vdr/CONTRIBUTORS

Tons of suggestions, bugreports, patches and other contributions have been
provided by the people on the 'linux-dvb' and 'vdr' mailing lists
Special thanks go to the following individuals (if your name is missing here,
please send an email to kls@cadsoft.de):

Carsten Koch <Carsten.Koch@icem.de>
 for adding LIRC support
 for making the 'Recordings' menu be listed alphabetically
 for implementing the 'Summary' feature
 for adding the 'epg2timers' tool (see Tools/epg2timers)
 for his idea of using multiple disks (and for testing this feature)
 for implementing the 'new recording' indicator
 for suggesting that the "Back" button in replay mode should bring up the "Recordings" menu
 for fixing the watchdog timer if the program hangs in OSD activities
 for his support in keeping the Premiere World channels up to date in 'channels.conf'
 for fixing converting summary.vdr files that would result in a very long 'short text'
 for his help in testing and debugging reading the list of recordings in a
 separate thread
 for reporting some unnecessary disk access when checking if there are deleted
 recordings that need to be removed

Plamen Ganev <pganev@com-it.net>
 for fixing the frequency offset for Hotbird channels
 for adding the 'xtvrc2vdr' tool (see Tools/xtvrc2vdr)
 for adding the 'dvbrc2vdr' tool (see Tools/dvbrc2vdr)
 for implementing "channel grouping"

Heino Goldenstein <heino.goldenstein@microplex.de>
 for modifying scrolling through lists to make it page up and down

Guido Fiala <gfiala@s.netic.de>
 for implementing slow forward/back
 for implementing the SVDRP command 'HITK'
 for implementing image grabbing
 for implementing overlay capabilities (see his 'kvdr' tool at http://www.s.netic.de/gfiala)
 (overlay capabilities have been removed again in VDR 0.98, since kvdr version 0.4
 now does these things itself)
 for making the replay progress display avoid unnecessary code execution
 for reporting a problem with slow reaction on SVDRP input

Robert Schneider <Robert.Schneider@de.ibm.com>
 for implementing EIT support for displaying the current/next info
 for extending EIT support to implement a complete EPG

Niels de Carpentier <niels@casema.net>
 for adding a workaround for a driver timing problem in cDvbApi::Cmd()

Martin Hammerschmid <martin@hammerschmid.com>
 for suggesting to display the direct channel select input on the OSD
 for suggesting to use the "Blue" button in the main menu to resume replay
 for implementing page up/down with the "Left" and "Right" keys
 for detecting a deadlock when switching channels via Schedule/Now|Next/Switch
 for adding a missing #include to ringbuffer.c
 for adding a missing 'public' keyword in device.h
 for pointing out a bug in displaying the group separators in the channel display
 for reporting a problem with a missing initialization of 'number' in cChannel
 for implementing a "resume ID" which allows several users to each have their own
 resume.vdr files
 for adding a call to cStatus::MsgOsdCurrentItem() to cMenuEditItem::SetValue()

Bastian Guse <bastian@nocopy.de>
 for writing the FORMATS entry for timers.conf

Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de>
 for implementing the 'MarkInstantRecord' setup option
 for his "schnitt" tools
 for his "master-timer" tool
 for helping to debug the "move to last position in list" bug
 for suggesting the SVDRP command CLRE
 for reporting a bug in handling one-shot timers that were already recording
 and had their start time changed into the future
 for suggesting to give the timer status a bit that is set when that timer
 is currently recording
 for suggesting to make the SVDRP command LSTT optionally list the channels
 of the timers with their unique channel ids instead of their numbers
 for suggesting to extend the 'event id' in EPG data to 32 bit, so that external tools
 can generate ids that don't collide with those from the DVB data stream

Miha Setina <mihasetina@softhome.net>
 for translating OSD texts to the Slovenian language

Alberto Carraro <bertocar@tin.it>
 for translating OSD texts to the Italian language

Deti Fliegl <deti@fliegl.de>
 for implementing the 'CurrentChannel' setup parameter
 for fixing setting the OSD size in the 'Confirm' interface call
 for fixing handling improper buffer lengths in the EIT parser

Dave Chapman <dave@dchapman.com>
 for implementing support for the teletext PID
 for his great support in switching to the NAPI
 for implementing DVB-T support

Hans-Peter Raschke <Hans-Peter.Raschke@Wintermann-DatenService.de>
 for his support in adapting VDR to DVB-C
 for adding the 'statdvb2vdr' tool (see Tools/statdvb2vdr)
 for reporting that the CA descriptors need to be sent to the CAM in the 'program'
 or 'ES level' sections to make SkyCrypt CAMs work

Peter Hofmann <software@pxh.de>
 for his support in adapting VDR to DVB-C

Axel Gruber <axel@agm.de>
 for his support in keeping the Premiere World channels up to date in 'channels.conf'
 for helping to debug support for Viaccess CAMs
 for reporting a problem in case none of the devices provides an OSD

Arnold Niessen <niessen@iae.nl> <arnold.niessen@philips.com>
 for translating OSD texts to the Dutch language

J<EFBFBD>rgen Sauer <jojo@automatix.de>
 for implementing the -t option to set the controlling terminal

Benjamin Reichardt <reichard@math.uni-goettingen.de>
 for his help in debugging the transition to the new API

Henning Holtschneider <hh@holtschneider.com>
 for patching 'runvdr' to check whether the driver is already loaded
 for reporting a bug in parsing group separators in channels.conf
 for pointing out a possible hangup when reading a broken epg.data file

Paulo Lopes <pmml@netvita.pt>
 for translating OSD texts to the Portugese language

Markus Lang <pretender@gaze.de> and Ulrich R<>der <dynamite@efr-net.de>
 for making DiSEqC support configurable

Markus Lang <pretender@gaze.de>
 for some initial code for grouping the Setup menu into several sub-menus

Jean-Claude Repetto <jc@repetto.org>
 for translating OSD texts to the French language

Andre Valentin <av2000@topmail.de>
 for increasing the key name buffer size for LIRC

J<EFBFBD>rgen Tvedt <pjtvedt@online.no>
 for translating OSD texts to the Norwegian language

Stefan Huelswitt <huels@iname.com>
 for fixing the repeat function with LIRC
 for making the position of the channel display configurable
 for making the width and height of the OSD configurable
 for implementing the "Jump" function in replay mode
 for implementing "Multi Speed Mode"
 for implementing backtracing for fast forward/rewind
 for implementing the replay mode display
 for fixing a crash when replaying with DEBUG_OSD=1
 for fixing a crash when selecting the "Jump" function directly after setting
 an editing mark
 for reporting a possible endless loop in shifting recordings between DVB cards
 for making it no longer setting PIDs 0x1FFF, which apparently fixes problems
 with CAMs and AC3 sound only working the first time
 for making the main loop take an active video cutting process into account when
 doing shutdown or housekeeping
 for making the cList template class avoid ambiguities in case one defines a "list of
 lists"
 for suggesting to make the cPlugin::Start() function return a boolean value that
 indicates if the plugin will not be able to perform its task
 for suggesting to add the cPlugin::Housekeeping() function
 for suggesting to add 'insert' capabilities to cList
 for suggesting to make 'package' target in the plugin's Makefile produce a package that
 expands to a directory with just the plugin name and version number
 for suggesting to make the config directory available to plugins
 for suggesting to add an error message if the directory specified in the '-L'
 option can't be accessed
 for implementing several replay modes to allow players that play only audio
 for improving cCondVar::Wait() and implementing cCondVar::TimedWait()
 for reporting a bug when entering an integer value outside the limit
 for adding play mode pmAudioOnlyBlack
 for helping to fix starting a recording of the current channel with only one DVB card
 for making cStatus::MsgChannelSwitch() only be called if a channel is actually going to
 be switched or has actually been switched successfully
 for adding a missing StripAudioPackets() to cDvbPlayer::Action()
 for improving skipping channels that are (currently) not available
 for fixing checking the Ca() status of a cDevice
 for helping to fix switching audio tracks in 'Transfer Mode' on the primary DVB device
 for fixing handling 'Transfer Mode' on single device systems when recording an
 encrypted channel
 for reporting a problem with timers when channel IDs have a 'source' that is 0
 for reporting a new/delete malloc/free mismatch in ringbuffer.c
 for reporting a crash in case the index file can't be accessed any more during replay
 for adapting VDR to 'libdtv' version 0.0.5
 for reporting a bug in handling of Ca parameters with values <= MAXDEVICES, which
 don't indicate an actual encrypted channel
 for implementing setting the "broken link" flag for GOPs at the beginning of a new
 video sequence, which avoids artefacts when cutting
 for suggesting to add VDRVERSNUM to config.h
 for fixing a memory leak in cNonBlockingFileReader
 for fixing an uninitialized variable in cDisplayChannel
 for fixing a possible access of invalid file handles in cSIProcessor::Action()
 for fixing extracting the ES data in cDvbDevice::StillPicture()
 for changing thread handling to make it work with NPTL ("Native Posix Thread Library")
 for creating mutexes with PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK_NP, which made the 'lockingTid'
 stuff obsolete
 for suggesting to move the declaration of cMenuText to VDR/menu.h to make it
 available to plugins, and to add a SetText() function
 for reporting a bug in setting the title in the replay display of the "Classic VDR"
 skin in case a shorter title is set after a longer one
 for fixing handling of pmAudioOnlyBlack
 for pointing out possible race conditions in handling childTid in cThread
 for fixing a possible race condition in cDevice::Action() and cTSBuffer::Action()
 for reporting several memory leaks that were introduced through the use of cString
 for adding MPEG1 replay capability to cPesAssembler
 for fixing handling symbolic links in cRecordings::ScanVideoDir()
 for reporting a memory leak in tComponent
 for fixing a memory leak in cDvbPlayer
 for pointing out that recordings with empty episode names were not listed correctly
 in the LSTR command
 for fixing a memory leak in the SVDRP command LSTE
 for reporting a problem with the EPG scan disturbing players that have also set
 live PIDs
 for reporting a problem in SetProgress() of the 'skincurses' plugin in case Total
 is 0
 for fixing canonicalizing the file name in the SVDRP command GRAB to allow full
 path names
 for suggesting that the SVDRP command GRAB should allow file names without extension
 again
 for reporting a problem with channel up/down switching on single card systems
 for fixing the PremiereContentTransmissionDescriptor in 'libsi'
 for reporting a double fdopen() in cPipe::Open()
 for suggesting to increase the APIVERSION to allow plugins that relied on the
 cStatus::MsgSetVolume() bug to react properly

Ulrich R<>der <roeder@efr-net.de>
 for pointing out that there are channels that have a symbol rate higher than 27500
 for his support in keeping the Premiere World channels up to date in 'channels.conf'

Mel Sch<63>chner <schaechner@yahoo.com>
 for his support in keeping the Premiere World channels up to date in 'channels.conf'

Andreas Schultz <aschultz@warp10.net>
 for adding support for replaying DVDs (much of this was derived from
 dvdplayer-0.5 by Matjaz Thaler <matjaz.thaler@guest.arnes.si>)
 for adding PTS to the converted PCM audio when replaying a DVD
 for fixing a crash in case there is no 'epg.data' at program start
 for fixing a bug in the EPG bugfix mechanism if the extended description is shorter
 than 3 characters
 for adding direct access to the index data of cPalette (needed for displaying SPUs)
 for pointing out a possible race condition in the cDvbPlayer
 for making the use of malloc/free and new/delete consistent
 for adding cDevice::NewOsd() to allow a derived cDevice class to implement its own
 OSD capabilities
 for implementing an SPU decoder
 for fixing opening /dev/video in cDvbDevice::GrabImage() in case of NEWSTRUCT driver
 for reporting a problem with plugin Makefiles and the NEWSTRUCT driver
 for pointing out some unnecessary #includes in eit.c and a problem with
 cMenuRecordings::Del(), which caused warnings with gcc-3.2
 for suggesting a Make.config file
 for making EIT filtering use masks to reduce the number of filters
 for suggesting to remove the Mute() call from cDvbDevice::StillPicture()
 for suggesting to separate the startup of a plugin into an "early" and a "late" phase
 for changing C++ style comments in libdtv into C style to avoid warnings in gcc 3.x
 for implementing the TerrestrialDeliverySystemDescriptor in libdtv
 for fixing setting the locking pid after a timed wait
 for changing thread handling to make it work with NPTL ("Native Posix Thread Library")
 for his 'autopid' patch which was helpful when implementing automatic
 channel data gathering

