diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 257cec3f..8c8dc59a 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -978,6 +978,7 @@ Peter Bieringer <pb@bieringer.de>
  for reporting a leftover 'summary.vdr' in vdr.5
  for adding more error messages and line numbers when reading EPG data and info.vdr
  for fixing handling "more than 3 byte" key sequences in cKbdRemote::ReadKeySequence()
+ for suggesting to ignore lines tagged with '#' in the 'info.vdr' file of a recording
 
 Alexander Damhuis <ad@phonedation.de>
  for reporting problems when deleting a timer that is currently recording
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 1cf05622..4c804eef 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4404,3 +4404,6 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Fixed setting events to timers in case a non-VPS event has expired.
 - There is now a log message "timer ... set to event ..." when defining a timer
   from the EPG menu.
+- Lines tagged with '#' in the 'info.vdr' file of a recording are now silently
+  ignored when reading that file (suggested by Peter Bieringer). Such lines can
+  be used by external tools to store arbitrary information.
diff --git a/recording.c b/recording.c
index d6f30879..b8db2647 100644
--- a/recording.c
+++ b/recording.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: recording.c 1.139 2006/02/25 17:05:48 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: recording.c 1.140 2006/02/26 11:59:59 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "recording.h"
@@ -356,6 +356,7 @@ bool cRecordingInfo::Read(FILE *f)
              case '@': free(aux);
                        aux = strdup(t);
                        break;
+             case '#': break; // comments are ignored
              default: if (!ownEvent->Parse(s)) {
                          esyslog("ERROR: EPG data problem in line %d", line);
                          return false;
diff --git a/vdr.5 b/vdr.5
index 1be01671..7eed461d 100644
--- a/vdr.5
+++ b/vdr.5
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 .\" License as specified in the file COPYING that comes with the
 .\" vdr distribution.
 .\"
-.\" $Id: vdr.5 1.52 2006/02/25 12:39:23 kls Exp $
+.\" $Id: vdr.5 1.53 2006/02/26 12:01:21 kls Exp $
 .\"
 .TH vdr 5 "19 Feb 2006" "1.3.43" "Video Disk Recorder Files"
 .SH NAME
@@ -567,6 +567,8 @@ timer (if given) is copied into this file, using the '@' tag.
 This is a plain ASCII file and contains tagged lines like the \fBEPG DATA\fR
 file (see the description of the \fIepg.data\fR file). Note that the lowercase
 tags ('c' and 'e') will not appear in an \fIinfo.vdr\fR file.
+Lines tagged with '#' are ignored and can be used by external tools to
+store arbitrary information.
 .SS RESUME
 The file \fIresume.vdr\fR (if present in a recording directory) contains
 the position within the recording where the last replay session left off.