diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index e512c1e14..6cffde20d 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -1874,6 +1874,7 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
 
         entries = []
         for video_url in found:
+            video_url = video_url.replace('\\/', '/')
             video_url = compat_urlparse.urljoin(url, video_url)
             video_id = compat_urllib_parse_unquote(os.path.basename(video_url))