I’ve been setting up my new podcast network Qetuo.me, for the last month or so and I wanted to make the audio links playable for the iPhone and iPad. The site its self doesn’t have a problem as far as design, but the biggest problem is Adobes Flash. My current player isnt supported by Apple on its products(due to it being in flash), so what should I do to combat this problem? Use HTML5?
Most podcasters nowadays use wordpress to create the blog and rss feed… Great but you also need something to tell iTunes what to do with the feed, insteps Blubrrys PowerPress plugin. But the plugin doesn’t support html5 as of this writing, but I do hear that they are going to supporting it soon. For now we need a plugin called Degradable HTML5 audio and video plugin (DH5) it can also be found on the WP plugin directory. What DH5 does is asks the browser what program it is and delivers an Flash version if the browsers doesn’t support HTML5.
To figure out how to do all this nonsense, In the WP admin disable the Flash player being used by Powerpress.
Next within your blog post of an episode still add what ever Powerpress requires, but include this tag to the html code, [audio src="File URL/path"] What will happen is a player will be placed where ever you pasted the code, so choose wisely.
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