X-Git-Url: https://git.cielonegro.org/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=youtube_dl%2Fextractor%2Fbrightcove.py;h=339d60ff0f52ed31edcb77aa1b2e1d4994266a91;hb=f6177462dbba73f80df52a72c666ca769bea173f;hp=83eec84d3cd446b75854accd8dd8c2c754ba4349;hpb=4edff78531c42aa126b02a9b792f84d2775c2172;p=youtube-dl.git

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py
index 83eec84d3..339d60ff0 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/brightcove.py
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ class BrightcoveIE(InfoExtractor):
         object_str = object_str.replace('<--', '<!--')
         object_str = fix_xml_ampersands(object_str)
 
-        object_doc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(object_str)
+        object_doc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(object_str.encode('utf-8'))
 
         fv_el = find_xpath_attr(object_doc, './param', 'name', 'flashVars')
         if fv_el is not None: