diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 566fb374..b1714dd4 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -749,3 +749,7 @@ Kenneth Aafl
 Ernst Fürst <ernstfuerst@swissonline.ch>
  for reporting a crash in case a VFAT file system is used without compiling VDR
  with VFAT=1
+
+Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@gmx.de>
+ for reporting a name clash because of function crc32() in libdtv/libsi/si_parser.c
+ when using other libraries that also implement a function by that name
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index c577da52..68bc5af9 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -2295,3 +2295,6 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   In order to do this, the cDevice was given a new member function GetVideoSystem().
 - Fixed two warnings when compiling with gcc 3.3.1 (thanks to Alfred Zastrow for
   reporting this).
+- Made crc32() a static function in libdtv/libsi/si_parser.c to avoid a name clash
+  when using other libraries that also implement a function by that name (thanks
+  to Reinhard Nissl for reporting this one).
diff --git a/libdtv/libsi/include/libsi.h b/libdtv/libsi/include/libsi.h
index fca96ba7..b4dad887 100644
--- a/libdtv/libsi/include/libsi.h
+++ b/libdtv/libsi/include/libsi.h
@@ -1226,7 +1226,6 @@ void siParseDescriptors (struct LIST *, u_char *, int, u_char);
 void siParseDescriptor (struct LIST *, u_char *);
 char *siGetDescriptorText (u_char *, int);
 char *siGetDescriptorName (u_char *, int);
-u_long crc32 (char *data, int len);
 
 /* si_debug_services.c */
 
diff --git a/libdtv/libsi/si_parser.c b/libdtv/libsi/si_parser.c
index e69718db..896c5ab9 100644
--- a/libdtv/libsi/si_parser.c
+++ b/libdtv/libsi/si_parser.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 #include "libsi.h"
 #include "si_tables.h"
 
-
+static u_long crc32 (char *data, int len);
 
 struct LIST *siParsePAT (u_char *Buffer) 
 {
@@ -1323,7 +1323,7 @@ static u_long crc_table[256] = {
 	0x933eb0bb, 0x97ffad0c, 0xafb010b1, 0xab710d06, 0xa6322bdf, 0xa2f33668,
 	0xbcb4666d, 0xb8757bda, 0xb5365d03, 0xb1f740b4};
 
-u_long crc32 (char *data, int len)
+static u_long crc32 (char *data, int len)
 {
 	register int i;
 	u_long crc = 0xffffffff;