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NOTE: This list is outdated and incomplete.


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The MPlayer project
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MPlayer was originally written by Árpád Gereöffy and later extended by
a bunch of other people, some of whom are listed here in alphabetical
order. If you think you are missing, feel free to send a patch.

Ackermann, Andreas (Acki) <asackerm@stud.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
    * LIRC support
    * DGA support in libvo

adland <adland123@yahoo.com>
    * support for various Windows DLL codecs (LCW2, ASLC)
    * SMIL playlist parser
    * many streaming bug fixes and improvements
    * libfaad2 update

Anholt, Eric <eanholt@gladstone.uoregon.edu>
    * CPU detection code

Ashberg, Folke <folke@ashberg.de>
    * native AAlib driver (-vo aa)

Balatoni, Dénes <dbalatoni@gmail.com>
    * XMMS inputplugin support
    * minor features & fixes
    * Sun XVR-100 VO driver port from xine

Barat, Zsolt (joyping) <joy@streamminister.de>
    * ao_alsa9 fixes, AC3 passthrough support
    * ao_alsa unified ALSA audio output driver

Barbato, Luca (lu_zero) <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
    * random AltiVec fixes
    * other minor fixes

Baryshkov, Dmitry (lumag) <mitya@school.ioffe.ru>
    * Russian documentation translation
    * FLAC decoding support
    * XML build system

Baudet, Bertrand <bertrand_baudet@yahoo.com>
    * network streaming support author
    * CDDB support

Bedel, Alban (albeu) <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 an external file
    * DXR2 driver
    * vo_aa improvements
    * CDDA support
    * OSD menu
    * new modular config/command line parser code

Behrisch, Michael <list@behrisch.de>
    * online audio stream switching for MPEG and Matroska files

Belev, Luchezar (lucho) <lucho@haemimont.bg>
    * hw-accelerated video eq support into x11, gl2 (using DirectColor cmap)

Bérczi, Gábor (Gabucino) <gabucino@mplayerhq.hu>
    * large parts the original HTML and TXT documentation
    * original Hungarian documentation, homepage, console message translation
    * second homepage design & gfx
    * original homepage content
    * testing, codecs quality & speed comparisons
    * experimental MINIX port :) (what's funny about it?)
    * MPsub subtitle format design
    * AlienMind, BlueHeart, CubicPlayer, MidnightLove, netscape4,
      WMP6, xanim, xine-lcd skins

Berecz, Szabolcs (Szabi) <szabi@inf.elte.hu>
    * codecs.conf file parser
    * config file and command line parser
    * mga_vid fixes, module option, etc
    * fbdev video output driver
    * type #7 subtitle support

Beregszászi, Alex (al3x) <alex@fsn.hu>
    * second project maintainer
    * alsa5 and alsa9 audio output drivers in libao2
    * ggi video output driver (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
    * many other things (in libvo, libmad syncing, dec_audio/video and loader)
    * libmpcodecs / libmpdemux hacking
    * patch review
    * dynamic a/v plugins (external shared ad/vd/.. objects)
    * millions of bug fixes

Bitterberg, Tilmann <transcode@tibit.org>
    * AVI OpenDML read support

Biurrun, Diego (DonDiego) <diego@biurrun.de>
    * documentation all over the place
    * command line option documentation completed
    * README, wishlist, translations.txt
    * random trivial fixes
    * main tester and small fixes for the Cygwin and MinGW ports
    * testing, bug reports
    * homepage content improvements, design7, HTML fixed
    * Hunglish to English translation everywhere
    * head of the Ministry for English Composition
    * ultrafina skin
    * skin review part I
    * patch review
    * build system overhaul
    * shiny new non-recursive build

Blomenkamp, Marcus <Marcus.Blomenkamp@epost.de>
    * VIDIX patches (Rage128, Radeon 7000)
    * OSS AC3 passthrough fix

Buehler, Andrew (The Wanderer) <inverseparadox@comcast.net>
    * various documentation spelling and grammar corrections
    * mp_msg transition on main source files

Bulgroz, Eviv <ebulgroz@yahoo.com>
    * presets support for mp3lame encoding
    * AVI demuxer time/bitrate calculation fixes
    * various bug fixes

