diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 322773ab..12e4c299 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1113,6 +1113,7 @@ Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@gmx.de>
  for implementing cDevice::ForceTransferMode()
  for changing the behaviour when hitting the end of a recording in fast forward mode
  for suggesting to give the cRemote::CallPlugin() function a boolean return value
+ for fixing a possible crash in remux.c on 64-bit machines
 
 Richard Robson <richard_robson@beeb.net>
  for reporting freezing replay if a timer starts while in Transfer Mode from the
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 03c87d82..b4ac55e3 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4995,3 +4995,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   If your version of 'wget' doesn't support the -U option to set the user agent,
   use the new option -U of getskyepg.pl to have the information added to the URL
   as a query string.
+- Fixed a possible crash in remux.c on 64-bit machines (thanks to Reinhard Nissl).
diff --git a/remux.c b/remux.c
index 7f2c79d4..da805b76 100644
--- a/remux.c
+++ b/remux.c
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
  * The cRepacker family's code was originally written by Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@gmx.de>,
  * and adapted to the VDR coding style by Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de.
  *
- * $Id: remux.c 1.56 2006/04/17 11:00:00 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: remux.c 1.57 2006/12/01 14:46:25 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "remux.h"
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ bool cVideoRepacker::ScanDataForStartCodeFast(const uchar *&Data, const uchar *L
         }
 
   Data = Limit;
-  unsigned long *Scanner = (unsigned long *)(Data - 3);
+  uint32_t *Scanner = (uint32_t *)(Data - 3);
   scanner = ntohl(*Scanner);
   return false;
 }
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ bool cVideoRepacker::ScanForEndOfPictureFast(const uchar *&Data, const uchar *Li
         }
 
   Data = Limit + 1;
-  unsigned long *LocalScanner = (unsigned long *)(Data - 4);
+  uint32_t *LocalScanner = (uint32_t *)(Data - 4);
   localScanner = ntohl(*LocalScanner);
   return false;
 }