vbox7.com - failed to parse JSON

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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 https://www.vbox7.com/play:975851fa57
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.vbox7.com/play:975851fa57']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1251, fs mbcs, out cp866, pref cp1251
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.12.20
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 - Windows-7-6.1.7601-SP1
[debug] exe versions: none
[debug] Proxy map {}
[Vbox7] 975851fa57: Downloading JSON metadata
[Vbox7] 975851fa57: Downloading webpage
ERROR:  975851fa57: Failed to parse JSON (caused by ValueError(''Invalid controll character at: line 6 column 99 (char 241)',)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug
Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build Archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmph8curlv3\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 560 in _parse_json
   File "C\Python\Python34\lib\json\__init__.py", line 318, in loads
   File "C\Python\Python34\lib\json\decoder.py", line 343, in decode
   File "C\Python\Python34\lib\json\decoder.py", line 359, in raw_decode
ValueError: Invalid control character at: line 6 column 99 (char 241)
Traceback (most recent call last)
    File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build Archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmph8curlv3\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 560 in _parse_json
   File "C\Python\Python34\lib\json\__init__.py", line 318, in loads
   File "C\Python\Python34\lib\json\decoder.py", line 343, in decode
   File "C\Python\Python34\lib\json\decoder.py", line 359, in raw_decode
ValueError: Invalid control character at: line 6 column 99 (char 241)

During handling of the above exception, another exception occured:

Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "C:\Users'\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build Archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmph8curlv3\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py" line 694, in extract_info
    File "C:\Users'\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build Archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmph8curlv3\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py" line 358, in extract
   File "C:\Users'\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build Archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmph8curlv3\build\youtube_dl\extractor\vbox7.py" line 98, in _real_extract
   File "C:\Users'\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build Archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmph8curlv3\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py" line 850, in _search_json_ld
   File "C:\Users'\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build Archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmph8curlv3\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py" line 854, in _json_ld
   File "C:\Users'\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build Archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmph8curlv3\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py" line 564, in _parse_json
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: 975851fa57: Failed to parse JSON (caused by ValueError('Invalid control character at: line 6 column 99 (char 241)',)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug
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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: https://www.vbox7.com/play:975851fa57

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