[extractor/generic] Ensure format id is unicode string

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index c108d4a8a4e9a31d6b931d39c8a6233e75be1b0d..8ef1a29801972995150600a48ed09364c9a77c3e 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ from .common import InfoExtractor
 from .youtube import YoutubeIE
 from ..compat import (
     compat_etree_fromstring,
+    compat_str,
     compat_urllib_parse_unquote,
     compat_urlparse,
     compat_xml_parse_error,
@@ -1907,14 +1908,14 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
         content_type = head_response.headers.get('Content-Type', '').lower()
         m = re.match(r'^(?P<type>audio|video|application(?=/(?:ogg$|(?:vnd\.apple\.|x-)?mpegurl)))/(?P<format_id>[^;\s]+)', content_type)
         if m:
-            format_id = m.group('format_id')
+            format_id = compat_str(m.group('format_id'))
             if format_id.endswith('mpegurl'):
                 formats = self._extract_m3u8_formats(url, video_id, 'mp4')
             elif format_id == 'f4m':
                 formats = self._extract_f4m_formats(url, video_id)
             else:
                 formats = [{
-                    'format_id': m.group('format_id'),
+                    'format_id': format_id,
                     'url': url,
                     'vcodec': 'none' if m.group('type') == 'audio' else None
                 }]