diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index e489cfca..564430e7 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2619,6 +2619,7 @@ J
  for adding IsUpdate() to the EPG handler interface
  for adding Begin/EndSegmentTransfer() to the EPG handler interface
  for making cEpgHandlers::BeginSegmentTransfer() boolean
+ for suggesting to change tEventID back to u_int32_t
 
 Peter Pinnau <vdr@unterbrecher.de>
  for reporting that 'uint32_t' requires including stdint.h in font.h on some systems
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 6af603f5..c72cc530 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -8925,10 +8925,15 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Now stopping any ongoing recordings before stopping the plugins, to avoid
   a crash when stopping VDR while recording.
 
-2017-03-31: Version 2.3.4
+2017-04-01: Version 2.3.4
 
 - The functionality of HandleRemoteModifications(), which synchronizes changes to
   timers between peer VDR machines, has been moved to timers.[ch] and renamed to
   HandleRemoteTimerModifications(). It now also handles deleting remote timers.
 - The function cEpgHandlers::BeginSegmentTransfer() is now boolean (thanks to
   Jörg Wendel). See the description in epg.h for the meaning of the return value.
+- Changed tEventID back to u_int32_t (suggested by Jörg Wendel). The change to
+  u_int16_t in version 2.3.1 was ill-conceived, because the description of the
+  "event id" in vdr.5 explicitly mentioned this parameter to be 32 bit in size!
+  The members of cEvent have been slightly rearranged to minimize the memory
+  requirements on both 32 and 64 bit systems.
diff --git a/epg.h b/epg.h
index 024aac24..afadb82c 100644
--- a/epg.h
+++ b/epg.h
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
  * Original version (as used in VDR before 1.3.0) written by
  * Robert Schneider <Robert.Schneider@web.de> and Rolf Hakenes <hakenes@hippomi.de>.
  *
- * $Id: epg.h 4.2 2017/03/31 15:24:35 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: epg.h 4.3 2017/04/01 12:27:28 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __EPG_H
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ public:
 
 class cSchedule;
 
-typedef u_int16_t tEventID;
+typedef u_int32_t tEventID;
 
 class cEvent : public cListObject {
   friend class cSchedule;
@@ -84,9 +84,9 @@ private:
   char *shortText;         // Short description of this event (typically the episode name in case of a series)
   char *description;       // Description of this event
   cComponents *components; // The stream components of this event
-  uchar contents[MaxEventContents]; // Contents of this event
   time_t startTime;        // Start time of this event
   int duration;            // Duration of this event in seconds
+  uchar contents[MaxEventContents]; // Contents of this event
   time_t vps;              // Video Programming Service timestamp (VPS, aka "Programme Identification Label", PIL)
   time_t seen;             // When this event was last seen in the data stream
 public: