diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index 1c468f8f6..da016f7ee 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
             # We only look in og:video if the MIME type is a video, don't try if it's a Flash player:
             if m_video_type is not None:
                 mobj = re.search(r'<meta.*?property="og:video".*?content="(.*?)"', webpage)
+        if mobj is None:
+            # HTML5 video
+            mobj = re.search(r'<video[^<]*>.*?<source .*?src="([^"]+)"', webpage, flags=re.DOTALL)
         if mobj is None:
             raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)