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14 Árpád Gereöffy (A'rpi/ESP-team) [mail to <mplayer-users@mplayerhq.hu>]
15 * mplayer, mencoder core, A-V sync
16 * libmpdemux, demultiplexer for mpeg, asf, avi, various fixes in others
17 * mp3lib, based on mpglib sources [MP3 audio decoder]
18 * getch2 [keyboard handler]
19 * some changes in libmpeg2 code (progressive frames, bitrate & fps support)
20 * libvo improvements: adding OpenGL support, bugfix in mga driver...
21 * triple buffering & YUY2 support (for DivX/MPEG4) into mga_vid driver
22 * OSD & SUB display code
23 * FFmpeg/libavcodec integration
24 * DivX4Linux (Project Mayo) support (see documentation)
25 * New DVD-Support using libdvdread
26 * MPEG PES output & DVB card support
27 * libmpcodecs design, porting video decoders, filters
29 Zoltán Ponekker (Pontscho/fresh!mindworkz) <pontscho@makacs.poliod.hu>
30 * the original configure script and Makefiles for easy compile
32 * 3DNow! support into mp3lib and fastmemcpy.h
33 * various X11 driver changes, fixes (keyboard handling, fullscreen,
35 * libvo: adding xmga driver
36 * audio mixer (volume) support
38 Gábor Lénárt (LGB) <lgb@lgb.hu>
39 * configure script improvements
40 * Makefile improvements
41 * preliminary DVD support (libcss)
42 * various X11 cleanups and fixes
43 * HTMLization of documentation
45 Gábor Bérczi (Gabucino) <gabucino@mplayerhq.hu>
46 * documentation writer & maintainer
47 * Hungarian translation of documentation, homepage, and help output
48 * second homepage design&gfx
50 * testing, codecs quality & speed comparisons
51 * IRC channels operator (#MPlayer is user channel)
52 * experimental MINIX port :) (what's funny about it?)
53 * MPsub subtitle format design
55 Szabolcs Berecz (Szabi) <szabi@inf.elte.hu>
56 * codecs.conf file parser
57 * config file and command line parser
58 * mga_vid fixes, module option etc.
59 * fbdev support in libvo
60 * type #7 subtitle support
62 László Megyer (Lez, Laaz) <lez@sch.bme.hu>
64 * screensaver+DPMS disable for libvo
66 Gyula László (Chass, Tégla) <chass-@freemail.hu>
67 * first fonts (mp_font1.zip)
68 * third homepage design&gfx
69 * fourth (current) homepage design&gfx
71 Zoltán Márk Vicián (Se7en) <se7en@sch.bme.hu>
72 * SVGAlib support in libvo
74 Alex Beregszaszi (al3x) <alex@fsn.hu>
75 * ALSA output driver in libao2
76 * vo_ggi output driver in libvo (www.ggi-project.org)
77 * XAnim codecs support
78 * VIVO files, codecs support
81 * libavcodec support in MEncoder
82 * RM file format demuxer
85 * NuppelVideo demuxer changes
87 * VIDIX and libdha hackings
88 * Matrox driver port to Vidix
89 * XVidix video output driver
90 * and other various stuff (in libvo, libmad syncing, dec_audio/video and
92 * libmpcodecs / libmpdemux hacking
94 * dynamic a/v plugins (external shared ad/vd/.. objects)
95 * millions of bug fixes
97 Andreas Ackermann (Acki) <asackerm@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
98 * LIRC support (see documentation)
99 * DGA support in libvo
