HLS modes being missed by GiP

[Vangelis forthnet]

On Fri Apr 21 15:07:37 BST 2017, RS wrote: 

> I thought the suffixes 1, 2, 3, 4 on mode 
> names indicated different CDNs.

... It used to be that way in the past, but not since the beeb 
started using HTTPS for their streams. 
E.g. if you --info (-i) a pid you'll often see 4 dvf* tvmodes; 
these are spread over just two CDNs (Akamai, Limelight)  
but with each of them having both HTTP/HTTPS stream URIs. 

 I think BBC will eventually swift only to HTTPS URLs, 
thus the modes will again go down to two...
FWIW, GiP 2.99 gives priority to HTTPS over HTTP, so 
1 & 2 suffixes are propably HTTPS and 3 & 4 
their plain HTTP counterparts...

> it is only hlshd that now has hlshd1 and hlshd2 
> (it used to be only hlshd1) and they are both Akamai.

See explanation above. 

hlshd1 = Ak over HTTPS
hlshd2 = Ak over HTTP

 Include "-i --streaminfo" in your command 
to see full stream URIs... 

Best regards, 
Vangelis.