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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!) <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)

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

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

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

Gerard Lantau <glantau@yahoo.fr>
    * FFmpeg/libavcodec author,maintainer (open source mpeg, mjpeg,
      divx 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]