After much trial and error, finally have a sweet Podcast Producer setup running on the Mini Server.
Distributing Podcasts
Locally in iTunes
Before shot..
During Podcast producer setup, several RSS feeds are presented for entry into the Mail app of the client machine. RSS may be grabbed by user, by workflow, by keyword, custom or history parameters as defaults. By user, or workflow, makes the most sense for local.
To distribute locally, copy the url listing for the feed, something like.. feed://mini3.brethower.net:8171/podcastproducer/atom_feeds/6061889F-0AD4-44A1-A901-EC4E2636CE23
Then in iTunes, main menu, choose "Advanced->Subscribe to podcast.." and enter the copied feed url into the box provided.
------The feed then appears, get the one desired with a double-click..
-----The podcast loads into iTunes on the local machine, double-click the podcast to start it.
youtube
When the files appear in the local feed, control click the attachment files and save the desired resolution to local disk. If you don't know what desired resolution means, just use 360p and you will figure it out as you go with minimum bandwidth usage.
Then login to youtube and upload. Youtube handles the .m4v files created by podcast producer without a wimper.