diff --git a/modules/arte/backend.py b/modules/arte/backend.py
index 46706f28..169169cf 100644
--- a/modules/arte/backend.py
+++ b/modules/arte/backend.py
@@ -21,17 +21,16 @@
 from __future__ import with_statement
 
 from weboob.capabilities.video import ICapVideo, BaseVideo
-from weboob.capabilities.collection import ICapCollection, CollectionNotFound
+from weboob.capabilities.collection import ICapCollection, CollectionNotFound, Collection
 from weboob.tools.backend import BaseBackend, BackendConfig
 from weboob.tools.value import Value
 
 from .browser import ArteBrowser
-from .video import ArteVideo
-
+from .video import ArteVideo, ArteLiveVideo
+from .collection import ArteLiveCollection
 
 __all__ = ['ArteBackend']
 
-
 class ArteBackend(BaseBackend, ICapVideo, ICapCollection):
     NAME = 'arte'
     MAINTAINER = u'Romain Bignon'
@@ -59,28 +58,42 @@ class ArteBackend(BaseBackend, ICapVideo, ICapCollection):
         if fields != ['thumbnail']:
             # if we don't want only the thumbnail, we probably want also every fields
             with self.browser:
-                video = self.browser.get_video(ArteVideo.id2url(video.id), video)
-        if 'thumbnail' in fields and video.thumbnail:
+                if isinstance(video,ArteVideo):
+                    video = self.browser.get_video(ArteVideo.id2url(video.id), video)
+                if isinstance(video,ArteLiveVideo):
+                    video = self.browser.get_live_video(ArteLiveVideo.id2url(video.id), video)
+        if 'thumbnail' in fields and video and video.thumbnail:
             with self.browser:
                 video.thumbnail.data = self.browser.readurl(video.thumbnail.url)
 
         return video
 
     def iter_resources(self, objs, split_path):
-        if BaseVideo in objs:
-            collection = self.get_collection(objs, split_path)
-            if collection.path_level == 0:
-                yield self.get_collection(objs, [u'latest'])
-            if collection.split_path == [u'latest']:
-                for video in self.browser.latest_videos():
-                    yield video
+        with self.browser:
+            if BaseVideo in objs:
+                collection = self.get_collection(objs, split_path)
+                if collection.path_level == 0:
+                    yield Collection([u'latest'],u'Latest Arte videos')
+                    yield Collection([u'live'],u'Arte Web Live videos')
+                if collection.path_level == 1:
+                    if collection.split_path == [u'latest']:
+                        for video in self.browser.latest_videos():
+                            yield video
+                    if collection.split_path == [u'live']:
+                        for categorie in self.browser.get_arte_live_categories():
+                            yield categorie
+                if collection.path_level == 2:
+                    if collection.split_path[0] == u'live':
+                        for video in self.browser.live_videos(ArteLiveCollection.id2url(collection.basename)):
+                            yield video
 
     def validate_collection(self, objs, collection):
         if collection.path_level == 0:
             return
-        if BaseVideo in objs and collection.split_path == [u'latest']:
-            collection.title = u'Latest Arte videos'
+        if BaseVideo in objs and ( collection.split_path == [u'latest'] or collection.split_path == [u'live'] ):
+            return
+        if BaseVideo in objs and collection.path_level == 2 and collection.split_path[0] == u'live' :
             return
         raise CollectionNotFound(collection.split_path)
 
-    OBJECTS = {ArteVideo: fill_video}
+    OBJECTS = {ArteVideo: fill_video, ArteLiveVideo: fill_video }
diff --git a/modules/arte/browser.py b/modules/arte/browser.py
index 57938e86..41a82096 100644
--- a/modules/arte/browser.py
+++ b/modules/arte/browser.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 from weboob.tools.browser import BaseBrowser
 from weboob.tools.browser.decorators import id2url
 
-from .pages import IndexPage, VideoPage
+from .pages import IndexPage, VideoPage, ArteLivePage, ArteLiveCategorieVideoPage, ArteLiveVideoPage
 from .video import ArteVideo
 
 
@@ -33,7 +33,10 @@ class ArteBrowser(BaseBrowser):
     ENCODING = None
     PAGES = {r'http://videos.arte.tv/\w+/videos/toutesLesVideos.*': IndexPage,
              r'http://videos.arte.tv/\w+/do_search/videos/.*': IndexPage,
-             r'http://videos.arte.tv/\w+/videos/(?P<id>.+)\.html': VideoPage
+             r'http://videos.arte.tv/\w+/videos/(?P<id>.+)\.html': VideoPage,
+             r'http://liveweb.arte.tv/\w+' : ArteLivePage,
+             r'http://liveweb.arte.tv/\w+/cat/.*' : ArteLiveCategorieVideoPage,
+             r'http://arte.vo.llnwd.net/o21/liveweb/events/event-(?P<id>.+).xml' : ArteLiveVideoPage,
             }
 
