diff --git a/libavformat/srtdec.c b/libavformat/srtdec.c
index 9089331849..f55fb11774 100644
--- a/libavformat/srtdec.c
+++ b/libavformat/srtdec.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 
 #include "avformat.h"
 #include "internal.h"
+#include "libavutil/bprint.h"
 #include "libavutil/intreadwrite.h"
 
 static int srt_probe(AVProbeData *p)
@@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ static int srt_read_header(AVFormatContext *s)
     return 0;
 }
 
-static int64_t get_pts(char **buf, int *duration,
+static int64_t get_pts(const char **buf, int *duration,
                        int32_t *x1, int32_t *y1, int32_t *x2, int32_t *y2)
 {
     int i;
@@ -81,27 +82,69 @@ static inline int is_eol(char c)
     return c == '\r' || c == '\n';
 }
 
+static void read_chunk(AVIOContext *pb, AVBPrint *buf)
+{
+    char eol_buf[5];
+    int n = 0, i = 0, nb_eol = 0;
+
+    for (;;) {
+        char c = avio_r8(pb);
+
+        if (!c)
+            break;
+
+        /* ignore all initial line breaks */
+        if (n == 0 && is_eol(c))
+            continue;
+
+        /* line break buffering: we don't want to add the trailing \r\n */
+        if (is_eol(c)) {
+            nb_eol += c == '\n';
+            if (nb_eol == 2)
+                break;
+            eol_buf[i++] = c;
+            if (i == sizeof(eol_buf) - 1)
+                break;
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        /* only one line break followed by data: we flush the line breaks
+         * buffer */
+        if (i) {
+            eol_buf[i] = 0;
+            av_bprintf(buf, "%s", eol_buf);
+            i = nb_eol = 0;
+        }
+
+        av_bprint_chars(buf, c, 1);
+        n++;
+    }
+
+    /* FIXME: remove the following when the lavc SubRip decoder is fixed
+     * (trailing tags are not correctly flushed, see what happens to FATE when
+     * you disable this code) */
+    if (buf->len)
+        av_bprintf(buf, "\n");
+}
+
 static int srt_read_packet(AVFormatContext *s, AVPacket *pkt)
 {
-    char buffer[2048], *ptr = buffer, *ptr2;
+    AVBPrint buf;
     int64_t pos = avio_tell(s->pb);
     int res = AVERROR_EOF;
 
-    do {
-        ptr2 = ptr;
-        ptr += ff_get_line(s->pb, ptr, sizeof(buffer)+buffer-ptr);
-    } while (!is_eol(*ptr2) && !url_feof(s->pb) && ptr-buffer<sizeof(buffer)-1);
+    av_bprint_init(&buf, 0, AV_BPRINT_SIZE_UNLIMITED);
+    read_chunk(s->pb, &buf);
 
-    if (buffer[0]) {
+    if (buf.len) {
         int64_t pts;
-        int duration;
-        const char *end = ptr;
+        int duration, pkt_size;
+        const char *ptr = buf.str;
         int32_t x1 = -1, y1 = -1, x2 = -1, y2 = -1;
 
-        ptr = buffer;
         pts = get_pts(&ptr, &duration, &x1, &y1, &x2, &y2);
-        if (pts != AV_NOPTS_VALUE &&
-            !(res = av_new_packet(pkt, end - ptr))) {
+        pkt_size = buf.len - (ptr - buf.str);
+        if (pts != AV_NOPTS_VALUE && !(res = av_new_packet(pkt, pkt_size))) {
             memcpy(pkt->data, ptr, pkt->size);
             pkt->flags |= AV_PKT_FLAG_KEY;
             pkt->pos = pos;
@@ -118,6 +161,7 @@ static int srt_read_packet(AVFormatContext *s, AVPacket *pkt)
             }
         }
     }
+    av_bprint_finalize(&buf, NULL);
     return res;
 }