Podcasting: Video Podcast Not Working with Atomic Sites

[edequalsawesome]

Steps to reproduce

1. Set up podcast feed for an AT at https://wordpress.com/settings/podcasting/
2. Create a new episode using a video file uploaded to WordPress.com
3. Validate the podcast feed here: http://validator.w3.org/feed/ (Or try to add the feed to iTunes)

What I expected

Feed would display the episode of the podcast with the video as the episode content

What happened instead

Feed won't validate, episode appears in iTunes but without the video as the episode's content

Browser / OS version

macOS High Sierra, Firefox/Chrome

Context / Source

In troubleshooting an issue for a user (#1398515-zen), we discovered that the feed created for AT sites using the podcast function in Calypso is pulling the full HTML for the VideoPress player instead of the direct URL for the video file, which is causing an error -- this doesn't occur with feeds for simple sites, however!

Correct information from my test simple site's podcast feed:

Incorrect information from my test AT site's podcast feed:

[michaeldcain]

As discussed in p3Ex-3ep-p2, there are un-synced feed customizations between WPcom and Jetpack versions of VideoPress.

In the meantime, users can work-around the issue by including an audio-only embed at the bottom of their podcast episode posts.

[erricgunawan]

Another similar issue on #1406284-zen

The using of audio-only embed as a workaround is shared with the user.

[mattsherman]

This is currently in Delta's backlog but will likely wait until the next HACK Week at the earliest.

[desnum]

Another case from hc-9839931, where there are video files in the podcast. When the feed URL is submitted to iTunes, the error is:

Can't download episodes from your feed

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[JoshuaGoode]

Encountered on 3758637-zen

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[karenroldan]

📌 REPRODUCTION RESULTS Tested on Simple – Could Not Replicate Tested on Atomic – Replicated

📌 FINDINGS/SCREENSHOTS/VIDEO The issue can be replicated on AT sites exactly as described above.

Simple Valid RSS feed

Atomic The feed does not validate and gives an error that the link must be a full and valid URL.

📌 ACTIONS

• Moved to Non-Urgent

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• [ ] 1398515-zen
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• [ ] 3758637-zen