Glauber Rocha

Q: iTunes U video URL must point to a static file?

Hi,

 

I'm the administrator of Cinémathèque française's iTunes U account.

 

Until now, we hosted our videos on a server where they could be accessed directly as a static file (i.e. the .mp4 file). We recently decided to host our videos on Vimeo Pro. Vimeo offers the possibility to download the files, but the URLs don't point to the static file but to a script (e g: vimeo.com/95951401/download?t=1400671865&v=255635975&s=687ebc6dbe9614509bb857c2b 588d64f) that redirects to the video file with an authorization token.

 

The item's enclosure element in the RSS feed is thus: <enclosure type="video/mp4" url="http://vimeo.com/95951401/download?t=1400671865&v=255635975&s=687ebc6dbe9614509b b857c2b588d64f" length="713717774"/>

 

This doesn't seem to be valid with iTunes U. I get this error message when I try to refresh the feed for my collection:

 

MXPodcastPublishSubmit.IndigoFeedError [...] iTunes U could not update the content because iTunes U could not connect to the server hosting the specified feed or resources (http://vimeo.com/95951401/download?t=1400671865&v=255635975&s=687ebc6dbe9614509b b857c2b588d64f). Until the issue is resolved ... etc.

 

Has anybody run into this problem? Do you confirm that iTunes U won't accept an URL that's not a directly accessible video file? Any idea how this issue can be solved?

 

Thanks,

 

Nicolas

Posted on May 21, 2014 5:18 AM

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