Main avifile developers: 
   Eugene Kuznetsov <divx@euro.ru> <cypher@users.sourceforge.net>
   Zdenek Kabelac <kabi@users.sourceforge.net> 
   Heinrich Langos <heinrich@users.sourceforge.net>
   Hiroshi Yamashita <piro@users.sourceforge.net>
   
Build with the following parts from other project sources:

plugins/libwin32/loader/      :  mostly taken from Wine project ( http://www.winehq.com )
plugins/libaudiodec/gsm*      :  XAnim sources, see plugins/libaudiodec/xa_gsm.c for precise copyright
plugins/libmpeg_audiodecoder/ :  'splay' MP3 player, by Jung woo-jae
plugins/libac3pass/	      :  emu10k1 CVS tree -  Juha Yrjölä <jyrjola@cc.hut.fi>
plugins/libmp3lame*/	      :  lame developers
plugins/libffmpeg/	      :  ffmpeg developers (Gerard Lantau,...)
lib/aviread/asfinput.cpp      :  partially from ASFRecorder ( http://members.tripod.com/asfrecorder )
plugins/libvorbis/	      :  based on work of mplayer team - especialy Felix 'Atmosfear' Buenemann 
                                 also the gstream vorbis support has been checked

Many patches from different people - to name just few:

Miguel Freitas <miguel@cetuc.puc-rio.br> for pushing me to finish DirectShow
                loader in plain C - also I've used ideas from his rewrite
Rainer Lay <Rainer.Lay@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> - misc patches for some utilities
Arkadiusz Miskiewicz <misiek@pld.ORG.PL> (autoconf,...)
Mathew Kanner <mat@cnd.mcgill.ca> (FreeBSD,...)
Juergen Keil <jk@tools.de>  (Solaris i386 patches)
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>  (resolving some problems with gcc)
Yue Shi Lai <ylai@linuxmail.org> (patch fo VfmEx based on mplayer code created by Atmosfear)