AME - Auto Media Embedding (youtube, Amazon, google, myspace, etc...)

[The Geek]

From the inventors of Swiss Cheese and the Egg comes AME - The Automatic Media Embedding System.

Note that Version 2.0.0 can be found here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=189267)

AME is derived from GAL 6 base code but instead of linking keywords, it converts URLs that users paste or enter in their posts into inline embedded video streams.

Big credit goes out to mfyvie (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=190317) for the original concept that jazzed me up enough to lift code that I have been working on to radically improve his fresh idea. Though the same goal, I have taken a totally different approach to his initial release. This mod is 100% steaming fresh code straight from the Geeks oven of love.

First... the overview

AME scans new and edited posts for pre-defined patterns of URLs (i.e. youtube's). If it finds a match, it swaps the url tag for an ame tag.
When a post get parsed for bbcode and an ame tag is found, instead of hammering away at the post with umpteen bbcodes, AME quietly figures out which pre-defined embedding should be placed there and... viola', you have a pretty little embedded video like this:

66927

This is significantly faster, has much lower overhead and is much easier to manage than loads of bbcodes or a than scanning every single post as the user views it to see if there are any conversions that need to be made.

Now for the bells and whistles

AME:


is lightweight as it does all of her chores without the overhead of having 1 bbcode per pattern or trying to parse a post every single time it gets displayed with a bunch of patterns. This radically reduces overhead and speeds up the processing. The only time ame will kick in is after creating a new post or after editing an existing one (or if an ame tag is found in a post)
is extensible. She allows you to add, edit, delete, import and export patterns. That way you can decide which services to support, how they should look and then share them with others!
can extract the title (requires your server to allow url wrappers with fetch_contents)
can extract embed code from sites whose URLs do not contain sufficient information to embed the video
can rebuild your old posts to convert your 'other' mediaish tags into URL tags.
can rebuild your old posts to convert URL tags into ame tags where needed
can convert her codes BACK to url codes so you're not stuffed with a bunch of dead tags if you uninstall!
won't uglify your site by having videos appear in quotes, php, code or html blocks (blech!)
can be globally disabled
can be excluded from forums
can exclude usergroups
can be toggled on/off per post
would cook dinner for you if she had arms
can wrap the output in a 'container' with original URL
has a super comprehensive admincp help system. Yes, I actually took the time to add all the info you need into vB's admincp help system. If you ask a silly question in this thread that is addressed in the help system, you will be taunted.
is fully phrased
has hooks around integral operations so you can extend it


Add ons

AME comes configured with YouTube, Myspacetv, Google Video, Bolt, iFilm, Yahoo, Dailymotion, Amazon and MetaCafe Support built in. Since the amount of providers are always changing and most sites will only need a particular amount, AME has been designed with an import and export system to allow members to easily share formats with one another. In fact, the second post of this thread is updated periodically to relflect those add ons. Currently there are over 12 more additional formats contributed by AME users. Click here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1278377&postcount=3) to see them.

Installation


Upload the contents of the forums folder into your forums directory and import the product.xml file into your product manager.
After installation, make sure that the system is on (admincp->AME CP->Settings)
Then you may want to try to rebuild old URLs via the tools option.


Troubleshooting

See this post on troubleshooting (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1279789&postcount=116)

A note about support and such

I have my plate pretty full with taking care of my commercial mods and the support that comes with them. Saying that, I will help when I can - but to be honest, I have ensured that there should be little to no support needed on this mod as it is very much self contained.
Please do not PM or post asking me to give you regexp's to support additional media streams. I built the system so that you can add your own providers as well as the ability to import and export them. If you still need a pattern but are not great with regular expressions (who is?) then I suggest getting RegExpBuddy (http://www.regexbuddy.com/). Although I am not expert at regular expressions, I did a quick start tutorial on AME regexps here if you want to check it out (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1279789&postcount=116). I don't mind you guys asking amongst each other for these things, but just note that I will most likely not respond to the requests.

I will reserve the first couple of posts (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=150863)in this thread to periodically add user contributed patterns to import and for additional information (I hate mega long first post's in the release section). So check there for up to date information.

nJoy

[The Geek]

This post is for listing updates and upgrade information. The updates will appear in the latest to the oldest

1.2.0 Released 12.07.07 Major update. Discussion for this release (and important upgrade notes) starts here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1289888).

New features


Added the ability to fetch embeded video data
Added ability to disable fetching titles/external data both globally AND on an item by item basis
Added default support for yahoo, dailymotion and amazon
Enhanced default regexps



1.1.3 Released 11.07.07 Minor update. Discussion for this release starts here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1288491),

Bug Fixes

Fixed issue with some versions of php reporting a reference error. A manual fix was posted last week, if you applied that fix or are not having a prolem, there really isnt a reason to update. To upgrade, simply reimport the product xml.


1.1.2 Released 03.07.07 Discussion for this release starts here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=128200),

Bug Fixes

Fixed issue when titles are changed via ajax. WHen these posts do not contain bbcode, the contents of the post could be potentially emptied.

1.1.1 Released 01.07.07 Discussion for this release starts here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1280630),

Bug Fixes

Fixed issues with older versions of php not parsing code
Fixed rebuild posts never leaving the first page


1.1.0 Released 29.06.07 Discussion for this release starts here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1279109).


Bug fixes


Fixed annoying bug that left the package setting to 'disabled' by default.
Fixed single quotes being left in some bbcodes that AME skips over
Enhanced the regular expressions to take into account other parameters
Fixed bug with importing a single definition


New features


Added the ability to fetch video titles
Changed the replacements and container HTML to use variables rather than back references. In other words, instead of placing \1 in your replacement, you would now put $p1. You can have up to 5 back references this way ($p1, $p2, $p3, $p4 and $p5). You can also use $url and $title in the container and the replacement.
I had to re-wipe the default definitions to make the changes outlined above. If you had tweaked your definitions, you will need to do so again.



Note that by default, the new 'Resolve URL titles' option is on. Some servers lock down the ability to use fetch_contents with url's. If your server has this restriction, then this feature will not work and you will need to disable it (or get your host to enable it). How will you know if you need to disable it? If your posts seem to hang when creating/editing a post with a matching URL in it.

[The Geek]

Reserved for user contributed definitions to import into AME.

User contributed:

Videotube And Liveleak -VideoTube contributed by Ren? Kunze (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=177878) and the LiveLeak contributed by DaNIEL MeNTED (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=164009). I contributed a couple of very minor tweaks to some of the regexps.

Other:


MyVideo (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1279273&postcount=73) contributed by Ren? Kunze (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=177878)
ClipFish (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1279346&postcount=86) contributed by Ren? Kunze (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=177878)
Sevenload (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1279273&postcount=90) contributed by Ren? Kunze (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=177878)
longislandonline.com (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1281980&postcount=179) contributed by The Geek (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=41852)
StreetFire (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1281295&postcount=168) contributed by Tungsten (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=5513)
FileCabi (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1286408&postcount=294) contributed by Dannyloski (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=148596)
GameTrailers (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1286378&postcount=293) contributed by Dannyloski (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=148596)
Photobucket (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1285318&postcount=254) contributed by Dannyloski (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=148596)
.wmv urls (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1283997&postcount=240) contributed by 4x4 Mecca (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=187686)
DivX/Stage6 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1285318&postcount=254) contributed by Dannyloski (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=148596)
RealMedia (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1287091&postcount=302) contributed by Dannyloski (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=148596)
CarpixTV (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1287569&postcount=303) contributed by Tungsten (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=5513)
Quicktime (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1286900&postcount=298) contributed by Dannyloski (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/member.php?u=148596)

[puertoblack2003]

thanks will try this out:up:

[dinodonk]

thanks! downloaded

[eurofunny]

Hi,

installed and then comes this error when i post a thread with youtube url or other contents........hack disabled at the moment........


Warnung: Missing argument 2 for ame_prep_text() in /includes/ame_bbcode.php (Zeile 152)

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: str_ireplace() in /mysite/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 268

[The Geek]

hmmm. What version of php are you on?

[eurofunny]

hmmm. What version of php are you on?

