Democracy Player hung after Yahoo! video search

Binary package hint: democracyplayer

I've reported this upstream and am noting here to keep track of it:

I have been testing out the Democracy .deb 0.96 on Feisty. Everything was working fine until I did a video search for "linux" in Yahoo! video. I got search listings, and then queued up a video to download (I don't remember the specific one), and then Democracy Player froze. I killed the instance, but now it freezes/hangs on startup. Here's the output from the command line:

 /usr/bin/democracyplayer.real:81: DeprecationWarning: The dbus_bindings module is deprecated and will go away soon.

dbus-python 0.80 provides only a partial emulation of the old
dbus_bindings, which was never meant to be public API.

Most uses of dbus_bindings are applications catching the exception
dbus.dbus_bindings.DBusException. You should use dbus.DBusException
instead (this is compatible with all dbus-python versions since 0.40.2).

If you need additional public API, please contact the maintainers via
<email address hidden>.

  import dbus_bindings
/var/lib/python-support/python2.5/dbus_bindings.py:5: DeprecationWarning: The dbus_bindings module is deprecated and will go away soon.

dbus-python 0.80 provides only a partial emulation of the old
dbus_bindings, which was never meant to be public API.

Most uses of dbus_bindings are applications catching the exception
dbus.dbus_bindings.DBusException. You should use dbus.DBusException
instead (this is compatible with all dbus-python versions since 0.40.2).

If you need additional public API, please contact the maintainers via
<email address hidden>.

  from dbus.dbus_bindings import *
INFO Starting up Democracy Player
INFO Version: 0.9.6
INFO Revision: unknown
INFO Loading preferences...
INFO Starting event loop thread
INFO Restoring database...
INFO Connecting to /home/mthaddon/.democracy/sqlitedb
TIMING Database load slow: 1.475
INFO Recomputing filters...
INFO Spawning auto downloader...
INFO Displaying main frame...
INFO *** Launching Downloader Daemon ****
WARNING Menu item action "CheckVersion" not implemented
WARNING Menu item action "FastForward" not implemented
WARNING Menu item action "Rewind" not implemented
WARNING Menu item action "UpVolume" not implemented
WARNING Menu item action "DownVolume" not implemented
WARNING Volume changed before videoDisplay created
WARNING Display updated before video display was created
INFO Creating video display...
INFO Setting VolumeLevel to 1.0
alsa
oss
pulseaudio
none
file
INFO loaded renderer 'xinerenderer'
TIMING gtkAsyncMethod: <function initRenderers at 0x897133c> took too long: 2.321
TIMING gtkSyncMethod: <function getDisplay at 0x8987df4> took too long: 2.671
TIMING Icon clear: 0.025
INFO Finished startup sequence
TIMING idle (Finishing startup) too slow (5.594 secs)
TIMING idle (Finishing startup) cumulative is too slow (5.594 secs)
INFO *** Daemon ready ***
DTV: Warning: Bad Header from http://www.channelfrederator.com:80/rss (Pragma: )
INFO got file:///tmp/tmpzIGszC.html
DTV: Warning: Bad Header from http://www.channelfrederator.com:80/assets/images/album.jpg (Pragma: )
WARNING downloader: connection closed -- quitting
INFO Shutting down downloaders...
/usr/bin/democracyplayer: line 2: 6492 Killed LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/firefox democracyplayer.real

I have to manually kill it. I have tried leaving it for more than 5 minutes, but it's still hung.