diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index dfa7a356..06e91aa8 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -2287,6 +2287,7 @@ Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>
  for adding DESTDIR and PREFIX handling to the Makefile
  for fixing some compiler warnings with gcc-4.2.0
  for fixing setting the locale file name in i18n-to-gettext.pl
+ for fixing cRecordings::DelByName() to avoid compilation errors with gcc 4.4
 
 Martin Ostermann <martin@familie-ostermann.de>
  for fixing processing the PDCDescriptor in 'libsi' on big endian systems
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 2dd539db..b7f828f2 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -6151,3 +6151,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Fixed generating CaPmts in case audio and video are encrypted using different
   ECM pids.
 - Updated vdr.1 to use the new file names in recording directories.
+- Fixed cRecordings::DelByName() to avoid compilation errors with gcc 4.4
+  (thanks to Matthias Schwarzott).
diff --git a/recording.c b/recording.c
index 2ff7f6fa..f3c2c5ab 100644
--- a/recording.c
+++ b/recording.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: recording.c 2.16 2009/06/13 13:34:08 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: recording.c 2.17 2009/08/16 10:39:43 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "recording.h"
@@ -1156,7 +1156,7 @@ void cRecordings::DelByName(const char *FileName)
   if (recording) {
      cThreadLock DeletedRecordingsLock(&DeletedRecordings);
      Del(recording, false);
-     char *ext = strrchr(recording->FileName(), '.');
+     char *ext = strrchr(recording->fileName, '.');
      if (ext) {
         strncpy(ext, DELEXT, strlen(ext));
         recording->fileSizeMB = DirSizeMB(recording->FileName());