***************************************** AUTHORS ***************************************** NOTE: Do NOT send bug reports, help and feature requests directly to the authors! ___________________ The MPlayer project ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Árpád Gereöffy (A'rpi/ESP-team) [mail to ] * 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!) * 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) * configure script improvements * Makefile improvements * preliminary DVD support (libcss) * various X11 cleanups and fixes * HTMLization of documentation Gábor Bérczi (Gabucino) * 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) * 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) * SUB reader * screensaver+DPMS disable for libvo Gyula László (Chass, Tégla) * first fonts (mp_font1.zip) * third homepage design&gfx * fourth (current) homepage design&gfx Zoltán Márk Vicián (Se7en) * SVGAlib support in libvo Alex Beregszaszi (al3x) * 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) * LIRC support (see documentation) * DGA support in libvo Felix Bünemann (Atmos) * 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 * Spanish translation of documentation (outdated) Michael Graffam * XF86VidMode support to vo_x11 and vo_dga * Video mode switching code to vo_dga Jens Hoffmann * Additional YUV formats support * found the big BITMAPINFOHEADER problem -> solved ASV2 pixelization Nick Kurshev * 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 * SPDIF AC3 output for SBLive! Dariusz Pietrzak (Eyck) * Debian packaging support (see debian/* and the documentation) * support for vplayer subtitle format * preliminary support for .RT subtitle format Marcus Comstedt * initial Solaris8-x86 support * configure fixes Jürgen Keil * patched MPlayer to work on Solaris 8 x86 * various fixes (win32, configure, etc) * SUN audio driver in libao2 * mediaLib support in libavcodec Vladimir Kushnir * patched MPlayer to work on FreeBSD x86 Bertrand Baudet * network streaming support author, maintainer * CDDB support Derek J Witt * MMS network streaming patches Alban Bedel * 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 * Complete font generator prog + OSD font (TOOLS/subfont-c) lanzz@lanzz.org * GIMP font generator plugin (TOOLS/subfont-gimp) Adam Tla/lka * osd/sub review, fixes, optimization, utf8 support * various fixes Folke Ashberg * native AAlib driver (-vo aa) Ivan Kalvatchev * interlaced MPEG2 support (libmpeg2) * libvo2 draft * configfile parser fixes pl * new configure script * general code maintaining, fixes, patch committing Michael Niedermayer * 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 * libvo driver: vo_gl2 joy_ping * ao_alsa9 fixes, AC3 passthrough support Eric Anholt * CPU detection code Jiri Svoboda * AQT type subtitles support * CRTC2 YUV support in mga_vid * DirectFB video output driver Oliver Schoenbrunner * SGI audio driver * MIPS support Jeroen Dobbelaere * the original libmad support David Holm * DXR3 support Panagiotis Issaris * -playlist option * NuppelVideo support * various fixes Mike Melanson * 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 * NAS audio output driver * DXR2 driver Kilian A. Foth * -slave mode Tim Ferguson * Open source Cinepak decoder * Open source CYUV decoder Sam Lin * -wid (plugger) patch Johannes Feigl * 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 * DVD and VobSub subtitles display support * DVD subtitles rip to VobSub Brian Kuschak * RTP streaming support (reading) Stephen Davies * support for large video files (>2^32 bytes in size) * surround sound Rik Snel * zr video output driver Anders Johansson * old audio plugin system, some effect plugins * new libaf interface design, implementation, plugins Roberto Togni * Open source QT RPZA decoder * Open source HuffYUV decoder * Open source MSZH/ZLIB decoder Wojtek Kaniewski * Mouse wheel support Fredrik Kuivinen * OSD/subtitles outside movie - for SDL * video filter layer draft, first implementation * virtualdub filter support (not yet finised/commited) Florian Schneider * RealVideo codec libraries interface, .rm demuxer fixes Jindrich Makovicka * various bugfixes * rewrote v4l video capturing, implemented audio capturing layer * freetype2 font rendering support D Richard Felker III * various bugfixes * soft eq and halfpack video filters Dominik Mierzejewski * compiler warning fixes * official RPM packages Diego Biurrun * documentation reviewer and co-maintainer * README * random trivial fixes Sascha Sommer * directx VO driver Sidik Isani * get_delay() smoothing code (-autosync) * RTC initialization fixes * various small fixes Fredrik Noring * -vo DGA fixes Kees Cook * dvdnav hacks * rawdv demuxer fixes Hampa Hug * LUT-based soft eq video filter (-vop eq2) Uwe Reder * various x11/vm/fs fixes * sub/osd control fixes Andriy N. Gritsenko * skip-deinterlace video filter Joey Parrish * various fixes * -vo gif89 author Juergen Hammelmann * TOOLS/menvcd author Martin Gansser * porting to hpux Matteo Giani * PVA demuxer Rudolf Marek * gtf code for -vo vesa Tilman Sauerbeck * TGA decoder (rle/uncomp), -mf tga support Colin Leroy * 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 NOTE: If you feel you were missed here, feel free to send a patch. ===== ____________ Main testers ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tibor Balázs (Tibcu) Péter Sasi (SaPe) Christoph H. Lampert (Gruel) Attila Kinali (KotH) Bohdan Horst (Nexus) ________________ The codecs, libs ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Aaron Holtzman * 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 * did large libmpeg2 changes for better speed and mpeg conformance * liba52 author [current AC3 audio decoder] Eugene Kuznetsov * 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 * current avifile maintainer * some technical help about the win32 stuff, .asf formats and timers Gerard Lantau * FFmpeg/libavcodec author,maintainer (open source mpeg, mjpeg, divx en/decoder) Project Mayo * 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] _____________________________________________________ Their code is not used in the current player version, but I've got some ideas or other technical help from: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Avery Lee * VirtualDub author, help understanding AVI with VBR audio and other AVI issues John F. McGowan * AVI FAQ author/collector. [site with many useful docs on codecs and avi format] Dirk Farin * dvdview author [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in v0.5-v0.8] Adam Williams * libmpeg3 (and xmovie) author [MPEG1/MPEG2 video decoder, used in v0.1-v0.4]