4.4.7

[Lizard King]

Perfect idea Sam :)

[Ren? Kunze]

Hello, unfortunately I get now an error if I a new topic or contribution provide:

Warnung: Missing argument 2 for ame_prep_text(), called in /home/mars14/public_html/vb/includes/functions_newpost.php(524) : eval()'d code on line 191 and defined in /includes/ame_bbcode.php (Zeile 152)

Unfortunately I do not have notion like I these sides in chop to merge can.
http://video.google.de/
http://www.myvideo.de/
http://www.videotube.de/
http://www.clipfish.de/

Can help their me there.

[The Geek]

@Euro - Can you redownload and install? str_ireplace is a PHP 5 function so I changed the code to use str_replace instead. I also took care of the other error. Let me know how you get on :)

@Liz - thanks man - it wasnt exactly mine - but I did it in a cool way ifidontmindsayingsomyself :)

[The Geek]

@Rene: Redownload, sounds like the same problem as euro. Just fixed it 2 seconds ago :)

[Lizard King]

Sam it is unfortunately not working. You can check here (http://www.ayyas.com/visual-trip/18283-fenerbahce-videolari/#post314090) I even disabled all other media hacks to check it out. Change execution order in each plugin to 3 just to make sure not conflicting with vBSEO.

[Mastar]

It didn't work for me either.. mine look like Lizard King's post.

[Ren? Kunze]

Unfortunately it does not function.

If I these left: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c949S08LIHY

Into a contribution copy converts it it into URL, but not into a video.

[FleaBag]

Ah! Nice work Sam! :)

[The Geek]

Have you checked your settings to see if it is disabled? Looks like it is by default. THen do a quick edit/save. I just checked it on my vbseo site and it seems fine.

[Ren? Kunze]

I must correct myself YouTube functioned.
Unfortunately GoogleVideo does not function.
That is the left for Google video: http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-4655323211378605528&q=Der+Bonker&total=117&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
without search:
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-4655323211378605528&total=100&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=t100_deu&plindex=19

[Luky]

You should use tcat and thead, thead for the name of the video hoster, eg. Youtube or Veoh. and tcat for the name of the video, like Superman fights back or How to cook bejcon.

[The Geek]

Rene, edit the google regexp to this:


http://video\.google\.[\w.]+/videoplay\?docid=([-\d]+)(.*?)


That will take care of the extra parameters that is causing a false return. Ill update the installer accordingly for the next update.

@Lucky, I am planning on doing this for named URLs (i.e. those with names in them) but wont otherwise as it would require going off site to try and figure out what the name is :)

[eurofunny]

now it works fine

[Lizard King]

Have you checked your settings to see if it is disabled? Looks like it is by default. THen do a quick edit/save. I just checked it on my vbseo site and it seems fine.
I still cannot believe myself how i missed that.

[Ren? Kunze]

Now it functions, only as gets I the others left inside.
Unfortunately I do not have notion as I that to make am.

http://www.myvideo.de/
http://www.videotube.de/
http://www.clipfish.de/

[The Geek]

here is your myvideo.de

regexp:

http://www\.myvideo\.de/watch/([\d]+)


embed

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="450" height="380"><param name="movie" value="http://www.myvideo.de/movie/1472499"></param><embed src="http://www.myvideo.de/movie/\2" width="470" height="406" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>


The others are pretty easy as they look like some of the default ones that are installed. I was going to export these for you, but I just found a small bug in the importer. Ill upload a new one later tonight so we can start the exporting and importing :D

nJoy

[Ren? Kunze]

I thank you for your assistance.

I tried, get it times it however unfortunately not.

[aggiefan]

installed here with no problems.... but is there a list of "supported" sites other than the ones listed in the admincp? Just wondering because the previous version seemed to support more than the 6 video services i see listed in the admin section.

and is there any way to get the title in from the youtube clip? I know previous versions of these media players would list the window as "youtube - title of the clip". it makes it easier to see exactly what you are watching before you click the play overlay because you cant tell alot of the time based on the initial image.

[Subah]

Great hack , i will install it soon as possble :)

[gothicuser]

Sam, you are the man ;)

[The Geek]

@Aggie, the beauty is that any site can be supported. No need to wait for someone to add support for you - you can add what you want now (it doesnt have to just stop at viedo sterams... think amazon.com referrer :) ).
I only included the most popular to start with, but thanks to the importer and exporter, I am sure it is only a matter of time until everything is out there :)

I started looking into putting the title in... Its not as big of a deal as I thought so I am doing it now. I agree that it looks much nicer :)

Glad I could get you something Goth... :D

[The Geek]

oooo. Look, nothing like a little petty thread rating to make ones day :rolleyes:

Silly lamer.

[DieselMinded]

Is this working Now?

[The Geek]

yes. There is a bug with importing single items, but since no one is posting exports, I don't see it as much of a show stopper. That will most likely get fixed by tomorrow.

[eurofunny]

How can i display Videos from http://de.sevenload.com/videos/KicXJpB

I have try it the code of myvideo.de to rewrite, but i had no luck, it is for me to complicated :erm:

[DieselMinded]

Ill wait for a bit Till no bugs exists Ive had 3 different hacks about embedding in 4 days so.........

[SEOvB]

Works perfectly for me on our website :yesway:

[Tungsten]

I just noticed a bit of a bug...

On my site, when this is enabled and you quote any text containing an apostrophe, the apostrophe is rendered as \\'

Example...


I'll check that for you

Becomes...


I\\'ll check that for you

As soon as I turn AME off in the AdminCP, it no longer happens to subsequently quoted text.

[The Geek]

I just noticed a bit of a bug...

On my site, when this is enabled and you quote any text containing an apostrophe, the apostrophe is rendered as \\'

Example...



Becomes...



As soon as I turn AME off in the AdminCP, it no longer happens to subsequently quoted text.
hmmmm, not sure how this could happen, but I just ran some tests and I can confirm. Ill get on to it asap :)

[da420]

I just noticed a bit of a bug...

On my site, when this is enabled and you quote any text containing an apostrophe, the apostrophe is rendered as \\'

Example...



Becomes...



As soon as I turn AME off in the AdminCP, it no longer happens to subsequently quoted text.

Yep, same issue here. Anything parsed in the bbcodes. That includes the code tags, and quote tags.

[Wayne Luke]

Nice to see some automation procedures like this coming out. I have this installed and it will help a large majority of users because many do no use BBCode or find formatting complicated. The fact that it is relatively easy to expand by the admin is another plus. I can see codes in the future that place images from image upload sites in lightboxes and other nifty features.

[rjmjr69]

I'll give it a shot see what happens. Now having BB codes for these services already installed is that a bad idea should they be removed before?

[The Geek]

Thanks for the heads up about the quote error, Ill have that resolved first thing tomorrow.

@Wayne: I appreciate your support, we are thinking along similar lines :D

@rjmjr69 - You can keep your other mods going, but there is also a conversion system in AME that can convert your old tags back to URL ones (that would also allow you to then convert them to ame tags :)

[ammoskumar]

not working for me...

[Tungsten]

Thanks for the heads up about the quote error, Ill have that resolved first thing tomorrow.


Cool... thanks! :)

[The Geek]

not working for me...
make sure it isnt disabled in the settings

[iogames]

Totally sleepy, fixing a computer and I want to ask:

- How can I make the Videos to appear in the middle like this thread:


http://chat.iogames.com/news/44-pirates-caribbean-intro.html

[Luky]

Rene, edit the google regexp to this:


http://video\.google\.[\w.]+/videoplay\?docid=([-\d]+)(.*?)


That will take care of the extra parameters that is causing a false return. Ill update the installer accordingly for the next update.

@Lucky, I am planning on doing this for named URLs (i.e. those with names in them) but wont otherwise as it would require going off site to try and figure out what the name is :)
There is no C in my name! :(

Mmm, i could do it myself easily, just edit the template to display the url at a tcat :P All you need installed is that mod that parses url's into the page title of the url.

[DieselMinded]

Can you make this add the [center] Tags ???

That would Rock !

[projectego]

/me clicks install

[The Geek]

Totally sleepy, fixing a computer and I want to ask:

- How can I make the Videos to appear in the middle like this thread:


http://chat.iogames.com/news/44-pirates-caribbean-intro.html
Do you have the container setting on?

[The Geek]

There is no C in my name! :(

Mmm, i could do it myself easily, just edit the template to display the url at a tcat :P All you need installed is that mod that parses url's into the page title of the url.

lol, sorry, I wasnt so lucky when reading your name :D

No worries, I have already implimented it for next version. Thanks for suggesting it :)

Can you make this add the [center] Tags ???

That would Rock !

