+class MTVIE(InfoExtractor):
+       """Information extractor for MTV.com"""
+
+       _VALID_URL = r'^(?P<proto>https?://)?(?:www\.)?mtv\.com/videos/[^/]+/(?P<videoid>[0-9]+)/[^/]+$'
+       IE_NAME = u'mtv'
+
+       def report_webpage(self, video_id):
+               """Report information extraction."""
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Downloading webpage' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
+
+       def report_extraction(self, video_id):
+               """Report information extraction."""
+               self._downloader.to_screen(u'[%s] %s: Extracting information' % (self.IE_NAME, video_id))
+
+       def _real_extract(self, url):
+               mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: invalid URL: %s' % url)
+                       return
+               if not mobj.group('proto'):
+                       url = 'http://' + url
+               video_id = mobj.group('videoid')
+               self.report_webpage(video_id)
+
+               request = urllib2.Request(url)
+               try:
+                       webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+               except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video webpage: %s' % str(err))
+                       return
+
+               mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="mtv_vt" content="([^"]+)"/>', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract song name')
+                       return
+               song_name = _unescapeHTML(mobj.group(1).decode('iso-8859-1'))
+               mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="mtv_an" content="([^"]+)"/>', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract performer')
+                       return
+               performer = _unescapeHTML(mobj.group(1).decode('iso-8859-1'))
+               video_title = performer + ' - ' + song_name 
+
+               mobj = re.search(r'<meta name="mtvn_uri" content="([^"]+)"/>', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to mtvn_uri')
+                       return
+               mtvn_uri = mobj.group(1)
+
+               mobj = re.search(r'MTVN.Player.defaultPlaylistId = ([0-9]+);', webpage)
+               if mobj is None:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to extract content id')
+                       return
+               content_id = mobj.group(1)
+
+               videogen_url = 'http://www.mtv.com/player/includes/mediaGen.jhtml?uri=' + mtvn_uri + '&id=' + content_id + '&vid=' + video_id + '&ref=www.mtvn.com&viewUri=' + mtvn_uri
+               self.report_extraction(video_id)
+               request = urllib2.Request(videogen_url)
+               try:
+                       metadataXml = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
+               except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'ERROR: unable to download video metadata: %s' % str(err))
+                       return
+
+               mdoc = xml.etree.ElementTree.fromstring(metadataXml)
+               renditions = mdoc.findall('.//rendition')
+
+               # For now, always pick the highest quality.
+               rendition = renditions[-1]
+
+               try:
+                       _,_,ext = rendition.attrib['type'].partition('/')
+                       format = ext + '-' + rendition.attrib['width'] + 'x' + rendition.attrib['height'] + '_' + rendition.attrib['bitrate']
+                       video_url = rendition.find('./src').text
+               except KeyError:
+                       self._downloader.trouble('Invalid rendition field.')
+                       return
+
+               self._downloader.increment_downloads()
+               info = {
+                       'id': video_id,
+                       'url': video_url,
+                       'uploader': performer,
+                       'title': video_title,
+                       'stitle': _simplify_title(video_title),
+                       'ext': ext,
+                       'format': format,
+               }
+
+               try:
+                       self._downloader.process_info(info)
+               except UnavailableVideoError, err:
+                       self._downloader.trouble(u'\nERROR: unable to download ' + video_id)
+