Looks like it's starting to work out!

First publication of the #castoPod subdomain hosted on this very VPS server. This answer contains actually a direct link to a video snippet created on the instance and hosted on the instance. The setup is a littel weird, more like have way to the final goal, but with some work arounds usefull, including for the hosting of videos.

@iDen Theater

#altText wrote:

Videosnippet aus der Episode der mit #castopod erstellt wurde und auf der Instanz hinterlegt ist. Eingebettete Texte aus einer extra hierfür erstellten Untertiteldatei im .srt Format werden eingeblendet. Der Video an sich ist nicht viel mehr als eine rotbraune Oberfläche auf der das Thumbnail der Episode zu sehen ist. Die Untertiteltexte erscheinen auf der Oberfläche.

The views on mastodon of the ways the audio posts are displayed.
The orginal #castopod #podcast publication shows up in the preview as a video with the general podcast cover. If the play button is selected, the window changes into a audio replay option window. No download option,
@bitPickup@cast.tupambae.com itself is set as "prevent copy".
The MP3 audio URL posted in [audio] BBCode brackets by @utopiarte
shows up as a different (black) audio file reproduction window. A download option is displayed.

@Castopod

@Friendica Support

Hi there,
testing around with the software #castopod, developed by @Castopod :podcasting2: .

In general terms federation with #friendica works, even integration into public forum pages and reshare by those when the castopod profile is followed by the forum page in the first place, as tested with the forum page @podCasts. As of now following from castopod profiles apparently isn't implemented. Also as of now we didn't manage to get the cron job to work at that new instalation on a shared hosting.

What is strange is that a podcast episode publication doesn't embeed the audio player so it can't be reproduced inside the post shown over here on friendica. On mastodon this works, the post displayes a video like screen and reproduces the audio file.

Not sure if this is a specific issue of this friendica instance as it is stil 2023.05 or if this is something the latest versions experience to.

The uploaded audio file was in the format m4a.

This is the link to the original post:
https://cast.tupambae.com/@bitPickup/posts/d88b27ab-c8c2-461d-9ec6-ac684af2908f

Link to a mastodon instance where the post can be seen:
https://troet.cafe/@bitpickup/113875013233253536

Link to this site here where the audio is not displayed but only a link:
https://tupambae.org/display/db58d9ad-f363bd74ed16681c-f66973c5