No need, either use the container setting, or simply put <div align="center">...</div> aroung the embed code. With this system you can edit all the layouts :)

HTHs

[mktrilogy]

i cant figure out how to make this work.

[Luky]

I just noticed a bit of a bug...

On my site, when this is enabled and you quote any text containing an apostrophe, the apostrophe is rendered as \\'

Example...



Becomes...



As soon as I turn AME off in the AdminCP, it no longer happens to subsequently quoted text.
Teach you to be grammatic!

[The Geek]

i cant figure out how to make this work.
Check your settings to make sure it is on.

[Ren? Kunze]

when the new version comes.

Are already completely strained on it.

[The Geek]

Not sure what you mean? There is an update coming out in about 15 mintues. Im just running tests and packaging it up.

[FleaBag]

Will this update ba able to convert URL's from the other recent hack Sam?

[shehzada4]

is the update up yet

[FleaBag]

Yes it is. ;)

[The Geek]

Hey Flea, yes, this can convert other mediaish bbcodes.

Update and release notes are here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1278376&postcount=2). There have been some important changes so I would check it out :)

nJoy

[lolo?]

great mode click install
it's possible to add dailymotion ??

[Tungsten]

Hey Flea, yes, this can convert other mediaish bbcodes.

Update and release notes are here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1278376&postcount=2). There have been some important changes so I would check it out :)

nJoy

Hmmm... now it seems that whenever I add a video link (example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y) to a post and hit the Submit button, the page just cranks along and never actually posts anything.

Disabling the hack results in normal operation.

:(

[The Geek]

Did you upload all files, overwriting the previous ones?

[Tungsten]

Did you upload all files, overwriting the previous ones?
Yep.

[The Geek]

Try turning off the Resolve URL titles setting.

[Tungsten]

Try turning off the Resolve URL titles setting.
That fixed it.

[The Geek]

That feature requires your server to be able to use a url wrapper for fetch_contents(). Some servers lock this down. Maybe I should disable it by default?

[Tungsten]

Disabling by default might be a good choice. I own this particular server, so I can enable that feature later I suppose. :)

Thanks for your work on this. I for one appreciate it.

[Ren? Kunze]

Functions all dazzling. Only unfortunately white I like I the other URL do not in-get there.

I get the title with the video however the film am not shown.


I built that into the Regular Expression
http://www\.videotube\.de/watch/([\d]+)

but which I must change now here

<object width="480" height="400" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000">
<param name="movie" value="/.//flash/videotube_player_4.swf"></param>
<param name="flashvars" value="videoId=37150&svsf=1&lang=german&host=www.videotube.de"></param>
<param name="quality" value="best">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff">

<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always">
<param name="swLiveConnect" value="true">
<embed src="/.//flash/videotube_player_4.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="400" flashvars="videoId=37150&svsf=1&lang=german&host=www.videotube.de" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" swliveconnect="true"></embed>
</object>

I do not have that made however it functioned


<object width="480" height="400" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000">
<param name="movie" value="/.//flash/videotube_player_4.swf"></param>
<param name="flashvars" value="videoId=$p1&svsf=1&lang=german&host=www.videotube.de"></param>
<param name="quality" value="best">
<param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff">

<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always">
<param name="swLiveConnect" value="true">
<embed src="/.//flash/videotube_player_4.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="400" flashvars="videoId=$p1&svsf=1&lang=german&host=www.videotube.de" quality="best" bgcolor="#ffffff" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" swliveconnect="true"></embed>
</object>

Can you help me, please.

[The Geek]

Whats with the odd slashes in there?

/.//flash/videotube_player_4.swf

Shouldnt that be pointing to a website? (i.e. http://www.videotube.de)

BTW: That is an awful site. I get nothing but hundreds of errors on IE and I cant copy any more than 1 line in FF for the embedding). I tried yesterday for you but that site just makes it impossible :)

[Darat]

Oh well Dumbo here - just not working on my forum. Not hanging not anything just resolves a "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c949S08LIHY" to a URL.

(I have double nah tripled checked to see if it was disabled and I do have a YouTube bbcode already added and a useful paid for mod called GAL (http://www.thevbgeek.com/geekmart.php?do=displayproduct&id=2) installed.)

[The Geek]

I wonder if the youtube bbcode is messing with it. Can you check the post table and see if there are any ame tags? in the post? Can you also make sure that it is enabled (i.e. in your settings).

Thanks!

[Ren? Kunze]

The DATE had hung times myvie on.
As it its code outside did not have wanted it it to merge however to it came.


https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1276887&postcount=149

[Ren? Kunze]

Thus I am times like that free and the MyVideo here upload.

With me it functions dazzling.

Left is http://www.myvideo.de

[eurofunny]

How can i display Videos from http://de.sevenload.com/videos/KicXJpB

I have try it the code of myvideo.de to rewrite, but i had no luck, it is for me to complicated :erm:

The Geek this is a very nice hack and it works wonderfull.

Can anyone tell me please the Code for sevenload?? THX:)

[Darat]

I wonder if the youtube bbcode is messing with it. Can you check the post table and see if there are any ame tags? in the post? Can you also make sure that it is enabled (i.e. in your settings).

Thanks!

Seems to be there in the post table, and it is enabled and in the post is just:

<!-- message -->
<div id="post_message_2729710"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c949S08LIHY" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c949S08LIHY</a></div>
<!-- / message -->

[4x4 Mecca]

Well, no video embeding add on has been able to automatically remove the
?action=view&current=
from
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/MrK5/Videos/?action=view&current=Bunce.flv
Do you think yours will be able to remove it and display the link like this?
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/MrK5/Videos/Bunce.flv

[The Geek]

FYI: I uploaded an Amazon definition to try to get you guys creative in this mods application.

Check here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1278377&postcount=3)

[The Geek]

@4x4 - of course it can :) look at the amazon add on and how much crap has to be ditched from that! You just have to find the right regexp.

@Darat: have you tried disabling your other mods to see if its a conflict? Remember that the conversion takes place after a new post is created or edited.

@Rene - Im sorry, I know English isnt your first language which must be a real pain... but I just don't get what you're saying :D

[Ren? Kunze]

MY english is very bad.

MyVideo function but the other links not.

What i make with this

http://www.clipfish.de/player.php?videoid=Mjk1MHw1MDc3NzY%3D

This is the video but how make it.

Mjk1MHw1MDc3NzY%3D

is this correct.

([\d]+)

Give a Programm to confert Mjk1MHw1MDc3NzY%3D in this ([\d]+).

I hope you understand me.

[4x4 Mecca]

Installing now, and if it works as promised, I'll mark installed! Thanks!

[4x4 Mecca]

I get "Invalid File Specified" when I try to import amazon. Never mind.. I'm a doofus.

[The Geek]

you can try:

([\d\w%]+)

[Ren? Kunze]

Ok i cant it.

Can you help me with http://www.clipfish.de

I have this:

http://www\.clipfish\.de/player.php?videoid=([\d\w%]+)

And this:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="464" height="380" id="player" align="middle">
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<param name="movie" value="http://www.clipfish.de/videoplayer.swf?as=0&videoid=$p1" />
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#999999" />
<embed src="http://www.clipfish.de/videoplayer.swf?as=0&videoid=$p1" quality="high" bgcolor="#999999" width="464" height="380" name="player" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>
</object>

[da420]

FYI: I uploaded an Amazon definition to try to get you guys creative in this mods application.

Check here (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1278377&postcount=3)

I would love to provide more plug ins for this! But, I found the RegEx program confusing. I am sure I am over complicating it, but I couldn't find a decent tutorial on the site for how to use it, and when I tried to figure it out myself I only confused myself even more. It was last night, and I was tired when I tryed it, so that might have something to do with it, but a simple walk through on how to use it would be great so I can start providing us with some neat plug ins for this great mod. :)

Thank you.

[The Geek]

da40 - Ill try to put together a basic concept tutoiral Regexps are almost as much art as science and very difficult to get your head around.

@Rene - you need to escape special characters (like the . and the ?). Try this:

http://www\.clipfish\.de/player\.php\?videoid\=([\d\w%]+)[&\w;=\+_-]*

[Ren? Kunze]

Thank You.

I found an error.

I have on the top of showthred this error:

Warnung: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Compilation failed: unmatched parentheses at offset 61 in /includes/ame_bbcode.php (Zeile 336)

Here is the xml of Clipfish.

