mpv/DOCS/AUTHORS

                                 AUTHORS:
                                 ~~~~~~~~

NOTE: Do *NOT* send bugreports, help & feature requests directly to the authors!
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========================== The MPlayer project: ===============================

<EFBFBD>rp<EFBFBD>d Gere<72>ffy (A'rpi/ESP-team):  <arpi@thot.banki.hu>
- player code (mpeg stream demultiplexer and avi/asf parser, A-V sync, seek...)
- 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 
- scripts in the TVout directory (TVout on Matrox G400DH, read DOCS/TVout-G400)
- hacking DivX/Mpeg4 VfW codecs to get YUV output
- opendivx decoder speed optimizations (see opendivx/ChangeLog)
- OSD & SUB display code

Zolt<EFBFBD>n Ponekker (Pontscho/Fresh!):  <pontscho@makacs.poliod.hu> 
- configure script and Makefiles for easy compile
- GUI system (near complete!?)
- 3DNow! support into mp3lib
- 3DNow! support into fastmemcpy.h
- various X11 driver changes (keyboard handling, fullscreen, bpp detect, etc)
- libvo: adding xmga driver, and fullscreen support to xv
- audio mixer (volume) support

G<EFBFBD>bor L<>n<EFBFBD>rt (LGB): <lgb@lgb.hu>
- ./configure script improvements
- Makefile improvements
- prelimenary DVD support
- another GUI code (is that so..?)
- various X11 cleanups and fixes

G<EFBFBD>bor B<>rczi (Gabucino):  <gabucino@k2.jozsef.kando.hu>
- documentation maintainer
- hungarian translation of documentation
- second webpage design&gfx
- webpage maintainer
- testing, codecs quality & speed comparsions
- IRC channel #MPlayer operator
- experimental MINIX port

Szabolcs Berecz (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

L<EFBFBD>szl<EFBFBD> Megyer (Lez, Laaz): <lez@sch.bme.hu>
- SUB reader
- screensaver+DPMS disable for libvo

Gyula L<>szl<7A> (Chass, T<>gla): <chass-@freemail.hu>
- first fonts (mp_font1.zip)
- third (current) homepage design&gfx

Zolt<EFBFBD>n M<>rk Vici<63>n (Se7en): <se7en@sch.bme.hu>
- SVGAlib support in libvo
- native AAlib driver (coming soon)

Alex Beregszaszi (Al3x): <alex@naxine.org>
- ALSA output driver in libao2
- vo_ggi output driver in libvo (www.ggi-project.org)

Andreas Ackermann (Acki):  <asackerm@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
- LIRC support (see DOCS/LIRC)
- DGA support in libvo

Felix B<>nemann (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

TeLeNiEkO: <telenieko@telenieko.com>
- spanish translation of documentation

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

Nick Kurshev: <nickols_k@mail.ru>
- memcpy optimizations for AMD K7 and Intel Pentium III  (fastmemcpy.h)
- CDROM tune info
- further 3DNow! optimizations into mp3lib and libac3
- russian translation of documentation

German Gomez Garcia: <german@piraos.com>
- DVD .ifo parser and chapter selection [not yet in the main trunk]
- SPDIF AC3 output for SBLive!  [not yet in the main trunk]

Dariush Pietrzak (Eyck): <eyck@incubus.ar.lublin.pl>
- debian packaging support (see debian/* and DOCS/DEBIAN)
- support for vplayer subtitle format
- prelimenary support for .RT subtitle format

J<EFBFBD>rgen Keil and Marcus Comstedt: <jk@tools.de> <marcus@idonex.se>
- patched MPlayer to work on Solaris 8 x86
- configure fixes
- SUN audio driver in libao2

Vladimir Kushnir: <vkushnir@Alfacom.net>
- patched MPlayer to work on FreeBSD x86

Bertrand BAUDET: <bertrand_baudet@yahoo.com>
- network streaming support

Main testers:
  Tibor Bal<61>zs (Tibcu)
  P<>ter Sasi (SaPe)
  Christoph H. Lampert
  Attila Kinali
  Dirk Vornheder

========================== The codecs, libs: =================================

Aaron Holtzman:  <aholtzma@engr.uvic.ca>
- ac3dec (and libac3) author  [AC3 audio decoder]
- mga_vid driver  [Matrox G200/G400 YUV Back-end Scaler]
- mpeg2dec        [Fast MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, currently used in player]

Michel Lespinasse:  <walken@zoy.org>
- did large libmpeg2 changes for better speed and mpeg conformance

Eugene Kuznetsov:  <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...

Zdenek Kabelac:  <kabi@informatics.muni.cz>
- current avifile maintainer(?)
- some technical help about the win32 stuff and timers

Project Mayo:  [http://www.projectmayo.com]
- the OpenDivX codec authors

Michael Hipp:
- mpglib author   [isn't used directly but in mp3lib]

Mark Podlipec:
- xa_gsm.c author  [MS-GSM audio codec]
                   [from a GSM library by Jutta Degener and Carsten Bormann]

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

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

Dirk Farin:      <farin@ti.uni-mannheim.de>
- dvdview author  [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in v0.5-v0.8]

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