support for totalwebcasting

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Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is

• [x ] I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2017.10.01

Before submitting an issue make sure you have:

• [x ] At least skimmed through the README, most notably the FAQ and BUGS sections
• [ x] Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones

What is the purpose of your issue?

• [x ] Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)

The following sections concretize particular purposed issues, you can erase any section (the contents between triple ---) not applicable to your issue

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:

$ youtube-dl -v "http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?func=VIDI&id=uprising1313&date=2017-09-14&seq=1&ext=1#"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?func=VIDI&id=uprising1313&date=2017-09-14&seq=1&ext=1#']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.10.01
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.2.0-126-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-12.04-precise
[debug] exe versions: avconv 0.8.17-4, avprobe 0.8.17-4, ffmpeg 0.8.17-4, ffprobe 0.8.17-4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[generic] ?func=VIDI&id=uprising1313&date=2017-09-14&seq=1&ext=1#: Requesting header
[redirect] Following redirect to http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?func=VIDI&id=uprising1313&date=2017-09-14&seq=1&ext=1
[generic] ?func=VIDI&id=uprising1313&date=2017-09-14&seq=1&ext=1: Requesting header
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] ?func=VIDI&id=uprising1313&date=2017-09-14&seq=1&ext=1: Downloading webpage
[generic] ?func=VIDI&id=uprising1313&date=2017-09-14&seq=1&ext=1: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?func=VIDI&id=uprising1313&date=2017-09-14&seq=1&ext=1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 2156, in _real_extract
    doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2539, in compat_etree_fromstring
    doc = _XML(text, parser=etree.XMLParser(target=_TreeBuilder(element_factory=_element_factory)))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/compat.py", line 2528, in _XML
    parser.feed(text)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1643, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/xml/etree/ElementTree.py", line 1507, in _raiseerror
    raise err
ParseError: syntax error: line 1, column 0
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 783, in extract_info
    ie_result = ie.extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 434, in extract
    ie_result = self._real_extract(url)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 3051, in _real_extract
    raise UnsupportedError(url)
UnsupportedError: Unsupported URL: http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?func=VIDI&id=uprising1313&date=2017-09-14&seq=1&ext=1

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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: http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?func=VIDI&id=uprising1313&date=2017-09-14&seq=1&ext=1#
• Single video embedded : http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/uprising1313/1-13/

Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

It would be cool if you would support the site