diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/vidbit.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/vidbit.py
index 5260a233e..9c08c0d05 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/vidbit.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/vidbit.py
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import re
 
 from .common import InfoExtractor
 from ..utils import url_basename
+from ..compat import compat_urlparse
+
 
 class VidbitIE(InfoExtractor):
     _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:www\.)?vidbit\.co/watch\?v=(?P<id>[\w-]+)'
@@ -23,12 +25,10 @@ class VidbitIE(InfoExtractor):
         video_id = self._match_id(url)
         webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
 
-        _BASE_URL = 'http://' + url.split('/')[2] + '/'
-
         return {
             'id': video_id,
             'title': self._html_search_regex(r'<h1>(.+)</h1>', webpage, 'title'),
-            'url': _BASE_URL + self._html_search_regex(r'file:\s*(["\'])((?:(?!\1).)+)\1', webpage, 'video URL', group=2),
-            'thumbnail': _BASE_URL + self._html_search_regex(r'image:\s*(["\'])((?:(?!\1).)+)\1', webpage, 'thumbnail', None, group=2),
+            'url': compat_urlparse.urljoin(url, self._html_search_regex(r'file:\s*(["\'])((?:(?!\1).)+)\1', webpage, 'video URL', group=2)),
+            'thumbnail': compat_urlparse.urljoin(url, self._html_search_regex(r'image:\s*(["\'])((?:(?!\1).)+)\1', webpage, 'thumbnail', None, group=2)),
             'description': self._html_search_regex(r'description:(["\'])((?:(?!\1).)+)\1', webpage, 'description', None, group=2),
         }