[The Geek]

I thought I would put down some basics of creating regexp's for AME as many users are wanting to create their own. This isnt an exhaustive list, nor am I an expert on regexps, this is just a rough, basic overview to get you started.

AME takes the regexp you provide and wraps it in [url] tags, boundaries and codes to make the regexp case insensitive so you don't have to worry about doing that. You do have to remember though that your regexp needs to match the entire URL. If it doesnt, it wont qualify as a match in AME.

Best way to test regular expressions (that I have found) is with regexp buddy (http://www.regexbuddy.com/). This is what I do:


Start up Regexpbuddy
Click the test tab
Tick the 'case insensitive' option
In the box below the tabs, I past the URL I want to create a regexp for. You need to be able to identify what part of the URL is the part you want to extract. In this instance, I am trying to create a regexp for http://www.clipfish.de/player.php?videoid=MzEwODYwfDg2NzY0Ng==. So I want to extract the MzEwODYwfDg2NzY0Ng part.
I then paste everything leading up to the part I want to extract into the top window like this: http://www.clipfish.de/player.php?videoid=
I then escape special characters from the url with the \ character like this: http://www\.clipfish\.de/player\.php\?videoid=. At this stage, RegexpBuddy should have highlighted your test URL up to the part we want to extract. If it hasnt, then you are missing something.


I now need to define a character class that will allow me to match the pattern I am after. If the pattern is only word characters (i.e. letters and or numbers), then I can use [\w]. If it is letters only, then I would use [a-z], If they are numbers only then I can use [\d].
I can also specify additional characters that can appear. For instance, if I wanted a class that allows word characters and underscores, I could do [\w_]. If I wanted letters only, hyphens and underscores, I could do [a-z_-]

In the case where I am trying to extract MzEwODYwfDg2NzY0Ng then a word character class would work fine: [\w]

The problem is that only matches the first occurence of a character in the class. In other words, my match would be http://www.clipfish.de/player.php?videoid=M NOT http://www.clipfish.de/player.php?videoid=MzEwODYwfDg2NzY0Ng== which is what I want!.

This is where special characters come in.

. will match any single character that is NOT a line break
* will match 0 or unlimited times
+ will match once or unlimited times
? will match 0 or 1 time.


So, to make my character class work, I use [\w]+

So now my regexp looks like:

http://www\.clipfish\.de/player\.php\?videoid=[\w]+

Now, that will match, but I need to capture whatever pattern is matched in the [\w]+ part. Thats where ()'s come into play. If I so this:

http://www\.clipfish\.de/player\.php\?videoid=([\w]+)

Then I get the contents of that pattern.

However!!! It still wont match yet because there are these annoying == signs in there! Since we are not sure how and when they will appear, lets just create another class to accomadate whatever else may come after.

[&\w;=+_-]* That class says "match any single character that is an &, a word (or digit), a semi colon, a plus, an underscore and a hyphen 0 to an unlimited amount of times (the asterix says that!). That means that any of those mentioned characters may of may not appear, but nothing outside of that class can appear (for instance, a %).
So my final regexp looks like:

http://www\.clipfish\.de/player\.php\?videoid=([\w]+)[&\w;=+_-]*

And in the case of AME, I can put $p1 in the replacement HTML to get the 'movie' id which in this case is MzEwODYwfDg2NzY0Ng.

nJoy

[iogames]

MotM!!!

[ThorstenA]

There are problems with special characters fetched from youtube into [ URL ] [ / URL ] tags. I'd also like a version without file uploades or DB changes. There was another mod available until a few days and it could integrate youtube without any changes mentioned above. This modification was dropped for this mod here, so I'd be happy to see improvements in easy upgrading (no file uploads / no db changes).

[Ren? Kunze]

So and now here is Sevenload.

The link is: http://de.sevenload.com/

[Ren? Kunze]

and here is Video Tube

Link: http://www.videotube.de

[Ren? Kunze]

Here is Yahoo Video

The link: http://de.video.yahoo.com

[The Geek]

There are problems with special characters fetched from youtube into [ URL ] [ / URL ] tags. I'd also like a version without file uploades or DB changes. There was another mod available until a few days and it could integrate youtube without any changes mentioned above. This modification was dropped for this mod here, so I'd be happy to see improvements in easy upgrading (no file uploads / no db changes).
Then go make one. I really don't see the point of of your post other than to troll.

[The Geek]

Nice one Rene :)

[eurofunny]

So and now here is Sevenload.

The link is: http://de.sevenload.com/

THX Rene........

Danke Ren?, daf?r das Dein Englisch so schlecht ist, hast Du das perfekt hinbekommen........Vielen Dank............Mach Dir aber nichts draus, mein Englisch ist auch nicht besser :)

[DaNIEL MeNTED]

edited...

Ooops. I see there's a fix. Thx Geek!

I have liveleak that I will post - as well as some cleaned up versions of the header info for people who are interested.

[DaNIEL MeNTED]

I changed my open close HTML to this:


<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="400" style="margin:10px 0">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2" style="text-align:center">
<a href="$url" title="View this video at YouTube in a new window or tab" target="_blank">$title</a>
</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">



</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


**LIVELEAK removed - not working right.

[rjmjr69]

Awesome I love when others get involved and help out. Great work people.

I get nothing but errors from both of the ones you posted Rene

[Finster]

What we really need is for this to work with videos at Stage6.com

[DaNIEL MeNTED]

liveleak...

[DaNIEL MeNTED]

is there a reason why youtube videos show a white border?

[mktrilogy]

Ok, I uploaded the files, Installed the plugin, and check if the hack is on. Everything was correct.

I post a link "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W1krRRPyp0" sample then nothing happens, all i see is the link, did i miss something?

[DaNIEL MeNTED]

hxxp?

[4x4 Mecca]

I installed the amazon code, but don't under stand a lick of it! lol. I'm thinking about getting regex, but am trying on my own first.

[4x4 Mecca]

I'm still trying photobucket... This is my starting code.
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/MrK5/Videos/?action=view&current=Bunce.flv

This is what I want to be left with, the prefix always changes
http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/MrK5/Videos/Bunce.flv

This is the code I have to far
([\w/.:]+)\?action=view&current=([\w.]*)


Can anyone help?

[Ren? Kunze]

THX Rene........

Danke Ren?, daf?r das Dein Englisch so schlecht ist, hast Du das perfekt hinbekommen........Vielen Dank............Mach Dir aber nichts draus, mein Englisch ist auch nicht besser :)

Thank you for the words.
I cant write english but understand it.

Danke f?r Deine Worte.
Ich kann englsich nicht schreiben aber verstehen tue ich es.
Nun habe ich glaube ich bald alle Video Seiten die auf deutsch sind.

Nice one Rene :)

Please Geek, so I can help you.

It is a great Hack.

[furst]

It doesn't work for me. When I post an url to youtube, the regular url comes out. The ame bbcode does not get appended to the post. When I manually add the ame tags, the video does work.

Edit: I've disabled all hacks and plugins except for AME, and it still doesn't work :(

[4x4 Mecca]

http://([\w.]+)(\.photobucket\.[\w.]+/[\w/.:]+)\?action=view&current=([\w.]*) that is my photobucket code so far, but it's still just giving me a link in posts. :)

[Hornstar]

Hey geek, hope this has not been asked already, but I am using mfyvie hack.

I am worried if i uninstall his i will have heaps of ugle bb codes around the site, will this hack convert those as well? or will i just have to put up with them?

[Coders Shack]

does the yahoo one really work? I'm pretty sure yahoo needs two things the ID and the vID, the vID is provided in the link but not the ID.

[4x4 Mecca]

It seems that the and sign '&' is what's messing up my code... here's the code, I've tried a dozen differen't ways, and it this is the most common result.

expression
http://([\w.]+)\.photobucket\.([\w.]+)/([\w\/\.\:]+)/([?action=view/&current=]*)([\w.]+)

Replacement
<embed src="http://www.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://$p1.photobucket.$p2/$p3/$p5" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="531" height="416" name="ePlayer"
align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>

Result in posts
It tries to embed a video, but the link it's trying to use is
<embed width="430" height="389" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/MrK5/Videos/view"></embed>
and it shows this under the video screen meaning it wasn't used.

&current=Bunce.flv

[mktrilogy]

It doesn't work for me. When I post an url to youtube, the regular url comes out. The ame bbcode does not get appended to the post. When I manually add the ame tags, the video does work.

