Force HD feeds from abc/nbc/cbs.com

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Hello -

I have several computers in my house, and none are able to play HD from any of the major stations (ABC, NBC, or CBS). In fact, even some of the higher quality SD streams seem to struggle. So after finding Replay Media Catcher, it turns out that my computer can handle decoding the streams just fine, there's just some MAJOR over-head associated with the Flash & web browser integration, or my connection isn't fast enough.

I used to be able to tell the full episode players that I wanted to watch the HD stream, and as such, Reply Media Catcher would download the HD stream. Recently all the stations have went to the new "dynamic" speed selectors that never seem to think my system and/or connection can play HD.

Here are a few examples of streams that for whatever reason that actually *did* download as HD, then below that, a few examples of the SD streams.

HD Examples
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rtmp://67.148.47.61:80/ondemand?_fcs_vhost=cp37307.edgefcs.net<break>nbcu/nbc2/91c35477039c0c42339214b1f3b1de2c_1500

rtmp://67.148.71.46:1935/ondemand?_fcs_vhost=cp37307.edgefcs.net<break>nbcu/nbc2/21e9a6d7039c0c4207f427310ad37a2e_1500

SD Examples
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rtmp://67.148.47.61:80/ondemand?_fcs_vhost=cp37307.edgefcs.net<break>mp4: nbcu/nbc-hls/496fed67039c0c426405ce405b73c067_0496.mp4

rtmp://63.235.28.207:80/ondemand?_fcs_vhost=cp37307.edgefcs.net<break>nbcu/nbc2/d9bdffd2039c0c427953113d290af4ae_0500

From these examples, it *looks like* the last four digits are the bit rate, but after trying a few manual URLs in RMC, it says the file's not found when I manually change the "0500" to "1500". I'm guessing that GUID before that number probably also needs to have a few characters changed.

Is anyone familiar with the way the stations generate these URLs? Or even better, do you know any way to change the data sent back to the server to make it *think* that my computer can handle the HD feeds?

Thanks,