-        if m_id is None: 
-            # TODO: Check which url parameters are required
-            info_url = 'http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/rest/v2/pops;lmsoverride=1;outputformat=mrss;cb=974419660;id=%s;rd=news.yahoo.com;datacontext=mdb;lg=KCa2IihxG3qE60vQ7HtyUy' % video_id
-            webpage = self._download_webpage(info_url, video_id, u'Downloading info webpage')
-            info_re = r'''<title><!\[CDATA\[(?P<title>.*?)\]\]></title>.*
-                        <description><!\[CDATA\[(?P<description>.*?)\]\]></description>.*
-                        <media:pubStart><!\[CDATA\[(?P<date>.*?)\ .*\]\]></media:pubStart>.*
-                        <media:content\ medium="image"\ url="(?P<thumb>.*?)"\ name="LARGETHUMB"
-                        '''
-            self.report_extraction(video_id)
-            m_info = re.search(info_re, webpage, re.VERBOSE|re.DOTALL)
-            if m_info is None:
-                raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video info')
-            video_title = m_info.group('title')
-            video_description = m_info.group('description')
-            video_thumb = m_info.group('thumb')
-            video_date = m_info.group('date')
-            video_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(video_date, '%m/%d/%Y').strftime('%Y%m%d')
-    
-            # TODO: Find a way to get mp4 videos
-            rest_url = 'http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/rest/v2/pops;element=stream;outputformat=mrss;id=%s;lmsoverride=1;bw=375;dynamicstream=1;cb=83521105;tech=flv,mp4;rd=news.yahoo.com;datacontext=mdb;lg=KCa2IihxG3qE60vQ7HtyUy' % video_id
-            webpage = self._download_webpage(rest_url, video_id, u'Downloading video url webpage')
-            m_rest = re.search(r'<media:content url="(?P<url>.*?)" path="(?P<path>.*?)"', webpage)
-            video_url = m_rest.group('url')
-            video_path = m_rest.group('path')
-            if m_rest is None:
-                raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to extract video url')
+        items_json = self._search_regex(r'YVIDEO_INIT_ITEMS = ({.*?});$',
+            webpage, u'items', flags=re.MULTILINE)
+        items = json.loads(items_json)
+        info = items['mediaItems']['query']['results']['mediaObj'][0]
+        meta = info['meta']
+
+        formats = []
+        for s in info['streams']:
+            format_info = {
+                'width': s.get('width'),
+                'height': s.get('height'),
+                'bitrate': s.get('bitrate'),
+            }
+
+            host = s['host']
+            path = s['path']
+            if host.startswith('rtmp'):
+                format_info.update({
+                    'url': host,
+                    'play_path': path,
+                    'ext': 'flv',
+                })
+            else:
+                format_url = compat_urlparse.urljoin(host, path)
+                format_info['url'] = format_url
+                format_info['ext'] = determine_ext(format_url)
+                
+            formats.append(format_info)
+        formats = sorted(formats, key=lambda f:(f['height'], f['width']))
+
+        info = {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': meta['title'],
+            'formats': formats,
+            'description': clean_html(meta['description']),
+            'thumbnail': meta['thumbnail'],
+        }
+        # TODO: Remove when #980 has been merged
+        info.update(formats[-1])