Edit: I've disabled all hacks and plugins except for AME, and it still doesn't work :(

Same here bro. Must be other hacks installed or something. Am using Extremepixels skins and i cant think of anything that can not allow it to work. help.

[furst]

Same here bro. Must be other hacks installed or something. Am using Extremepixels skins and i cant think of anything that can not allow it to work. help.
I thought it may have been a skin problem, so I tried posting under the default vbulletin skin and it was still a no go.

[A|X]

Hi,

I just install AME.
When i paste youtube url http://youtube.com/watch?v=noyl1PKkBdE nothing happen.

Please help what should i do?

[Ren? Kunze]

@a|x

Have you Disable New items of No or Yes.

@ Coders Shack

I have tested with the link and by me it is function.

[The Geek]

How to troubleshoot.

1. Make sure that the disable setting is set to no (admincp->AME CP->settings)
2. Disable 'Resolve URL titles' (admincp->AME CP->Settings).
3. Here are some random links to put into a post. See if all/some/none work (if you have not disabled the Resolve URL titles setting, this could take awhile to post!


http://www.metacafe.com/watch/693063/lion_attack

You tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnujO3SCGBE

my space
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=878167267

google
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=4776181634656145640

ifilm
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2846503

metacafe
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/692030/tiger_woods_make_a_sensational_shot

bolt
http://www.bolt.com/nakhon/video/WhaleShark_at_Andaman_Sea/2201227


Disable all other modifications except this one and repeat the process.

If none of these work, post:
1. Check your apache error log for any info you could post to help us find the problem
2. Make sure you post your version# of PHP

[The Geek]

I changed my open close HTML to this:


<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="400" style="margin:10px 0">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2" style="text-align:center">
<a href="$url" title="View this video at YouTube in a new window or tab" target="_blank">$title</a>
</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">



</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>


**LIVELEAK removed - not working right.
Daniel, I love these changes to the container, I subbed $title in the URL's title slot and wrapped the table in a centred div. Ill add a link to it in the add on post.

[therogueforums]

Downloaded, will install tomorrow, and get back to you.

[The Geek]

The photobucket one is a beast. I almost have a consistant one licked, but wont be able to work on it until later... its Saturday you know!

[The Geek]

Hey geek, hope this has not been asked already, but I am using mfyvie hack.

I am worried if i uninstall his i will have heaps of ugle bb codes around the site, will this hack convert those as well? or will i just have to put up with them?
The problem is that his doesnt remove the codes when you uninstall it. THats good as you wont have dead codes laying around, but bad because the bbcodes still try to parse your messages!

This system has a converter in it that should be able to convert other media tags into standard URL tags.
THen you can use the AME rebuild posts tool to convert old post URLs into new ame tags.

In other words, this system can convert old posts and old codes.

HTHs!

[4x4 Mecca]

The photobucket one is a beast. I almost have a consistant one licked, but wont be able to work on it until later... its Saturday you know!
Well I'm glad you are having trouble! I thought it was my newbie mistake, lol. Thanks for trying, you rock, this mod is great.

[The Geek]

np, click the ol install button when you get a chance :)

[4x4 Mecca]

Installed :)

[4x4 Mecca]

I get this error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: stripos() in /home/.neptune/branndon/4x4mecca.com/forum/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 186
when I try to run "Rebuild Posts" in test mode.

[The Geek]

I get this error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: stripos() in /home/.neptune/branndon/4x4mecca.com/forum/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 186
when I try to run "Rebuild Posts" in test mode.
bugger. Another php5 only function. Edit that line and change stripos to strpos. Ill line that up for next update.

[4x4 Mecca]

Thanks!

[Heath]

@Geek - Im geting this working when I manually submit links, but the RSS doesn't allow it to auto-convert? I stripped the [url] around the RSSimport link just to leave the video link its self, still no go. Only when I post them myself.

http://forum.popuplace.com/showthread.php?p=34957&posted=1#post34957

see?

[The Geek]

Do you mean on incoming or outgoing RSS feeds heath?

[Heath]

incoming. I have the YouTube Recently added and Metacafe feeds linked in to auto update every 10mins. Currently it just shows the link, no conversion takes place. Any idea how to set it to work with the rss feeds as well?

thank you for this mod. its a great idea.

[The Geek]

Ok, I just looked into this (well, the youtube one) and its a little tricky. Its tricky because there isnt a standard URL in the RSS feed. THere is an image, a URL to the user, a URL to the tags and finally, a url to the page - but it isnt in the standard format. That isnt hard to do (just create a new definition and new plugin to hook into the rssfeeddata_presave). The problem is, you will end up with kind of an ugly look as it will have an image, some text, some links and then the video.

[Heath]

If I removed all that description data and just leave the URL would that work?

[FleaBag]

Please excuse my ignorance! I have read through everything but I am a little unsure as to how I convert [anymedia] tags from Crist's previous hack. Does the tool with this handle that too?

[mcgra]

liveleak...

Works perfectly now, thanks a million :up:

[Lizard King]

Please excuse my ignorance! I have read through everything but I am a little unsure as to how I convert [anymedia] tags from Crist's previous hack. Does the tool with this handle that too?
I am also wondering the same thing. Probably i'll try this tonight on my test forum. But i realized something funny :) This doesn't work with GARS first post :D

Edit : I tried convertng media tags however it doesn't work. The Conversions option is always causing errors. Sam if you need info PM me , i'll supply you login info to my test board.

[The Geek]

@Heath, you would still need a plug in to handle the saving of the RSS feed which wouldnt be hard, but would need looking into.

@Flea, it should do... you just need to know the format that the new URL would have to take on. What does the data look like in the tag? I suspect that the conversion tool would need anymedia in the first box and \1 in the second - but im not 100% sure without knowing what the tags look like.

@Liz, sure pass on the details and ill give it a go. There isnt a reason why it shouldnt work in GARS threads.

[The Geek]

@Liz - converted no problem :)

The [media] tags (or any tag that has the full URL in it) is simple. The code setting is media and the conversion is \1
I ran it on your test board and it converted all the media tags to url tags.

You can then use the rebuild posts tool to convert those to your new codes.

The GARS thread was fine. The problem was that either the posts need rebuilding OR you need to edit/resave for AME to convert the URL tags.
Looks like your [youtube] code will also be straight forward to convert. Do it the same as the media explained above.

Just make sure you read the admicp help on the converting tool and rember that the tool only converts tags back to normal URL tags. After that, use rebuild posts tool to convert them to AME tags.

HTHs

[Brandon Sheley]

wow, I can't believe I've seen this

Thanks Sam :)

[rjmjr69]

I still dont quite get how to add additional xmls I see the import I tried all the xmls posted and only one worked but it was redundant already installed. with default settings. Geek are you going to be adding all these extras posted in the next update as part of the package?

[The Geek]

I amy add yahoo and a couple others, but I would rather leave the rest as options to reduce overheads.

Once you import, the screen takes you to another screen that enables you to then add them. Are you not getting that?

[Hornstar]

Sam can I suggest a feature ^^

You said you can import extra video sharing sites, so you don't have to build them in to save overhead right?

Why not create an import which has all the video sharing sites in the one import? I would like to have all the video sharing sites that there are, but others may not. so then the people who don't, can just import the single video sharing imports ^^ and the people who want the lot, can import the complete list of them ^^

I would create it, but ill leave it to the more advanced users :)

[Lizard King]

Sam can I suggest a feature ^^

You said you can import extra video sharing sites, so you don't have to build them in to save overhead right?

Why not create an import which has all the video sharing sites in the one import? I would like to have all the video sharing sites that there are, but others may not. so then the people who don't, can just import the single video sharing imports ^^ and the people who want the lot, can import the complete list of them ^^

I would create it, but ill leave it to the more advanced users :)
Probably he doesn't have time to do that. Thats why he suggest people preparing by themself.

Sam , there is something weird in the tools. Both hang out only the first page. Tried both test mode on and off. Convert codes just replace 1 post and thats it. Rebuild Post counts down till passing the next page however when i check the id's if always does the same postid's.

[Hornstar]

Probably he doesn't have time to do that. Thats why he suggest people preparing by themself.

Sam , there is something weird in the tools. Both hang out only the first page. Tried both test mode on and off. Convert codes just replace 1 post and thats it. Rebuild Post counts down till passing the next page however when i check the id's if always does the same postid's.

