diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
index c4b5c07ca3..e4d7beb2d6 100755
Binary files a/youtube-dl and b/youtube-dl differ
diff --git a/youtube-dl.exe b/youtube-dl.exe
index cb96542832..287b78af52 100755
Binary files a/youtube-dl.exe and b/youtube-dl.exe differ
diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
index d77154dcb4..ae98e12642 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@@ -359,8 +359,8 @@ def _real_extract(self, url):
 					pass
 
 		# description
-		video_description = get_element_by_id("eow-description", video_webpage)
-		if video_description: video_description = clean_html(video_description.decode('utf8'))
+		video_description = get_element_by_id("eow-description", video_webpage.decode('utf8'))
+		if video_description: video_description = clean_html(video_description)
 		else: video_description = ''
 			
 		# closed captions
@@ -1055,8 +1055,8 @@ def _real_extract(self, url, new_video=True):
 		video_thumbnail = config["video"]["thumbnail"]
 
 		# Extract video description
-		video_description = get_element_by_id("description", webpage)
-		if video_description: video_description = clean_html(video_description.decode('utf8'))
+		video_description = get_element_by_id("description", webpage.decode('utf8'))
+		if video_description: video_description = clean_html(video_description)
 		else: video_description = ''
 
 		# Extract upload date
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index a19656000d..0f903c64a0 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ def htmlentity_transform(matchobj):
 	# Unknown entity in name, return its literal representation
 	return (u'&%s;' % entity)
 
-
+HTMLParser.locatestarttagend = re.compile(r"""<[a-zA-Z][-.a-zA-Z0-9:_]*(?:\s+(?:(?<=['"\s])[^\s/>][^\s/=>]*(?:\s*=+\s*(?:'[^']*'|"[^"]*"|(?!['"])[^>\s]*))?\s*)*)?\s*""", re.VERBOSE) # backport bugfix
 class IDParser(HTMLParser.HTMLParser):
 	"""Modified HTMLParser that isolates a tag with the specified id"""
 	def __init__(self, id):
@@ -83,8 +83,17 @@ def __init__(self, id):
 		self.depth = {}
 		self.html = None
 		self.watch_startpos = False
+		self.error_count = 0
 		HTMLParser.HTMLParser.__init__(self)
 
+	def error(self, message):
+		print self.getpos()
+		if self.error_count > 10 or self.started:
+			raise HTMLParser.HTMLParseError(message, self.getpos())
+		self.rawdata = '\n'.join(self.html.split('\n')[self.getpos()[0]:]) # skip one line
+		self.error_count += 1
+		self.goahead(1)
+
 	def loads(self, html):
 		self.html = html
 		self.feed(html)