Bünemann, Felix (Atmos) <atmosfear@users.sourceforge.net>
    * additional YUV formats fixes
    * new font (mp_font2.zip)
    * png video output driver
    * flipping support (for Indeo 3/4, etc)
    * SDL audio output driver in libao2
    * RAW PCM/WAVE file writer for libao2
    * Ogg Vorbis audio support
    * aspect ratio code improvements, prescaling support
    * Win32 (Cygwin) port
    * DivX5Linux support
    * AAC decoding support via libfaad2
    * Darwin (Mac OS X) port

Bunkus, Moritz (Mosu) <moritz@bunkus.org>
    * various OGM hacks/fixes
    * OGMtools author
    * Matroska demuxer

Christiansen, Dan Villiom Podlaski (danchr) <danchr@daimi.au.dk>
    * timer-darwin.c
    * CoreAudio audio output driver for Mac OS X
    * build system cleanups for Darwin

Clagg, Jeff (snacky) <snacky@ikaruga.co.uk>
    * minor updates and fixes for x264 support
    * x264's encoding guide
    * superficial clarity fixes for mpcf.txt

Comstedt, Marcus <marcus@idonex.se>
    * initial Solaris 8 x86 support
    * configure fixes

Cook, Kees <mplayer@outflux.net>
    * dvdnav hacks
    * rawdv demuxer fixes

Curry, Alan (pacman, tcsetattr) <pacman@TheWorld.com>
    * swscale AltiVec/big-endian fixes
    * misc vo_fbdev fixes

Davies, Stephen <steve@daviesfam.org>
    * support for large video files (>2^32 bytes in size)
    * surround sound aop plugin

Di Vita, Piero (Scognito) <scognito@libero.it>
    * gnome, trium skins
    * new GUI icons
    * skin review part II

Diedrich, Tobias (ranma, ranmachan) <ranma+mplayer@tdiedrich.de>
    * NAS audio output driver
    * DXR2 driver
    * softpulldown video filter
    * ported Donald Graft's kerndeint video filter
    * AVI OpenDML write support

Dietrich, Florian <flodt8@yahoo.de>
    * MinGW networking support

Dobbelaere, Jeroen <jeroen.dobbelaere@acunia.com>
    * original libmad support

Döffinger, Reimar (reimar) <reimar.doeffinger@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
    * GL code fixes
    * various fixes all over the place
    * reworked live changing playback speed
    * made MMS over HTTP stream selection work and modified ASF header parsing
    * reimplemented ao_jack without bio2jack dependency
    * musepack demuxer and decoder, based on Reza's patch
    * speex decoder via libspeex
    * MPEG-2 in GXF demuxer
    * vo_gl ported to windows
    * gl_commmon.[ch] to decrease code duplication
    * OpenGL support for OSD, panscan, YUV->RGB conversion, texture buffers,
      custom fragment programs and more

Dolbeau, Romain <romain@dolbeau.org>
    * random AltiVec (PowerPC multimedia extensions) stuff
    * vo_quartz YUV support & fixes
    * endianness fixes

Dönmez, İsmail (cartman) <ismail@pardus.org.tr>
    * compile fix for mga_vid to compile with Linux 2.5/2.6 kernels
    * small fixes all around

Edele, Robert (yartrebo) <yartrebo@earthlink.net>
    * remove_logo filter

Egger, Christoph <christoph_egger@gmx.de>
    * vo_ggi updates

Elsinghorst, Paul Wilhelm <paul@uni-bonn.de>
    * GUI: remote ESD support including software mixer

Ernesti, Bernd <mplayer@lists.veego.de>
    * NetBSD support patches

Falco, Salvatore <sfalco@studenti.ing.uniroma1.it>
    * jacosub parsing & dump support
    * overlapping subtitles & sub sorting support
    * SAMI subtitles dump support

Feigl, Johannes (jaf) <johannes.feigl@aon.at>
    * original German docs translation (outdated)
    * some improvements in configure, small patches
    * found somebody (Thilo Wunderlich) who sent a DVB card

Felker, D Richard III (dalias) <dalias@aerifal.cx>
    * lots of work on inverse telecine including initial support
    * improved MEncoder (getting rid of DivX4 dependency, seeking, ...)
    * antialiased DVD subtitles
    * misc bug fixes and improvements, esp. in video filter/output system
    * tech docs on encoding
    * eq, halfpack, dint, detc, field, decimate, dsize, ilpack, ivtc,
      tfields, pullup video filters

Ferguson, Tim <timf@mail.csse.monash.edu.au>
    * open source Cinepak decoder
    * open source CYUV decoder

Finlayson, Ross <finlayson@live555.com>
    * LIVE555 Streaming Media library author
    * RTP/RTSP streaming support

