> I see the forum thread has now been closed on the grounds that there may be 
> use outside the UK.  I did wonder about that from the US date format in the 
> bottom right hand corner and the discrepancy in the times.

Well spotted. I didn't even notice that!

> I had not thought about the point that there are no HD modes for local news 
> programmes.  The London lunchtime and evening news yesterday only had DVF, 
> HVF and Flash modes, but I have no way of knowing whether there used to be 
> HLS modes.

HLS streams did used to be available for local news and still are although they 
now don't show in GiPs results.

> treker68 does not say whether he has just upgraded to v2.99 from 
> a much older version, in which case a default he was relying on may have 
> changed.
> 
> More generally, get_iplayer's messages about modes use the mode names set 
> out in
> https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/modesref
> If a user has specified the mode with a shortcut or alias, or has relied on 
> a default, I can understand that the mode names in the messages may be 
> difficult to relate to the alias.

>From the sound of it, I think treker68 might have specified at some point that 
>he only wants HLS modes downloaded possibly without really understanding what 
>it all means. Otherwise GiP would move through one level at a time until it 
>found one that exists.

> One change I have noticed recently is that there are now two CDNs for HLS 
> modes for most programmes.

I can't find any at the moment that have 2 CDNs for HLS modes. Only HVF modes 
seem to have 2 but I could be missing it. Do you know any specific programmes 
that do have 2 HLS CDNs?

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