active developers
=================

main xine programming

  Guenter Bartsch <guenter@users.sourceforge.net>

various suggestions, bug and build fixes, alsa plugin, gui 

  Daniel Caujolle-Bert <f1rmb@users.sourceforge.net>

many bug and deadlock fixes, bitrate detection, soft deinterlacer, 
  massive libwin32 updates

  Miguel Freitas <miguel@cetuc.puc-rio.br>

teletux/syncfb video output module, various bugfixes/reviews, alsa

  Joachim Koenig <Joachim.Koenig@gmx.net>

liba52/libmpeg2 developement

  Michel Lespinasse <walken@zoy.org>

Debian package, user support

  Siegfried Langauf <siggi@users.sourceforge.net>

xine is using

  mpeg2dec - a free MPEG-2 video stream decoder
  liba52   - a free A/52 audio stream decoder
    Written by Aaron Holtzman <aholtzma@ess.engr.uvic.ca>

  libmpg123 - a free MPEG audio decoder
    Written by Michael Hipp <http://www.mpg123.de>
  FFmpeg - Streaming Multimedia System
    Written by Fabrice Bellard <http://ffmpeg.sourceforge.net>

  libmad - MPEG audio decoder
    Written by Robert Leslie <http://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/>

  avifile (Win32 codecs and DirectShow support) <http://avifile.sf.net>
    Written by Eugene Kuznetsov and Zdenek Kabelac
    
  FAAD2 - Freeware Advanced Audio Decoder version 2
    Written by M. Bakker <http://www.audiocoding.com/>

Contributions 

  many thanks to the Linux Video and DVD Project "LiViD"
  (http://www.linuxvideo.org/), where the original ideas for the xine
  video player came from.

  Alan Cox
    bug fixes, net-input-plugin

  many thanks for those great skins to
  Alexander G. Rubio <rubio@c2i.net>

  Steffen Lorscheider <loli@users.sourceforge.net>
    gui programming

  Heiko Schaefer <heikos@users.sourceforge.net>
    FreeBSD support, project administration, testing, ideas   

  Marc Bufe <nylon@users.sourceforge.net>
    web design

  Paul Flinders <paul@dawa.demon.co.uk>
    stdin/net plugin testing/bugfixes, audio downsampling

  Hugo Trippaers <spark@ision.nl>
    Xinerama support

  Roland Barmettler <roli@freestone.net>
    NTSC aspect ratio patches

  nakamura <pdf30044@biglobe.ne.jp>
    Liner PCM patch

  Joachim Koenig <Joachim.Koenig@gmx.net>
    teletux/syncfb video output module, various bugfixes/reviews, alsa

  w32codec support is based on work from:
  avifile http://avifile.sf.net
  MPlayer http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
  wine    http://www.winehq.com

  Christian Bauer <cbauer@student.physik.uni-mainz.de>
    gui bugfixes (wm support, clean exit)

  Bruno Schwander <bruno.schwander@technologist.com> and
  Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
    input_vcd code for FreeBSD

  Rich Wareham <richwareham@users.sourceforge.net>
    subtitle support, navigation

  Christoph Pittracher <pitt@gmx.at>
    pitt skin

  Dave Gilbert <gilbertd@treblig.org>
    alpha support

  Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
    powerpc patch

  James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.demon.co.uk>
    AC3 direct out via spdif on oss, subtitle interface, audio_output interface

  Juergen Keil <jk@tools.de>
    solaris port and other bugfixes

  Philip Stadermann <pstadermann@gmx.de>
    arts audio server support, kde frontend

  Eduard Hasenleithner <eduardh@aon.at>
    dxr3 support

  Matthias Hopf <Matthias.Hopf@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
    IRIX port

  Jérôme Villette <villette@chem.leidenuniv.nl>
    'xinetic', 'CelomaGold', 'CelomaMdk' and 'CelomaChrome' skins.

  Bill Fink <billfink@mindspring.com>
    powerpc patches, oss output softsync, "skip by chapter" feature

  Gert Vervoort <Gert.Vervoort@wxs.nl>
    LPCM audio decoder plugin, ffmpeg aspect ratio

  Peter Weissgerber <peterw2000@altavista.de>
    alsa 05 plugin fixes

  Alfredo J. Delaiti alfredodelaiti@netscape.net 
    FAQ spanish translation
    
  Marco Solari <marcosolari@libero.it>
    FAQ and README italian translation

  Luis Silva <luix.silvix@clix.pt>
    xine about movie

  Harm van der Heijden <hrm@users.sourceforge.net>
    libdivx4 plugin, dxr3 support and encoding

