How to watch replays of all Rockets games in crystal clear HD

Apparently, there is some exploit in the NBA's replay streaming links. This does NOT work for LIVE games, but only for replays of games.

Step 1: If you don't have VLC media player, go download VLC media player. It's just a program like Windows Media Player. No big deal.

Step 2: Copy this link into wordpad, or somewhere where you can edit it:

http://nlds120.cdnl3nl.neulion.com/nlds_vod/nba/vod/A/B/C/D/2_D_E_F_2013_h_whole_1_G.mp4 (You have to click the link to show the entire URL.)

Step 3: That link is a template. You will need to replace "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", and "G" with what I'm going to tell you in step 4.

Step 4:

A Year played

B Month

C Date played (If it's a day such as the 5th, enter 05)

D NBA League Pass ID (I'll show you how to find that on step 5)

E Away team initials (you can find that on the NBA website. Ex: HOU, MIA, etc.)

F Home team initials (you can find that on the NBA website Ex: HOU, MIA, etc.)

G Bitrate (These range from 400, 800, 1600, 3000, 4500 - from lowest quality to highest)


Step 5: How to find the NBA League Pass ID: Go to this link:

http://www.nba.com/gameline/20131102/

Now, click on the date of the game you want to watch. Find the game and hover your mouse pointer over "Watch game on NBA League Pass" right beneath the score of the game.

You should see a little URL pop up. I use Firefox, and it's in the bottom left hand corner of my screen. Take note of the numbers after the 00's at the beginning. Once you've found the ID replace both D's with the number. If you don't know what I'm talking about (this is an example. Don't copy the ID because the ID is for this game only):



Step 6: Finally, open up the VLC player. Click "Media", then "Open Network Stream", then paste the URL, and then click play. Give it up to 1 minute to load! It may look like it's doing nothing... like it's just a black screen. But just give it literally 1 or 2 minutes, and it will start playing if your URL is correct.


Here is an example URL for the Houston Rockets vs. Utah Jazz game on Saturday:

http://nlds120.cdnl3nl.neulion.com/...38/2_21300038_HOU_UTA_2013_h_whole_1_3000.mp4 (You may have to click the link for it to show the entire URL).

 

Short version:

1. Copy link and paste it into notepad

2. Find the League Pass ID how I showed you

3. Input all of the information into the original link (date, teams, league pass ID, bitrate, etc.)

4. Copy your new link with the correct information filled in and paste it into VLC media player.



That's it. It's really not complicated. It just took a lot of words to explain how to do it step by step.

 

We'll see after the League Pass trial ends. I don't know if it will work or not.

 

1. I didn't get it from reddit

2. I didn't straight-up copy and paste it

 

It probably works in windows media player. I use VLC and the instructions I got said to use VLC.