+        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/%s/preplay/%s' % (host, locale, 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') or base.get('display_body'),
+            'thumbnail': watch_hub_data.get('cover-image') or watch_hub_data.get('thumbnail'),
+            'duration': int_or_none(video_data.get('video_duration')) or parse_duration(watch_hub_data.get('video-duration')),
+            'timestamp': int_or_none(video_data.get('created_at'), 1000),
+            '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',
+        }
+
+
+class ViceIE(ViceBaseIE):
+    IE_NAME = 'vice'
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:.+?\.)?vice\.com/(?:(?P<locale>[^/]+)/)?videos?/(?P<id>[^/?#&]+)'
+
+    _TESTS = [{
+        'url': 'https://news.vice.com/video/experimenting-on-animals-inside-the-monkey-lab',
+        'md5': '7d3ae2f9ba5f196cdd9f9efd43657ac2',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'N2bzkydjraWDGwnt8jAttCF6Y0PDv4Zj',
+            'ext': 'flv',
+            'title': 'Monkey Labs of Holland',
+            'description': 'md5:92b3c7dcbfe477f772dd4afa496c9149',
+        },
+        'add_ie': ['Ooyala'],
+    }, {
+        'url': 'https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/the-signal-from-tolva/5816510690b70e6c5fd39a56',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '5816510690b70e6c5fd39a56',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'uploader': 'Waypoint',
+            'title': 'The Signal From Tölva',
+            'description': 'md5:3927e3c79f9e8094606a2b3c5b5e55d5',
+            'uploader_id': '57f7d621e05ca860fa9ccaf9',
+            'timestamp': 1477941983,
+            'upload_date': '20161031',
+        },
+        'params': {
+            # m3u8 download
+            'skip_download': True,