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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/downloader/f4m.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/downloader/f4m.py b/youtube_dl/downloader/f4m.py
index 7819a91dc..aaf0c49c8 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/downloader/f4m.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/downloader/f4m.py
@@ -292,7 +292,7 @@ class F4mFD(FragmentFD):
# Some manifests may be malformed, e.g. prosiebensat1 generated manifests
# (see https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/6215#issuecomment-121704244
# and https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/7823)
- manifest = fix_xml_ampersands(urlh.read()).strip()
+ manifest = fix_xml_ampersands(urlh.read().decode('utf-8', 'ignore')).strip()
doc = compat_etree_fromstring(manifest)
formats = [(int(f.attrib.get('bitrate', -1)), f)