-from .ooyala import OoyalaIE
-from ..utils import ExtractorError
-
-
-class ViceIE(InfoExtractor):
-    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:.+?\.)?vice\.com/(?:[^/]+/)+(?P<id>.+)'
-
-    _TESTS = [
-        {
-            'url': 'http://www.vice.com/Fringes/cowboy-capitalists-part-1',
-            'info_dict': {
-                'id': '43cW1mYzpia9IlestBjVpd23Yu3afAfp',
-                'ext': 'mp4',
-                'title': 'VICE_COWBOYCAPITALISTS_PART01_v1_VICE_WM_1080p.mov',
-            },
-            'params': {
-                # Requires ffmpeg (m3u8 manifest)
-                'skip_download': True,
-            },
-        }, {
-            'url': 'https://news.vice.com/video/experimenting-on-animals-inside-the-monkey-lab',
-            'only_matching': True,
+from ..compat import compat_HTTPError
+from ..utils import (
+    int_or_none,
+    parse_age_limit,
+    str_or_none,
+    parse_duration,
+    ExtractorError,
+    extract_attributes,
+)
+
+
+class ViceBaseIE(AdobePassIE):
+    def _extract_preplay_video(self, url, webpage):
+        watch_hub_data = extract_attributes(self._search_regex(
+            r'(?s)(<watch-hub\s*.+?</watch-hub>)', webpage, 'watch hub'))
+        video_id = watch_hub_data['vms-id']
+        title = watch_hub_data['video-title']
+
+        query = {}
+        is_locked = watch_hub_data.get('video-locked') == '1'
+        if is_locked:
+            resource = self._get_mvpd_resource(
+                'VICELAND', title, video_id,
+                watch_hub_data.get('video-rating'))
+            query['tvetoken'] = self._extract_mvpd_auth(url, video_id, 'VICELAND', resource)
+
+        # signature generation algorithm is reverse engineered from signatureGenerator in
+        # webpack:///../shared/~/vice-player/dist/js/vice-player.js in
+        # https://www.viceland.com/assets/common/js/web.vendor.bundle.js
+        exp = int(time.time()) + 14400
+        query.update({
+            'exp': exp,
+            'sign': hashlib.sha512(('%s:GET:%d' % (video_id, exp)).encode()).hexdigest(),
+        })
+
+        try:
+            host = 'www.viceland' if is_locked else self._PREPLAY_HOST
+            preplay = self._download_json('https://%s.com/en_us/preplay/%s' % (host, video_id), video_id, query=query)
+        except ExtractorError as e:
+            if isinstance(e.cause, compat_HTTPError) and e.cause.code == 400:
+                error = json.loads(e.cause.read().decode())
+                raise ExtractorError('%s said: %s' % (self.IE_NAME, error['details']), expected=True)
+            raise
+
+        video_data = preplay['video']
+        base = video_data['base']
+        uplynk_preplay_url = preplay['preplayURL']
+        episode = video_data.get('episode', {})
+        channel = video_data.get('channel', {})
+
+        subtitles = {}
+        cc_url = preplay.get('ccURL')
+        if cc_url:
+            subtitles['en'] = [{
+                'url': cc_url,
+            }]
+
+        return {
+            '_type': 'url_transparent',
+            'url': uplynk_preplay_url,
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'description': base.get('body'),
+            'thumbnail': watch_hub_data.get('cover-image') or watch_hub_data.get('thumbnail'),
+            'duration': parse_duration(video_data.get('video_duration') or watch_hub_data.get('video-duration')),
+            'timestamp': int_or_none(video_data.get('created_at')),
+            'age_limit': parse_age_limit(video_data.get('video_rating')),
+            'series': video_data.get('show_title') or watch_hub_data.get('show-title'),
+            'episode_number': int_or_none(episode.get('episode_number') or watch_hub_data.get('episode')),
+            'episode_id': str_or_none(episode.get('id') or video_data.get('episode_id')),
+            'season_number': int_or_none(watch_hub_data.get('season')),
+            'season_id': str_or_none(episode.get('season_id')),
+            'uploader': channel.get('base', {}).get('title') or watch_hub_data.get('channel-title'),
+            'uploader_id': str_or_none(channel.get('id')),
+            'subtitles': subtitles,
+            'ie_key': 'UplynkPreplay',