diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index ccd83b16..54c55d57 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2207,6 +2207,8 @@ Marko M
  for reporting a possible call to poll() in cSectionHandler::Action() without any
  filters
  for avoiding the memcpy() call in cGlyph::cGlyph() if the bitmap is empty
+ for avoiding unnecessary processing in cDvbSubtitleConverter::FinishPage() if there
+ are no areas
 
 Patrick Rother <krd-vdr@gulu.net>
  for reporting a bug in defining timers that only differ in the day of week
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 86b83a7a..eccc607e 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -9828,3 +9828,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   (reported by Marko Mäkelä).
 - Now avoiding the memcpy() call in cGlyph::cGlyph() if the bitmap is empty (thanks
   to Marko Mäkelä).
+- Now avoiding unnecessary processing in cDvbSubtitleConverter::FinishPage() if there
+  are no areas (thanks to Marko Mäkelä).
diff --git a/dvbsubtitle.c b/dvbsubtitle.c
index c1dfef4d..d7f9ac93 100644
--- a/dvbsubtitle.c
+++ b/dvbsubtitle.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Original author: Marco Schluessler <marco@lordzodiac.de>
  * With some input from the "subtitles plugin" by Pekka Virtanen <pekka.virtanen@sci.fi>
  *
- * $Id: dvbsubtitle.c 5.1 2021/03/17 15:24:34 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: dvbsubtitle.c 5.2 2022/12/06 16:57:01 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "dvbsubtitle.h"
@@ -1770,11 +1770,13 @@ void cDvbSubtitleConverter::FinishPage(cDvbSubtitlePage *Page)
      return;
   int NumAreas;
   tArea *Areas = Page->GetAreas(NumAreas);
+  if (!Areas)
+     return;
   tArea AreaCombined = Page->CombineAreas(NumAreas, Areas);
   tArea AreaOsd = Page->ScaleArea(AreaCombined, osdFactorX, osdFactorY);
   int Bpp = 8;
   bool Reduced = false;
-  if (osd && NumAreas > 0) {
+  if (osd) {
      while (osd->CanHandleAreas(&AreaOsd, 1) != oeOk) {
            dbgoutput("CanHandleAreas: %d<br>\n", osd->CanHandleAreas(&AreaOsd, 1));
            int HalfBpp = Bpp / 2;