101 Felix Bünemann (Atmos) <atmosfear@users.sourceforge.net>
102 * SDL driver maintainer
103 * Additional YUV formats fixes
104 * New font (mp_font2.zip)
105 * PNG file output support in libvo
106 * flipping support (for Indeo 3/4, etc)
107 * SDL audio driver in libao2
108 * RAW PCM/WAVE file writer for libao2
109 * Ogg Vorbis audio support
110 * Various aspect ratio code, prescaling support
111 * Win32 (Cygwin) port
113 * AAC decoding support via libfaad2
114 * Darwin (MacOS X) port
116 TeLeNiEkO <telenieko@telenieko.com>
117 * Spanish translation of documentation (outdated)
119 Michael Graffam <mgraffam@idsi.net>
120 * XF86VidMode support to vo_x11 and vo_dga
121 * Video mode switching code to vo_dga
123 Jens Hoffmann <hoffmajs@gmx.de>
124 * Additional YUV formats support
125 * found the big BITMAPINFOHEADER problem -> solved ASV2 pixelization
127 Nick Kurshev <nickols_k@mail.ru>
128 * memcpy optimizations for AMD K7 and Intel Pentium III (fastmemcpy.h)
130 * further 3DNow! optimizations into mp3lib and libac3 and FFmpeg
131 * Russian translation of documentation (outdated)
132 * radeon_vid, rage128_vid, radeonfb
133 * libvo driver: vo_vesa
134 * VIDIX and libdha design, programming, rage128/radeon vidix drivers
136 German Gomez Garcia <german@piraos.com>
137 * SPDIF AC3 output for SBLive!
139 Dariusz Pietrzak (Eyck) <eyck@ghost.anime.pl>
140 * Debian packaging support (see debian/* and the documentation)
141 * support for vplayer subtitle format
142 * preliminary support for .RT subtitle format
144 Marcus Comstedt <marcus@idonex.se>
145 * initial Solaris8-x86 support
148 Jürgen Keil <jk@tools.de>
149 * patched MPlayer to work on Solaris 8 x86
150 * various fixes (win32, configure, etc)
151 * SUN audio driver in libao2
152 * mediaLib support in libavcodec
153 * esd driver in libao2
155 Vladimir Kushnir <vkushnir@Alfacom.net>
156 * patched MPlayer to work on FreeBSD x86
158 Bertrand Baudet <bertrand_baudet@yahoo.com>
159 * network streaming support author, maintainer
162 Derek J Witt <djw@flinthills.com>
163 * MMS network streaming patches
165 Alban Bedel <albeu@free.fr>
166 * MMS network streaming patches
167 * Playtree and per-entry config
169 * New input layer, slave mode improvements
171 * MP3, WAV and Ogg demuxers, Ogg-in-AVI fixes
172 * Support for audio from external file
177 * New modular config/commandline parser code
179 Artur Zaprzala <zybi@fanthom.irc.pl>
180 * Complete font generator prog + OSD font (TOOLS/subfont-c)
182 Mihail Milushev <lanzz@lanzz.org>
183 * GIMP font generator plugin (TOOLS/subfont-gimp)
185 Adam Tla/lka <atlka@pg.gda.pl>
186 * osd/sub review, fixes, optimization, utf8 support
189 Folke Ashberg <folke@ashberg.de>
190 * native AAlib driver (-vo aa)
192 Ivan Kalvachev <iive@yahoo.com>
193 * interlaced MPEG2 support (libmpeg2)
195 * configfile parser fixes
197 Pierre Lombard (pl) <p_l@gmx.fr>
198 * new configure script
199 * general code maintaining, fixes, patch committing
201 Michael Niedermayer <michaelni@gmx.at>
202 * new, GPL postprocessing code (with deinterlacing etc...)
