diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 9e354519..fc714ed8 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2684,3 +2684,6 @@ Juergen Lock <vdr-l@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
 Sergiu Dotenco <sergiu.dotenco@googlemail.com>
  for reporting a missing initialization in sDvbSpuRect
  for replacing "%lld" and "%llX" print format specifiers with "PRId64" and "PRIX64"
+
+Mika Laitio <lamikr@pilppa.org>
+ for reporting a case where cRecordingInfo::Read(FILE *f) was called with a NULL pointer
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 7d5b6933..88f2f3a8 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -6594,3 +6594,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   (thanks to Reinhard Nissl).
 - Fixed a buffer overflow in cFont::Bidi() (thanks to Reinhard Nissl).
 - Added HD stream content identifiers to vdr.5 (thanks to Christoph Haubrich).
+- Made cRecordingInfo::Read(FILE *f) private to avoid calls to it from outside
+  cRecordingInfo or cRecording (reported by Mika Laitio).
diff --git a/recording.h b/recording.h
index 459c1ca0..3410ae23 100644
--- a/recording.h
+++ b/recording.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: recording.h 2.17 2011/03/20 10:33:30 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: recording.h 2.18 2011/04/03 11:14:37 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __RECORDING_H
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@ private:
   int lifetime;
   char *fileName;
   cRecordingInfo(const cChannel *Channel = NULL, const cEvent *Event = NULL);
+  bool Read(FILE *f);
   void SetData(const char *Title, const char *ShortText, const char *Description);
   void SetAux(const char *Aux);
 public:
@@ -72,7 +73,6 @@ public:
   const char *Aux(void) const { return aux; }
   double FramesPerSecond(void) const { return framesPerSecond; }
   void SetFramesPerSecond(double FramesPerSecond);
-  bool Read(FILE *f);
   bool Write(FILE *f, const char *Prefix = "") const;
   bool Read(void);
   bool Write(void) const;