From 61241abbb0ea2c515765fd8f1fc25379788a0d42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: pukkandan <pukkandan.ytdlp@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 12:59:45 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] [generic] Respect the encoding in manifest
---
yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py b/yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py
index 32815476f..2153fe6b3 100644
--- a/yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/yt_dlp/extractor/generic.py
@@ -2508,7 +2508,10 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
# Is it an RSS feed, a SMIL file, an XSPF playlist or a MPD manifest?
try:
- doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
+ try:
+ doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage)
+ except compat_xml_parse_error:
+ doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
if doc.tag == 'rss':
return self._extract_rss(url, video_id, doc)
elif doc.tag == 'SmoothStreamingMedia':