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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py
index 558b3d009..745212f2f 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ class BrightcoveIE(InfoExtractor):
Build a Brightcove url from a xml string containing
<object class="BrightcoveExperience">{params}</object>
"""
+
+ # Fix up some stupid HTML, see https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/1553
+ object_str = re.sub(r'(<param name="[^"]+" value="[^"]+")>',
+ lambda m: m.group(1) + '/>', object_str)
+
object_doc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(object_str)
assert u'BrightcoveExperience' in object_doc.attrib['class']
params = {'flashID': object_doc.attrib['id'],