diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index a5e3bcc3..088eda68 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1955,6 +1955,7 @@ Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
 
 Nicolas Huillard <nhuillard@e-dition.fr>
  for translating OSD texts to the French language
+ for suggesting to increase MAXOSDHEIGHT to 1200
 
 Patrick Fischer <patrick_fischer@gmx.de>
  for reporting an error in the cFilter example in PLUGINS.html
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 2f2738b0..6c850cf3 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -6087,3 +6087,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   video material that is currently replayed.
 - Fixed the way the OSD size is determined on full featured DVB cards (thanks
   to Oliver Endriss).
+- Increased MAXOSDHEIGHT to 1200 (suggested by Nicolas Huillard).
diff --git a/config.h b/config.h
index 911b9cab..43032559 100644
--- a/config.h
+++ b/config.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: config.h 2.10 2009/05/08 13:28:32 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: config.h 2.11 2009/05/09 10:26:37 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __CONFIG_H
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
 #define MINOSDWIDTH   480
 #define MAXOSDWIDTH  1920
 #define MINOSDHEIGHT  324
-#define MAXOSDHEIGHT 1080
+#define MAXOSDHEIGHT 1200
 
 #define MaxFileName 256
 #define MaxSkinName 16