Podcast can't play on this ipad

I've had my iPad since Christmas and have downloaded many podcasts to it already, however, yesterday I was trying to download podcasts and itunes U items. After awhile the iPad started saying that the podcasts wouldn't download because they couldn't be played on my iPad. Today, when I went back to a place with wifi I tried again and it is saying the same thing with all the downloads. I even bought The Kennedys and it won't download either.
What's going on and how do I fix it?

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we're in the process of filling a new iTunes channel with video content to be downloaded via the iTunes store.
This is the channel URL - http://itunes.apple.com/at/podcast/flitelevel-tv/id464792847
However, we're having trouble getting consistent behaviour from the store - sometimes it lists our items, sometimes it doesn't, without us changing anything at all.
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"[video name] cannot be played on this iPad"
The error message appears instantly after clicking one of the media file entries - doesn't seem to request the file at all.
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You are not the only ONE! I bought my iPad in Oct. It was working so perfectly for me that I think apple should be paying me for all the promoting I have been doing since then. I never updated it. Until Last week that I decided to update the software. I don't have a computer so I used my cousins Mac. When I got home I couldn't play anything on the iPod. I was told to sync my iPad. I went back to my cousins to sync my iPad. Then my iTunes podcast downloads got stuck. I was told to do a hard reset. I did, it fixed it. Today I was at the library downloading podcast and all of a sudden this message pops up saying podcast cannot be played on this iPad? I tried the hard reset, doesn't work. I can't download any podcast!!! I am soooo wishing I never upgraded the software because my iPad was perfect before then. There is NO mention of this anywhere on the Internet but here. It seems this is a new problem and apple offers no support. Well unless you buy their support services. I left Microsoft for Apple because they didn't play that Microsoft game of upgrading software with bugs and then charging you to fix it. I will update you when I find a solution.
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Did you have this problem before you updated?
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I am regularly getting a message "...cannot be played on this iPad" when trying to download podcasts while using a strong wifi connection.
I accidently deleted an episode that I wanted to save to listen to again and went to redownload it and got the message so the file and/or publisher aren't the issue.
Thank you in advance to anyone who can help me get my iPad to function correctly!

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I am the network manager of a school that has just done a 1 to 1 roll out of over a thousand iPad 2's to its pupils, and I have made some video tutorials for them - the next problem I had was distributing these videos, I tried various different methods and then decided that podcasting them would probably be a handy way being as this would allow them to get the tutorials that they required, and would work with our current systems.
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They are MP4's
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/honywood-ipad-tutorials/id464275109
is the link to it on iTunes
http://www.honywoodschool.com/podcast/44986
is the feed, bear in mind that this is generated for us by our Virtual Learning Environment and we can't edit the XML, we literally have to just press 'podcast this directory' - the code for the feed looks like this :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" version="2.0">
<channel>
<title>Honywood iPad Tutorials</title>
<description></description>
<item>
   <title>howtosetupappleid.mp4</title>
   <description>How to set up an apple ID to use on your iPad without using a credit card</description>
   <itunes:author></itunes:author>
   <pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:11:48 +0100</pubDate>
   <enclosure url="http://www.honywoodschool.com/user/59/133934.mp4" length="74725870" type="video/x-mpeg" />
   <guid>http://www.honywoodschool.com/user/59/133934.mp4</guid>
</item>
<item>
   <title>overview.mp4</title>
   <description>Hardware overview of your iPad</description>
   <itunes:author></itunes:author>
   <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:26:10 +0100</pubDate>
   <enclosure url="http://www.honywoodschool.com/user/59/133911.mp4" length="21943423" type="video/x-mpeg" />
   <guid>http://www.honywoodschool.com/user/59/133911.mp4</guid>
</item>
<item>
   <title>homewifi.mp4</title>
   <description>How to connect your iPad to your home WiFi</description>
   <itunes:author></itunes:author>
   <pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:26:02 +0100</pubDate>
   <enclosure url="http://www.honywoodschool.com/user/59/133910.mp4" length="9085406" type="video/x-mpeg" />
   <guid>http://www.honywoodschool.com/user/59/133910.mp4</guid>
</item>
<item>
   <title>emailsetup.mp4</title>
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   <enclosure url="http://www.honywoodschool.com/user/59/133909.mp4" length="71933660" type="video/x-mpeg" />
   <guid>http://www.honywoodschool.com/user/59/133909.mp4</guid>
</item>
<item>
   <title>passcode.mp4</title>
   <description>How to set the Passcode on your iPad</description>
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   <enclosure url="http://www.honywoodschool.com/user/59/133908.mp4" length="24968873" type="video/x-mpeg" />
   <guid>http://www.honywoodschool.com/user/59/133908.mp4</guid>
</item>
</channel>
</rss>
but I can't believe that this works in one podcast app and not iTunes (it seems to work fine in iTunes on the PC too, so surely that would suggest the podcast RSS or whatever you'd call it is formatted correctly?)
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Cheers
Charles

When you have a query please post the feed URL rather than its contents. For the record, yours is at
http://www.honywoodschool.com/podcast/44986
I don't have an iPad to test this, so I can only refer you to Apple's Podcast Tech Specs page:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/podcasts/specs.html#formattingvideo
This says that the maximum video size for an iPad is 1024x768 - your latest episode is 1280x720.
Slightly confusingly, it also says
'iPad & Apple TV can play the following video formats:
H.264 video up to 720p, 30 frames per second, Main Profile level 3.1 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps per channel, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats
Motion JPEG (M-JPEG) up to 35 Mbps, 1280 by 720 pixels, 30 frames per second, audio in ulaw, PCM stereo audio in .avi file format'
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Incidentally your feed gives this URL for the media file:
http://www.honywoodschool.com/user/59/133934.mp4
However when downloaded this produces a file called 'howtosetupappeid.mp4' so soe sort of redirect appears to be in place, and these can sometimes cause trouble. It's better to link directly to the file - it's possible that the iPad doesn't handle the redirect.
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