Lately (or actually since way back, I’ve just started to notice it a bit more nowdays) I’ve been getting this annoying error when downloading subtitles from opensubtitles.org, smplayer finds the subtitle and starts to download it, but fails at random points during the download and throws the error “failed to download subtitle”. Today I set out to fix this annoying problem – however, it didn’t take me long to find out that there actually was a bugreport on this, and that the bug also been fixed in later svn-revisions. I checked out the latest source (3614 as of writing) and built the packages for Ubuntu 10.04/11.04, feel free to grab them them here (10.04) and here(11.04). Once downloaded, just install them with dpkg,