Yeah i'm aware that Sam is busy with his commercial products (I own four of them ^^ ) but considering how fast it took the other developer to implement so many different video sites into his, I don't think it would take someone as experienced as Sam long :)

But if Sam insists he wont, that is fine, hopefully another experienced person will be happy to put an import together which has a whole heap of the video sharing sites in it :)

[furst]

Hi Sam, I've done all of that, and it still does not work. I looked in the error log, but there wasn't anything relevant there. I'm using php 4.3.9. Please help.

[Nathan2006]

Thank you for this :)

Install

I have found 2 problems with this.

1. the titles of the videos come out like this:
[color=#0000ff]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c949...

and when you select "Thread Tools" it hides behind the video :(

I have added a screenshot so you know what its like.

Thanks for any help :)

[cyberbob73]

Have also times a question. Property me these chop inserted however these does not want not to function. With me in each case the left is indicated to the video, but not the Player.

[The Geek]

@Horn: Its actually a decent idea. Ill compile them into a larger xml to impoty as more are contributed

@Lizard. Is the test setting ticked? If so, you will never get past page 1 as no changes will ever be made. Make sure test mode is off.

@nathan: Try adding wmode="transparent" to the embed element in the replacement code. I have no clue how or why it would add color bbcode. So you have some other bbcode hack that tries to color urls?

[The Geek]

Have also times a question. Property me these chop inserted however these does not want not to function. With me in each case the left is indicated to the video, but not the Player.
sorry, I don't follow you

[cyberbob73]

Look please here ===> http://www.cyberbobs-welt.de/showthread.php?t=6786

[Lizard King]

@Lizard. Is the test setting ticked? If so, you will never get past page 1 as no changes will ever be made. Make sure test mode is off.
I tried both versions Sam . If you want the login info still remains , you can login and check it on ayyas.

[The Geek]

Look please here ===> http://www.cyberbobs-welt.de/showthread.php?t=6786
did you try this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1279789&postcount=116

[cyberbob73]

Originally Posted by cyberbob73 View Post
Look please here ===> http://www.cyberbobs-welt.de/showthread.php?t=6786

Sorry, but somehow does not go to nothing at all....

[furst]

did you try this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1279789&postcount=116
I tried all of that. There was nothing relevant in the logs. Also, my php version is 4.3.9. The AME tags work, but the problem is that they're not automatically added to the posts. Any suggestions?

[The Geek]

Sorry, but somehow does not go to nothing at all....

I tried all of that. There was nothing relevant in the logs. Also, my php version is 4.3.9. The AME tags work, but the problem is that they're not automatically added to the posts. Any suggestions?

Can you guys PM me an admincp account?

[Madmp3zz]

EVERYTHING works great.
Had one issue where I was getting an alert at the top of my page.
I just had to change a setting in my PHP.INI file to ON.

CLICKED INSTALL!!!


GREAT IDEA!!!

[The Geek]

Package updated to 1.1.1 to address issues in older versions of PHP and to fix bug with rebuild posts never leaving the first page.

[cyberbob73]

THANKS FOR THE GOOD JOB

[4x4 Mecca]

You have the date wrong in the update post #2
1.1.1 Released 01.06.07
should be
1.1.1 Released 01.07.07
:) just trying to help you since you've helped so many people with this hack.

[iogames]

INCREDIBLE WORK!

:D

[Funboy]

Thx neat idea. INSTALLED :up:

[rjmjr69]

Everything I import is either a double or full of fatal errors?

[rjmjr69]

I amy add yahoo and a couple others, but I would rather leave the rest as options to reduce overheads.

Once you import, the screen takes you to another screen that enables you to then add them. Are you not getting that?
Yes I am getting the other sceen but they are all errors I have found only ONE add on that isnt errors or a double up basically

[furst]

Support for Break and DailyMotion would be nice. Oh, and BrightCove (http://www.brightcove.com) too.

[Phooey]

Awesome mod. Very very awesome.

/installed

[Hornstar]

Okay first i uninstalled the previous hack to this one - successful
then i installed this one - successful
then i ran convert codes - successful
then i ran rebuild posts - o_O very unsuccessfully

This is what it looked like down the page.


About 32 page(s) left

# post 582157: not changed
# post 582126: not changed
# post 582081: not changed
# post 582079: not changed
# post 582078:
# post 582058: not changed
# post 582042: not changed
# post 582026: not changed
# post 582025: not changed
# post 582019: not changed
# post 582015: not changed
# post 582008: not changed

and then at the bottom i got this nice big error


Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting '}' in /home/g******/public_html/forums/includes/ame_bbcode.php(177) : regexp code on line 156

Fatal error: preg_replace() [<a href='function.preg-replace'>function.preg-replace</a>]: Failed evaluating code: ame_substitute(4, &quot;~Web Executions~ procedure TMainForm.GameCheetah1Click(Sender: TObject); begin ShellExecute(0, pchar(\'open\'),pchar(\'http://gamecheetah.com\'), pchar(\'\'),pchar(\'\'), SW_MAXIMIZE ); end; procedure TMainForm.GMSRev10211Click(Sender: TObject); begin ShellExecute(0, pchar(\'open\'),pchar(\'http://forum.gamecheetah.com/showthread.php?t=13465\'), pchar(\'\'),pchar(\'\'), SW_MAXIMIZE ); end; procedure TMainForm.CheetahThread1Click(Sender: TObject); begin ShellExecute(0, pchar(\'open\'),pchar(\'http://forum.gamecheetah.com/showthread.php?t=18120\'), pchar(\'\'),pchar(\'\'), SW_MAXIMIZE ); end; procedure TMainForm.UltimateGMShelp1Click(Sender: TObject); begin ShellExecute(0, pchar(\'open\'),pchar(\'http://forum.gamecheetah.com/showthread.php?t=8561\'), pchar(\'\'),pchar(\'\'), SW_MAXIMIZE ); end; ~Cheat Table~ procedure TMainForm.DevilSin1Click(Sender: TObject); var merge: boolean; in /home/g*******/public_html/forums/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 177

[The Geek]

@horn - can you check the post and paste its url bbcode?

[firefox100]

Don't work in my forum: Version vBulletin 3.6.6, PHP 4.4.6. No Vbseo.

[irishdog]

Hey i'm trying to make a pattern that will convert a url with 2 dynamic parts such as

http://website.com/content/abcdefg/hijklmno

where abcdefg = the first dynamic part and hijklmno = the second dynamic part

this is what i have tried so far and it failed. Any help on the matter?

http://[a-z]*?[\.]?website\.[a-z]*?/content/([A-Z0-9._%-]*)[&\w;=\+_-]*

I know im probably doing something very simple wrong somewhere.

[Tungsten]

Edit... nevermind... I figured it out. :D


Here is an XML import that will add Streetfire videos to AME!

[Tungsten]

Bump... see post #168 (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1281295&postcount=168). I have uploaded an XML import that will add Streetfire videos support to AME.

[projectego]

Working like a charm. Thanks! :D

[aeturner89]

Wow this is so advanced. Great job.

[DieselMinded]

I still had to go in to all posts with a youtube link and hit Edit then save for it to update even tho i ran the fix old posts

DM

[DieselMinded]

I did a quick start tutorial on AME regexps here if you want to check it out.

This is linked to your trouble shooting guide not a guide to how to add sites to pharse

[Tom1234]

The installation says "this bit can take a couple minutes" but you are adding a field to the "post" table, so it can take hours to complete this install on a large board.

[Tom1234]

Editing a thread after installing AME causes the first post text to be lost.

Disabled AME and I can edit the thread fine again.

[The Geek]

Tom - can you provide the post text for me? including all tags so I can run some tests?

[The Geek]

Hey i'm trying to make a pattern that will convert a url with 2 dynamic parts such as

http://website.com/content/abcdefg/hijklmno

where abcdefg = the first dynamic part and hijklmno = the second dynamic part

this is what i have tried so far and it failed. Any help on the matter?

http://[a-z]*?[\.]?website\.[a-z]*?/content/([A-Z0-9._%-]*)[&\w;=\+_-]*

I know im probably doing something very simple wrong somewhere.
http://[a-z]*\.?website\.com/content/([a-z]+)/([a-z]+)

[Tom1234]

Tom - can you provide the post text for me? including all tags so I can run some tests?