Forghieri, Daniele (xdanny) <guru@digitalfantasy.it>
    * TGA output driver
    * framestep & tile video filters
    * initial Italian man page translation
    * fixes and improvements to lavc audio encoding

Foth, Kilian A. <foth@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
    * slave mode

Franz, Fabian (Fabianx) <mplayer@fabian-franz.de>
    * help with the libmpeg2 0.3.0 update
    * playlist improvements
    * KDE screensaver support
    * mini skin

Gansser, Martin <mgansser@ngi.de>
    * HP-UX port

Gereöffy, Árpád (A'rpi/ESP-team) <arpi@thot.banki.hu>
    * project founder, first project maintainer
    * 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, bug fix in mga driver...
    * triple buffering & YUY2 support (for DivX/MPEG-4) into mga_vid driver
    * OSD & subtitle 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

Giani, Matteo <matgiani@ctonet.it>
    * PVA demuxer

Giaquinta, Emanuele (exg) <emanuele.giaquinta@gmail.com>
    * Darwin/ppc fixes
    * libfaad2 update

Goethel, Sven <sgoethel@jausoft.com>
    * vo_gl2 video output driver
    * PVR Channel Navigation

Gomez Garcia, German <german@piraos.com>
    * SPDIF AC3 output for SBLive!

Gottwald, Alexander <Alexander.Gottwald@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
    * various small bug fixes

Graffam, Michael <mgraffam@idsi.net>
    * XF86VidMode support to vo_x11 and vo_dga
    * video mode switching code to vo_dga

Gritsenko, Andriy N. (AG_LS) <andrej@lucky.net>
    * drop-deinterlace (dint) video filter
    * muxer layer, and new MPEG-PS muxer

Guyomarch, Rémi (rguyom) <rguyom@pobox.com>
    * various fixes
    * unsharp video filter
    * Xvid encoding support

Hall, Julian <jules@meridiandigital.co.uk>
    * black frame detection filter (vf_blackframe)

Hammelmann, Jürgen <juergen.hammelmann@gmx.de>
    * TOOLS/mencvcd author

Hertel, Christopher R. <crh@ubiqx.mn.org>
    * md5sum code used by vo_md5sum. part of uCIFS library.

Hess, Andreas <jaska@gmx.net>
    * upgrading libdvdcss in libmpdvdkit2
    * various small bug fixes

Hickey, Corey <bugfood-ml@fatooh.org>
    * telecine/interlacing HOWTO for the MEncoder documentation
    * advanced audio usage guide for the MPlayer documentation
    * muxer frame buffer for MEncoder

Hidvégi, Zoltán (Zoli) <mplayer@hzoli.com>
    * filmdint video filter

Hoffmann, Jens <hoffmajs@gmx.de>
    * additional YUV formats support
    * found the big BITMAPINFOHEADER problem -> solved ASV2 pixelization

Hoffman, Marc <mmh@pleasantst.com>
    * AltiVec, color space converter
    * Blackfin, DSP optimizations

Holm, David (dholm, mswitch) <dholm@telia.com>
    * DXR3 support

Horst, Bohdan (Nexus) <nexus@irc.pl>
    * FreeBSD support

Hoyos, Carl Eugen (cehoyos) <cehoyos@ag.or.at>
    * improvements to LIVE555 demuxer

Huehner, Stefan (huehner) <stefan@huehner.org>
    * Major code cleanup patches

Hug, Hampa <hhug@student.ethz.ch>
    * LUT-based soft eq video filter (vf_eq2)
    * .ogm demuxer endianness fixes

Hůrka, Tomáš <tom@hukatronic.cz>
    * Darwin DVD support (mpdvdkit2)
    * various fixes

Hysseo, Jehan <hysseo@zemarmot.net>
    * af_add, af_switch, af_del, af_clr commands.

