o2.pl>
    * Marek Jarycki (Emdej) <emdej@emdej.com>
    * Leszek Kaplita (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
    * 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 <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

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

Plourde, Nicolas <nicolas.plourde@sympatico.ca>
    * libvo: adding quartz driver for Mac OS X

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

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

Rune Petersen <runner@mail.tele.dk>
    * adapter selection support for vo directx

Saari, Ville <vs@iki.fi>
    * divtc & phase filters

Sabbi, Nico <nsabbi@tiscali.it>
    * DVB input support
    * MPEG TS support

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

Snel, Rik <rsnel@cube.dyndns.org>
    * zr video output driver

Sommer, Sascha (Faust3) <saschasommer@freenet.de>
    * 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
    * dhahelperwin for direct hardware access under Windows NT/2000/XP

Svoboda, Jiri (zar) <Jiri.Svoboda@seznam.cz>
    * AQT type subtitles support
    * CRTC2 YUV support in mga_vid
    * DirectFB video output driver

Syrjälä, Ville <syrjala@sci.fi>
    * -vo dfbmga driver (G400 DVDMax-like feature using dfb 0.9.14)

Sandell, Björn <biorn@dce.chalmers.se>
    * various *BSD fixes

Tam, Howell (Pigeon) <pigeon@pigeond.net>
    * native libcaca driver (-vo caca)

TeLeNiEkO <telenieko@telenieko.com>
    * first Spanish documentation translation (outdated)

Tlalka, Adam (atlka) <atlka@pg.gda.pl>
    * OSD/subtitle review, fixes, optimization, UTF8 support
    * various fixes

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

Tropea, Salvador Eduardo <salvador@inti.gov.ar>
    * subtitle parsing/displaying related patches

von Merkatz, Arwed <v.merkatz@gmx.net>
    * fontconfig font lookup support

Vajna, Miklós (VMiklos) <mamajom@axelero.hu>
    * TOOLS/divx2svcd author

Wigren, Per <wigren@home.se>
    * bmovl - Bitmap Overlay video filter

Witt, Derek J <djw@flinthills.com>
    * MMS network streaming patches

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

Ziv-Av, Matan <matan@svgalib.org>
    * vo_svga fixes, improvements
    * svgalib kernel helper support for VIDIX/libdha

Zoltán, Márk Vicián (Se7en) <se7en@sch.bme.hu>
    * SVGAlib support in libvo

Zubimendi, Andoni <andoni@lpsat.net>.
    * Spanish documentation translation


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

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]

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

Kabelac, Zdenek (kabi) <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

Lespinasse, Michel <walken@zoy.org>
    * 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 <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

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

Williams, Adam <broadcast@earthling.net>
    * libmpeg3 (and xmovie) author [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in
      v0.1-v0.4]