13. Contributors¶
Note
This documentation is outdated. There are several other DVB contributors that aren’t listed below.
Thanks go to the following people for patches and contributions:
- Michael Hunold <m.hunold@gmx.de>- for the initial saa7146 driver and its recent overhaul
 
- Christian Theiss- for his work on the initial Linux DVB driver
 
- Marcus Metzler <mocm@metzlerbros.de> and
Ralph Metzler <rjkm@metzlerbros.de>- for their continuing work on the DVB driver
 
- Michael Holzt <kju@debian.org>- for his contributions to the dvb-net driver
 
- Diego Picciani <d.picciani@novacomp.it>- for CyberLogin for Linux which allows logging onto EON (in case you are wondering where CyberLogin is, EON changed its login procedure and CyberLogin is no longer used.)
 
- Martin Schaller <martin@smurf.franken.de>- for patching the cable card decoder driver
 
- Klaus Schmidinger <Klaus.Schmidinger@cadsoft.de>- for various fixes regarding tuning, OSD and CI stuff and his work on VDR
 
- Steve Brown <sbrown@cortland.com>- for his AFC kernel thread
 
- Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>- for his LIRC infrared handler
 
- Andreas Oberritter <obi@linuxtv.org>,
Dennis Noermann <dennis.noermann@noernet.de>,
Felix Domke <tmbinc@elitedvb.net>,
Florian Schirmer <jolt@tuxbox.org>,
Ronny Strutz <3des@elitedvb.de>,
Wolfram Joost <dbox2@frokaschwei.de>
and all the other dbox2 people- for many bugfixes in the generic DVB Core, frontend drivers and their work on the dbox2 port of the DVB driver
 
- Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>- for many bugfixes
 
- Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>- for the tda1004x frontend driver, and various bugfixes
 
- Peter Schildmann <peter.schildmann@web.de>- for the driver for the Technisat SkyStar2 PCI DVB card
 
- Vadim Catana <skystar@moldova.cc>,
Roberto Ragusa <r.ragusa@libero.it> and
Augusto Cardoso <augusto@carhil.net>- for all the work for the FlexCopII chipset by B2C2,Inc.
 
- Davor Emard <emard@softhome.net>- for his work on the budget drivers, the demux code, the module unloading problems, ...
 
- Hans-Frieder Vogt <hfvogt@arcor.de>- for his work on calculating and checking the crc’s for the TechnoTrend/Hauppauge DEC driver firmware
 
- Michael Dreher <michael@5dot1.de> and
Andreas ‘randy’ Weinberger- for the support of the Fujitsu-Siemens Activy budget DVB-S
 
- Kenneth Aafløy <ke-aa@frisurf.no>- for adding support for Typhoon DVB-S budget card
 
- Ernst Peinlich <e.peinlich@inode.at>- for tuning/DiSEqC support for the DEC 3000-s
 
- Peter Beutner <p.beutner@gmx.net>- for the IR code for the ttusb-dec driver
 
- Wilson Michaels <wilsonmichaels@earthlink.net>- for the lgdt330x frontend driver, and various bugfixes
 
- Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>- for maintaining v4l/dvb inter-tree dependencies
 
- Taylor Jacob <rtjacob@earthlink.net>- for the nxt2002 frontend driver
 
- Jean-Francois Thibert <jeanfrancois@sagetv.com>- for the nxt2004 frontend driver
 
- Kirk Lapray <kirk.lapray@gmail.com>- for the or51211 and or51132 frontend drivers, and for merging the nxt2002 and nxt2004 modules into a single nxt200x frontend driver.
 
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