-    """arte.tv information extractor."""
-
-    _VALID_URL = r'(?:http://)?videos\.arte\.tv/(?:fr|de)/videos/.*'
-    _LIVE_URL = r'index-[0-9]+\.html$'
-
-    IE_NAME = u'arte.tv'
-
-    def fetch_webpage(self, url):
-        request = compat_urllib_request.Request(url)
-        try:
-            self.report_download_webpage(url)
-            webpage = compat_urllib_request.urlopen(request).read()
-        except (compat_urllib_error.URLError, compat_http_client.HTTPException, socket.error) as err:
-            raise ExtractorError(u'Unable to retrieve video webpage: %s' % compat_str(err))
-        except ValueError as err:
-            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
-        return webpage
-
-    def grep_webpage(self, url, regex, regexFlags, matchTuples):
-        page = self.fetch_webpage(url)
-        mobj = re.search(regex, page, regexFlags)
-        info = {}
-
-        if mobj is None:
-            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
-
-        for (i, key, err) in matchTuples:
-            if mobj.group(i) is None:
-                raise ExtractorError(err)
-            else:
-                info[key] = mobj.group(i)
-
-        return info
-
-    # TODO implement Live Stream
-    # def extractLiveStream(self, url):
-    #     video_lang = url.split('/')[-4]
-    #     info = self.grep_webpage(
-    #         url,
-    #         r'src="(.*?/videothek_js.*?\.js)',
-    #         0,
-    #         [
-    #             (1, 'url', u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
-    #         ]
-    #     )
-    #     http_host = url.split('/')[2]
-    #     next_url = 'http://%s%s' % (http_host, compat_urllib_parse.unquote(info.get('url')))
-    #     info = self.grep_webpage(
-    #         next_url,
-    #         r'(s_artestras_scst_geoFRDE_' + video_lang + '.*?)\'.*?' +
-    #             '(http://.*?\.swf).*?' +
-    #             '(rtmp://.*?)\'',
-    #         re.DOTALL,
-    #         [
-    #             (1, 'path',   u'could not extract video path: %s' % url),
-    #             (2, 'player', u'could not extract video player: %s' % url),
-    #             (3, 'url',    u'could not extract video url: %s' % url)
-    #         ]
-    #     )
-    #     video_url = u'%s/%s' % (info.get('url'), info.get('path'))
-
-    def extractPlus7Stream(self, url):
-        video_lang = url.split('/')[-3]
-        info = self.grep_webpage(
-            url,
-            r'param name="movie".*?videorefFileUrl=(http[^\'"&]*)',
-            0,
-            [
-                (1, 'url', u'Invalid URL: %s' % url)
-            ]
-        )
-        next_url = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(info.get('url'))
-        info = self.grep_webpage(
-            next_url,
-            r'<video lang="%s" ref="(http[^\'"&]*)' % video_lang,
-            0,
-            [
-                (1, 'url', u'Could not find <video> tag: %s' % url)
-            ]
-        )
-        next_url = compat_urllib_parse.unquote(info.get('url'))
-
-        info = self.grep_webpage(
-            next_url,
-            r'<video id="(.*?)".*?>.*?' +
-                '<name>(.*?)</name>.*?' +
-                '<dateVideo>(.*?)</dateVideo>.*?' +
-                '<url quality="hd">(.*?)</url>',
-            re.DOTALL,
-            [
-                (1, 'id',    u'could not extract video id: %s' % url),
-                (2, 'title', u'could not extract video title: %s' % url),
-                (3, 'date',  u'could not extract video date: %s' % url),
-                (4, 'url',   u'could not extract video url: %s' % url)
-            ]
-        )
+    _VALID_URL = r'http://videos\.arte\.tv/(?P<lang>fr|de)/.*-(?P<id>.*?)\.html'
+    IE_NAME = 'arte.tv'
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        lang = mobj.group('lang')
+        video_id = mobj.group('id')
+
+        ref_xml_url = url.replace('/videos/', '/do_delegate/videos/')
+        ref_xml_url = ref_xml_url.replace('.html', ',view,asPlayerXml.xml')
+        ref_xml_doc = self._download_xml(
+            ref_xml_url, video_id, note='Downloading metadata')
+        config_node = find_xpath_attr(ref_xml_doc, './/video', 'lang', lang)
+        config_xml_url = config_node.attrib['ref']
+        config = self._download_xml(
+            config_xml_url, video_id, note='Downloading configuration')
+
+        formats = [{
+            'forma_id': q.attrib['quality'],
+            # The playpath starts at 'mp4:', if we don't manually
+            # split the url, rtmpdump will incorrectly parse them
+            'url': q.text.split('mp4:', 1)[0],
+            'play_path': 'mp4:' + q.text.split('mp4:', 1)[1],
+            'ext': 'flv',
+            'quality': 2 if q.attrib['quality'] == 'hd' else 1,
+        } for q in config.findall('./urls/url')]
+        self._sort_formats(formats)