Aaron Holtzman
 for writing 'ac3dec'

Wolfgang Henselmann-Weiss <Wolfgang_Henselmann@betaresearch.de>
 for fixing calculating the timeout value in cFile::FileReady()

Uwe Scheffler <linux_dvb@uni.de>
 for his help in keeping 'channels.conf.cable' and 'channels.conf.terr' up to date
 for helping to test new DVB-T handling
 for reporting a bug in switching the video format in the Setup/DVB menu

Matjaz Thaler <matjaz.thaler@guest.arnes.si>
 for improving AC3 decoding when replaying DVDs
 for translating OSD texts to the Slovenian language

Artur Skawina <skawina@geocities.com>
 for improving the font file generation in the Makefile
 for pointing out a problem with the ERR macro defined by ncurses.h
 for a patch that contained a fix for checking toFile in cCuttingThread::Action()
 for improving cUnbufferedFile
 for fixing calculating the cache size in cUnbufferedFile::Read()
 for making the /video/.update file be touched _after_ an editing process is finished
 in order to avoid excessive disk access

Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
 for making I/O more robust by handling EINTR
 for fixing closing all unused file descriptors when opening a pipe
 for helping to debug leftover 'zombie' processes when closing a pipe
 for making the Dolby Digital thread start only if the recording actually
 contains Dolby Digital data
 for improving thread locking in the ring buffer to avoid possible race conditions
 under heavy load
 for improving keyboard detection
 for adding some missing cAudio handling calls
 for replacing the 'for' loops in StripAudioPackets() with memset() calls
 for modifying handling of audio packets in cDvbPlayer for better sync with external
 AC3 replay
 for changing thread handling to make it work with NPTL ("Native Posix Thread Library")
 for suggesting to replace usleep() calls with a pthread_cond_timedwait() based wait
 for suggesting to add more checks and polling when getting frontend events
 for setting the VPID before the APID in live mode to avoid unnecessary
 overhead in the firmware
 for a patch that was used as a base for implementing a modified PES packet
 handling in order to play AC3 audio over full featured DVB cards
 for pointing out an error in masking SubStreamType in cDevice::PlayPesPacket()
 for pointing out that the "pre 1.3.19" compatibility mode for old Dolby Digital
 recordings can be triggered in the default branch
 for pointing out that pesAssembler->Reset() needs to be called between subsequent
 Transfer Modes
 for suggestions that led to the addition of the 'Id' parameter to cAudio::Play()
 for pointing out that MAXDPIDS needs to be to 16 (8xAC3 + 8xDTS)
 for reporting a problem with ensuring there is a current audio track in case there
 is only one track
 for enabling a device to detach all receivers for a given PID
 for modifying switching to Dolby Digital audio in live mode, if the driver
 and firmware can handle live DD without the need of a Transfer Mode
 for fixing cDvbDevice::SetAudioBypass() in case setTransferModeForDolbyDigital is
 false
 for a patch that was used as a base to fix handling Transfer Mode when replaying
 Dolby Digital audio and the option '-a' was given

Rolf Hakenes <hakenes@hippomi.de>
 for providing 'libdtv' and adapting the EIT mechanisms to it

Andreas Vitting <Andreas@huji.de>
 for providing code that closes all unused file descriptors in the child
 process of a pipe (used in cPipe)

Matthias Weingart <matthias@pentax.boerde.de>
 for fixing handling of the volume, mute and power keys when menus are active
 for fixing the repeat function when using the LIRC remote control

Andreas Share <a.share@t-online.de>
 for his support in keeping the Premiere World channels up to date in 'channels.conf'
 for pointing out that section filters should only be set if the device actually has
 a lock
 for reporting a lockup with the RCU on NPTL systems

Simon Bauschulte <SemiSchwabe@Brutzel.de>
 for his support in keeping the Premiere World channels up to date in 'channels.conf'

Andy Grobb <Charly98@01019freenet.de>
 for completing storing the current audio volume in the setup.conf file
 for fixing the EPG display in case Setup.ShowInfoOnChSwitch is set to "no"
 for reporting a bug in handling min/max borders when entering integer values
 for reporting a problem with replaying in fast forward mode if the video directory
 is mounted via a Samba share
 for suggesting to make menu items that are derived from cMenuEditIntItem loop
 though their values if they have a dedicated minimum or maximum limit

Thomas Heiligenmann <thomas@heiligenmann.de>
 for implementing the SVDRP commands LSTR and DELR
 for adding MPEG1 handling to cDvbDevice::StillPicture()
 for extending the SVDRP command LSTE to allow limiting the listed data to a given
 channel, the present or following events, or events at a given time

Norbert Schmidt <nschmidt-nrw@t-online.de>
 for filling in some missing teletext PIDs

Thilo Wunderlich <wunderlich@speedway.org>
 for his help in keeping 'channels.conf' up to date
 for reporting a problem with accessing the epg.data file before it is fully written
 for updating satellite names in 'sources.conf'

Stephan Schreiber <stephan@sschreiber.de>
 for his support in keeping the Premiere World channels up to date in 'channels.conf.cable'

Lauri Pesonen <lauri.pesonen@firsthop.com>
 for avoiding linking in 'libncurses' if compiling without DEBUG_OSD=1 and
 REMOTE=KBD

Sergei Haller <Sergei.Haller@math.uni-giessen.de>
 for fixing the LastActivity timestamp after a shutdown prompt
 for fixing the "Low disk space!" message
 for adding the TPID to Hessen-3 in 'channels.conf'
 for suggesting that the EPG scan should skip channels with their 'Ca' parameter
 explicitly set to an other DVB card
 for implementing enhanced string editing with upper-/lowercase, insert/overwrite
 and delete

Andreas Gebel <andreas@xcapenet.de>
 for his help in keeping 'channels.conf' up to date

Davide Achilli <davide@objsystem.it>
 for pointing out a bug in error handling while establishing an SVDRP connection

Michael Paar <mpaar@uumail.de>
 for enabling recording of radio channels

Hannu Savolainen <hannu@opensound.com>
 for translating OSD texts to the Finnish language

J<EFBFBD>rgen Schmidt <ju@ct.heise.de>
 for fixing a problem with 'in_addr_t' on systems with glibc < 2.2
 for suggesting to optionally allow logging to LOG_LOCALn (n=0..7)

Uwe Freese <mail@uwe-freese.de>
 for suggesting to automatically close an empty recordings page after deleting
 an entry

Rainer Zocholl <vdrcontrib@zocki.toppoint.de>
 for suggesting a confirmation prompt when the user presses the "Power" button
 and there is an upcoming timer event
 for reporting a bug in skipping the next hit of a repeating timer
 for reporting a problem with staying off the end of an ongoing recording while
 replaying in time shift mode
 for suggesting that VDR should stop if one of the configuration files can't be
 read correctly at program startup
 for reporting a possible race condition in generating the DVB device names
 for pointing out that non-threadsafe functions should be replaced with their
 threadsafe versions
 for pointing out a threadsafe and overflow problem with time_ms()

Oleg Assovski <assen@bitcom.msk.ru>
 for adding EPG scanning for another 4 days

Adrian Stabiszewski <as@nitegate.de>
 for fixing the SVDRP GRAB command in case the video device can't be opened

Bernd Schweikert <bernd.schweikert@dit-gmbh.de>
 for adding 'Ca' code 201 for 'Cryptoworks, GOD-DIGITAL' to 'ca.conf'

Mirko G<>nther <mi.guenther@ib-helms.de>
 for suggesting the -m command line option
 for suggesting the SVDRP command VOLU
 for reporting a bug in keeping track of the current channel number when moving
 channels in the "Channels" menu
 for reporting a bug in toggling channels with the '0' key

Achim Lange <Achim_Lange@t-online.de>
 for replacing 'killproc' with 'killall' in 'runvdr' to make it work on Debian
 for reporting a bug in switching back the replay mode display in time shift mode
 for his help in keeping 'channels.conf.cable' and 'channels.conf' up to date

Klaus Wolf <klaus@wolfsoft.de>
 for reporting a bug in restoring the CICAM values for a fourth DVB card

Bernd Zierath <b.zierath@ebv.com>
 for helping to debug scrolling the "Channels" menu in case the cursor ends up on
 a group separator

Truls Slevigen <truls@slevigen.no>
 for translating OSD texts to the Norwegian language

Ruben Nunez Francisco <ruben.nunez@tang-it.com>
 for implementing FreeDiskSpaceMB() without external 'df' command
 for translating OSD texts to the Spanish language

Mirko D<>lle <mdoelle@linux-user.de>
 for reporting a bug when a timer records over midnight of a day that had a
 change in Daylight Saving Time
 for suggesting to avoid the external 'find' command to scan the video directory
 for reporting a problem with inconsistent channel and timer lists
 for making the "Play" key in live viewing mode resume a previous replay session
 for suggesting to allow defining key macros for all non-modeless keys
 for reporting a bug in entering '0' in a cMenuEditIntItem
 for reporting that moving channels sometimes stopped the current replay session
 for reporting a problem with deleting channels in case the current channel's
 number changes

Michael Rakowski <mrak@gmx.de>
 for translating OSD texts to the Polish language

Michael Moster <dvb@juelich-gmbh.de>
 for initially reporting the problem with wrong EPG data in the Schedules menu
 (somehow I had misplaced his message...)

Tobias Kerner <tobschle@gmx.de>
 for helping to debug a problem with wrong EPG data in the Schedules menu

Dirk Wiebel <dirk@wiebel.de>
 for reporting a bug in the editing process in case a previously edited file
 with the same name was manually deleted on a system with more than one video
 directory

Gerald Raaf <graaf@attglobal.net>
 for helping to fix the still picture workaround in case the progress display
 is active
 for his support in keeping the Premiere World channels up to date in 'channels.conf'
 for reporting a problem in device handling in the CICAM menu in case a VDR
 instance was started with a specific device using the -D option

Andreas Roedl <flood@flood-net.de>
 for adding some DVB-T channels for Berlin (Germany) to channels.conf.terr

Jean Martin <mac_j_fr@hotmail.com>
 for pointing out a problem with OSD color palette handling on "big endian" systems

Steffen Koch <Steffen.Koch@koch-enterprises.de>
 for reporting a crash when selecting the "Jump" function directly after setting
 an editing mark

Matthias Hilbig <hilbig@upb.de>
 for fixing some missing ',' in i18n.c

Simon Dean <linux-dvb@sickhack.com>
 for reporting a problem with '.' at the end of a directory name in case of VFAT=1
 (Windows can't handle these)

Dimitrios Dimitrakos <mail@dimitrios.de>
 for translating OSD texts to the Greek language
 for fixing handling the LOG_LOCALn parameters in the -l option
 for providing the iso8859-7 fonts

Marcus Kuba <marcus@kuba4u.de>
 for reporting a bug in the unit of the "SVDRP timeout" setup parameter

Ulrich Petri <ulope@gmx.de>
 for his help in debugging a crash on systems with disks that have a block size
 larger than 1MB

Oliver Lorei <oliverlorei@cityweb.de>
 for his support in keeping the Premiere World channels up to date in 'channels.conf.cable'

Andreas B<>ttger <fboettger@t-online.de>
 for reporting a bug in skipping forward in time shift mode near the end of the recording
 for fixing setting system time to avoid time jumps in case of faulty data
 for reporting a bug in the "Day" field of the "Edit timer" menu when pressing
 '0' to switch from "single shot" to "weekly", followed by the "Right" key

Onno Kreuzinger <ok@solutas.net>
 for reporting leftover references to the file FORMATS in MANUAL and svdrp.c

Rudi Hofer (Rudi.Hofer@cadsoft.de)
 for his help in keeping 'channels.conf' up to date

Gregoire Favre <greg@ulima.unil.ch>
 for fixing some function headers to make them compile with gcc 3.x
 for reporting a bug in taking an active SVDRP connection into account when doing shutdown
 for translating OSD texts to the French language
 for suggesting to initiate an "emergency exit" if there are UPT errors during a
 recording

Sven Grothklags <sven@uni-paderborn.de>
 for fixing the cutting mechanism to make it re-sync in case a frame is larger
 than the buffer
 for implementing the CableDeliverySystemDescriptor in libdtv

Tomas Prybil <tomas.prybil@copper.se>
 for translating OSD texts to the Swedish language

Matthias Fechner <matthiasfechner@web.de>
 for pointing out a bug in parsing 'E' records in epg2html.pl
 for suggesting to add a note about LANG having to be set to a valid locale in INSTALL

