diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index b3f46dc3..298f5ad1 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1582,3 +1582,7 @@ Bob Withers <bwit@pobox.com>
 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
  for reporting a security hole in the way the SVDRP command GRAB writes the
  image file
+
+Jürgen Schneider <ivory7@gmx.de>
+ for a patch that was used as a base to fix handling multi byte key sequences
+ in cKbdRemote
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index fad83097..4cc41bf6 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4053,3 +4053,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   (suggested by Andreas Brugger).
 - The DVB devices now retune (and, if applicable, resend the DiSEqC data) if
   the lock is lost (based on a patch from Reinhard Nissl).
+- Fixed handling multi byte key sequences in cKbdRemote (based on a patch from
+  Jürgen Schneider).
diff --git a/remote.c b/remote.c
index a5f8ff94..a59ecfe8 100644
--- a/remote.c
+++ b/remote.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: remote.c 1.45 2005/09/03 12:29:48 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: remote.c 1.46 2006/01/01 14:21:07 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "remote.h"
@@ -262,43 +262,72 @@ int cKbdRemote::MapCodeToFunc(uint64 Code)
   return (Code <= 0xFF) ? Code : kfNone;
 }
 
-void cKbdRemote::Action(void)
+int cKbdRemote::ReadKey(void)
 {
   cPoller Poller(STDIN_FILENO);
+  if (Poller.Poll(50)) {
+     uchar ch = 0;
+     int r = safe_read(STDIN_FILENO, &ch, 1);
+     if (r == 1)
+        return ch;
+     if (r < 0)
+        LOG_ERROR_STR("cKbdRemote");
+     }
+  return -1;
+}
+
+uint64 cKbdRemote::ReadKeySequence(void)
+{
+  uint64 k = 0;
+  int key1;
+
+  if ((key1 = ReadKey()) >= 0) {
+     k = key1;
+     if (key1 == 0x1B) {
+         // Start of escape sequence
+         if ((key1 = ReadKey()) >= 0) {
+            k <<= 8;
+            k |= key1 & 0xFF;
+            switch (key1) {
+              case 0x4F: // 3-byte sequence
+                   if ((key1 = ReadKey()) >= 0) {
+                      k <<= 8;
+                      k |= key1 & 0xFF;
+                      }
+                   break;
+              case 0x5B: // 3- or more-byte sequence
+                   if ((key1 = ReadKey()) >= 0) {
+                      k <<= 8;
+                      k |= key1 & 0xFF;
+                      switch (key1) {
+                        case 0x31 ... 0x3F: // more-byte sequence
+                             while (key1 != 0x7E) {
+                                   k <<= 8;
+                                   k |= key1 & 0xFF;
+                                   if ((key1 = ReadKey()) < 0)
+                                      break; // Sequence ends here
+                                   }
+                             break;
+                        }
+                      }
+                   break;
+              }
+            }
+        }
+     }
+  return k;
+}
+
+void cKbdRemote::Action(void)
+{
   while (Running()) {
-        if (Poller.Poll(100)) {
-           uint64 Command = 0;
-           uint i = 0;
-           while (Running() && i < sizeof(Command)) {
-                 uchar ch;
-                 int r = read(STDIN_FILENO, &ch, 1);
-                 if (r == 1) {
-                    Command <<= 8;
-                    Command |= ch;
-                    i++;
-                    }
-                 else if (r == 0) {
-                    // don't know why, but sometimes special keys that start with
-                    // 0x1B ('ESC') cause a short gap between the 0x1B and the rest
-                    // of their codes, so we'll need to wait some 100ms to see if
-                    // there is more coming up - or whether this really is the 'ESC'
-                    // key (if somebody knows how to clean this up, please let me know):
-                    if (Command == 0x1B && Poller.Poll(100))
-                       continue;
-                    if (Command) {
-                       if (rawMode || !Put(Command)) {
-                          int func = MapCodeToFunc(Command);
-                          if (func)
-                             Put(KBDKEY(func));
-                          }
-                       }
-                    break;
-                    }
-                 else {
-                    LOG_ERROR;
-                    break;
-                    }
-                 }
+        uint64 Command = ReadKeySequence();
+        if (Command) {
+           if (rawMode || !Put(Command)) {
+              int func = MapCodeToFunc(Command);
+              if (func)
+                 Put(KBDKEY(func));
+              }
            }
         }
 }
diff --git a/remote.h b/remote.h
index f7917baa..4fd26d8e 100644
--- a/remote.h
+++ b/remote.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: remote.h 1.31 2005/09/03 12:28:42 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: remote.h 1.32 2006/01/01 14:00:50 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __REMOTE_H
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ private:
   static bool rawMode;
   struct termios savedTm;
   virtual void Action(void);
+  int ReadKey(void);
+  uint64 ReadKeySequence(void);
   int MapCodeToFunc(uint64 Code);
 public:
   cKbdRemote(void);