Any text without any tags will do. It was reproduced consistently. Just edit a thread title and try to save it and the first post text will be lost.

[The Geek]

As requested... longislandonline.com

[aggiefan]

metacafe
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/692030/tiger_woods_make_a_sensational_shot


http://www.metacafe.com/watch/682016/3d_sound_illusion_barbershop_put_your_earphones/


is there maybe some sort of a limit to how long the url can be? I tried pasting that video into our forum and it only gave it to me as a link vs embedded video player. and our script is working fine because i could play the metacafe video you posted above.

[The Geek]

Any text without any tags will do. It was reproduced consistently. Just edit a thread title and try to save it and the first post text will be lost.
THanks Tom, I have found the problem. Can you please update to 1.1.2 (you only need to update the product, no need to upload the files) and confirm its sorted at your end?

[The Geek]

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/682016/3d_sound_illusion_barbershop_put_your_earphones/


is there maybe some sort of a limit to how long the url can be? I tried pasting that video into our forum and it only gave it to me as a link vs embedded video player. and our script is working fine because i could play the metacafe video you posted above.
Its the / at the end of the URL. If you change the regexp for the item to:

http://[a-z]*?[\.]?metacafe\.com/watch/([0-9]+/[a-z0-9_]*)[&\w;=\+_\-/]*

Then it will work :)

[popowich]

Thank you for sending an e-mail notice for the upgrade. :)

Not everyone does that, and it is very much appreciated!

-Raymond

[Ingmar]

I agreed, thank you and NICE work!

[dizzy100]

Oh i just got to install this on my test forum without the upgrade, guess i'll have to update again now LOL.

BTW the user contributed Yahoo xml doesn't work. It installs fine but displays the same video regardless of what url you put in :) Its to do with the yahoo cache i think

[The Geek]

No problem :) I usually only send updates out if it is an important update or if there is a major feature upgrade :)

[The Geek]

Oh i just got to install this on my test forum without the upgrade, guess i'll have to update again now LOL.

BTW the user contributed Yahoo xml doesn't work. It installs fine but displays the same video regardless of what url you put in :) Its to do with the yahoo cache i think
Thanks, Ill check into it :)

[Kanustep]

Hello Geek,

How the Amazon links shoudl be inserted? In my forum they are posted like urls. I have vBSeo enable and it post a redirect link.

[The Geek]

Not all the amazon URLs will post thorough yet because there are so many freaking formats an amazon URL takes on. If you post the one that isnt working for you (make sure you untick the 'automatically parse links' option) then Ill give it a try for you

[s0b]

1.- This mod support Youtube local?

Brazil (http://www.youtube.com.br)
Britain (http://www.youtube.co.uk)
France (http://www.youtube.fr)
Ireland (http://www.youtube.ie)
Italy (http://it.youtube.com)
Japan (http://www.youtube.jp)
Netherlands (http://www.youtube.nl)
Poland (http://www.youtube.pl)
Spain (http://www.youtube.es)


2.- Can embed video from Stage6?

3.- Cam embed music from GoEar.com?

4.- If you have very much sites to embed, that affect in the load of the web?


Thanks, i will install it this afternoon.

[Wayne Luke]

4.- If you have very much sites to embed, that affect in the load of the web?

Probably less load than having individual BBCodes or addons for each different site.

[The Geek]

I haven't tested all the variations of youtubes (i.e. youtube.pl) however it should work as I wrote it to work with youtube regardless of the extension. Regardless, if it doesn't, this system is designed to allow you to change that. In regard to the other 2 services you mentioned, you can check the second post to see if a user has contributed one. If not, they can easily be added.

And Wayne is spot on - there is much less overhead then having a slather of bbcodes for all the different services out there. That was one of the key driving factors in creating this add on. I wanted less overhead and more flexibility.

HTHs!

[koxito]

Well man, you made a excelent job developing this mod, this is the perfect complement to my web, it was to dificuld for my users to use [youtoube] codes...

so .. INSTALLED ... AND WORKING PERFECT.... i ll be cheking .. for some more XML's for other sites..

see ya! :)

[Tom1234]

THanks Tom, I have found the problem. Can you please update to 1.1.2 (you only need to update the product, no need to upload the files) and confirm its sorted at your end?

That fixed it. Thanks.

[Kanustep]

Hello Geek,
I want to convert all [media] tags to AME, how I can do this? I enter MEDIA, media, Media, on the field codes, but I get this error:

You have entered a different amount of codes to conversions. They must match up!

[Kanustep]

A couple of Features that I would like to see in AME:
- Hide to groups (only show a warning to guests to register to view the media).
- Support for other formats, PNG, JPG, GIF, PDF, MOV, AVI, etc.
- Paid version with custom player ;)

[DieselMinded]

To upgrade to the latest version Do i need to reup all the files or just the xml ? Allow Over write ?

[Jammydodger]

Great mod, I cant see how to import the XML files, I have gone to admincp->AME CP but dont see an option where I can import a file?

Am I missing something?

[Jammydodger]

Also I cant figure how to do the coding for new sites, so I would be very grateful if someone could do this 2.

http://www.dailymotion.com/
http://www.gametrailers.com/


Cheers

[The Geek]

Hello Geek,
I want to convert all [media] tags to AME, how I can do this? I enter MEDIA, media, Media, on the field codes, but I get this error:

You have entered a different amount of codes to conversions. They must match up!
in the codes box, enter:

media

in the conversions box enter:

\1

Its not case sensitive.

[The Geek]

A couple of Features that I would like to see in AME:
- Hide to groups (only show a warning to guests to register to view the media).
- Support for other formats, PNG, JPG, GIF, PDF, MOV, AVI, etc.
- Paid version with custom player ;)

Looked into usergroup viewing permissions but you cant hide the results because most of the time, newer posts are actually not parsed, they are shown a cache. :(

Not sure about the other 2... this doesnt host the file locally, it streams it from another location :)

To upgrade to the latest version Do i need to reup all the files or just the xml ? Allow Over write ?

No file uploads, just reimport the product xml and overwrite.

Great mod, I cant see how to import the XML files, I have gone to admincp->AME CP but dont see an option where I can import a file?

Am I missing something?

There is a link in the AME CP that says 'import' :)

Also I cant figure how to do the coding for new sites, so I would be very grateful if someone could do this 2.

http://www.dailymotion.com/
http://www.gametrailers.com/


Cheers

[Jammydodger]

There is a link in the AME CP that says 'import'

lol I didnt see that it had its own panel on the left.

Cheers

[The Geek]

Im not 100% sure dailymotion can be done. I glanced at it and there doesnt seem to be a direct relation between the URL and the embed code. :(

[DieselMinded]

youporn ?

[The Geek]

me? :eek:

Didnt even know there was such a thing. I looked, but cant see any embed code.

[Hornstar]

@horn - can you check the post and paste its url bbcode?
Which post?

I was doing all that through the admincp

[Peter Armenti]

WOW>. that was VERY generous of you.. I couldn't be happier.. this will really be great for my website.. now people will be able to upload videos to MY site and display them in the forums, wiki, AND classifieds which is all VB... thank you VERY much

Working like a CHARM by the way :up:

[rainyleaves]

Working great!! Thanks Geek!!

I got problem with this address.
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2799292/subchannel/extreme-sports
Can not work.

[Ren? Kunze]

Of this Post is not correct:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1278377&postcount=3

myvideo is clipfish and not myvideo
clipfish passed
sevenload is yahoo video and not sevenload

[The Geek]

Which post?

I was doing all that through the admincp
I was assuming it was post #582078 however I suspect I know the problem. It looks like there are ~ that are wigging out the regexp. Ill look to escape those in the next update :)

[The Geek]

Working great!! Thanks Geek!!

I got problem with this address.
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2799292/subchannel/extreme-sports
Can not work.
change the ifilm regexp to:

http://[a-z]*?[\.]?ifilm\.com/video/(\d+)[&\w;=\+_\-/]*

[Zia]

it seems to be complicated

mfyvie's one was ez..just need to import 1 xml & done..
where is the list(vdo site) this hack currently support?

[Jammydodger]

Can anyone help me out with this code, I am trying to get gametrailers.com embedded but am not sure if im doing it right.