Paul Lacatus <paul@campina.iiruc.ro>
 for translating OSD texts to the Romanian language

Istvan Koenigsberger <istvnko@hotmail.com> and Guido Josten <guido.josten@t-online.de>
 for translating OSD texts to the Hungarian language

Christian Rienecker <C.Rienecker@gmx.net>
 for making the VFAT handling more tolerant for users who forget to turn it on

Joerg Riechardt <J.Riechardt@gmx.de>
 for filling in some missing teletext PIDs
 for improving the repeat function for LIRC remote controls

Holger W<>chtler <holger@qanu.de>
 for some valuable advice during adapting to the NEWSTRUCT driver
 for suggesting to use FE_READ_STATUS to read the current frontend status

J<EFBFBD>rgen Zimmermann <jnzimmer@informatik.uni-kl.de>
 for adding some missing #includes to files in libdtv for gcc 3.2

Helmut Auer <vdr@helmutauer.de>
 for reporting a superfluous error message in cLockFile
 for suggesting to make the "Zap timeout" a setup variable
 for fixing a frequency/transponder handling mixup when setting the time from the
 DVB data stream
 for implementing a default cRemote::Initialize()
 for suggesting to increase the default value for 'Min. user inactivity' to 300 minutes
 for suggesting to add cChannel::LinkChannels() and cChannel::RefChannel()
 for suggesting to give a message when an instant recording is started
 for suggesting to retry a shutdown after a while
 for separating the 'install' target into several individual targets
 for reporting a problem with scrolling with Up/Down in case there are non-selectable
 items at the beginning of the menu
 for a patch that was used to implement stopping scanning the video directory if
 there are too many levels of symbolic links
 for reporting that an attempt to call a plugin's main menu function while a
 message is being displayed didn't work
 for reporting a problem with the "Press any key on the RC unit" step when learning
 LIRC remote control codes
 for suggesting to reduce the logging for the SVDRP GRAB command
 for reporting that the shutdown script is given a reboot time in the past if there
 is a recording going on or about to start, and the user insists in shutting down now
 for suggesting to make the channel entry timeout configurable
 for a patch that was used to implement the SVDRP command REMO

Jeremy Hall <jhall@UU.NET>
 for fixing an incomplete initialization of the filter parameters in eit.c

Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>
 for fixing a missing Flush() call in the remote control learning procedure
 for helping to test and debug the new channel source and DiSEqC handling
 for reporting a bug when pressing the "Blue" button in the main menu without
 having displayed it
 for helping to debug a crash when closing down with remote control plugins
 for adding some satellites to 'sources.conf'
 for reporting a bug in learning remote control keys in case there is more than
 one remote control
 for reporting a crash when learning the keys of several remote controls and
 pressing buttons of those that have already been learned
 for making the remote control learn procedure accept key presses only from the
 current remote control
 for reporting a bug in the EPG scanner, which broke 'Transfer Mode' as soon as
 it kicked in
 for providing examples for 'diseqc.conf'
 for improving deleting stale lock files
 for fixing high CPU load in 'Transfer Mode'
 for making the "Left" and "Right" buttons set the cursor to the first or last
 list item even if the list consist only of a single page, like, for instance,
 the Main menu
 for reporting a bug in setting the PCR-PID in case it is equal to one of the other
 PIDs
 for reporting a problem with cPlugin::Start() being called after trying to learn
 the remote control keys
 for reporting a bug in reading 'epg.data' for channels with non-zero RID
 for fixing I/O handling in case an explicit controlling terminal is given
 for fixing displaying still pictures, now using the driver's VIDEO_STILLPICTURE call
 directly
 for reporting and helping to debug dropping out of replay mode while viewing a
 recording that is still going on
 for fixing checking for VIDEO_STREAM_S in cRemux::SetBrokenLink()
 for suggesting to add 'repeat' function keys '7' and '9'
 for fixing handling rc key learning in case cRemote::Initialize() returns 'false'
 for suggesting to change the default "Lifetime" to 99
 for pointing out that the LNB power needs to be explicitly turned on at startup,
 because newer drivers don't do this any more
 for adding a missing cStatus::MsgOsdClear() to cDisplayChannel::~cDisplayChannel()
 for reporting that the "Classic VDR" skin wrongly displayed unused color buttons
 for reporting some missing cStatus::MsgOsdTextItem() calls
 for reporting a missing "Editing process finished" message with skins
 for adding a sample setup for 'DisiCon-4 Single Cable Network' to 'diseqc.conf'
 for reporting a problem with the name of the remote control for which the keys are
 being learned overwriting the date/time in the 'classic' skin
 for making cDvbOsd check available OSD memory at runtime
 for making cEIT::cEIT() drop EPG events that have a zero start time or duration
 for reporting an unnecessary OSD draw operation caused by the audio track description
 display in the ST:TNG skin's channel display
 for suggesting to make CharArray::DataOwnData::assign() in 'libsi' more robust
 against invalid data
 for reporting a problem in extracting APIVERSION with older versions of 'sed'
 for fixing broken APIVERSION extraction line in 'newplugin'
 for making VDR no longer stop removing empty directories if an error occurs
 for reporting a bug in handling relative volume settings that unmute the audio in
 the call to cStatus::MsgSetVolume()

Reinhard Walter Buchner <rw.buchner@freenet.de>
 for adding some satellites to 'sources.conf'
 for his help in testing tuning with "Motor-DiSEqC"
 for his help in debugging CAM support
 for reporting a problem with recording FTA channels on the CAM device in case
 the CAM is not connected to the primary device

Lauri Tischler <lauri.tischler@efore.fi>
 for helping to test and debug the new channel source and DiSEqC handling
 for reporting a faulty parameter initialization in menu.c
 for reporting a problem in case the original current channel becomes
 unavailable due to a recording on a different transponder
 for reporting a compiler warning about virtual cConfig::Load() functions
 for reporting a warning about character comparison in libsi/si.c
 for adjusting the Makefile to the dvb-kernel driver on kernel 2.6 and up

Andy Carter <fruit@ukgateway.net>
 for helping to test new DVB-T handling
 for his help in keeping 'channels.conf.terr' up to date

Robert Schiele <rschiele@uni-mannheim.de>
 for his help in keeping 'channels.conf.cable' up to date
 for reporting some faulty default parameter initializations
 for suggesting to only set the Makefile variables CXX and CXXFLAGS if they are not
 yet defined
 for fixing a problem with user defined CFLAGS in libdtv/libvdr/Makefile

Gerhard Steiner <steiner@mail.austria.com>
 for suggesting that the SVDRP command PUTE shall trigger an immediate write of
 the 'epg.data' file
 for suggesting the new configuration file 'reccmds.conf' to define commands that
 shall be executed from the "Recordings" menu
 for suggesting to interpret the character '|' in the description texts of EPG
 records as a newline character
 for reporting a bug in displaying messages in the status line in case they exceed
 the OSD width
 for fixing resume file handling in case the resume.vdr file can't be written
 for reporting a problem with newly created timers in case they are not confirmed
 with "Ok"
 for reporting an occasional "Broken pipe" error in SVDRP connections
 for reporting that some cable channels don't mark short channel names according
 to the standard

Jaakko Hyv<79>tti <jaakko@hyvatti.iki.fi>
 for translating OSD texts to the Finnish language
 for adding a check if there is a connection to the keyboard
 for fixing recording overlapping timers on the same channel in case
 DO_REC_AND_PLAY_ON_PRIMARY_DEVICE and/or DO_MULTIPLE_RECORDINGS is not defined
 for fixing the minimum lifespan of deleted recordings
 for suggesting to improve channel switching in case of numerical input by switching
 as soon as the channel is unique
 for implementing an "EPG linger time"

Dennis Noordsij <dennis.noordsij@wiral.com>
 for reporting a small glitch when switching channels

Steffen Barszus <st_barszus@gmx.de>
 for reporting a bug in switching audio tracks in 'Transfer Mode' on the primary DVB device
 for making the program use the values of VIDEODIR and PLUGINDIR defined in Makefile
 or Makefile.config as defaults
 for helping to debug a crash when using the --terminal option without having access
 to the given terminal

Peter Seyringer <e9425234@student.tuwien.ac.at>
 for reporting a bug in saving the polarization parameter of channels that have a
 number in the 'source' parameter

Stefan Schluenss <dxr3_osd@schluenss.de>
 for reporting a bug where PID handles were not closed correctly

R<EFBFBD>gis Bossut <rbossut@auchan.com>
 for pointing out that with some providers the channels can only be distinguished
 through the RID

Andreas Kool <akool@akool.de>
 for his help in keeping 'channels.conf.cable' up to date
 for fixing the TS to PES repacker so that it works with MPEG1 streams
 for reporting a problem with empty values in setup.conf
 for fixing detecting the /dev/videoN devices for GRAB in case there are others
 before the DVB devices
 for fixing a possible NULL pointer access in cEITScanner::Process()
 for pointing out that 'vdr --version' failed on an UTF-8 system

Guy Roussin <guy.roussin@teledetection.fr>
 for suggesting not to display channel group delimiters without text
 for reporting a bug in handling channels in the "Channels" menu in case there are
 ':@nnn' group separators without names
 for suggesting to clear the channel info display when entering numeric keys to
 switch channels

Georg Hitsch <georg@hitsch.at>
 for his help in keeping 'channels.conf' up to date

Clemens Kirchgatterer <clemens@thf.ath.cx>
 for suggesting to change source directory name for plugins from 'SRC' to 'src'
 for reporting a problem with user defined CFLAGS in libdtv/libvdr/Makefile

Emil Naepflein <Emil.Naepflein@philosys.de>
 for suggesting to take an active SVDRP connection into account when doing shutdown or
 housekeeping
 for fixing selecting the device, because sometimes an FTA recording terminated a
 CA recording
 for suggesting to never delete edited recordings automatically if the disk runs full
 for making volume control more linear

Gerald Berwolf <genka@genka.de>
 for suggesting to deactivate some templates in tools.h in case some plugin needs to
 use the STL

Thomas Sailer <sailer@scs.ch>
 for pointing out how to set the terminal parameters to read from the keyboard

Sven Goethel <sgoethel@jausoft.com>
 for making switching audio channels work without stopping/restarting the DMX
 for fixing initializing the highlight area in cDvbSpuDecoder
 for suggesting to add cDevice::GetSTC()
 for making some changes to the SPU decoder interface

Jan Rieger <jan@ricomp.de>
 for suggestions and testing raw keyboard input
 for suggesting to make cOsdMenu::Display() virtual, which allows plugins to do some
 additional processing after calling the base class function

Walter Stroebel <walter.stroebel@lifeline.nl>
 for introducing "Doxygen" to document the VDR source code

Paul Gohn <pgohn@nexgo.de>
 for adding 'Hrvatska radiotelevizija' and 'RTV Slovenija' to ca.conf

Teemu Rantanen <tvr@iki.fi>
 for increased the maximum possible packet size in remux.c to avoid corrupted streams
 with broadcasters that send extremely large PES packets
 for adding TS error checking to remux.c
 for pinpointing a problem with excessive memmove() calls in 'Transfer Mode'
 for fixing faulty calculation of section length in eit.c
 for reporting a problem in calculation of channel ids for tv stations that use
 the undefined NID value 0
 for adding EPG preferred languages
 for reporting and helping to debug resetting the EPG data versions after changing
 the preferred languages

Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>
 for adding/improving some Swedish language OSD texts
 for reporting a compiler warning in g++ 3.2.3 regarding cReplayControl::Show()
 for reporting and helping to debug a problem in frequency handling when setting
 the CA descriptors in cDvbTuner::Action()
 for suggesting to add the year to recording dates in LSTR

Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg@gmx.de>
 for pointing out a problem with high CPU load during replay
 for reporting broken support for raw OSDs of plugins
 for reporting a problem with cReceivers that want to receive from PIDs that are
 currently not transmitting
 for fixing volume display in case a plugin has its own OSD open
 for providing 'libsi' and adapting the EIT mechanisms to it
 for fixing testing for matching section filters in case they are turned off
 for adding 'libsi' include files to the 'include' directory, so that plugins can
 use them
 for his help in fixing some issues with gcc 3.4
 for fixing a memory leak in NIT processing
 for adding a few missing initializations
 for adding play mode pmVideoOnly
 for fixing a possible crash with inconsistent SI data
 for pointing out a problem with the cChannel copy constructor
 for fixing cDvbTuner to avoid lockups on NPTL systems
 for pointing out how to detect broken PMT records

