diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index e694d565..8504f465 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -6031,7 +6031,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   Oliver Endriss for reporting this).
 - Improved efficiency of cEIT::cEIT() (thanks to Tobias Bratfisch).
 
-2009-04-13: Version 1.7.6
+2009-04-18: Version 1.7.6
 
 - cDevice::PlayTs() now syncs on the TS packet sync bytes.
 - Made MAXFRAMESIZE a multiple of TS_SIZE to avoid breaking up TS packets.
@@ -6041,3 +6041,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   (thanks to Helmut Auer).
 - Added cThread::SetIOPriority() and using it in cRemoveDeletedRecordingsThread
   (thanks to Rolf Ahrenberg).
+- Fixed the MEGABYTE() macro to make it correctly handle parameters resulting in
+  values larger than 2GB.
diff --git a/tools.h b/tools.h
index e660967b..22b7e99b 100644
--- a/tools.h
+++ b/tools.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: tools.h 2.1 2008/05/22 10:26:57 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: tools.h 2.2 2009/04/14 20:41:39 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __TOOLS_H
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ extern int SysLogLevel;
 #define SECSINDAY  86400
 
 #define KILOBYTE(n) ((n) * 1024)
-#define MEGABYTE(n) ((n) * 1024 * 1024)
+#define MEGABYTE(n) ((n) * 1024LL * 1024LL)
 
 #define MALLOC(type, size)  (type *)malloc(sizeof(type) * (size))