diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 942f76d24..68d2f4984 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -1865,7 +1865,7 @@ def dfxp2srt(dfxp_data):
 
         return out
 
-    dfxp = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(dfxp_data.encode('utf-8'))
+    dfxp = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(dfxp_data.replace('\n','').encode('utf-8'))
     out = []
     paras = dfxp.findall(_x('.//ttml:p')) or dfxp.findall(_x('.//ttaf1:p')) or dfxp.findall('.//p')