@ -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'))
doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage)
except compat_xml_parse_error:
if doc.tag == 'rss':
return self._extract_rss(url, video_id, doc)
elif doc.tag == 'SmoothStreamingMedia':