diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/canalplus.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/canalplus.py
index 57e0cda2c..c0ca3a0fa 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/canalplus.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/canalplus.py
@@ -78,7 +78,8 @@ class CanalplusIE(InfoExtractor):
         if video_id is None:
             webpage = self._download_webpage(url, display_id)
             video_id = self._search_regex(
-                r'<canal:player[^>]+?videoId="(\d+)"', webpage, 'video id')
+                [r'<canal:player[^>]+?videoId=(["\'])(?P<id>\d+)', r'id=["\']canal_video_player(?P<id>\d+)'],
+                 webpage, 'video id', group='id')
 
         info_url = self._VIDEO_INFO_TEMPLATE % (site_id, video_id)
         doc = self._download_xml(info_url, video_id, 'Downloading video XML')