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Thursday, March 30, 2006
MIME Types for M4V files with GoDaddy for Video Podcasting
If you have been trying to get a video podcast going with Godaddy's hosting and have been getting problems with your Apple M4V files coming back as TEXT files in Feedburner account look no further. For a while Podcatchers are treating my content as text/plain and I was getting frustrated and throwing objects around my office.. Hopefully if your reading this you won't have to go through the same experience.
I decided to go with GoDaddy because their rates are really good, they have large bandwidth and storage for people that want to work with the High demand of video podcasting.. But... I had some initial problems configuring my GoDaddy account to work with Apples "M4V" filetype. I read about the .HTACCESS file on the net. GoDaddy apparently supports this way of adding MIME types. So I added these lines to my .HTACCESS file. An HTACCESS file is just a plain text file you can create with notepad or any text editor. I put one in my root/index and one in the directory that contains the M4V files.
AddType video/x-m4v m4v
AddType audio/x-m4a m4a
AddType video/mp4 mp4
I used CHMOD in my FTP client to change the file permissions to 644.. It Does take some time for this to go through the system, only a few days though? After that Podmedic in Feedburner should come back as aMedia file.. Your away publishing your feed to iTunes.. Podcast away!
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posted by DJViBE TV @ 3:38 PM
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