diff --git a/include/oembed.php b/include/oembed.php
index b178d2605..e3053f164 100644
--- a/include/oembed.php
+++ b/include/oembed.php
@@ -177,7 +177,8 @@ function oembed_fetch_url($embedurl){
 				logger('fetch failure: ' . $furl);
 
 			if($html_text) {
-				$dom = DOMDocument::loadHTML($html_text);				
+				$dom = new DOMDocument();
+				@$dom->loadHTML($html_text);				
 				if ($dom) {
 					$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
 					$attr = "oembed";
@@ -424,7 +425,8 @@ function oembed_html2bbcode($text) {
 		$html_text = mb_convert_encoding($text, 'HTML-ENTITIES', mb_detect_encoding($text));
 		
 		// If it doesn't parse at all, just return the text.
-		$dom = DOMDocument::loadHTML($html_text);				
+		$dom = new DOMDocument();
+		@$dom->loadHTML($html_text);				
 		if ($dom) {
 			$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
 			$attr = "oembed";