Here's the code, not 100% its right.

http://www\.gametrailers\.com/player/([\d]+)

and here's the code from gametrailers

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" id="gtembed" width="480" height="409"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /> <param name="movie" value="http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=19236"/> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <embed src="http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=19236" swLiveConnect="true" name="gtembed" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="409"></embed> </object>

Any help would be fantastic

[The Geek]

it seems to be complicated

mfyvie's one was ez..just need to import 1 xml & done..
where is the list(vdo site) this hack currently support?
Thats about all there is to this one (in it's simplist form). The downside is that there are not 16 default links. The upside is that there arent 16 bbcodes that have to parse each post - therefore its much lighter and faster. The other upside is that you can add, remove or customize the entries to meet your needs, nor does it leave a bunch of bbcodes behind after uninstallation.

@Jammy, what is the URL for the above embed code?

[DieselMinded]

me? :eek:

Didnt even know there was such a thing. I looked, but cant see any embed code.

the url to the page is

http://www.youporn.com/watch/*****

Like the others Can i just copy Your youtube Special Secret Squirrel Code for this to work?

[Jammydodger]

@Jammy, what is the URL for the above embed code?

Here it is mate.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/19236.html

Cheers

[The Geek]

Diesell - I need the embed code, not the URL to figure out how to display the video inline. Thye dont offer that info up :) otherwise, it is almost exactly like the youtube regexp (expect it only appears to take numbers)

@Jammy. Then the embed code is:



<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" id="gtembed" width="480" height="409"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /> <param name="movie" value="http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=$p1"/> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <embed src="http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=$p1" swLiveConnect="true" name="gtembed" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="409"></embed> </object>


nJoy

[Jammydodger]

Thanks for your help Geek, but I cant get it it to work, here's the full XML I have imported.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<AME>
<item>
<id>15</id>
<title>GameTrailers</title>
<description>gametrailers vids.</description>
<displayorder>70</displayorder>
- <findcode>
- <![CDATA[ http://www\.gametrailers\.com/player/([\d]+)
]]>
</findcode>
- <replacecode>
- <![CDATA[ <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" id="gtembed" width="480" height="409"> <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" /> <param name="movie" value="http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=$p1"/> <param name="quality" value="high" /> <embed src="http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=$p1" swLiveConnect="true" name="gtembed" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="480" height="409"></embed> </object>
]]>
</replacecode>
<status>1</status>
<container>1</container>
</item>
</AME>

Any idea's?

[hkvic]

THanks Tom, I have found the problem. Can you please update to 1.1.2 (you only need to update the product, no need to upload the files) and confirm its sorted at your end?

Thanks for this. I had ver 1.1.1 installed but it was deleting the post content when an infraction was given. I has to disable it and was just going to ask for help on here, when you came up with the cure.

Have updated to 1.1.2, re-enabled and it's working like a charm

Thanks again.

[The Geek]

@Jammy, you need to provide a URL as an example (make sure that it doesnt auto link URLs)

[Jammydodger]

Sorry, im a bit of a noob and dont understand this stuff, is there anyway you could post the XML for me?

thanks again.

JD

[The Geek]

post a link for me that you are using as an example, but dont use the quick editor and turn off the 'autmoatically parse urls in this [pst' option so I can read the whole url

[Jammydodger]

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/19236.html

That ok?

[The Geek]

then try:


http://www\.gametrailers\.com/player/([\d]+)\.html?

[pspcrazy]

Is there a way that this will work with inhouse video files like say something like this:

http://www.gamingcrazy.net/files/videos/forexample.mov ?

or wmv, avi, etc.

If it could make that work that would be awesome.....

[Jammydodger]

Thanks alot Geek, thats perfect.

Its people like you that make this community great.

Cheers

JD

[FleaBag]

All my old posts converted, and all working well. I'm about to try my hand at installing some extra video types, then maybe I'll try my hand at making one. :)

[wcbryant]

I've had a couple users who connect through the military tell me that Youtube has been blocked, and any thread that includes one of their videos inline won't load.

Would it be possible (and might someone confirm how -- in regards to the conditional code, not creating a usergroup) to create a secondary opt-in usergroup, and then insert conditionals before and after the Open and Close HTML settings in this mod so that anyone with this group will just see the link, and not the video?

Basically, I want everyone but those who opt out to see the inline video, and those who join that secondary group to just see the original link.

Finally, outstanding hack, Geek. Already a fan and owner of GARS and GAL, and it's great to see that sort of quality and attention to detail applied to this area as well.

[The Geek]

Is there a way that this will work with inhouse video files like say something like this:

http://www.gamingcrazy.net/files/videos/forexample.mov ?

or wmv, avi, etc.

If it could make that work that would be awesome.....
Sorry, but no :(

[The Geek]

This wont really work because posts in vBulletin are usually cached. Therefore the bbcode parser doesnt always get called, not do the templates get parsed every time. In order to achieve this, you would need something to strip out the HTML generated by the embed code.

[pspcrazy]

I see is that because this needs some kind of embed code before hand? If so can't we just use the windows media player type embed code?

[The Geek]

Sure, I suppose. But how would the users upload the media (let alone know the URL to it?)

[4x4 Mecca]

Anyone have any luck getting the & sign to work? I am still trying on photobucket and get 1 of 2 errors.. Either it just shows the video link they pasted, but not as a link, just text, or it shows the embed source, but it only loads the code upto the & sign then displays what ever text was after the & sign below the player.

Here is a video link (http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/MrK5/Videos/?action=view&current=Bunce.flv)
and here is the embed code

<embed src="http://www.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=$p1" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="531" height="416" name="ePlayer"
align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>

$p1 should be the exact same link as the video, but with the ?action=view&current= removed from the link... sounds easy enough.

[Subah]

There is some thing can you fix it !
first i don`t now why i shoulde put the and code manule , 2nd if i put the link and try thr "Preview Post" its work but the link automaiclly change to [ url] and [/url] thin i need to change the code to and manully again ??

[Subah]

Now its work with me :D

i have you can add:
1- Windows Media Files
2- QuickTime Media Files
3- Real Media Files
4- Photobucket
5- Purevolume

by the way great jop and thanks :)

[ammoskumar]

please need Dailymotion, divX

[The Geek]

@Subha, you dont put ame code in. AME does that for you. Just put URLs in as normal.

@4x4, use (?:\&|\&amp;) for the & sign. vB normally transposes & into &amp; hence the reason you may be having problems

[iogames]

Hi... I love the hack but it does something strange:
1. When I post a Metacafe's URL, it doesn't show the player... just a link... &
2. Yahoo!'s Video always plays the same video with all possible URLs...

Anyone? :(

[Subah]

Can you make it active in the PM`s ?

[4x4 Mecca]

:)Ok, I've created one for photobucket videos! It works for me, I hope it works for all of you.
There is one for wmv files too.

PHOTOBUCKET removed because it has been updated here
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1285318&postcount=254

[4x4 Mecca]

The Photobucket works for most of the links, but not all, I'll clean it up then reupload it.
Done. Uploaded.

[BigDog56]

Got it installed, works like a charm! Thank you very much!

[Dannyloski]

4x4 Mecca, could you add another PhotoBucket Version, like Photobucket (Subfolder) , and edit the code so that it shows videos in photobucket that are in a subfolder?

For example, so that it would automatically convert a link like this one:
http://s37.photobucket.com/albums/e57/DannyEscondio/BOTI%202007/?action=view&current=MOV00857.flv

[4x4 Mecca]

I'll try and get that code to work. I think it's the % sign that's doing it.

[4x4 Mecca]

OK, I've updated the photobucket code to include these characters
%-_? just incase they are in the link. Here is the new PB code
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost.php?p=1283997&postcount=240

[ammoskumar]

can someone shows me how to embed DivX, Dailymotion, & yahoo video...
Thanks

[pspcrazy]

Sure, I suppose. But how would the users upload the media (let alone know the URL to it?)

Well it would be for the things i upload to the site under media like podcasts and quick video reviews.

[furst]

Is it possible to modify the codes so that slightly varying URLs will work as well? For instance, I notice that when I leave the 'http://' off of the youtube URLs, they are no longer embedded automatically. Also, when people copy the URLs right out of their address bar, there is sometimes a huge piece appended to the end of the URL such as all the crap on the end of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mTLO2F_ERY&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Freklam%2Efeber%2Ese%2Ffeber%2F. Ideally, even weird URLs like these would work. Can we make this happen?

[iogames]

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-HBqiK1-Eg" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-HBqiK1-Eg</a>

[iogames]

I mean still dones work Metacafe or Yahoo... anyone???