diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 57af7677..e6effd04 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -890,6 +890,8 @@ Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@gmx.de>
  for reporting a a crash in the time search mechanism
  for taking the complete size of available data into account when deciding whether
  to clear the transfer buffer to avoid overflows
+ for reporting a high CPU load in still picture mode after removing the usleep()
+ call from cDvbPlayer::Action()
 
 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 ae3a5562..325a9af5 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -3160,10 +3160,12 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   right day of week for timers in the future.
 - Some improvements to cPoller (thanks to Marco Schlüßler).
 
-2004-11-26: Version 1.3.18
+2004-11-27: Version 1.3.18
 
 - Removed an unused variable from cTimer::GetWDayFromMDay() (thanks to Wayne Keer
   for reporting this one).
 - Some more changes to the 'childTid' handling in cThread (based on suggestions by
   Stefan Huelswitt).
 - Fixed the spelling of 'canceling' (thanks to Wayne Keer for reporting this one).
+- Re-introduced a sleep to cDvbPlayer::Action() to avoid high CPU load in still
+  picture mode (thanks to Reinhard Nissl for reporting this one).
diff --git a/dvbplayer.c b/dvbplayer.c
index d583fe6b..99a9aad9 100644
--- a/dvbplayer.c
+++ b/dvbplayer.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: dvbplayer.c 1.26 2004/10/23 12:39:35 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: dvbplayer.c 1.27 2004/11/27 10:07:05 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "dvbplayer.h"
@@ -490,6 +490,8 @@ void cDvbPlayer::Action(void)
                     break;
                     }
                  }
+              else
+                 cCondWait::SleepMs(1); // this keeps the CPU load low
               }
 
            // Store the frame in the buffer: