diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
index ffcc7d9ab3..5ca534cdf2 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/__init__.py
@@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ from .planetaplay import PlanetaPlayIE
 from .played import PlayedIE
 from .playfm import PlayFMIE
 from .playvid import PlayvidIE
+from .playwire import PlaywireIE
 from .podomatic import PodomaticIE
 from .pornhd import PornHdIE
 from .pornhub import (
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/playwire.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/playwire.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bdc71017bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/playwire.py
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import re
+
+from .common import InfoExtractor
+from ..utils import (
+    xpath_text,
+    float_or_none,
+    int_or_none,
+)
+
+
+class PlaywireIE(InfoExtractor):
+    _VALID_URL = r'https?://(?:config|cdn)\.playwire\.com(?:/v2)?/(?P<publisher_id>\d+)/(?:videos/v2|embed|config)/(?P<id>\d+)'
+    _TESTS = [{
+        'url': 'http://config.playwire.com/14907/videos/v2/3353705/player.json',
+        'md5': 'e6398701e3595888125729eaa2329ed9',
+        'info_dict': {
+            'id': '3353705',
+            'ext': 'mp4',
+            'title': 'S04_RM_UCL_Rus',
+            'thumbnail': 're:^http://.*\.png$',
+            'duration': 145.94,
+        },
+    }, {
+        'url': 'http://cdn.playwire.com/11625/embed/85228.html',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'http://config.playwire.com/12421/videos/v2/3389892/zeus.json',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }, {
+        'url': 'http://cdn.playwire.com/v2/12342/config/1532636.json',
+        'only_matching': True,
+    }]
+
+    def _real_extract(self, url):
+        mobj = re.match(self._VALID_URL, url)
+        publisher_id, video_id = mobj.group('publisher_id'), mobj.group('id')
+
+        player = self._download_json(
+            'http://config.playwire.com/%s/videos/v2/%s/zeus.json' % (publisher_id, video_id),
+            video_id)
+
+        title = player['settings']['title']
+        duration = float_or_none(player.get('duration'), 1000)
+
+        content = player['content']
+        thumbnail = content.get('poster')
+        src = content['media']['f4m']
+
+        f4m = self._download_xml(src, video_id)
+        base_url = xpath_text(f4m, './{http://ns.adobe.com/f4m/1.0}baseURL', 'base url', fatal=True)
+        formats = []
+        for media in f4m.findall('./{http://ns.adobe.com/f4m/1.0}media'):
+            media_url = media.get('url')
+            if not media_url:
+                continue
+            tbr = int_or_none(media.get('bitrate'))
+            width = int_or_none(media.get('width'))
+            height = int_or_none(media.get('height'))
+            f = {
+                'url': '%s/%s' % (base_url, media.attrib['url']),
+                'tbr': tbr,
+                'width': width,
+                'height': height,
+            }
+            if not (tbr or width or height):
+                f['quality'] = 1 if '-hd.' in media_url else 0
+            formats.append(f)
+        self._sort_formats(formats)
+
+        return {
+            'id': video_id,
+            'title': title,
+            'thumbnail': thumbnail,
+            'duration': duration,
+            'formats': formats,
+        }