Apple Podcast Videos

Podlove Publisher
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Hey everyone,

Apple announced that Apple Podcast will support Videopodcast.

As the general market shifts slightly towards video podcast, will there be an implementation for this in podlove?
Can there be an implementation, since Apple mentions supported platforms?

Thank you for your great work!

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As far as I know, this is indeed limited to platforms, not something we as open source software can implement. I’m happy to be corrected if anyone has more information.

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I opend a support ticket with apple and asked them if there is way. I will keep us posted :grinning_face:

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Cloudflare supports HLS video streaming with their Cloudflare Stream | Serverless video delivery | Cloudflare product. I haven’t tried the following yet, but I need to for the video version of my podcast. You could host your video on Cloudflare, create an mp4 video episode asset in Podlove, and then add a redirect from that local asset url to the Cloudflare URL using the redirect plugin. I host my audio files for free on redc*rlce with this method. This should add the video asset to your rss feed where Apple claims that they look for it. But, you’ll still need to manually upload to Spotify for Creators and youtube.

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It’s not about delivering HLS at first, it about to comply with apples specifications.

The support answered and it looks like, it will be only available through supported hosting providers.

First and foremost I want to thank you for your interest in HLS video as it’s very new. Now to be eligible for HLS video, your show must be:

quite sad.

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I set up the HLS video through Cloudflare and added it to my rss but apple refuses to see it (as expected). But, fountain.fm picked up the video link in my feed and now streams it on their detail pages. I couldn’t get the podlove media asset to work so I used a Code Snippets to insert the HLS link into my rss:

add_action('podlove_append_to_feed_entry', function ($podcast, $episode, $feed, $format) {
    // Look for a custom field on the episode named 'hls_video_url'
    $hls_url = get_post_meta($episode->post_id, 'hls_video_url', true);

    if (!empty($hls_url)) {
        echo "\t" . '<podcast:alternateEnclosure type="application/x-mpegURL" length="0" title="Video Stream">';
        echo "\n\t\t" . '<podcast:source uri="' . esc_url($hls_url) . '" />';
        echo "\n\t" . '</podcast:alternateEnclosure>' . PHP_EOL;
    }
}, 10, 4);

Unfortunately, podlove release 4.5.0 broke my free mp3 hosting hack on redc*rcle so I am looking at moving to one of apple’s approved outlets. podspace.com looks like it might be a good fit. rss.com, too.