203 * software scaling with MMX/MMX2/3DNow support (swscale.c)
204 * various rgb/yuv bpp converters
205 * new, better IDCT code for libavcodec, speedup of divx decoders
206 * runtime CPU detection
207 * SSE optimization of liba52
208 * various encoder/decoder fixes, improvements in libavcodec, DR support
209 * various video filters, like il, swapuv, boxblur
211 Sven Goethel <sgoethel@jausoft.com>
212 * libvo driver: vo_gl2
214 Joy Winter <joy@pingfm.org>
215 * ao_alsa9 fixes, AC3 passthrough support
217 Eric Anholt <eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu>
220 Jiri Svoboda <Jiri.Svoboda@seznam.cz>
221 * AQT type subtitles support
222 * CRTC2 YUV support in mga_vid
223 * DirectFB video output driver
225 Oliver Schoenbrunner <oliver.schoenbrunner@jku.at>
229 Jeroen Dobbelaere <jeroen.dobbelaere@acunia.com>
230 * the original libmad support
232 David Holm <dholm@telia.com>
235 Panagiotis Issaris <takis@lumumba.luc.ac.be>
237 * NuppelVideo support
240 Mike Melanson <melanson@pcisys.net>
241 * MS Video1 codec open-source implementation
242 * FLI demuxer, decoder
243 * Unified ADPCM Decoder (supports IMA/DVI, MS ADPCM, several others)
244 * FILM (.cpk) file demuxer
245 * RoQ file demuxer, Audio/Video decoder
248 * MS RLE decoder re-implementation
250 Tobias Diedrich <ranma@gmx.at>
251 * NAS audio output driver
254 Kilian A. Foth <foth@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
257 Tim Ferguson <timf@mail.csse.monash.edu.au>
258 * Open source Cinepak decoder
259 * Open source CYUV decoder
261 Sam Lin <itrs@softwell.com.tw>
262 * -wid (plugger) patch
264 Johannes Feigl <johannes.feigl@aon.at>
265 * original German docs translation
266 * some improvements in configure, small patches
267 * found somebody (Thilo Wunderlich) who sent a DVB card
268 * msg translations (help_mp-XX.h) maintainer
270 Kim Minh Kaplan <kmkaplan@selfoffice.com>
271 * DVD and VobSub subtitles display support
272 * DVD subtitles rip to VobSub
274 Brian Kuschak <bkuschak@yahoo.com>
275 * RTP streaming support (reading)
277 Stephen Davies <steve@daviesfam.org>
278 * support for large video files (>2^32 bytes in size)
279 * surround sound aop plugin
281 Rik Snel <rsnel@cube.dyndns.org>
282 * zr video output driver
284 Anders Johansson <ajh@atri.curtin.edu.au>
285 * old audio plugin system, some effect plugins
286 * new libaf interface design, implementation, plugins
288 Roberto Togni <rtogni@freemail.it>
289 * Open source QT RPZA decoder
290 * Open source HuffYUV decoder
291 * Open source MSZH/ZLIB decoder
292 * Open source QT 8BPS decoder
293 * mp_help-it.h updates
294 * Realaudio (ra) demuxer, 14_4 and 28_8 codec support
295 * Misc bugfixes and enhancements
297 Wojtek Kaniewski <wojtekka@bydg.pdi.net>
298 * Mouse wheel support
299 * got the freetype+RAW font support work together
301 Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se>
302 * OSD/subtitles outside movie - for SDL
303 * video filter layer draft, first implementation
304 * virtualdub filter support (not yet finished/committed)
306 Florian Schneider <flo-mplayer-dev@gmx.net>
307 * RealVideo codec libraries interface, .rm demuxer fixes
309 Jindrich Makovicka <makovick@KMLinux.fjfi.cvut.cz>
311 * rewrote v4l video capturing, implemented audio capturing layer
312 * freetype2 font rendering support
314 D Richard Felker III <dalias@aerifal.cx>
316 * soft eq and halfpack video filters
318 Dominik Mierzejewski <dominik@rangers.eu.org>
319 * compiler warning fixes
320 * official RPM packages
322 Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>
