diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 48c95d8b..c1977138 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1554,6 +1554,7 @@ Nicolas Huillard <nhuillard@e-dition.fr>
 
 Patrick Fischer <patrick_fischer@gmx.de>
  for reporting an error in the cFilter example in PLUGINS.html
+ for making the static cControl functions thread safe
 
 Ralf Müller <ralf@bj-ig.de>
  for a patch that was used to implement cUnbufferedFile
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index b96f9b93..6b9e43fb 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4057,3 +4057,4 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   Jürgen Schneider).
 - Removed unused variables in skinclassic.c and skinsttng.c (thanks to Marco
   Schlüßler).
+- Made the static cControl functions thread safe (thanks to Patrick Fischer).
diff --git a/player.c b/player.c
index 80e384fa..74b19362 100644
--- a/player.c
+++ b/player.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: player.c 1.9 2004/12/12 11:21:07 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: player.c 1.10 2006/01/01 14:45:36 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "player.h"
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ void cPlayer::Detach(void)
 // --- cControl --------------------------------------------------------------
 
 cControl *cControl::control = NULL;
+cMutex cControl::mutex;
 
 cControl::cControl(cPlayer *Player, bool Hidden)
 {
@@ -56,17 +57,20 @@ cControl::~cControl()
 
 cControl *cControl::Control(void)
 {
+  cMutexLock MutexLock(&mutex);
   return (control && !control->hidden) ? control : NULL;
 }
 
 void cControl::Launch(cControl *Control)
 {
+  cMutexLock MutexLock(&mutex);
   delete control;
   control = Control;
 }
 
 void cControl::Attach(void)
 {
+  cMutexLock MutexLock(&mutex);
   if (control && !control->attached && control->player && !control->player->IsAttached()) {
      if (cDevice::PrimaryDevice()->AttachPlayer(control->player))
         control->attached = true;
@@ -79,6 +83,7 @@ void cControl::Attach(void)
 
 void cControl::Shutdown(void)
 {
+  cMutexLock MutexLock(&mutex);
   cControl *c = control; // avoids recursions
   control = NULL;
   delete c;
diff --git a/player.h b/player.h
index 4316a753..8134d117 100644
--- a/player.h
+++ b/player.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: player.h 1.17 2005/05/22 11:07:42 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: player.h 1.18 2006/01/01 14:43:10 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __PLAYER_H
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ public:
 class cControl : public cOsdObject {
 private:
   static cControl *control;
+  static cMutex mutex;
   bool attached;
   bool hidden;
 protected: