[generic] Respect the encoding in manifest

4 years ago · 61241abbb0
parent 53ed7066ab
commit 61241abbb0
1 changed files with 4 additions and 1 deletions
--- 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':