diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 86ab7dd7..2315e54d 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -640,6 +640,8 @@ Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>
  for reporting a problem in extracting APIVERSION with older versions of 'sed'
  for fixing broken APIVERSION extraction line in 'newplugin'
  for making VDR no longer stop removing empty directories if an error occurs
+ for reporting a bug in handling relative volume settings that unmute the audio in
+ the call to cStatus::MsgSetVolume()
 
 Reinhard Walter Buchner <rw.buchner@freenet.de>
  for adding some satellites to 'sources.conf'
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 337adaf5..9fcbe450 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4896,7 +4896,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   detatching receivers. This change has caused some unwanted behavior, so further
   testing is necessary.
 
-2006-09-02: Version 1.4.2-1
+2006-09-03: Version 1.4.2-1
 
 - Added LC_ALL to the checks for UTF-8 at startup (suggested by Matthias Schwarzott).
 - Fixed the cTimer::operator=() so that it won't mess up the cListObject's pointers
@@ -4905,3 +4905,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   (reported by Alexander Rieger).
 - Fixed processing the PDCDescriptor in 'libsi' on big endian systems (thanks to
   Martin Ostermann).
+- Fixed handling relative volume settings that unmute the audio in the call to
+  cStatus::MsgSetVolume() (reported by Oliver Endriss).
diff --git a/device.c b/device.c
index c17cb0b5..0fb4fc75 100644
--- a/device.c
+++ b/device.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: device.c 1.136 2006/08/26 14:11:03 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: device.c 1.137 2006/09/03 10:13:25 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "device.h"
@@ -779,6 +779,7 @@ void cDevice::SetVolume(int Volume, bool Absolute)
   int OldVolume = volume;
   volume = min(max(Absolute ? Volume : volume + Volume, 0), MAXVOLUME);
   SetVolumeDevice(volume);
+  Absolute |= mute;
   cStatus::MsgSetVolume(Absolute ? volume : volume - OldVolume, Absolute);
   if (volume > 0) {
      mute = false;