Apple created the HTTP Live Streaming protocol years ago to make video streaming easier on devices like the iPhone. Switching to the standard also offers key benefits to video podcasts, as Apple already outlined in its own announcement. Podcasts distributed with HLS can switch back and forth between video and audio only streams and offer offline downloads. Critical for anyone trying to make money from their show, HLS also supports dynamic ad insertion. HLS is proprietary tech that developed by...

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