Torsten Herz <torsten.herz@web.de>
 for fixing a possible deadlock when using the "Blue" button in the "Schedules" menu
 to switch to an other channel
 for reporting a wrong EPG bugfix code number for the MAX_USEFUL_SUBTITLE_LENGTH fix
 for fixing a bug in resetting OSD color palettes
 for adding missing 'const' to some cChannel member functions
 for fixing handling Priority -1 in cDvbDevice::ProvidesChannel()
 for fixing processing EPG data in case there is no title

Steffen Becker <stbecker@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
 for reporting a problem with CPU load peaks (in the EPG scanner)

Florian Bartels <Florian.Bartels@envisage.de>
 for reporting a faulty behaviour of the "Mute" key in case the channel display
 is visible

Sascha Volkenandt <sascha@akv-soft.de>
 for helping to fix a faulty behaviour of the "Mute" key in case the channel display
 is visible
 for making the 'epg.data' file being read after all plugins have been started
 for reporting a problem with cReceivers that use a ring buffer and didn't immediately
 return from their Receive() function if the buffer runs full
 for reporting a crash in case there is no DVB hardware present
 for his support in debugging the the "Unknown picture type error"
 for reporting a crash when switching the skin and having selected a non-default
 theme that is not available for the newly selected skin
 for suggesting to map the color name "None" to #00000000 when processing XPM data
 for suggesting to also reset the palette in cBitmap::DrawBitmap() if the entire
 bitmap area is covered
 for reporting a bug in cBitmap::DrawPixel(), which messed with other bitmaps'
 palettes in case the pixel coordinates were outside this bitmap
 for suggesting to allow drawing "transparent" texts
 for suggesting to ignore unused "none" color entries in XPM files written by
 some broken graphics tools
 for fixing a memory leak in theme description handling
 for pointing out a "near miss" condition in cCondVar
 for reporting a bug in cChannel::SetName() in case only the ShortName or Provider
 has changed
 for fixing a possible recursion in cControl::Shutdown()
 for reporting that the "Audio" menu is not displayed with the "Green" button from
 the "Main" menu in case there is only one audio track
 for reporting a problem when starting replay of a recording that has no Dolby
 Digital audio after switching to a channel that has DD and selecting the DD audio
 track
 for reporting a bug in timeout handling in cRwLock::Lock()
 for pointing out that the SVDRP command DELR deleted recordings that are currently
 being written to by a timer
 for fixing a crash in cConfig::Load() when compiling on the PPC
 for reporting '\n' in an esyslog() call in osd.c
 for reporting missing '&' in the SetAreas() example in PLUGINS.html
 for reporting a memory leak in cString::operator=()
 for a patch that was used as a base to implement cPlugin::Active()

Malcolm Caldwell <malcolm.caldwell@ntu.edu.au>
 for modifying LOF handling to allow for C-band reception
 for reporting a crash in creating a new timer in case there is no device in the
 system that can actually receive any channel
 for suggesting to re-introduced the code that waits for a tuner lock in VDR/device.c

Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@web.de>
 for making the LIRC thread avoid high CPU load in case the connection to LIRC gets lost
 for fixing handling repeat function with LIRC
 for reporting a problem with the LIRC remote control trying to learn keys even if it
 couldn't connect to the LIRC daemon
 for making the plugin library directory configurable via Make.config
 for reporting a problem on systems that have UTF-8 enabled
 for pointing out a flaw in the the description of cRingBufferLinear
 for reporting a bug in cRingBufferLinear::Get() in case the buffer wraps around
 for adding some checks when canceling a thread and removing the usleep() in
 cThread::Start()
 for removing the LOCK_THREAD from the LIRC thread
 for making the Makefile patch friendlier
 for a patch that was used for implementing setting the user id
 for pointing out that the canonical spelling of codesets is with '-'
 for a hint on using _nl_msg_cat_cntr

Thomas Koch <tom@harhar.net>
 for his support in keeping the Premiere World channels up to date in 'channels.conf'
 for implementing the SVDRP command STAT
 for reporting a problem with "pending" timers that blocked others that actually
 could record

Stefan Hu<48>feldt <vdr@marvin.on-luebeck.de>
 for his help in keeping 'channels.conf.cable' up to date
 for adding 'channels.conf.terr' entries for L<>beck

Christoph Friederich <christoph.friederich@gmx.de>
 for reporting a bug in deleting the last recording in the "Recordings" menu, which
 started pausing live video

Andreas Brachold <vdr04@deltab.de>
 for his support in keeping 'channels.conf.terr' up to date
 for fixing 'newplugin' and libsi/Makefile to use the compiler defined in $(CXX)
 for generating file dependencies
 for suggesting that the 'plugins-clean' target of the Makefile should only delete
 the actual plugin library files from this version of VDR
 for making files and directories created with rights according to the shell's
 umask settings
 for reporting that there are empty info.vdr files created if there is no EPG
 info available
 for implementing the SVDRP command MOVC
 for fixing the "plugins-clean" and "plugins-install" targets in the Makefile
 for suggesting to make the log messages regarding lost lock of devices "info"
 instead of "error"
 for modifying the German OSD texts to be "less technical"

Manuel Hartl <icecep@gmx.net>
 for suggesting to extend the logging info when starting/stopping timers

Benjamin Harling <benjamin.harling@web.de>
 for suggesting to add a note regarding non-VDR files in the /videoX directories to
 INSTALL

Christian Jacobsen <christian.jacobsen@stageholding.de>
 for making the LIRC interface skip keys that come in too fast
 for reporting a problem in handling the '-E' options in version 1.3.18
 for reporting a problem in case a station defines all 32 audio PIDs
 for suggestions and experiments regarding the buffer reserve in cTransfer
 for reporting a problem with 'summary.vdr' files with more than two empty lines
 for reporting a problem with multiple entries of the same subdirectory in the
 "Recordings" menu

Andreas Mair <andreas@vdr-developer.org>
 for reporting a short display of the main menu if a plugin displays its own OSD and
 is started through a user defined key macro
 for reporting a problem with extremely long summary fields in timers
 for reporting a bug in handling the tfRecording flag when reading timers
 for enabling fonts to be created with a width that overwrites the default width
 for suggesting to make cBitmap::SetXpm() checks whether the given Xpm pointer is
 not NULL
 for making the SVDRP command LSTC list the channels with group separators if the
 option ':groups' is given

Olivier Jacques <jacquesolivier@hotmail.com>)
 for translating OSD texts to the French language
 for implementing the setup option "OSD/Channel info time"

Kai Moeller <moeller.ki@gmx.de>
 for reporting a double call to MainMenuAction() of a plugin if invoked via a hotkey

Carsten Siebholz <c.siebholz@t-online.de>
 for adding cStatus::OsdItem() to provide the entire list of menu items to a plugin

Wolfgang Goeller <wgoeller@heraklit.ch>
 for reporting a bug in keeping live video active in case the primary device doesn't
 have an MPEG decoder

Jonan Santiago <jonan-lists-vdr@callisia.com>
 for fixing handling EPG data where the "extended event descriptor" comes before the
 "short event" or a "time shifted event"
 for adding support for circular polarization

Juri Haberland <juri@koschikode.com>
 for his help in keeping 'channels.conf.terr' up to date

Alfred Zastrow <vdr@zastrow4u.de>
 for suggesting to implement separate PausePriority and PauseLifetime parameters for
 the recordings created when pausing live video
 for reporting two warnings when compiling with gcc 3.3.1
 for reporting a bug in handling menu status messages when the list contents is scrolled
 for reporting that without the usleep() call in cDvbPlayer::Action() VDR runs on NPTL
 systems
 for reporting a missing include statement in the 'sky' plugin

Matthias Raus <matthias-raus@web.de>
 for reporting a problem with starting the editing process if no marks have been set

Marc Rovira Vall <tm05462@salleURL.edu>, Ramon Roca <ramon.roca@xcombo.com> and Jordi Vil<69> <jvila@tinet.org>
 for translating OSD texts to the Catalanian language

Lars Bl<42>ser <LBlaeser@hofheim.de>
 for reporting a bug in EPG bugfix statistics which made log entries for undefined
 channels

Niko Tarnanen <niko.tarnanen@hut.fi>
 for translating OSD texts to the Finnish language

Rolf Ahrenberg <rahrenbe@cc.hut.fi>
 for translating OSD texts to the Finnish language
 for fixing internationalization of the text for "Setup/DVB/Audio language(s)"
 for making pressing the Power button not stop Transfer Mode or replay immediately
 for making EPG events without a title display "No title" instead of "(null)"
 for changing the title of the recording info menu
 for reporting a bug in handling key macros with keys after @plugin
 for adding compiler options "-fPIC -g" to all plugins
 for adding a leading '0' to the day in the DayDateTime() function
 for reporting a crash in the Schedule menu with events that have no title
 for a patch that was used to implement automatic cursor advance when entering text
 via the numeric keys
 for reporting a problem with expired timers when shutting down via the Power key
 for fixing handling the "Blue" key in the "Schedule" menu for the current channel
 for making cMenuText use the given font
 for making the channel number be reset if the number entered through the numeric keys
 exceeds the maximum channel number
 for suggesting to also set the language codes when setting the audio track descriptions
 for reporting a problem in setting the audio language codes in 'Transfer-Mode'
 for fixing cReadLine::Read() for lines that end with the infamous "\r\n"
 for adding a missing "Button$" for the Timer button and "Key$" in skinclassic.c
 for reporting a bug in handling the color button texts when switching from the
 'Schedule' menu of a channel without EPG info to the 'What's on now' menu
 for reporting a bug in handling empty titles in cEvent::FixEpgBugs()
 for suggesting to replace the "Really restart?" prompt in the call to
 cPluginManager::Active() in menu.c to "restart anyway?"
 for adding --remove-destination to the 'cp' command for binaries in the Makefiles of
 the plugins
 for increasing the maximum number of DVB devices to 8
 for suggesting to change the parameter "OSD font" to "Default font" in "Setup/OSD"
 for improving cControl::Launch() to keep 'control' from pointing to uninitialized
 memory
 for adding internationalization to the "skincurses" plugin
 for helping with adding compatibility mode for playback of recordings made with
 the subtitles plugin

Ralf Klueber <ralf.klueber@vodafone.com>
 for reporting a bug in cutting a recording if there is only a single editing mark
 for reporting a bug in handling a channels.conf that contains a ":@nnn" line as
 its last entry

Hermann Gausterer <vdr@mrq1.org>
 for suggesting to switch to the recording channel in case the current channel
 becomes unavailable

Peter Bieringer <pb@bieringer.de>
 for reporting a problem with duplicate recordings with the same file name
 for suggesting to implement the command line option '--vfat'
 for reporting a leftover 'summary.vdr' in vdr.5
 for adding more error messages and line numbers when reading EPG data and info.vdr
 for fixing handling "more than 3 byte" key sequences in cKbdRemote::ReadKeySequence()
 for suggesting to ignore lines tagged with '#' in the 'info.vdr' file of a recording

Alexander Damhuis <ad@phonedation.de>
 for reporting problems when deleting a timer that is currently recording

Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>
 for translating OSD texts to the Italian language

Karim Afifi <karim.afifi@free.fr>
 for reporting a problem with breaking off replay in case the user presses "Play"
 or "Pause" too soon after going into "Pause live video" mode

Jon Burgess <mplayer@jburgess.uklinux.net>
 for pointing out a problem with NPTL ("Native Posix Thread Library")
 for changing thread handling to make it work with NPTL ("Native Posix Thread Library")
 for fixing a memory leak in thread handling when using NPTL
 for reporting a bug in handling the '.update' file in case the video directory is
 not at the default location

Thomas Schmidt <tschmidt@debian.org>
 for reporting a crash when canceling a newly created timer
 for making 'diseqc.conf' a required file only if Setup.DiSEqC is activated
 for making VDR use the default configuration directory as defined in the CONFDIR
 varable in the Makefile

Michael Walle <michael.walle@web.de>
 for reporting a bug in channel switching after Left/Right has been pressed

Thomas Keil <tkeil@datacrystal.de>
 for suggesting to change the behaviour of the '0' key in normal viewing mode so
 that a channel only qualifies as "previous" if it has been selected for at least
 3 seconds
 for reporting a bug in handling the color buttons in the "Edit channel" menu
 for adding a note about the config files of plugins to INSTALL
 for a patch that was used as a base to implement setting the initial channel and
 volume

Kenneth Aafl<66>y <ke-aa@frisurf.no>
 for fixing checking CA capabilities with the dvb-kernel driver

