diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index d7034f90..2a5245bd 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -1027,6 +1027,8 @@ Marco Schl
  for fixing handling colors in cDvbSpuPalette::yuv2rgb()
  for fixing setting lnb voltage if the frontend is not DVB-S
  for fixing missing audio after replaying a DVD
+ for pointing out that it is unnecessary to add section filters to the list of
+ filters if they can't be opened
 
 Jürgen Schmitz <j.schmitz@web.de>
  for reporting a bug in displaying the current channel when switching via the SVDRP
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index f516497f..a3af1825 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -2947,3 +2947,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   Alfred Zastrow for reporting this one).
 - Fixed checking the last area for misalignment in cOsd::CanHandleAreas() (thanks
   to Reinhard Nissl for reporting this one).
+- No longer adding section filters to the list of filters if they can't be opened
+  (thanks to Marco Schlüßler for pointing this out).
diff --git a/sections.c b/sections.c
index ead623d0..d3fc2b0d 100644
--- a/sections.c
+++ b/sections.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: sections.c 1.5 2004/02/07 15:51:57 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: sections.c 1.6 2004/07/17 14:17:07 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "sections.h"
@@ -85,11 +85,15 @@ void cSectionHandler::Add(const cFilterData *FilterData)
          break;
       }
   if (!fh) {
-     fh = new cFilterHandle(*FilterData);
-     filterHandles.Add(fh);
-     fh->handle = device->OpenFilter(FilterData->pid, FilterData->tid, FilterData->mask);
+     int handle = device->OpenFilter(FilterData->pid, FilterData->tid, FilterData->mask);
+     if (handle >= 0) {
+        fh = new cFilterHandle(*FilterData);
+        fh->handle = handle;
+        filterHandles.Add(fh);
+        }
      }
-  fh->used++;
+  if (fh)
+     fh->used++;
   Unlock();
 }