323 * documentation reviewer and co-maintainer
324 * console output translation (help_mp-XX.h) maintainer
326 * random trivial fixes
327 * testing, bug reports
328 * homepage improvements
329 * head of the Ministry for English Composition
331 Sascha Sommer <saschasommer@freenet.de>
333 * windows waveout AO driver
334 * quicktime audio+video decoding, video encoding (using win32 DLLs) support
337 Sidik Isani <lksi@cfht.hawaii.edu>
338 * get_delay() smoothing code (-autosync)
339 * RTC initialization fixes
340 * various small fixes
342 Fredrik Noring <noring@nocrew.org>
345 Kees Cook <mplayer@outflux.net>
347 * rawdv demuxer fixes
349 Hampa Hug <hhug@student.ethz.ch>
350 * LUT-based soft eq video filter (-vf eq2)
351 * .ogm demuxer endianess fixes
353 Uwe Reder <Uwe.Reder@3SOFT.de>
354 * various x11/vm/fs fixes
355 * sub/osd control fixes
357 Andriy N. Gritsenko <andrej@lucky.net>
358 * skip-deinterlace video filter
359 * MUXER layer, and new MPEG-PS muxer
361 Joey Parrish <joey@nicewarrior.org>
366 Juergen Hammelmann <juergen.hammelmann@gmx.de>
367 * TOOLS/menvcd author
369 Martin Gansser <mgansser@ngi.de>
372 Matteo Giani <matgiani@ctonet.it>
375 Rudolf Marek <MAREKR2@cs.felk.cvut.cz>
376 * gtf code for -vo vesa
378 Tilman Sauerbeck <tsauerbeck@users.sourceforge.net>
379 * TGA decoder (rle/uncomp), -mf tga support
381 Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net>
382 * gui endianness fixes
383 * volume control with -ao sdl
384 * mencoder -ovc lavc endianness fixes
385 * -ao pcm endianness fixes
386 * libdha on powerpc linux
387 * mach64 vidix driver endianness fixes
389 Mark Zealey <mark@zealos.org>
391 * -geometry window positioning code
393 Gregory Kovriga <gkovriga@techunix.technion.ac.il>
394 * GUI drag&drop support
396 * various small bugfixes in ASX/URL parser
398 Rémi Guyomarch <rguyom@pobox.com>
400 * 'unsharp' video filter
401 * xvid encoding support
403 Salvatore Falco <sfalco@studenti.ing.uniroma1.it>
404 * jacosub parsing & dump support
405 * overlapping subtitles & sub sorting support
406 * SAMI subtitles dump support
408 Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi>
409 * -vo dfbmga driver (G400 DVDMax-like feature using dfb 0.9.14)
411 Björn Sandell <biorn@dce.chalmers.se>
414 lucho <lucho@haemimont.bg>
415 * hw-accelerated video eq support into x11, gl2 (using DirectColor cmap)
417 Per Wigren <wigren@home.se>
418 * bmovl - Bitmap Overlay video filter
420 Nicolas Le Gaillart <n@tourmentine.com>
421 * French documentation translation
422 * documentation updates and fixes
423 * 2nd half of the documentation HTML --> XML conversion
425 Lu Ran <hephooey@fastmail.fm>
426 * Chinese documentation translation
427 * Various VOBSUB-related patches
428 * improved seeking in realmedia format
430 András Mohari <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>
432 * various docs updates and fixes
433 * 1st half of the documentation HTML --> XML conversion
435 Dénes Balatoni <pnis@coder.hu>
436 * xmms inputplugin support
437 * various minor feature additions & fixes mostly to
438 make mplayer work better on my pda
440 Oskar Liljeblad <oskar@osk.mine.nu>
441 * various OSD related patches
443 Bernd Ernesti <mplayer@lists.veego.de>
444 * NetBSD support patches
446 Eviv Bulgroz <ebulgroz@yahoo.com>
447 * Presets support for mp3lame encoding
448 * AVI demuxer time/bitrate calculation fixes
451 Matan Ziv-Av <matan@svgalib.org>
452 * vo_svga fixes, improvements
453 * svgalib kernel helper support for VIDIX/libdha
455 Puk Madick <pingy@swirvemail.com>
456 * KDE/gnome2 fullscreen fix