Ernst F<>rst <ernstfuerst@swissonline.ch>
 for reporting a crash in case a VFAT file system is used without compiling VDR
 with VFAT=1

Reinhard Nissl <rnissl@gmx.de>
 for reporting a name clash because of function crc32() in libdtv/libsi/si_parser.c
 when using other libraries that also implement a function by that name
 for reporting a bug in handling ':' characters in channel names when reading
 channels.conf
 for adding cDevice::Flush() to make sure that all data in the video card's buffers
 has been processed
 for reporting a bug in checking the last area for misalignment in cOsd::CanHandleAreas()
 for suggesting to make sure the OSD reports oeWrongAlignment errors before any
 oeAreasOverlap error
 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()
 for reporting a race condition in starting a thread
 for implementing cDolbyRepacker for better handling of Dolby Digital PES packets
 for extending some buffer sizes to allow handling HDTV streams
 for adding substream handling to cDolbyRepacker
 for modifying cDolbyRepacker to make sure PES packets don't exceed the requested length
 for fixing a possible freeze in pause mode in case a device's PlayPesPacket()
 function permanently returns 0
 for fixing a typo in detecting UTF-8
 for fixing handling fragments of less than 4 byte in cPesAssembler
 for some rearrangements in cDvbPlayer::Action() to avoid lockups on NPTL systems
 for implementing cVideoRepacker in remux.c to make sure every PES packet contains
 only data from one frame
 for fixing the call to Channels.Unlock() in cEITScanner::Process()
 for making cDvbPlayer::Goto() append a Sequence End Code to get the image shown
 immediately with softdevices
 for fixing cDvbSpuBitmap::putPixel()
 for implementing cAudioRepacker in remux.c
 for modifying handling of audio packets for radio channels in remux.c
 for suggesting to always use stream id 0xE0 for the video stream, to avoid problems
 with post processing tools that choke on different ids
 for fixing cDvbPlayer::SkipFrames() to properly handle radio recordings
 for improving TS/PES conversion to better handle lost TS packets
 for suggesting to make the DVB devices retune (and, if applicable, resend the
 DiSEqC data) if the lock is lost
 for fixing handling TS packets in cTS2PES
 for adding a mutex to synchronize cDevice::PlayPesPacket() and SetCurrentAudioTrack()
 for a suggestion that lead to implementing cDevice::Transferring()
 for fixing replaying recordings of radio channels with many audio tracks
 for speeding up cRemux::ScanVideoPacket()
 for implementing cDevice::ForceTransferMode()
 for changing the behaviour when hitting the end of a recording in fast forward mode
 for suggesting to give the cRemote::CallPlugin() function a boolean return value
 for fixing a possible crash in remux.c on 64-bit machines
 for making cCommand::Execute() use cPipe instead of popen() to avoid problems
 with open file handles when starting background commands
 for fixing handling error status in cDvbTuner::GetFrontendStatus()
 for fixing a busy loop in fast forward if the next video data file is missing
 for adding a debug error message to cReceiver::~cReceiver() in case it is still
 attached to a device
 for reporting a missing SetVolumeDevice() call in cDevice::SetPrimaryDevice()

Richard Robson <richard_robson@beeb.net>
 for reporting freezing replay if a timer starts while in Transfer Mode from the
 device used by the timer, and the timer needs a different transponder

Manfred Schmidt-Voigt <manfred.schmidt-voigt@mannitec.de>
 for reporting a problem with running out of disk space while cutting in case
 there are still deleted recordings to remove

Javier Marcet <lists@marcet.info>
 for reporting a problem when starting a recording on the primary device if there
 is a replay session active

Peter Waechtler <pwaechtler@mac.com>
 for adding channels for DVB-T Hannover (Germany) to channels.cont.terr

Robert Bartl <robert@bartl.priv.at>
 for reporting a hangup in SVDRP when the client disappears without sending QUIT

Sebastian Frei <sebastian@schnapsleichen.de>
 for his support in keeping 'channels.conf' up-to-date
 for suggesting to rename the Makefile target 'plugins-clean' to 'clean-plugins'

Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>
 for reporting a bug in setting the primary device in case none of the devices
 provides an MPEG decoder

Christoph Hermanns <christoph.hermanns@gmx.de>
 for reporting a bug in handling the "Red" button in the "Schedules" menu in case
 there are no events listed for a particular channel
 for reporting a leftover 'summary.vdr' in vdr.1

Oskar Signell <oskar@signell.net>
 for pointing out a problem with setting an editing mark while in "Pause" mode,
 where replay was not immediately positioned to the marked frame
 for making single shot timers and events show the day of week

Dirk Essl <de@floydworld.de>
 for reporting a wrong URL to the 'Doxygen' tool in INSTALL

Hans Dingemans <hans.dingemans@tacticalops.nl>
 for translating OSD texts to the Dutch language

Alexander Wetzel <alexander.wetzel@web.de>
 for suggesting to let VDR start up even if 'keymacros.conf' references a plugin
 that is currently not loaded

Marco Franceschetti <ordaz@quipo.it>
 for updating 'ca.conf'

Jens Groth <Jens_Groth@t-online.de>
 for reporting a an outdated driver version number in INSTALL

Andreas Trauer <vdr@trauers.homelinux.net>
 for fixing missing channel info after an incomplete channel group switch
 for removing the unused 0x73 (TOT) filter in eit.c

Markus Hardt <markus.hardt@gmx.net>
 for his help in keeping 'channels.conf.terr' up to date

Thomas Rausch <Thomas.Rausch@gmx.de>
 for making VDR try to get a timer's channel without RID when loading 'timers.conf'

Thomas v. Keller <v.keller@neckarufer.de>
 for reporting a crash in case the CAM connection fails while a CAM menu
 is being presented

Richard Scobie <r.scobie@clear.net.nz>
 for adding Asia-Pacific satellites to 'sources.conf'

Luke Jenkins <a@xmission.com>
 for adding North American satellites to 'sources.conf'

Dirk Mueller <dmuell@gmx.net>
 for fixing getting the list of recordings in case VDR is started from a directory
 where it doesn't have access to

Emil Petersky <petersky@isr.uni-stuttgart.de>
 for adding "Slovak Link" and "Czech Link" to 'ca.conf'

Alessio Sangalli <alesan@manoweb.com>
 for providing the iso8859-1 small font

Pedro Miguel Sequeira de Justo Teixeira <pedro.miguel.teixeira@bigfoot.com>
 for reporting a problem with crc32 in SI handling on 64bit systems
 for reporting an alignment problem in CAM access on 64bit systems

Antonino Sergi <voyaser@tiscalinet.it>
 for adding 'StreamType' setting to CAM communication

Martin Holst <holstm@gmx.de>
 for reporting a lockup in 1.3.0 when the EPG scanner kicks in

Robert Huitl <vdr@huitl.de>
 for fixing 'su' call in 'runvdr' to make it work on systems that require the
 user name to appear before the command option

Vyacheslav Dikonov <sdiconov@mail.ru>
 for translating OSD texts to the Russian language

Stephan Epstein <s.epstein@vinzenz.com>
 for reporting a wrong 'delta' value in the call to the shutdown script

Christian Tramnitz <maillist@tramnitz.com>
 for pointing out a problem with wrong parameter settings when scanning NITs
 for terrestrial transponders
 for his support in debugging a problem in setting the source type for newly
 detected terrestrial transponders

Jens Rosenboom <me@jayr.de>
 for fixing the SVDRP command 'STAT DISK' to avoid a 'division by 0' in case
 the disk is full

Andreas Regel <andreas.regel@gmx.de>
 for fixing handling bitmap indexes for 256 color mode
 for reporting a bug in removing the "scanning recordings..." message in case the
 video directory is empty
 for pointing out a missing call to cStatus::MsgOsdtatusMessage(NULL) in
 cSkins::Message()
 for reporting a problem in handling Transfer Mode for radio channels
 for reporting a problem with messages when a cOsdObject uses the raw OSD
 for implementing palette replace mode in the OSD bitmaps
 for fixing handling numeric keys in the channel display after switching channel
 groups

Thomas Bergwinkl <Thomas.Bergwinkl@vr-web.de>
 for fixing the validity check for channel IDs, because some providers use TIDs
 with value 0
 for pointing out that transponder handling didn't work with satellites that provide
 two transponders on the same frequency, with different polarization
 for fixing detecting if there can be any useful further input when entering channel
 numbers
 for fixing handling the '0' key for switching between the last two channels
 for making cPatFilter::Process() check whether the channel exists before setting
 the PMT filter

St<EFBFBD>phane Est<73>-Gracias <sestegra@free.fr>
 for fixing a typo in libsi/si.h
 for fixing some descriptor handling in 'libsi'
 for pointing out a problem with "itemized" texts in EPG data
 for pointing out a problem with taking the Sid into account when detecting version
 changes in processing the PMT

Marc Hoppe <MarcHoppe@gmx.de>
 for fixing handling the current menu item

Michael Pennewi<77> <M.Pennewiss@ARD-Digital.de>
 for pointing out that an empty EPG event means there is currently no running event

Marcus M<>nnig <minibbjd@gmx.de>
 for adding some 3-letter language codes

Pekka Virtanen <pekka.virtanen@sci.fi>
 for adding language code handling to the subtitling descriptor in 'libsi'
 for adding missing NULL checks when accessing sectionHandler in device.c
 for writing the subtitle plugin, which helped in implementing subtitle handling
 in VDR

John Kennedy <rkennedy@ix.netcom.com>
 for publishing "A Fast Bresenham Algorithm For Drawing Ellipses" (found at
 http://homepage.smc.edu/kennedy_john/BELIPSE.PDF)

Drazen Dupor <drazen.dupor@dupor.com>
 for translating OSD texts to the Croatian language

Prakash K. Cheemplavam <PrakashKC@gmx.de>
 for fixing some issues with gcc 3.4
 for some minor code cleanups

Miko Wohlgemuth <weak@chello.at>
 for reporting a problem with the OSD alignment in the SPU decoder

Michal Dobrzynski <michal_dobrzynski@mac.com>
 for reporting a freezing picture when a recording starts on a system that always
 uses 'Transfer Mode'

Wayne Keer <syphir@syphir.sytes.net>
 for reporting a bug in handling descriptor loops in 'libsi', which had sometimes
 caused invalid CA ids to be added to the channel definitions
 for pointing out a problem with the initialization of aPid1 and aPid2 in
 cDvbDevice::cDvbDevice() in case a patch references them
 for suggesting to make the "Channel not available!" message and mtInfo instead of
 mtError
 for reporting an unused variable from cTimer::GetWDayFromMDay()
 for reporting a spelling error in 'canceling'
 for adding some 'mkdir -p' to the Makefile's 'install' target
 for reporting some missing braces in remux.c
 for suggesting to modifiy the Makefile to copy and clean up additional libraries
 a plugin might provide