     SEARCH_LANG = {'fr': 'recherche', 'de': 'suche', 'en': 'search'}
@@ -48,6 +51,11 @@ class ArteBrowser(BaseBrowser):
         self.location(url)
         return self.page.get_video(video, self.lang, self.quality)
 
+    def get_live_video(self, url, video=None):
+        self.location(url)
+        assert self.is_on_page(ArteLiveVideoPage)
+        return self.page.get_video(url, video, self.lang, self.quality)
+
     def home(self):
         self.location('http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/toutesLesVideos')
 
@@ -60,3 +68,13 @@ class ArteBrowser(BaseBrowser):
         self.home()
         assert self.is_on_page(IndexPage)
         return self.page.iter_videos()
+
+    def get_arte_live_categories(self):
+        self.location('http://liveweb.arte.tv/%s' %self.lang)
+        assert self.is_on_page(ArteLivePage)
+        return self.page.iter_resources()
+
+    def live_videos(self, url):
+        self.location(url)
+        assert self.is_on_page(ArteLiveCategorieVideoPage)
+        return self.page.iter_videos(self.lang)
diff --git a/modules/arte/collection.py b/modules/arte/collection.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..61a44400
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/arte/collection.py
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+# Copyright(C) 2010-2011 Christophe Benz
+#
+# This file is part of weboob.
+#
+# weboob is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# weboob is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+# along with weboob. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+from weboob.capabilities.collection import Collection
+
+__all__ = ['ArteLiveCollection']
+
+class ArteLiveCollection(Collection):
+    @classmethod
+    def id2url(cls, _id):
+        return 'http://liveweb.arte.tv/fr/cat/%s/' % _id
diff --git a/modules/arte/pages.py b/modules/arte/pages.py
index fb58a04d..49416fdf 100644
--- a/modules/arte/pages.py
+++ b/modules/arte/pages.py
@@ -21,17 +21,114 @@
 import datetime
 import re
 import urllib
+import HTMLParser
 
 from weboob.tools.browser import BasePage, BrokenPageError
 from weboob.tools.capabilities.thumbnail import Thumbnail
 from weboob.capabilities import NotAvailable
 
+from .video import ArteVideo, ArteLiveVideo
+from .collection import ArteLiveCollection
 
-from .video import ArteVideo
+__all__ = ['IndexPage', 'VideoPage', 'ArteLivePage', 'ArteLiveCategorieVideoPage', 'ArteLiveVideoPage']
 
+class ArteLiveVideoPage(BasePage):
+    def get_video(self, url, video=None, lang='fr', quality='hd'):
+        if not video:
+            video = ArteVideo(self.group_dict['id'])
 
-__all__ = ['IndexPage', 'VideoPage']
+        HD = re.compile("(?<=<urlHd>)(.*)(?=</urlHd>)", re.DOTALL)
+        SD = re.compile("(?<=<urlSd>)(.*)(?=</urlSd>)", re.DOTALL)
 
