diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 975c4af57..63b84a8d7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2010-03-03  Moritz Bunkus  <moritz@bunkus.org>
+
+	* mkvmerge: bug fix: The SRT reader skips empty lines at the
+	beginning of the file.
+
 2010-03-02  Moritz Bunkus  <moritz@bunkus.org>
 
 	* Build system: bug fix: Fixed the configure script and compilation
diff --git a/src/input/subtitles.cpp b/src/input/subtitles.cpp
index c4ee76bce..dc46eca87 100644
--- a/src/input/subtitles.cpp
+++ b/src/input/subtitles.cpp
@@ -44,8 +44,11 @@ bool
 srt_parser_c::probe(mm_text_io_c *io) {
   try {
     io->setFilePointer(0, seek_beginning);
-    std::string s = io->getline();
-    strip(s);
+    std::string s;
+    do {
+      s = io->getline();
+      strip(s);
+    } while (s.empty());
 
     int64_t dummy;
     if (!parse_int(s, dummy))