diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 16515547ed..6f1ebd97cb 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2006-10-18  Tim-Philipp Müller  <tim at centricular dot net>
+
+	* gst/subparse/gstsubparse.c:
+	(gst_sub_parse_data_format_autodetect):
+	  Don't require subrip (.srt) files to start with a chunk number of 1.
+
 2006-10-18  Wim Taymans  <wim@fluendo.com>
 
 	* gst-libs/gst/audio/gstbaseaudiosink.c:
diff --git a/gst/subparse/gstsubparse.c b/gst/subparse/gstsubparse.c
index 8771054b88..a073c82041 100644
--- a/gst/subparse/gstsubparse.c
+++ b/gst/subparse/gstsubparse.c
@@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ gst_sub_parse_data_format_autodetect (gchar * match_str)
     need_init_regexps = FALSE;
     if ((err = regcomp (&mdvd_rx, "^\\{[0-9]+\\}\\{[0-9]+\\}",
                 REG_EXTENDED | REG_NEWLINE | REG_NOSUB) != 0) ||
-        (err = regcomp (&subrip_rx, "^1(\x0d)?\x0a"
+        (err = regcomp (&subrip_rx, "^[1-9]([0-9]){0,3}(\x0d)?\x0a"
                 "[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9],[0-9]{3}"
                 " --> [0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9],[0-9]{3}",
                 REG_EXTENDED | REG_NEWLINE | REG_NOSUB)) != 0) {