--- /dev/null
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import re
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import (
+ find_xpath_attr,
+ int_or_none,
+ parse_duration,
+ unified_strdate,
+)
+
+
+class VideoLecturesNetIE(InfoExtractor):
+ _VALID_URL = r'http://(?:www\.)?videolectures\.net/(?P<id>[^/#?]+)/'
+ IE_NAME = 'videolectures.net'
+
+ _TEST = {
+ 'url': 'http://videolectures.net/promogram_igor_mekjavic_eng/',
+ 'info_dict': {
+ 'id': 'promogram_igor_mekjavic_eng',
+ 'ext': 'mp4',
+ 'title': 'Automatics, robotics and biocybernetics',
+ 'description': 'md5:815fc1deb6b3a2bff99de2d5325be482',
+ 'upload_date': '20130627',
+ 'duration': 565,
+ 'thumbnail': 're:http://.*\.jpg',
+ },
+ }
+
+ def _real_extract(self, url):
+ mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+ video_id = mobj.group('id')
+
+ smil_url = 'http://videolectures.net/%s/video/1/smil.xml' % video_id
+ smil = self._download_xml(smil_url, video_id)
+
+ title = find_xpath_attr(smil, './/meta', 'name', 'title').attrib['content']
+ description = find_xpath_attr(smil, './/meta', 'name', 'abstract').attrib['content']
+ upload_date = unified_strdate(
+ find_xpath_attr(smil, './/meta', 'name', 'date').attrib['content'])
+
+ switch = smil.find('.//switch')
+ duration = parse_duration(switch.attrib.get('dur'))
+ thumbnail_el = find_xpath_attr(switch, './image', 'type', 'thumbnail')
+ thumbnail = (
+ None if thumbnail_el is None else thumbnail_el.attrib.get('src'))
+
+ formats = [{
+ 'url': v.attrib['src'],
+ 'width': int_or_none(v.attrib.get('width')),
+ 'height': int_or_none(v.attrib.get('height')),
+ 'filesize': int_or_none(v.attrib.get('size')),
+ 'tbr': int_or_none(v.attrib.get('systemBitrate')) / 1000.0,
+ 'ext': v.attrib.get('ext'),
+ } for v in switch.findall('./video')
+ if v.attrib.get('proto') == 'http']
+
+ return {
+ 'id': video_id,
+ 'title': title,
+ 'description': description,
+ 'upload_date': upload_date,
+ 'duration': duration,
+ 'thumbnail': thumbnail,
+ 'formats': formats,
+ }