diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 2bc10d7a..1e6852a1 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>
  for suggesting that the "Back" button in replay mode should bring up the "Recordings" menu
  for fixing the watchdog timer if the program hangs in OSD activities
  for his support in keeping the Premiere World channels up to date in 'channels.conf'
+ for fixing converting summary.vdr files that would result in a very long 'short text'
 
 Plamen Ganev <pganev@com-it.net>
  for fixing the frequency offset for Hotbird channels
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 0fe55bd7..a1ca5c26 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -3747,7 +3747,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - The new SVDRP command EDIT can be used to start the editing process of a recording
   (based on the CUTR patch by Harald Milz).
 
-2005-09-09: Version 1.3.32
+2005-09-10: Version 1.3.32
 
 - Added some missing braces in remux.c (thanks to Wayne Keer for reporting this one).
 - Removed unused MAINMENUENTRY from svdrpdemo.c (thanks to Udo Richter for reporting
@@ -3802,3 +3802,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   reporting this one).
 - Fixed defining timers that only differ in the day of week (thanks to Patrick
   Rother for reporting this one).
+- Fixed converting summary.vdr files that would result in a very long 'short text'
+  (thanks to Carsten Koch).
diff --git a/recording.c b/recording.c
index 474c8ad0..3640a8e9 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 1.112 2005/09/03 13:16:57 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: recording.c 1.113 2005/09/10 12:36:48 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "recording.h"
@@ -496,6 +496,20 @@ cRecording::cRecording(const char *FileName)
               data[2] = data[1];
               data[1] = NULL;
               }
+           else if (line == 2) {
+              // if line 1 is too long, it can't be the short text,
+              // so assume the short text is missing and concatenate
+              // line 1 and line 2 to be the long text:
+              int len = strlen(data[1]);
+              if (len > 80) { 
+                 data[1] = (char *)realloc(data[1], len + 1 + strlen(data[2]) + 1);
+                 strcat(data[1], "\n");
+                 strcat(data[1], data[2]);
+                 free(data[2]);
+                 data[2] = data[1];
+                 data[1] = NULL;
+                 }
+              }
            info->SetData(data[0], data[1], data[2]);
            for (int i = 0; i < 3; i ++)
                free(data[i]);
diff --git a/summary2info.pl b/summary2info.pl
index f757ac36..42906774 100755
--- a/summary2info.pl
+++ b/summary2info.pl
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 # See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
 # how to reach the author.
 #
-# $Id: summary2info.pl 1.3 2005/06/04 11:33:09 kls Exp $
+# $Id: summary2info.pl 1.4 2005/09/10 12:40:40 kls Exp $
 
 $VideoDir = $ARGV[0] || die "please provide the name of the video directory\n";
 
@@ -37,6 +37,15 @@ for $SummaryFile (@SummaryFiles) {
        $data[2] = $data[1];
        $data[1] = "";
        }
+    elsif ($line == 2) {
+       # if line 1 is too long, it can't be the short text,
+       # so assume the short text is missing and concatenate
+       # line 1 and line 2 to be the long text:
+       if (length($data[1]) > 80) { 
+          $data[2] = $data[1] . "|" . $data[2];
+          $data[1] = "";
+          }
+       }
     ($InfoFile = $SummaryFile) =~ s/summary\.vdr$/info.vdr/;
     open(F, ">$InfoFile") || die "$InfoFile: $!\n";
     print F "T $data[0]\n" if ($data[0]);