Cannot download podcasts on Mac

I host a weekly radio show that is uploaded to iTunes and other sources following the broadcast. In the past week, two of my listeners have written to say they can no longer download the podcast from iTunes - one is a Mac user, while the other uses Windows 7. After doing some testing, I discovered that there are no problems grabbing the show from my iPhone (iPhone 6; 8.1.2), but on my Mac (2012 iMac; Yosemite), any programs newer than October will not work. I've been using Feeder to publish the feed (for several years) and have not made any changes to my settings, so I'm at a loss to determine what's wrong?
Any help would be much appreciated!

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made video m4v files (And they play in itunes from my CPU)
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line 2, column 0: Use of unknown namespace: http://www.apple.com/iweb [help]
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