Repository: youtube-dl
Issue: Support embedded videos in Wordpress posts (was: Unsupported URL: http://www.vdrome.org/)
Labels: request

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- [x ] I've **verified** and **I assure** that I'm running youtube-dl **2016.12.01**

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### What is the purpose of your *issue*?
- [ ] Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
- [x ] Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
- [ ] Feature request (request for a new functionality)
- [ ] Question
- [ ] Other

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### The following sections concretize particular purposed issues, you can erase any section (the contents between triple ---) not applicable to your *issue*

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### If the purpose of this *issue* is a *bug report*, *site support request* or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add `-v` flag to **your command line** you run youtube-dl with, copy the **whole** output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with **your** log inserted between triple ```):
```
$ youtube-dl -v http://vdrome.org
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://vdrome.org']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.12.01
[debug] Python version 2.7.10 - Darwin-14.5.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.1.4, ffprobe 3.1.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] vdrome: Requesting header
[redirect] Following redirect to http://www.vdrome.org/
[generic] www.vdrome: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] www.vdrome: Downloading webpage
[generic] www.vdrome: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.vdrome.org/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/tbatters/homebrew/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 1626, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/Users/tbatters/homebrew/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2526, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/Users/tbatters/homebrew/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2515, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: mismatched tag: line 498, column 71
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/tbatters/homebrew/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 694, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/Users/tbatters/homebrew/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 357, in extract
    return self._real_extract(url)
  File "/Users/tbatters/homebrew/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2433, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://www.vdrome.org/


### If the purpose of this *issue* is a *site support request* please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by **yours**):
- Single video: http://www.vdrome.org

### Description of your *issue*, suggested solution and other information

youtube-dl has worked fine with http://www.vdrome.org in the past with the generic extractor. The page layout seems to have been changed recently and it is no longer functioning.