459 Tomas Hurka <tom@hukatronic.cz>
460 * Darwin DVD support (mpdvdkit2)
463 Moritz Bunkus <moritz@bunkus.org>
464 * various OGM hacks/fixes
465 * author of ogm-tools
468 Filip Kalinski <filon@pld.org.pl>
469 * X11 fulscreen switching fixes/cleanup
471 Christian Ohm <chr.ohm@gmx.net>
472 * various small bugfixes
474 Alexander Gottwald <Alexander.Gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
475 * various small bugfixes
477 Andreas Hess <jaska@gmx.net>
478 * upgrading libdvdcss in libmpdvdkit2
479 * various small bugfixes
481 Salvador Eduardo Tropea <salvador@inti.gov.ar>
482 * subtitle parsing/displaying related patches
484 Marcus Blomenkamp <Marcus.Blomenkamp@epost.de>
485 * VIDIX patches (rage128, radeon 7000)
486 * OSS AC3 passthru. fix
488 Alan Young <ayoung@teleport.com>
489 * fixed support of RealMedia & Xanim binary plugins on Alpha
491 Attila Kinali <kinali@gmx.net>
492 * various small fixes in the x11 code
495 * patch application monkey
497 Andoni Zubimendi <andoni@lpsat.net>.
498 * Spanish documentation translation
500 Juan Martin <nauj27@teleline.es>
501 * Spanish man page translation
502 * Spanish documentation translation
504 Dmitry Baryshkov <mitya@school.ioffe.ru>
505 * Russian documentation translation
506 * FLAC decoding support
509 rgselk <rgselknospam@yahoo.com>
510 * Real rtsp Range support
513 NOTE: If you think you are missing here, feel free to send a patch.
522 Christoph H. Lampert (Gruel)
530 Aaron Holtzman <aholtzma@engr.uvic.ca>
531 * ac3dec (and libac3) author [old AC3 audio decoder]
532 * the original mga_vid driver [Matrox G200/G400 YUV Back-end Scaler]
533 * mpeg2dec [Fast MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, currently used in player]
535 Michel Lespinasse <walken@zoy.org>
536 * did large libmpeg2 changes for better speed and mpeg conformance
537 * liba52 author [current AC3 audio decoder]
539 Eugene Kuznetsov <divx@euro.ru>
540 * avifile author [AVI player library for linux, using Win32 VfW/ACM codecs]
541 * technical help about AVI and ASF formats, and how to get YUV using VfW...
542 * divx4linux technical support
544 Zdenek Kabelac <kabi@informatics.muni.cz>
545 * current avifile maintainer
546 * some technical help about the win32 stuff, .asf formats and timers
548 Fabrice Bellard <fabrice.bellard@free.fr>
549 * FFmpeg/libavcodec author, maintainer (open source mpeg, mjpeg,
550 divx, wma, dv etc audio/video en/decoder)
552 Project Mayo <http://www.projectmayo.com>
553 * the OpenDivX codec authors
556 * mpglib author [isn't used directly but some parts in mp3lib]
559 * xa_gsm.c author [MS-GSM audio codec] [from a GSM library by Jutta Degener
563 * remez.c author [Used to calculate audio filter coefficients]
565 Vivien Chappelier, Damien Vincent
566 * libFAME authors [fast mpeg-1 encoder, used by -vo mpegpes/-vo dxr3]
568 _____________________________________________________
569 Their code is not used in the current player version,
570 but I've got some ideas or other technical help from:
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573 Avery Lee <phaeron@virtualdub.org>
574 * VirtualDub author, help understanding AVI with VBR audio and
577 John F. McGowan <http://www.jmcgowan.com>
578 * AVI FAQ author/collector. [site with many useful docs on codecs
581 Dirk Farin <farin@ti.uni-mannheim.de>
582 * dvdview author [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in v0.5-v0.8]
584 Adam Williams <broadcast@earthling.net>
585 * libmpeg3 (and xmovie) author [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in