Marco Schl<68><6C>ler <marco@lordzodiac.de>
 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
 for fixing handling error case '-1' when polling section filters
 for suggesting to avoiding flashing effects in the OSD of full featured DVB cards
 by explicitly clearing the OSD windows before opening them
 for fixing a possible NULL pointer assignment in cMenuText::SetText()
 for doing some testing regarding buffer performance and giving me some hints that
 finally lead to finding out that the basic problem causing buffer overflows was in
 EnableGet()/EnablePut() being called too often
 for avoiding unnecessary section filter start/stops
 for pointing out that if one PID can't be added, the whole cDevice::AttachReceiver()
 should fail and all PIDs added so far should be deleted
 for fixing attaching a cPlayer to a cDevice, so that 'Operation not permitted'
 errors don't occur any more
 for reporting a problem with initialization of the main program loop variables
 with older compiler versions
 for adding the 'portal name' to cChannels
 for fixing the cDvbSpuDecoder
 for fixing a short glitch when starting a recording on the primary device while
 in replay or transfer mode
 for fixing cRemux::ScanVideoPacket() to make sure it doesn't access memory beyond
 the end of the given buffer, which has caused some unjustified "unknown picture
 type errors"
 for some improvements to cPoller
 for implementing displaying mandatory subtitles in the SPU decoder
 for pointing out a problem with canceling the LIRC thread
 for a patch that implements substream handling into cDevice::PlayPesPacket()
 for pointing out that PlayPes(NULL, 0) needs to be called in cTransfer::Action()
 when clearing the transfer buffer to avoid overflows
 for adding CMD_SPU_CHG_COLCON to cDvbSpuDecoder::setTime()
 for suggesting to force a new resync after a call to cRemux::Clear()
 for suggestions that led to the addition of the 'Id' parameter to cAudio::Play()
 for removing the "Cleared/PlayPes(NULL, 0)" handling from cTransfer::Action(), since
 this is now done when attaching the player to the device
 for adding DeviceClrAvailableTracks() and DeviceSetCurrentAudioTrack() to cPlayer
 for reporting a missing 'resultSkipped = 0' in cRemux::Clear()
 for reporting a missing reset of the 'repacker' in cTS2PES::Clear()
 for avoiding unnecessary calls to SetPid() in cDvbDevice::SetAudioTrackDevice()
 for pointing out that EnsureAudioTrack() in cDevice::SetChannel() should not be
 called if a Transfer Mode is started, to avoid setting the audio PID on the primary
 device
 for fixing calling cStatus::MsgChannelSwitch() in cDevice::SetChannel()
 for increasing POLLTIMEOUTS_BEFORE_DEVICECLEAR in transfer.c to 6 to avoid problems
 with the larger buffer reserve
 for adding support for setting the video display mode
 for fixing handling transparent areas in cDvbSpuBitmap
 for fixing a bug in libsi's SubtitlingDescriptor::getLength()
 for removing scaling coordinates in letterbox mode from cDvbSpu
 for fixing a wrong inheritance in libsi's SubtitlingDescriptor::Subtitling
 for adding cPlayer::DeviceSetVideoDisplayFormat()
 for making the setup not being saved in case of a fatal error, to keep the volume
 level from being set to a wrong value
 for fixing a possible hangup when ending a replay session while cIndexFile::CatchUp()
 is waiting
 for improving resetting CAM connections
 for fixing handling EPG data for time shifted events
 for fixing detecting short channel names for "Kabel Deutschland"
 for reporting that the FATALERRNO macro needs to check for a non-zero errno value
 for reporting missing mutex locks in cCiMenu::Abort() and cCiEnquiry::Abort()
 for fixing a race condition in the SPU decoder
 for fixing initializing the day index when editing the weekday parameter of a
 repeating timer
 for figuring out some obscure length bytes the the CA PMT Reply data of AlphaCrypt CAMs
 for fixing handling OSD areas that have invalid sizes
 for removing unused variables in skinclassic.c and skinsttng.c
 for removing leftover 'needsBufferReserve' variable from cTransfer
 for adding an 'Id' parameter to cDevice::PlayAudio() to allow plugins to easier
 process the audio data
 for improving OSD area handling in cDvbSpuDecoder
 for suggesting to log the description (if present) in case a thread is canceled
 for fixing handling DPID when deciding whether to switch to 'Transfer Mode'
 for adding VBITeletextDescriptorTag, TeletextDescriptorTag, LocalTimeOffsetDescriptorTag
 and PremiereContentTransmissionDescriptor to 'libsi'
 for pointing out that plugins might be compiled with different DVB driver header
 files than VDR itself
 for adding a missing initialization of 'mutex' in cCiMenu::cCiMenu() and removing
 some superfluous semicolons in ci.c
 for pointing out what caused the problem with audio track descriptions after a
 replay has been stopped
 for reporting a problem with displaying the replay mode symbol in case of "Multi
 speed mode"
 for removing 'assert(0)' from cDvbSpuDecoder::setTime()
 for adapting 'libsi' to DVB-S2
 for fixing handling ChannelUp/Down keys if there is currently a replay running
 for fixing a buffer overflow in initializing the system character table
 for reporting a missing 'P' in vdr.c's SHUTDOWNCANCELROMPT macro
 for fixing a problem with characters >0x7F in the modified version of skipspace()
 for reporting a faulty comment in Make.config.template
 for fixing checking for ttDolbyLast in cDevice::SetCurrentAudioTrack()
 for fixing selecting the audio track when pressing Ok in the Audio menu
 for implementing handling DVB subtitles
 for fixing the description of DeviceSetAvailableTrack() and cReceiver(), and adding
 an example ~cMyReceiver() in PLUGINS.html (thanks to Marco Schl<68><6C>ler).

J<EFBFBD>rgen Schmitz <j.schmitz@web.de>
 for reporting a bug in displaying the current channel when switching via the SVDRP
 command CHAN

Philip Lawatsch <philip@lawatsch.at>
 for debugging a buffer overflow in eit.c

Jouni Karvo <kex@netlab.hut.fi>
 for suggesting to make the cOsd constructor 'protected'
 for fixing checking for the presence of NPTL

Olaf Henkel <olafhenkel@t-online.de>
 for reporting a problem with long event texts in the "Classic VDR" skin

Martin Dauskardt <md001@gmx.de>
 for reporting a problem with switching channels while an encrypted channel is being
 recorded
 for suggesting to add a table of the used trick speed values to the description of
 cDevice::TrickSpeed()

Maynard Cedric <maynard.cedric@wanadoo.fr>
 for reporting a problem in handling the color button texts in cMenuEditStrItem

J<EFBFBD>rg Knitter <joerg.knitter@gmx.de>
 for reporting a problem in case the video partition is mounted with "iocharset=utf8"

Mike parker <vdr@msatt.freeserve.co.uk>
 for helping to test support for NVOD channels

Dick Streefland <Dick.Streefland@xs4all.nl>
 for fixing a crash in case the last line in channels.conf is a group separator and
 that group is selected in the channel display

Kimmo Tykkala <tykkala@iki.fi>
 for pointing out a problem in showing the replay mode if the OSD is currently in use

Arthur Konovalov <kasjas@hot.ee>
 for translating OSD texts to the Estonian language
 for fixing a missing ',' in the Greek OSD texts
 for fixing a missing ',' in the Swedish OSD texts

Milos Kapoun <m.kapoun@cra.cz>
 for suggesting to skip code table info in SI data
 for adding missing Czech characters to fontosd-iso8859-2.c

Udo Richter <udo_richter@gmx.de>
 for refining the formula for making volume control more linear
 for fixing handling lifetime when deciding whether to delete a recording
 for reporting a problem in handling page up/down in menu lists in case there are
 several non selectable items in a row
 for fixing handling 'page down' after it was broken in version 1.3.26
 for suggesting a fix for an out-of-bounds memory access with audio language ids
 for reporting a problem with cRemux in a single thread
 for adding 'Service' functions to the plugin interface
 for reporting an unused MAINMENUENTRY in svdrpdemo.c
 for reporting a bug in opening recording folders in case the last replayed recording
 no longer exists
 for reporting a missing check against MAXOSDAREAS in cOsd::CanHandleAreas()
 for making the Makefile report a summary of failed plugins
 for reporting a problem with the new handling of k_Repeat keypresses in channel
 switching
 for reporting a problem with auto advance in string entry fields when pressing
 Up/Down in insert mode
 for fixing handling the "Setup/OSD/Menu button closes" option when set to 'yes' in
 case a replay is active
 for reporting a problem with plugins that report errors when VDR is run with the
 --help or --version option
 for suggesting to add a warning about plugins that don't honor APIVERSION in their
 Makefile
 for providing a shorter version of the 'sed' expression for extracting APIVERSION
 for fixing a bug in handling the "Power" key in case a recording is going on and
 no plugin is active
 for suggesting to add 'eval' to the $VDRCMD call in 'runvdr' to avoid problems with
 quoting
 for fixing handling the "Power" key in case a timer is about to start recording
 for fixing calculating the start time of repeated timers with "first day"
 for setting a timer's cached start time to 0 after a call to Skip()
 for adding "-fPIC" to the compiler options in Make.config.template when compiling
 plugins
 for reporting a missing '--vfat' in the vdr.1 man page
 for fixing deleting the last character of a string menu item in insert mode
 for reporting that the shutdown message "Recording in ... minutes, shut down anyway?"
 may have been given with a negative number of minutes
 for fixing getting the next active timer when shutting down
 for reporting a problem with cPlugin::ConfigDirectory() in case a plugin calls it
 from a separate thread
 for reporting that an assignment in svdrp.c didn't use the cTimer::operator=())
 for suggesting that the function cThread::Cancel() should only set 'running' to
 false and not actually kill the thread if the special value -1 is given
 or fixing a possible segfault in cSkins::Message()
 for some hints on how to improve handling cPluginManager::Active()
 for fixing a possible segfault if VDR gets terminated while a message is displayed
 for reporting an error in the INSTALL section on retrying shutdown later
 for rewriting shutdown handling
 for implementing cPlugin::WakeupTime() to allow plugins to request VDR to wake
 up at a particular time
 for making the HUP signal force a restart of VDR
 for fixing a race condition with signal handlers at program exit
 for fixing handling detached processes in SystemExec()
 for fixing handling single byte characters >0x7F in Utf8ToArray()
 for fixing clearing color buttons in the 'curses' skin
 for adding a missing error report to cCuttingThread::Action()
 for reporting a problem in handling reallocated memory in cCharSetConv::Convert()
 for fixing a new[]/delete mismatch in cMenuEditStrItem::LeaveEditMode()

Sven Kreiensen <svenk@kammer.uni-hannover.de>
 for his help in keeping 'channels.conf.terr' up to date

Stefan Meyknecht <stefan@meyknecht.org>
 for a patch that fixed detecting transponder lock in cDvbTuner

Lucian Muresan <lucianm@users.sourceforge.net>
 for updating the Romanian language texts and the iso8859-2 fonts
 for making VDR actually use the iso8859-15 fonts
 for suggesting to make the function ExchangeChars()
 for reporting duplicate texts in i18n.c
 for suggesting to use 'gettext' for internationalization

Mattias Gr<47>nlund <Mattias@Gronlund.net>
 for pointing out a missing cleanup at program exit in case there is a problem
 with a plugin
 for fixing possible race condition in cDevice::Action()

Uwe Hanke <uhanke@gmx.de>
 for fixing some typos in the Makefile's 'font' target

Mogens Elneff <mogens@elneff.dk>
 for translating OSD texts to the Danish language
 for his help in testing automatically selecting the proper audio channel when
 switching to a channel with two different languages on the same PID

Joachim Wilke <vdr@joachim-wilke.de>
 for reporting missing calls to cStatus::MsgOsdClear() in cSkins::Message()
 for fixing a NULL pointer access with the cUnbufferedFile when a replay session
 runs all the way until the end of the recording
 for fixing removing the '-' when entering a channel number where there is no other
 one that fits the input
 for reporting a problem with cStatus::MsgOsdTextItem() being called without a text
 for reporting a missing install-i18n in the install target in the Makefile

Sascha Klek <sklek@gmx.de>
 for reporting a problem with the '0' key in the "Day" item of the "Timers" menu

Andreas Brugger <brougs78@gmx.net>
 for reporting a possible crash when pausing live video and the recording was
 unable to start, maybe because there was no lock on the device
 for reporting the missing Euro sign in iso8859-1
 for reporting a problem with making changes to timers through SVDRP while they
 are being edited via the menu
 for suggesting to change the API of the functions cStatus::Recording() and
 cStatus::Replaying(), so that they can provide the full file name of the recording
 for suggesting that externally provided EPG data (with table ID 0x00) shall get its
 component descriptors set from the broadcast data
 for reporting a typo in the change to the "Use small font" setup option in version
 1.3.47 in the HISTORY and CONTRIBUTORS file
 for reporting a missing 'const' in cRecordingInfo::ChannelID()

Dino Ravnic <dino.ravnic@fer.hr>
 for fixing some characters in the iso8859-2 font file
 for fixing some errors in the Croatian language texts
 for fixing deleting a menu item in case the next item is not selectable

Olaf Titz <olaf@bigred.inka.de>
 for fixing some typos in the Makefile's 'font' target
 for reporting a problem and some advice in fixing a possible freeze in pause mode
 in case a device's PlayPesPacket() function permanently returns 0
 for reporting excess memory consumption due to duplicate components in EPG events

Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>
 for pointing out that the '-' and '<27>' characters need to be escaped in the man
 pages
 for a patch that was used to add the command line options '--lirc', '--rcu' and
 '--no-kbd'
 for adding '__attribute__' to functions that use printf() like parameters
 for suggesting to write grabbed images to the SVDRP connection encoded in base64
 for suggesting to open the file handle in the SVDRP GRAB command in a way that
 it won't follow symbolic links, and to canonicalize the file name
 for making all font and image data 'const'
 for fixing format string handling
 for suggesting to add NULL checks to some strdup() calls in menuitems.c
 for reporting a missing "Key$" in skincurses.c
 for a patch that was used to implement kChanPrev

Sean Carlos <seanc@libero.it>
 for translating OSD texts to the Italian language

Laurence Abbott <laz@club-burniston.co.uk>
 for fixing setting 'synced' in cRemux when recording radio channels

