-        prog_name = mobj.group(1)
-        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, prog_name)
-        video_id = self._search_regex(r'programid=(.*?)&', webpage, 'video id')
-        data = compat_urllib_parse.urlencode({'programid': video_id,
-                                              'dynamic':'1'})
-        info_url = 'http://www.c-spanvideo.org/common/services/flashXml.php?' + data
-        video_info = self._download_webpage(info_url, video_id, u'Downloading video info')
-
-        self.report_extraction(video_id)
-
-        title = self._html_search_regex(r'<string name="title">(.*?)</string>',
-                                        video_info, 'title')
-        description = self._html_search_regex(r'<meta (?:property="og:|name=")description" content="(.*?)"',
-                                              webpage, 'description',
-                                              flags=re.MULTILINE|re.DOTALL)
-
-        url = self._search_regex(r'<string name="URL">(.*?)</string>',
-                                 video_info, 'video url')
-        url = url.replace('$(protocol)', 'rtmp').replace('$(port)', '443')
-        path = self._search_regex(r'<string name="path">(.*?)</string>',
-                            video_info, 'rtmp play path')
-
-        return {'id': video_id,
-                'title': title,
-                'ext': 'flv',
-                'url': url,
-                'play_path': path,
-                'description': description,
-                'thumbnail': self._og_search_thumbnail(webpage),
-                }
+        page_id = mobj.group('id')
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, page_id)
+        video_id = self._search_regex(r'data-progid=\'(\d+)\'>', webpage, 'video id')
+
+        description = self._html_search_regex(
+            [
+                # The full description
+                r'<div class=\'expandable\'>(.*?)<a href=\'#\'',
+                # If the description is small enough the other div is not
+                # present, otherwise this is a stripped version
+                r'<p class=\'initial\'>(.*?)</p>'
+            ],
+            webpage, 'description', flags=re.DOTALL)
+
+        info_url = 'http://c-spanvideo.org/videoLibrary/assets/player/ajax-player.php?os=android&html5=program&id=' + video_id
+        data = self._download_json(info_url, video_id)
+
+        url = unescapeHTML(data['video']['files'][0]['path']['#text'])
+
+        doc = self._download_xml('http://www.c-span.org/common/services/flashXml.php?programid=' + video_id,
+            video_id)
+
+        def find_string(s):
+            return find_xpath_attr(doc, './/string', 'name', s).text
+
+        return {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': find_string('title'),
+            'url': url,
+            'description': description,
+            'thumbnail': find_string('poster'),
+        }