  Chris Rankin <rankinc@pacbell.net>
    configurable VCD device patch

  Andrew Meredith <andrew@anvil.org>
    Snapshot feature

  Stefan Reinauer <stepan@suse.de>
    ia64, s/390 patches

  Bartlomiej Muryn <forever@klub.chip.pl>
    README.dxr3 and xine-ui polish translations, dxr3 testing

  Damien Clermonte <damien.clermonte@free.fr>
    http input plugin patches

  Thibaut Mattern <tmattern@noos.fr>
    zooming feature for Xv video-out plugin, demuxer cleanups and fixes

  Matthias Dahl <matthew2k@web.de>
    syncfb video-out plugin, XF86VidMode support, FAQ/README overhaul, bugfixes

  Marcelo Roberto Jimenez <mroberto@cetuc.puc-rio.br>
    w32dll audio and xine-ui bugfixes

  George Staikos <staikos@0wned.org>
    xinerama bugfixes
      
  Juan Manuel García Molina <juanmagm@mail.com>
    spanish internationalization files.

  Jeffrey W. Baker <jwbaker@acm.org>
    altivec support for libmpeg2

  Gurer Ozen <madcat@users.sourceforge.net>
    gtk+ frontend
  
  Christian Vogler <cvogler@gradient.cis.upenn.edu>
    closed caption decoding, osd fixes

  Tommi Asiala <sir@kase.fi>
    Readme in Finnish

  Daniel Erat <dan_erat@pobox.com>
    'cloudy' skin.
  
  Ewald Snel <ewald@rambo.its.tudelft.nl>
    metronom sync loop fix, safe ffmpeg multithread init, memleak fixes

  Bruno Pinaud <bpinaud@wanadoo.fr>
    french translation updates/fixes.

  Philipp Matthias Hahn <pmhahn@titan.lahn.de>
    many translation files and man pages updates/fixes

  Tomas Kovar <tomask@mac.com>
    slovak internationalization files (xine lib), xvid support
 
  Daniel Bena <Daniel.Bena@dm-drogeriemarkt.sk>
    slovak internationalization files (xine ui).

  Scott Smith <ssmith@akamai.com>
    yuv2rgb optimizations and downscaling support

  Jirka Novak <j.novak@netsystem.cz>
    font encoding support for avi subtitles

  Michael Jochum <e9725005@stud3.tuwien.ac.at>
    avi multiple audio stream support
 
  Andrei Lahun <Uman@editec-lotteries.com>	
    mms/browser plugin enhancements, asf fixes

  Sergiy Kudryk <linux_ua@yahoo.com>
    ukrainian internationalization files (xine ui).

  Michael Roitzsch <mroi@users.sourceforge.net>
    several dxr3 fixes
    
  Frantisek Dvorak <valtri@atlas.cz>
    czech internationalization files (xine lib/ui).

  Ian Goldberg <ian@cypherpunks.ca>
    "streaming" AVI support (plays growing files), >2GB AVI files

  Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>
    C version for linear blend deinterlacer

  Mike Melanson <melanson@pcisys.net>
    QT, FILM, RoQ, WAV, FLI, SMJPEG, and Id CIN file demuxers, RoQ audio
    decoder, various ADPCM audio decoders, raw RGB & YUV support, FLI &
    MS RLE video decoders

  Tim Ferguson <timf@mail.csse.monash.edu.au>
    CYUV and RoQ video decoders

  Andrew Patrikalakis <anrp@irulethe.net>
    powerpc assembly memcpy() implementaions (after lots of discussion with
			Rogério Brito <rbrito@iname.com>,
			Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
			Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> and others)

  Giovanni Baronetti and Mauro Borghi <mauro.borghi@tilab.com>
    demux_ts fixes and improvements

  Carsten Weinhold <cw.news@gmx.net>
    patch to improve quality of linearblend filter

  Dennis Bjorklund <db@zigo.dhs.org>
    configurable size of avi subtitles,
    patch to fix flashing subtitles in libsputext
      
  Claire Griffin <claire@comedia.com>
    demux_ts fixes for ATSC streams

  Staszek Pasko <staszek@evopolska.com>
    binary index search for avi demuxer

  Dan Lindstrom <lindstromd@gmx.net>
    64-bit Quicktime fixes

  Andres Salomon <dilinger@voxel.net>
    memory leakage fixes

  Pierre Lombard <p-l-42@wanadoo.fr>
    patch to avoid loss of first line in linearblend deinterlacer

    (let us know if we've forgotten anyone)