Patrick Gleichmann <patrick@feedface.com>
 for fixing the default quality value when grabbing a JPEG image
 for suggesting a modified page scrolling behaviour
 for suggesting wrapping around in menu lists

Achim Tuffentsammer <a.tuffentsammer@web.de>
 for reporting a crash in case a plugin needs to issue an error message before the
 skin has been set up

Michael Heyse <mhk@designassembly.de>
 for his help in keeping 'channels.conf.terr' up to date

Marco Kremer <vdr.hgm.bg@gmx.net>
 for reporting a problem with playing files with PES packets longer than 2048 byte
 through the full featured DVB card

Walter Koch <koch@u32.de>
 for adding channels for DVB-T D<>sseldorf and K<>ln (Germany) to channels.cont.terr
 for fixing some missing '-' in the German OSD texts

Rolf Groppe <rolf@groppe.de>
 for suggesting to fall back to 'stereo' when switching channels in case the user
 had switched to 'left' or 'right'

Wolfgang Rohdewald <wolfgang@rohdewald.de>
 for pointing out that primaryDevice = NULL should be done before deleting the devices
 in cDevice::Shutdown()
 for removing some unneeded code and fixing access to unallocated memory in
 cEvent::FixEpgBugs()
 for adding a missing cMutexLock to cRemote::HasKeys()
 for removing an unnecessary #include from osd.c
 for reporting a problem with with numerical input to switch channels if Up, Down,
 Channel+ or Channel- is pressed

Chad Flynt <hoochster@sofnet.com>
 for suggestions and experiments regarding the buffer reserve in cTransfer

Chris Warren <dvb@ixalon.net>
 for pointing out that the call to system("sync") in SpinUpDisk() should be
 replaced with fsync(f) to avoid problems on NPTL systems
 for fixing dropping EPG events that have a zero start time or duration, in case it's
 an NVOD event

Luca Olivetti <luca@ventoso.org>
 for making cDevice::AttachPlayer() keep the track language codes and descriptions
 in Transfer Mode
 for suggesting to make the "Menu" key behave consistently
 for suggesting to implement a timeout for remote controls that don't deliver
 "repeat" keypresses very fast
 for reporting a broken entry 'A111.1W' in sources.conf

Mikko Salo <mikko.salo@ppe.inet.fi>
 for suggesting to make the setup option "DVB/Video display format" available only
 if "Video format" is set to "4:3"

Roman Krenick<63> <free-rtk@gmx.de>
 for a patch that was used a a basis for changing a timer's day handling to full date
 for considering the "EPG linger time" when saving the EPG data to file or listing
 it via LSTE

Ville Skytt<74> <ville.skytta@iki.fi>
 for reporting several compiler warnings in gcc 4.0
 for including the optional user defined Make.config from the 'libsi' Makefile
 for making LIRC command parsing more robust
 for fixing some typos in MANUAL
 for reporting that the default value for "Setup/EPG bugfix level" was wrong
 for fixing initializing pthread_mutexattr_t and pthread_rwlockattr_t to avoid
 warnings with g++ 4.1.0
 for reporting warnings with g++ 4.1.0 regarding incrementing the 'state' variables
 in the repacker classes in remux.c
 for adding a missing #include <linux/unistd.h> to thread.c
 for adding missing i18n entry for the "Timer" button
 for removing the obsolete "ca.conf" section from vdr.1
 for making the cLircRemote try to reestablish the connection to the LIRC daemon
 in case it breaks
 for enabling generating a core dump if VDR is run with a different user id
 for reporting an obsolete entry 'S21.5E' in the default 'diseqc.conf'
 for updating the GPL copies
 for fixing several spelling errors
 for reporting that the call to pthread_setschedparam(childTid, SCHED_RR, 0) in
 thread.c caused a compiler warning with g++ 4.1.1
 for fixing converting the port number in the "connect from..." log message of SVDRP
 for reporting that there are places where ntohs() is assigned to different types
 for adapting cThread::ThreadId() to recent kernels
 for some improvements to the man pages
 for fixing some spelling errors in 'newplugin'
 for suggesting to add the "...or (at your option) any later version" phrase to the
 license information of all plugins, and also the 'newplugin' script
 for fixing the link to the GPL2 at http://www.gnu.org in vdr.c

Steffen Beyer <cpunk@reactor.de>
 for fixing setting the colored button help after deleting a recording in case the next
 menu entry is a directory

Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@st.com>
 for fixing a memory leak in tComponent
 for introducing a separate 'plugins-install' target in the Makefile

Matthias L<>tzke <Matthias@Loetzke.de>
 for adding missing text internationalization for "Starting EPG scan"

Wolfgang Fritz <wolfgang.fritz@gmx.net>
 for making recordings avoid zero sized video data files

Michael Reinelt <reinelt@eunet.at>
 for reporting a problem with the EPG scan on systems that don't use DiSEqC

Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
 for pointing out that the byte swap for big endian systems in cDvbOsd::Flush()
 is wrong
 for suggesting to use gettid() syscall to get a thread's pid, so that we get a
 useful value on NPTL systems

Paavo Hartikainen <pahartik@sci.fi>
 for verifying that the byte swap for big endian systems in cDvbOsd::Flush() was
 wrong

Georg Acher <acher@baycom.de>
 for making tChannelID::operator==() inline for better performance
 for introducing cListBase::count for better performance
 for a patch that was used to implement hash tables to speed up cSchedule::GetEvent()
 for avoiding unnecessary calls to getLength() in libsi/si.c, and avoiding the
 '& 0xff' in CRC32::crc32() of libsi/util.c
 for suggesting to reduce the priority of the section handler threads
 for a patch that was used to implement a hash for the channels
 for reporting a problem with error handling in cCiTransportConnection::RecvTPDU()

Henrik Niehaus <henrik.niehaus@gmx.de>
 for reporting a problem with timers with a day given as MTWTF--@6, i.e. a repeating
 timer with first day not as full date, but just day of month

Martin Wache <M.Wache@gmx.net>
 for adding a sleep in cDvbPlayer::Action() in case there is no data to send to the
 device, which avoids a busy loop on very fast machines
 for fixing a possible crash when loading an invalid XPM file

Matthias Lenk <matthias.lenk@amd.com>
 for reporting an out-of-bounds memory access with audio language ids

Frank Kr<4B>mmelbein <kroemmelbein@gmx.de>
 for adding missing storing of the MenuScrollPage parameter
 for reporting a problem with channel switching with the Down (Up) key in case the
 current channel is already the first (last) in the list
 for fixing some typos in the CONTRIBUTORS file

Bernhard Stegmaier <bernhard.stegmaier@in.tum.de>
 for reporting a problem in cEITScanner::Process() with forced EPG scans if EPG
 scan timeout is set to 0

Klaus Heppenheimer <klaus@reel-multimedia.com>
 for reporting a race condition in cTransfer

Thomas G<>nther <tom1@toms-cafe.de>
 for fixing handling the frame number display if '7' is pressed before the first
 editing mark, or '9' after the last one
 for suggesting to move cMenuEditTimer and cMenuEvent to menu.h so that plugins
 can use it
 for fixing converting arbitrarily formatted summary.vdr files
 for making the 'new' indicator in the Recordings menu kept up-to-date
 for reporting a crash when setting the time transponder in the Setup menu
 for reporting a bug in the initial setting of the time transponder setup parameter
 for suggesting to extend the version number reported with the '-V' option to also
 show the current APIVERSION
 for fixing i18n characters for the Hungarian texts
 for implementing using nl_langinfo(CODESET) to determine the local codeset to use

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
 for his help in replacing the get/put_unaligned() macros from asm/unaligned.h with
 own inline functions to avoid problems on platforms that don't provide these

Marcus Hilbrich <s4440288@mail.inf.tu-dresden.de>
 for a bug report that lead to fixing the EPG scan, so that it doesn't use the
 primary device if that is currently in Transfer-Mode from itself

Hardy Flor <HFlor@web.de>
 for a patch that was used as a base to implement SVDRP commands for plugins
 for implementing the SVDRP command PLAY
 for reporting that RemoveEmptyVideoDirectories() was called for every single
 recording that has been deleted

Harald Milz <hm@seneca.muc.de>
 for his CUTR patch, which was used as a base to implement the SVDRP command EDIT

Marko M<>kel<65> <marko.makela@hut.fi>
 for making repeat keys be ignored when waiting for a keypress to cancel an operation
 for reporting that a menu was automatically closed when a replay ends
 for suggesting to ignore k_Repeat when deciding whether the same key has been
 pressed in string input fields
 for fixing missing ',' in the Italian and Polish OSD texts
 for pointing out that "Menu button closes" should actually be "Menu key closes"

Patrick Rother <krd-vdr@gulu.net>
 for reporting a bug in defining timers that only differ in the day of week

Alexander Rieger <Alexander.Rieger@inka.de>
 for fixing two errors in 'newplugin'
 for fixing handling color buttons in cMenuEditStrItem
 for making the '.update' file in the video directory be touched when a recording is
 added or deleted, so that other VDR instances can update their lists
 for adding cSkin::GetTextAreaWidth() and cSkin::GetTextAreaFont()
 for fixing a typo in skins.h
 for making cSkins::QueueMessage() called from a background thread with an empty
 message clears all messages that have been previously queued by that thread
 for reporting that the cTimer::operator=() messes up the cListObject's pointers
 for reporting a memory leak in the cTimer::operator=() when using the 'aux' string
 for fixing cTimer::operator=() in case a cTimer variable is assigned to itself
 for making the list of tracks given in cStatus::SetAudioTrack() NULL terminated
 for fixing handling kLeft in the calls to cStatus::MsgOsdTextItem()

Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx@redfish-solutions.com>
 for updates to 'sources.conf'

Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
 for making VDR use use daemon() instead of fork() to run in daemon mode
 for fixing a possible endless loop in a menu with no selectable items if
 Setup.MenuScrollWrap is true (thanks to Enrico Scholz)

Nicolas Huillard <nhuillard@e-dition.fr>
 for translating OSD texts to the French language

Patrick Fischer <patrick_fischer@gmx.de>
 for reporting an error in the cFilter example in PLUGINS.html
 for making the static cControl functions thread safe
 for suggesting that the cTimer constructor should take an optional cChannel
 for suggesting that any cReceivers still attached to a cDevice when that device
 switches to a different transponder shall be automatically detached
 for reporting that characters 0x01 and 0x02 in recording names were a problem
 with XML

Ralf M<>ller <ralf@bj-ig.de>
 for a patch that was used to implement cUnbufferedFile

Maarten Wisse <Maarten.Wisse@urz.uni-hd.de>
 for translating OSD texts to the Dutch language

Holger Brunn <holger.brunn@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>
 for adding a copy constructor to cString and fixing its assignment operator

Christian Vogt <c.v@nexgo.de>
 for suggesting to take deleted recordings into account when displaying the
 amount of free disk space

Christof Steininger <christof.steininger@t-online.de>
 for fixing a possible crash when displaying the "Low disk space!" message from
 a background thread

Kendy Kutzner <kutzner@ira.uka.de>
 for making the version number of EPG events be stored in the epg.data file
 for suggesting to add cTimer::SetPriority() to set a timer's priority

Bob Withers <bwit@pobox.com>
 for publishing a Base64 encoder at http://www.ruffboy.com/download.htm
 (http://www.ruffboy.com/code/Base64.zip), part of which was used when writing
 the cBase64Encoder class

Javier Fern<72>ndez-Sanguino Pe<50>a <jfs@computer.org>
 for reporting a security hole in the way the SVDRP command GRAB writes the
 image file

J<EFBFBD>rgen Schneider <ivory7@gmx.de>
 for a patch that was used as a base to fix handling multi byte key sequences
 in cKbdRemote

Christian Wieninger <cwieninger@gmx.de>
 for suggesting to add cMenuEditStrItem::InEditMode()
 for his idea of going directly into the "Edit timer" menu for a timer created
 from the "Schedule" menu in case it starts withing the next two minutes
 for reporting a problem with a format string in recording.c on 64bit systems
 for reporting a problem with the device selection in case of timer conflicts
 for a patch that fixed part of a crash in i18n character set conversion
 for reporting a bug in stripping the context in I18nTranslate()
 for fixing a crash when pressing Left while at the first character of a
 cMenuEditStrItem

Thiemo Gehrke <tgehrke@reel-multimedia.com>
 for suggesting to add a setup option to turn off the automatic timeout of the
 channel display in case it was invoked by a press of the "Ok" key