Isani, Sidik <lksi@cfht.hawaii.edu>
    * get_delay() smoothing code (-autosync)
    * RTC initialization fixes
    * various small fixes

Issaris, Panagiotis (takis) <takis@lumumba.luc.ac.be>
    * -playlist option
    * NuppelVideo support
    * various fixes

Jacobs, Aurelien <aurel@gnuage.org>
    * standalone C Matroska demuxer
    * DTS support

Jelveh, Reza (timebomb) <reza.jelveh@tu-harburg.de>
    * NSV demuxer
    * seeking in Real files without index
    * savage_vid VIDIX driver
    * miscellaneous small fixes and improvements
    * first musepack decoding patch
    * swscale AltiVec fixes

Jermann, Jonas (g0th) <jjermann@gmx.net>
    * manual page rewrite
    * documentation

Johansson, Anders <ajh@atri.curtin.edu.au>
    * old audio plugin system, some effect plugins
    * new libaf interface design, implementation, plugins

Kain, Nicholas <njk@aerifal.cx>
    * strl(cpy|cat) detection and conversion
    * string handling cleanups

Kalinski, Filip (filon) <filon@pld.org.pl>
    * X11 fulscreen switching fixes/cleanup

Иван Кълвачев [Ivan Kalvachev] (iive) <iive@yahoo.com>
    * interlaced MPEG-2 support (libmpeg2)
    * configfile parser fixes
    * SRT subtitle dump support
    * vo_svga rewrite
    * various fixes and small improvements
    * XvMC support (MPlayer & FFmpeg)

Kaniewski, Wojtek <wojtekka@bydg.pdi.net>
    * mouse wheel support
    * made the FreeType + RAW font support work together

Kaplan, Kim Minh <kmkaplan@selfoffice.com>
    * DVD and VOBsub subtitles display support
    * DVD subtitles rip to VOBsub

Kärkkäinen, Samuli <skarkkai@woods.iki.fi>
    * first DVD ripping guide

Keil, Jürgen <jk@tools.de>
    * patched MPlayer to work on Solaris 8 x86
    * various fixes (Win32, configure, etc)
    * sun audio output driver in libao2
    * mediaLib support in libavcodec
    * esd audio output driver in libao2

Kesterson, Robert <robertk@robertk.com>
    * yuv4mpeg video output driver

Kinali, Attila (KotH) <attila@kinali.ch>
    * various small fixes in the X11 code
    * xinerama support
    * documentation
    * patch application monkey, mailer daemon

Kovriga, Gregory <gkovriga@techunix.technion.ac.il>
    * GUI drag & drop support
    * GUI DVD fixes
    * various small bug fixes in ASX/URL parser

Kühling, David <dvdkhlng@gmx.de>
    * libtheora support, Ogg/Theora demuxing changes

Küçük, Onur <onur@delipenguen.net>
    * GTK2 port of the GUI
    * Fix compilation in locales like TR, AZ etc.

Kuivinen, Fredrik (ksorim) <freku045@student.liu.se>
    * OSD/subtitles outside a movie for SDL
    * video filter layer draft, first implementation
    * VirtualDub filter support (not yet finished/committed)

Kurshev, Nick <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
    * first Russian documentation translation (outdated)
    * radeon_vid, rage128_vid, radeonfb
    * vesa video output driver
    * VIDIX and libdha design, programming, Rage128/Radeon VIDIX drivers

Kuschak, Brian <bkuschak@yahoo.com>
    * RTP streaming support (reading)

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

Lambley, Dave <mplayer@davel.me.uk>
    * HTTP cookie support

László, Gyula (Chass, Tégla) <chass-@freemail.hu>
    * first fonts (mp_font1.zip)
    * third and fourth homepage design & gfx

Le Gaillart, Nicolas <n@tourmentine.com>
    * French documentation translation
    * documentation updates and fixes
    * 2nd half of the documentation HTML --> XML conversion

Lénárt, Gábor (LGB) <lgb@lgb.hu>
    * configure script improvements
    * Makefile improvements
    * preliminary DVD support (libcss)
    * various X11 cleanups and fixes
    * HTMLization of the documentation

Leroy, Colin <colin@colino.net>
    * GUI endianness fixes
    * volume control with -ao sdl
    * -ovc lavc endianness fixes
    * -ao pcm endianness fixes
    * libdha on PowerPC Linux
    * mach64 VIDIX driver endianness fixes

Lewis, Derek (delewis) <dlewis@solnetworks.net>
    * AIX port
    * Solaris-related configure fixes

Liljeblad, Oskar <oskar@osk.mine.nu>
    * various OSD related patches

Lin, Sam <itrs@softwell.com.tw>
    * -wid (plugger) patch

Littler, Ben (compn) <patriotact@gmail.com>
    * #mplayer user wrangler (2003+)
    * minor samples/bugs/win32 finder/tester
    * small docs patches

Lombard, Pierre (pl) <p_l@gmx.fr>
    * new configure script
    * general code maintaining, fixes, patch committing

Madick, Puk <pingy@swirvemail.com>
    * KDE/GNOME2 fullscreen fix
    * configparser fixes