+        page = self.browser.readurl(url)
+        urls = {}
+        try:
+            urls['hd'] = u'%s' %HD.search(page).group(0).split('?')[0]
+        except AttributeError:
+            urls['hd'] = None
+        try:
+            urls['sd'] = u'%s' %SD.search(page).group(0).split('?')[0]
+        except AttributeError:
+            urls['sd'] = None
+        video.url = urls[quality]
+        return video
+
+class ArteLiveCategorieVideoPage(BasePage):
+    def iter_videos(self, lang='fr'):
+        videos = list()
+        xml_url = (self.document.xpath('//link')[0]).attrib['href']
+        datas = self.browser.readurl(xml_url)
+        re_items = re.compile("(<item>.*?</item>)", re.DOTALL)
+        items = re.findall(re_items, datas)
+        for item in items:
+            parsed_element = self.get_element(item, lang)
+            if parsed_element:
+                video = ArteLiveVideo(parsed_element['ID'])
+                video.title = parsed_element['title']
+                video.description = parsed_element['pitch']
+                video.author = parsed_element['author']
+                if parsed_element['pict']:
+                    video.thumbnail = Thumbnail(parsed_element['pict'])
+                video.set_empty_fields(NotAvailable, ('url',))
+                videos.append(video)
+        return videos
+
+    def get_element(self, chain, lang):
+        ele = {}
+        tt = re.compile("(?<=<title>)(.*?)(?=</title>)", re.DOTALL)
+        lk = re.compile("(?<=<link>)(http://liveweb.arte.tv/{0}/video/.*?)"
+                        "(?=</link>)".format(lang), re.DOTALL)
+        dt = re.compile("(?<=<pubDate>)(.*?)(?=</pubDate>)", re.DOTALL)
+        pt = re.compile("(?<=<description>)(.*?)(?=</description>)", re.DOTALL)
+        at = re.compile("(?<=<author>)(.*?)(?=</author>)", re.DOTALL)
+        en = re.compile("<enclosure.*?/event/.*?/(.*?)-.*?/>", re.DOTALL)
+        pix = re.compile("(?<=<enclosure url=\")(.*?)(?=\" type=\"image/)", re.DOTALL)
+        try:
+            ele['link']  = lk.search(chain).group(0)
+        except:
+            return None
+        try:
+            ele['ID'] = int(en.search(chain).group(1))
+        except:
+            return None
+        try:
+            s = tt.search(chain).group(0)
+            ele['title'] = s.decode('utf-8', 'replace')
+        except:
+            ele['title'] = "No title"
+        try:
+            s = (dt.search(chain).group(0))
+            ele['date'] = s.decode('utf-8', 'replace')
+        except:
+            ele['date'] = "No date"
+        try:
+            s = (pt.search(chain).group(0))
+            s = HTMLParser.HTMLParser().unescape(s);
+            ele['pitch'] = HTMLParser.HTMLParser().unescape(s);
+        except:
+            ele['pitch'] = "No description"
+        try:
+            s = (at.search(chain).group(0))
+            ele['author'] = s.decode('utf-8', 'replace')
+        except:
+            ele['author'] = "Unknow"
+        try:
+            ele['pict'] = pix.search(chain).group(0)
+        except:
+            ele['pict'] = None
+        return ele
+
+class ArteLivePage(BasePage):
+    def iter_resources(self):
+        items = list()
+        for el in self.document.xpath('//ul[@id="categoryArray"]/li'):
+            m = re.match(r'http://liveweb.arte.tv/*', el.find('a').attrib['href'])
+            if m:
+                url = u'%s' %el.find('a').attrib['href']
+                _id = url.split('/')[-2:-1][0]
+                item = ArteLiveCollection([u'live', u'%s'%_id], u'%s' %(el.find('a').text))
+                items.append(item)
+        return items
 
 class IndexPage(BasePage):
     def iter_videos(self):
diff --git a/modules/arte/test.py b/modules/arte/test.py
index 81ada165..e98b951e 100644
--- a/modules/arte/test.py
+++ b/modules/arte/test.py
@@ -32,6 +32,15 @@ class ArteTest(BackendTest):
             self.backend.fillobj(v, ('url',))
             self.assertTrue(v.url and v.url.startswith('rtmp://'), 'URL for video "%s" not found: %s' % (v.id, v.url))
 
+    def test_live(self):
+        l1 = list(self.backend.iter_resources([BaseVideo], [u'live']))
+        assert len(l1)
+        l2 = list(self.backend.iter_resources([BaseVideo], [u'live',u'%s'%l1[0]]))
+        assert len(l2)
+        v = l2[0]
+        self.backend.fillobj(v, ('url',))
+        self.assertTrue(v.url and v.url.startswith('rtmp://'), 'URL for video "%s" not found: %s' % (v.id, v.url))
+
     def test_latest(self):
         l = list(self.backend.iter_resources([BaseVideo], [u'latest']))
         assert len(l)
diff --git a/modules/arte/video.py b/modules/arte/video.py
index 297f4169..bb23af82 100644
--- a/modules/arte/video.py
+++ b/modules/arte/video.py
@@ -21,10 +21,16 @@
 from weboob.capabilities.video import BaseVideo
 
 
-__all__ = ['ArteVideo']
+__all__ = ['ArteVideo','ArteLiveVideo']
 
 
 class ArteVideo(BaseVideo):
     @classmethod
     def id2url(cls, _id):
         return 'http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/%s.html' % _id
+
+
+class ArteLiveVideo(BaseVideo):
+    @classmethod
+    def id2url(cls, _id):
+        return 'http://arte.vo.llnwd.net/o21/liveweb/events/event-%s.xml' % _id