While the patch removes the problem, it causes another, albeit small. Now subtitleeditor won't open video files specified in command line (or when invoked through file type association), complaining about unknown encoding. When opening the same video file from subtitleeditor menu bar, after the program has fully started, it works without problems. It seems that subtitleeditor tries to open a video file before some gstreamer subsystems are fully initialized.

Now with newer versions of gstreamer in Ubuntu 12.10, it does not work anymore (not even a 50 attempts at opening a video file result in success, it always crashes down). There are some interesting stacktraces on the gnome bug, I would really appreciate if someone looked into this as subtitleeditor is currently unusable (at least on Ubuntu). I would do it myslef if I knew how.

Turns out this is a bug in libgstreamer0.10:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675943

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gstreamer0.10/+bug/991132

Some videos crash Subtitle editor everytime I try to load them saying:

• • • glibc detected *** /home/drew/Sources/subtitleeditor-0.40.0/src/.libs/lt-subtitleeditor: malloc(): memory corruption: 0x00000000024608d0 ***

Notably, when I load some other video first, these videos then usually load just find. I can provide the video (they are 250MB, but I can upload them somewhere) and I would like to provide a better stacktrace, but I am not sure how to do that.