Makovička, Jindřich (henry, x0rph) <makovick@gmail.com>
    * various bug fixes
    * rewrote v4l video capturing, implemented audio capturing layer
    * FreeType 2 font rendering support

Marek, Rudolf <MAREKR2@cs.felk.cvut.cz>
    * gtf code for -vo vesa
    * NeoMagic TV out support through VESA VBE

Megyer, László (Lez, Laaz) <laszlo.megyer@gmail.com>
    * subtitle reader
    * screensaver + DPMS disable for libvo

Melanson, Mike (tmmm) <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 reimplementation

von Merkatz, Arwed <v.merkatz@gmx.net>
    * fontconfig font lookup support

Merritt, Loren (pengvado) <lorenm@u.washington.edu>
    * x264 encoding support
    * x264 documentation
    * some libavcodec documentation

Mierzejewski, Dominik (Rathann) <dominik@rangers.eu.org>
    * compiler warning fixes
    * official Red Hat RPM packages
    * Polish documentation translation

Milushev, Mihail <lanzz@lanzz.org>
    * GIMP font generator plugin (TOOLS/subfont-gimp)

Mistry, Nehal (Nehal) <nehalmistry@gmx.net>
    * various audio driver fixes

Mohari, András <mayday@varoshaza.nagyatad.hu>
    * skin documentation
    * various docs updates and fixes
    * 1st half of the documentation HTML --> XML conversion

Mueller, Steven <diffusor@ugcs.caltech.edu>
    * first implementation of live changing playback speed

Murrell, Brian J. <brian@interlinx.bc.ca>
    * black frame detection filter (vf_blackframe)

Neundorf, Alexander <neundorf@kde.org>
    * raw DV demuxer
    * demuxer packet refcounting

Niedermayer, Michael (michaelni) <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, DivX decoder speedup
    * runtime CPU detection
    * liba52 SSE optimization
    * various encoder/decoder fixes, improvements in libavcodec, DR support
    * lrintf() bugs
    * many bug fixes
    * patch review
    * boxblur, fil, hue, il, noise, perspective, qp, rgbtest, sab, smartblur,
      spp, swapuv, test video filters

Noring, Fredrik <noring@nocrew.org>
    * -vo DGA fixes

Ohm, Christian <chr.ohm@gmx.net>
    * various small bug fixes

Ötvös, Attila <oattila@chello.hu>
    * A huge pile of printf to mp_msg patches
    * Various patches for Teletext

Parrish, Joey <joey@nicewarrior.org>
    * various fixes
    * -vo gif89a author
    * GIF demuxer author
    * Windows support improvements
    * Cygwin installer package

Petrov, Georgi (gogothebee) <gogothebee@gmail.com>
    * Direct3D VO driver

Pietrzak, Dariusz (Eyck) <eyck@ghost.anime.pl>
    * Debian packaging support (see debian/* and the documentation)
    * support for vplayer subtitle format
    * preliminary support for .RT subtitle format

Plourde, Nicolas <nicolas.plourde@gmail.com>
    * quartz video output driver for Mac OS X
    * CoreVideo video output driver for Mac OS X
    * Darwin VCD/SVCD support

Poettering, Lennart <mzzcynlre@0pointer.de>
    * audio driver for the PulseAudio sound server

Poirier, Guillaume (poirierg) <poirierg@gmail.com>
    * French documentation translation and synchronization
    * Xvid documentation
    * libavcodec turbo mode
    * lots of updates of MEncoder's documentation
    * code fixes to support GCC-4.0
    * patch review

Ponekker, Zoltán (Pontscho/fresh!mindworkz) <pontscho@makacs.poliod.hu>
    * the original configure script and Makefiles for easy compilation
    * GUI system
    * 3DNow! support into mp3lib and fastmemcpy.h
    * various X11 driver changes, fixes (keyboard handling, fullscreen,
      bpp detect, etc)
    * xmga video output driver
    * audio mixer (volume) support

van Poorten, Ivo (ivop) <ivop@euronet.nl>
    * multiple directory support for vo_jpeg
    * vo_jpeg suboptions parser
    * vo_pnm video output driver
    * vo_md5sum video output driver
    * af_ladspa LADSPA plugin loader
    * vf_blackframe cleanup and simplification

Ran, Lu <hephooey@fastmail.fm>
    * Chinese documentation translation
    * various VOBsub related patches
    * improved seeking in RealMedia format

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