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AUTHORS
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NOTE: Do NOT send bug reports, help and
feature requests directly to the authors!
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The MPlayer project
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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...
* 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!mindworkz) <pontscho@makacs.poliod.hu>
* 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) <lgb@lgb.hu>
* configure script improvements
* Makefile improvements
* preliminary DVD support (libcss)
* various X11 cleanups and fixes
* HTMLization of documentation
Gábor Bérczi (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
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
László Megyer (Lez, Laaz) <lez@sch.bme.hu>
* SUB reader
* screensaver+DPMS disable for libvo
Gyula László (Chass, Tégla) <chass-@freemail.hu>
* first fonts (mp_font1.zip)
* third homepage design&gfx
* fourth (current) homepage design&gfx
Zoltán Márk Vicián (Se7en) <se7en@sch.bme.hu>
* SVGAlib support in libvo
Alex Beregszaszi (al3x) <alex@naxine.org>
* 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)
* libmpcodecs / libmpdemux hacking
* co-patch-maintainer
Andreas Ackermann (Acki) <asackerm@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
* LIRC support (see documentation)
* DGA support in libvo
Felix Bünemann (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
* Various aspect ratio code, prescaling support
* Win32 (Cygwin) port
* DivX5Linux support
* AAC decoding support via libfaad2
* Darwin (MacOS X) port
TeLeNiEkO <telenieko@telenieko.com>
* Spanish translation of documentation (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
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
* 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 <german@piraos.com>
* SPDIF AC3 output for SBLive!
Dariusz Pietrzak (Eyck) <eyck@incubus.ar.lublin.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>
* 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
Vladimir Kushnir <vkushnir@Alfacom.net>
* patched MPlayer to work on FreeBSD x86
Bertrand Baudet <bertrand_baudet@yahoo.com>
* network streaming support author, maintainer
* CDDB support
Derek J Witt <djw@flinthills.com>
* MMS network streaming patches
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
Artur Zaprzala <zybi@fanthom.irc.pl>
* Complete font generator prog + OSD font (TOOLS/subfont-c)
lanzz@lanzz.org
* GIMP font generator plugin (TOOLS/subfont-gimp)
Adam Tla/lka <atlka@pg.gda.pl>
* osd/sub review, fixes, optimization, utf8 support
* various fixes
Folke Ashberg <folke@ashberg.de>
* native AAlib driver (-vo aa)
Ivan Kalvatchev <iive@yahoo.com>
* interlaced MPEG2 support (libmpeg2)
* libvo2 draft
* configfile parser fixes
pl <p_l@gmx.fr>
* new configure script
* general code maintaining, fixes, patch committing
Michael Niedermayer <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, speedup of divx decoders
* runtime CPU detection
* SSE optimization of liba52
* various encoder/decoder fixes, improvements in libavcodec, DR support
Sven Goethel <sgoethel@jausoft.com>
* libvo driver: vo_gl2
joy_ping <joy@pingfm.org>
* ao_alsa9 fixes, AC3 passthrough support
Eric Anholt <eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu>
* CPU detection code
Jiri Svoboda <Jiri.Svoboda@seznam.cz>
* AQT type subtitles support
* CRTC2 YUV support in mga_vid
* DirectFB video output driver
Oliver Schoenbrunner <oliver.schoenbrunner@jku.at>
* SGI audio driver
* MIPS support
Jeroen Dobbelaere <jeroen.dobbelaere@acunia.com>
* the 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
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
* 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 <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
Rik Snel <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 <rtogni@freemail.it>
* Open source QT RPZA decoder
* Open source HuffYUV decoder
* Open source MSZH/ZLIB decoder
Wojtek Kaniewski <wojtekka@bydg.pdi.net>
* Mouse wheel support
Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>
* OSD/subtitles outside movie - for SDL
* video filter layer draft, first implementation
* virtualdub filter support (not yet finised/commited)
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@aerifal.cx>
* various bugfixes
* soft eq and halfpack video filters
Dominik Mierzejewski <dominik@rangers.eu.org>
* compiler warning fixes
* official RPM packages
Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>
* documentation reviewer and co-maintainer
* README
* random trivial fixes
Sascha Sommer <saschasommer@freenet.de>
* directx VO driver
* windows waveout AO driver
Sidik Isani <lksi@cfht.hawaii.edu>
* get_delay() smoothing code (-autosync)
* RTC initialization fixes
* various small fixes
Fredrik Noring <noring@nocrew.org>
* -vo DGA fixes
Kees Cook <mplayer@outflux.net>
* dvdnav hacks
* rawdv demuxer fixes
Hampa Hug <hhug@student.ethz.ch>
* LUT-based soft eq video filter (-vop eq2)
Uwe Reder <Uwe.Reder@3SOFT.de>
* various x11/vm/fs fixes
* sub/osd control fixes
Andriy N. Gritsenko <andrej@lucky.net>
* skip-deinterlace video filter
Joey Parrish <joey@yunamusic.com>
* various fixes
* -vo gif89 author
Juergen Hammelmann <juergen.hammelmann@gmx.de>
* TOOLS/menvcd author
Martin Gansser <mgansser@ngi.de>
* porting to hpux
Matteo Giani <matgiani@ctonet.it>
* PVA demuxer
Rudolf Marek <MAREKR2@cs.felk.cvut.cz>
* gtf code for -vo vesa
Tilman Sauerbeck <tsauerbeck@users.sourceforge.net>
* TGA decoder (rle/uncomp), -mf tga support
Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net>
* gui endianness fixes
* volume control with -ao sdl
* mencoder -ovc lavc endianness fixes
* -ao pcm endianness fixes
* libdha on powerpc linux
* mach64 vidix driver endianness fixes
Mark Zealey <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
NOTE: If you feel you were missed here, feel free to send a patch.
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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 <aholtzma@engr.uvic.ca>
* 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 <walken@zoy.org>
* did large libmpeg2 changes for better speed and mpeg conformance
* liba52 author [current AC3 audio decoder]
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...
* divx4linux technical support
Zdenek Kabelac <kabi@informatics.muni.cz>
* current avifile maintainer
* some technical help about the win32 stuff, .asf formats and timers
Fabrice Bellard <fabrice.bellard@free.fr>
* 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 [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 the current player version,
but I've got some ideas or other technical help from:
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Avery Lee <phaeron@virtualdub.org>
* 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 <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]