Gavin Hamill <gdh@acentral.co.uk>
 for reporting a missing #include "thread.h" in dvbspu.c

Petri Hintukainen <Petri.Hintukainen@hut.fi>
 for suggesting to disable the use of "fadvise" in cUnbufferedFile because there
 have been several reports that it causes more problems than it solves
 for suggesting to add --remove-destination to the 'cp' command for binaries in
 the Makefile to avoid a crash in case a new version is installed on a running system
 for fixing handling video directory updates in case the timestamp of the .update
 file is in the future
 for fixing handling video directory updates in case an other process has touched the
 .update file after the last NeedsUpdate() check
 for fixing a possible crash if cPluginManager::GetPlugin() is called with a NULL
 pointer
 for fixing displaying the error log message in case an unknown plugin was requested
 in a key macro
 for pointing out that keys from expanded key macros should be put into the front of
 the key queue to avoid problems if the queue is not empty at that time
 for making cRemote::PutMacro() set a lock while it expands the macro
 for pointing out that plugins from cRemote::PutMacro() and cRemote::CallPlugin()
 need to be handled separately

Marcel Schaeben <mts280@gmx.de>
 for his "Easy Input" patch

Ingo Schneider <mail@ingo-schneider.de>
 for adding a SleepMs() in cRecorder::Action() to avoid a busy loop

Patrick Cernko <errror@errror.org>
 for suggesting to add a note about "modprobe capability" to INSTALL
 for reporting a problem with relative link targets in the ReadLink() function

Philippe Gramoull<6C> <philippe@gramoulle.com>
 for reporting a a missing '-' in the example for viewing a grabbed image on a remote
 host

Andr<EFBFBD> Weidemann <Andre.Weidemann@web.de>
 for suggesting to only write Dolby Digital tracks into the 'info.vdr' file of a
 recording if Setup.UseDolbyDigital is true

J<EFBFBD>rgen Schilling <juergen_schilling@web.de>
 for reporting that color buttons were displayed in the recording info menu if it
 has been invoked from a player

Jesus Bravo Alvarez <jba@pobox.com>
 for reporting a second place where a message should be given when an instant
 recording is started
 for updating the Spanish OSD texts

Francois-Xavier Kowalski <francois-xavier.kowalski@hp.com>
 for suggesting how to modify logging so that even on NPTL systems each line in
 the log file shows the individual thread's pid

Franz Gangkofer <Franz.Gangkofer@cadsoft.de>
 for reporting a problem with @plugin in keymacros.conf in case the named plugin
 is not loaded

Malte Schr<68>der <MalteSch@gmx.de>
 for reporting a crash after executing the SVDRP command CLRE
 for reporting a crash with the code for detecting Premiere NVOD channel links

Markus Hahn <mhahn@reel-multimedia.com>
 for suggesting to only start recordings if there is at least 300MB free disk space
 for suggesting that the "Back" key should restore the original string when pressed
 while editing a string item
 for fixing detection of Premiere NVOD channel links

Jaroslaw Swierczynski <swiergot@gmail.com>
 for updating the Polish OSD texts and the fontosd-iso8859-2.c file

Alexander Hans <cleditor@arcor.de>
 for reporting a crash when pressing '0' in the "Schedule" menu on a channel that
 doesn't have any EPG data
 for giving the DrawBitmap() function a new parameter 'Overlay' that allows a bitmap
 to be drawn with a transparent background
 for reporting that the "'1' for encrypted radio channels" part in the description
 of the VPID in vdr.5 is obsolete
 for a patch that was used to implement storing the channel name in info.vdr

Daniel Karsubka <dkar@gmx.de>
 for suggesting to write the epg.data file when VDR exits

Suur Karu <suurkaru@fastmail.fm>
 for reporting a problem with the tuning timeout for channels that have low symbol
 rates
 for reporting that dropping the 'uint64' typedef caused many plugins to be modified

Ronny Kornexl <ronny.kornexl@online.de>
 for reporting a problem with setting "No title" for broken event data
 for suggesting to make the "Use small font" setup option *always* use the small
 font if set to '2' - even if it would have been a fixed font
 for reporting a bug in initializing 'noapiv' in the Makefile

Vladim<EFBFBD>r B<>rta <vladimir.barta@k2atmitec.cz>
 for translating OSD texts to the Czech language
 for fixing the character 'r' in fontosd and fontsml for iso8859-2
 for fixing the character #207 in fontosd for iso8859-2

Christoph Haubrich <christoph1.haubrich@arcor.de>
 for making the "Ok" key in the "Jump" mode of the replay progress display confirm
 the jump instead of closing the display
 for reporting that the log message "deleting plugin: ..." is irritating when
 calling "vdr --help"
 for fixing cDevice::ToggleMute()
 for suggestions that led to implementing cOsd::SetOsdPosition() etc.
 for fixing a typo in the function name of cOsd::SetOsdPosition() and adding a range
 check to it
 for changing cBitmap::DrawText() to always draw the background unless ColorBg
 is clrTransparent

Pekka Mauno <pekka.mauno@iki.fi>
 for fixing cSchedule::GetFollowingEvent() in case there is currently no present
 event running

Alexander Wenzel <hondansx@gmx.de>
 for fixing the shutdown timeout

Jan Lenz <email@JanLenz.de>
 for reporting a bug in deleting recordings that have been removed externally when
 running out of disk space

Oleg Roitburd <oleg@roitburd.de>
 for translating OSD texts to the Russian language
 for updating 'sources.conf'

Marius Heidenstecker <marius@heidenstecker.de>
 for suggesting to make cMenuRecordings::GetRecording() 'protected'

Jurij Retzlaff <jurij@topofweb.de>
 for fixing learning keys when VDR is already running

Richard Lithvall <richard@lithvall.se>
 for adding a tolerance for symbol rate values that are off by one

Tobias Grimm <listaccount@e-tobi.net>
 for suggesting to use geteuid() to check whether VDR is running as user 'root'
 for fixing a memory leak in handling external EPG data
 for fixing a memory leak in closing the video file during replay
 for fixing deleting the 'skinDescriptions' in cMenuSetupOSD::~cMenuSetupOSD()

Helge Lenz <h.lenz@gmx.de>
 for reporting a bug in setting the 'Delta' parameter when calling the shutdown
 script with no active timer

Peter Juszack <vdr@unterbrecher.de>
 for a patch that was used as a base to implement kNext and kPrev

Pierre Briec <pbriec@free.fr>
 for translating OSD texts to the French language

Werner Schweer <ws@seh.de>
 for pointing out that the 'z' printf modifier should be used for 'size_t' type
 arguments

Nino Gerbino <ngerb@interfree.it>
 for translating OSD texts to the Italian language

Markus Ehrnsperger <markus.ehrnsperger@googlemail.com>
 for reporting a problem with missing 'INCLUDES += -I$(DVBDIR)/include' in an existing
 Make.config

Werner F<>rber <w.faerber@gmx.de>
 for reporting a bug in handling the cPluginManager::Active() result when pressing
 the "Power" key

Dominique Simon <d.simon@gmx.net>
 for reporting a bug in handling the "Power" key in case a recording is going on and
 no plugin is active

M. Kiesel <vdr@continuity.cjb.net>
 for reporting that the 'runvdr' script still used DVBDIR

Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>
 for suggesting to remove -fPIC from VDR's and libsi's Makefile
 for adding a missing variable initialization in cRingBufferLinear::cRingBufferLinear()

Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@gmail.com>
 for a patch that was used to implement processing the "frequency list descriptor"
 for suggesting that cDevice::GetDevice() should prefer any device that's already
 receiving and doesn't require detatching receivers
 for improving handling Transfer Mode devices when selecting a device to receive
 for fixing handling frequencies in NitFilter::Process()
 for making non-primary devices in Transfer mode be also used for recording
 for code and hints on how to use 'fontconfig' to determine which fonts to use
 for suggesting to make the "Setup/OSD/Language" menu only show those languages
 that actually have a locale
 for suggesting to use setenv() instead of setlocale() to set the language for gettext()
 for fixing handling locale directories with a large number of entries
 for suggesting to change the default for LOCDIR in Makefile and Make.config.template
 to "./locale", so that internationalization works by default when running VDR
 from within its source directory

Antti Hartikainen <ami+vdr@ah.fi>
 for updating 'S13E' in 'sources.conf'

Bernd Melcher <bernd@bernd-melcher.de>
 for reporting a problem with the 'servicedemo' plugin having no PLUGIN macro

Patrick Maier <maierp@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
 for fixing handling network masks in the svdrphosts.conf file

Norbert Wentz <norbert.wentz@online.de>
 for reporting a bug in handling relative volume settings in the call to
 cStatus::MsgSetVolume()

Frank Schmirler <vdr@schmirler.de>
 for fixing handling client side termination of SVDRP connections
 for fixing assigning schedules to channels in case there is no initial EPG information
 for making entering text via the numeric keys check the characters against the
 allowed characters
 for fixing handling address masks in SVDRP host settings

J<EFBFBD>rn Reder <joern@zyn.de>
 for reporting that a recording may unnecessarily block a device with a CAM, while
 it could record on the primary device as well

Tomas Berglund <tomber@telia.com>
 for reporting a problem with sticky PIDs in CAMs when switching between encrypted
 channels on the same transponder

Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>
 for suggesting to add LC_ALL to the checks for UTF-8 at startup
 for fixing getting the code setting from the locale
 for improving i18n-to-gettext.pl
 for suggesting to move the "all" target in plugin Makefiles before the
 "Implicit rules", so that a plain "make" will compile everything
 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

Martin Ostermann <martin@familie-ostermann.de>
 for fixing processing the PDCDescriptor in 'libsi' on big endian systems

Boguslaw Juza <bogdan@uci.agh.edu.pl>
 for reporting that there are stations that use blanks in the language codes
 for reporting that events without an ExtendedEventDescriptor may get duplicate
 information in their ShortText through the EPG bugfixes in case they are received
 again
 for reporting a problem with language codes of recorded audio tracks on channels with
 multiple tracks

Ulf Kiener <webmaster@ulf-kiener.de>
 for reporting a problem with audio track descriptions in the DVD plugin after a
 replay has been stopped

J<EFBFBD>rg Wendel <vdr-ml@jwendel.de>
 for reporting that cPlugin::Active() was called too often

Peter Pinnau <vdr@unterbrecher.de>
 for reporting that 'uint32_t' requires uncluding stdint.h in font.h on some systems

Petri Helin <phelin@googlemail.com>
 for suggesting to avoid budget DVB cards with Common Interface when tuning to an
 FTA channel

Oktay Yolge<67>en <oktay_73@yahoo.de>
 for translating OSD texts to the Turkish language

Krzysztof Parma <krzycho@zoz.wodzislaw.pl>
 for suggesting to implement the SVDRP command REMO

Alexander Riedel <alexander-riedel@t-online.de>
 for a patch that was used as a base to implement support for Freetype fonts and
 UTF-8 handling
 for a patch that fixed part of a crash in i18n character set conversion

Jose Alberto Reguero <jareguero@telefonica.net>
 for a patch that fixed part of a crash in i18n character set conversion

Patrice Staudt <staudt@engsystem.net>
 for adding full weekday names to i18n.c for plugins to use

Tobias Bratfisch <tobias@reel-multimedia.com>
 for improving numdigits(), isnumber() and strreplace()
 for suggesting to make skipspace() an inline function
 for making some optimizations in cDvbDevice::SetChannelDevice()
 for optimizing cMenuEditChrItem::Set()
 for optimizing cNitFilter::Process()
 for reducing the number of time(NULL) calls in vdr.c's main loop to a single call

Bruno Roussel <bruno.roussel@free.fr>
 for translating OSD texts to the French language

Matthias Becker <becker.matthias@gmail.com>
 for suggesting to add a new i18n macro that can be used by plugins to mark
 texts they want to reuse from VDR's core translations

Halim Sahin <halim.sahin@t-online.de>
 for reporting that the channels.conf file was not written when stopping VDR after
 deleting or moving a channel in the Channels menu

Denis Knauf <denis.knauf@gmail.com>
 for reporting a missing '-' at the next to last line of SVDRP help texts

Diego Pierotto <vdr-italian@tiscali.it>
 for translating OSD texts to the Italian language

Timo Eskola <timo@tolleri.net>
 for implementing sending all frames to devices that can handle them in fast forward
 trick speeds

Elias Luttinen <el@iki.fi>
 for improving the description of where logging goes in the INSTALL file