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diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
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--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -291,6 +291,9 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
except compat_xml_parse_error:
pass
+ # Sometimes embedded video player is hidden behind percent encoding
+ # (e.g. https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/2448)
+ # Unescaping the whole page allows to handle those cases in a generic way
webpage = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(webpage)
# it's tempting to parse this further, but you would