+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+
+        if '>Der gewünschte Beitrag ist nicht mehr verfügbar.<' in webpage:
+            raise ExtractorError('Video %s is no longer available' % video_id, expected=True)
+
+        if 'Diese Sendung ist für Jugendliche unter 12 Jahren nicht geeignet. Der Clip ist deshalb nur von 20 bis 6 Uhr verfügbar.' in webpage:
+            raise ExtractorError('This program is only suitable for those aged 12 and older. Video %s is therefore only available between 20 pm and 6 am.' % video_id, expected=True)
+
+        if re.search(r'[\?&]rss($|[=&])', url):
+            doc = compat_etree_fromstring(webpage.encode('utf-8'))
+            if doc.tag == 'rss':
+                return GenericIE()._extract_rss(url, video_id, doc)
+
+        title = self._html_search_regex(
+            [r'<h1(?:\s+class="boxTopHeadline")?>(.*?)</h1>',
+             r'<meta name="dcterms.title" content="(.*?)"/>',
+             r'<h4 class="headline">(.*?)</h4>'],
+            webpage, 'title')
+        description = self._html_search_meta(
+            'dcterms.abstract', webpage, 'description', default=None)
+        if description is None:
+            description = self._html_search_meta(
+                'description', webpage, 'meta description')
+
+        # Thumbnail is sometimes not present.
+        # It is in the mobile version, but that seems to use a different URL
+        # structure altogether.
+        thumbnail = self._og_search_thumbnail(webpage, default=None)
+
+        media_streams = re.findall(r'''(?x)
+            mediaCollection\.addMediaStream\([0-9]+,\s*[0-9]+,\s*"[^"]*",\s*
+            "([^"]+)"''', webpage)
+
+        if media_streams:
+            QUALITIES = qualities(['lo', 'hi', 'hq'])
+            formats = []
+            for furl in set(media_streams):
+                if furl.endswith('.f4m'):
+                    fid = 'f4m'
+                else:
+                    fid_m = re.match(r'.*\.([^.]+)\.[^.]+$', furl)
+                    fid = fid_m.group(1) if fid_m else None
+                formats.append({
+                    'quality': QUALITIES(fid),
+                    'format_id': fid,
+                    'url': furl,
+                })
+            self._sort_formats(formats)
+            info = {
+                'formats': formats,
+            }
+        else:  # request JSON file
+            info = self._extract_media_info(
+                'http://www.ardmediathek.de/play/media/%s' % video_id, webpage, video_id)
+
+        info.update({
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'description': description,
+            'thumbnail': thumbnail,
+        })
+
+        return info
+
+
+class ARDIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = '(?P<mainurl>https?://(www\.)?daserste\.de/[^?#]+/videos/(?P<display_id>[^/?#]+)-(?P<id>[0-9]+))\.html'
+    _TEST = {
+        'url': 'http://www.daserste.de/information/reportage-dokumentation/dokus/videos/die-story-im-ersten-mission-unter-falscher-flagge-100.html',
+        'md5': 'd216c3a86493f9322545e045ddc3eb35',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'display_id': 'die-story-im-ersten-mission-unter-falscher-flagge',
+            'id': '100',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'duration': 2600,
+            'title': 'Die Story im Ersten: Mission unter falscher Flagge',
+            'upload_date': '20140804',
+            'thumbnail': 're:^https?://.*\.jpg$',
+        }
+    }
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        display_id = mobj.group('display_id')
+
+        player_url = mobj.group('mainurl') + '~playerXml.xml'
+        doc = self._download_xml(player_url, display_id)
+        video_node = doc.find('./video')
+        upload_date = unified_strdate(xpath_text(
+            video_node, './broadcastDate'))
+        thumbnail = xpath_text(video_node, './/teaserImage//variant/url')
+
+        formats = []
+        for a in video_node.findall('.//asset'):
+            f = {
+                'format_id': a.attrib['type'],
+                'width': int_or_none(a.find('./frameWidth').text),
+                'height': int_or_none(a.find('./frameHeight').text),
+                'vbr': int_or_none(a.find('./bitrateVideo').text),
+                'abr': int_or_none(a.find('./bitrateAudio').text),
+                'vcodec': a.find('./codecVideo').text,
+                'tbr': int_or_none(a.find('./totalBitrate').text),
+            }
+            if a.find('./serverPrefix').text:
+                f['url'] = a.find('./serverPrefix').text
+                f['playpath'] = a.find('./fileName').text
+            else:
+                f['url'] = a.find('./fileName').text
+            formats.append(f)
+        self._sort_formats(formats)
+
+        return {
+            'id': mobj.group('id'),
+            'formats': formats,
+            'display_id': display_id,
+            'title': video_node.find('./title').text,
+            'duration': parse_duration(video_node.find('./duration').text),
+            'upload_date': upload_date,
+            'thumbnail': thumbnail,
+        }
+
+
+class SportschauIE(ARDMediathekIE):
+    IE_NAME = 'Sportschau'
+    _VALID_URL = r'(?P<baseurl>https?://(?:www\.)?sportschau\.de/(?:[^/]+/)+video(?P<id>[^/#?]+))\.html'
+    _TESTS = [{
+        'url': 'http://www.sportschau.de/tourdefrance/videoseppeltkokainhatnichtsmitklassischemdopingzutun100.html',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': 'seppeltkokainhatnichtsmitklassischemdopingzutun100',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'Seppelt: "Kokain hat nichts mit klassischem Doping zu tun"',
+            'thumbnail': 're:^https?://.*\.jpg$',
+            'description': 'Der ARD-Doping Experte Hajo Seppelt gibt seine Einschätzung zum ersten Dopingfall der diesjährigen Tour de France um den Italiener Luca Paolini ab.',
+        },
+        'params': {
+            # m3u8 download
+            'skip_download': True,
+        },
+    }]
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        video_id = mobj.group('id')
+        base_url = mobj.group('baseurl')
+
+        webpage = self._download_webpage(url, video_id)
+        title = get_element_by_attribute('class', 'headline', webpage)
+        description = self._html_search_meta('description', webpage, 'description')
+
+        info = self._extract_media_info(
+            base_url + '-mc_defaultQuality-h.json', webpage, video_id)
+
+        info.update({
+            'title': title,
+            'description': description,
+        })
+
+        return info