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Hey Geek, I've come across some styling issues on a few forums. I wonder if there's any way around this: http://www.pokerstrategyforums.com/p...2.php#post5933

The problem is, the post CSS for links is overriding the CSS for the tcat category. So if post links and the tcat background happen to be similar in color or the same color, you can't read the title. I've tried changing the container HTML from everything to font tags to inline styles and nothing works. Is there anyway to fool the cat into displaying the desired CSS?

Thanks OP. Works great.

Quote:

Originally Posted by nMIK-3 (Post 1627316)

I like to report another bug/problem.

When you create a post with video link and preview it then in the preview mode only the link will appear, when you post it the it gets embedded. Is not that series but when you create a news post you always preview before you actually post it.

Is this a known issue?

This is the same problem I have with AME 2.5 RC1. If you create a new thread and preview it, you will only see a link without the automatic embedding. The embedding option checkbox vanishes as well. This might lead to users thinking it does not work or not being authorized to post videos.

If you edit or reply, the preview works without any problems.

Other than that it works great. Much easier than using any developer api.

brilliant mod!! only wish facebook videos were viewable too.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tauhid (Post 1672484)

brilliant mod!! only wish facebook videos were viewable too.

Unless FaceBook provide embed capability, which I've not been able to find, there won't be one. However, it's difficult to find FaceBook videos, so I've not been able to tell if they do globally or on a case by case basis. They don't list them anywhere, and none of my friends have any uploaded.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi (Post 1650140)

It's really a matter of practicality. I've considered doing a definition for Photobucket and ImageShack, but most of the time users are going to use embed code as a matter of habit, so that could create conflicts when they post their code. Any definitions would have to be created for specific sites. Essentially, it would likely not be practical.

Regex is one thing I've never come close to comprehending, so I may be talking out my wazoo here.

But I thought the photobucket video embed code they provide for forums always has the action=view parameter.

[URL=http://s266.photobucket.com/albums/ii245/mixedtape1394/?action=view&current=100_0102.flv][img]https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/[/img][/URL]

When comparing it to the HTML link they provide to render the video player, I wouldn't think there wouldn't be conflicts when the users post the embed code as long as the replacement only happened if the action=view was present in the code

HTML Code:

<a href="http://media.photobucket.com/video/test/mixedtape1394/100_0102.flv?o=3" target="_blank"><embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid266.photobucket.com/albums/ii245/mixedtape1394/100_0102.flv&amp;sr=1"></a>

But like I already said, regex mind as well be talking Greek to me, so any chance of me figuring out how to write a replacement to test the theory is out the window.

Still no fullscreen definition update for YouTube ? We really miss that...

this work with the new widescreen youtube and the option for high dif in youtube?

Quote:

Originally Posted by h2ojunkie (Post 1672917)

Regex is one thing I've never come close to comprehending, so I may be talking out my wazoo here.

But I thought the photobucket video embed code they provide for forums always has the action=view parameter.

[url=http://s266.photobucket.com/albums/ii245/mixedtape1394/?action=view&current=100_0102.flv][IMG]http://i266.photobucket.com/albums/ii245/mixedtape1394/th_100_0102.jpg[/IMG][/url]

When comparing it to the HTML link they provide to render the video player, I wouldn't think there wouldn't be conflicts when the users post the embed code as long as the replacement only happened if the action=view was present in the code

HTML Code:

<a href="http://media.photobucket.com/video/test/mixedtape1394/100_0102.flv?o=3" target="_blank"><embed width="448" height="361" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i266.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid266.photobucket.com/albums/ii245/mixedtape1394/100_0102.flv&amp;sr=1"></a>

But like I already said, regex mind as well be talking Greek to me, so any chance of me figuring out how to write a replacement to test the theory is out the window.

The conflict I was referring to, (if there is a conflict, admitedly, I haven't had a chance to test this yet) would come, not from the video, but from the image embed code. You had asked if we could use this to embed images. The problem I see is people grabbing the image forum code with the [img]https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/[/img] tags and either getting an image with the IMG tags on either side, or no picture at all. Like I said, though, I will have to test this to be sure.

Quote:

Originally Posted by MonkYZ (Post 1673152)

Still no fullscreen definition update for YouTube ? We really miss that...

You know, I kind of forgot. They changed the fullscreen code, didn't they? I'll have to do some research on this to get in the next definition update I do.

Quote:

Originally Posted by xoclanes (Post 1673200)

this work with the new widescreen youtube and the option for high dif in youtube?

I was only recently turned me on to this, so it will be part of the next definition update, but you'll have to get that from one of my Add-On threads.

Thx Digital Jedi ! I can hardly wait for the updated fullscreen/widescreen/highdef youtube code. I've noticed over 95% videos inserted into my forums are using youtube :)

Thanks for the great mod. Marked as installed.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi (Post 1673273)

yeah, I assumed you were talking about the IMG embed codes.

The IMG embed code is the same format for just an image alone, as the IMG embed code I pasted above that is part of the video string.

But if the replacement was only looking for a URL= with photobucket and action=view it could replace everything between the opening URL tag and closing URL tag so the IMG embed would be irrelevant and never cause a conflict on an image emb used alone.

URL image tag:

[URL=http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa229/h20junkie/Misc/IMG_1927.jpg][img]https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/[/img][/URL]

URL video tag

[URL=http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/Whitey818/motorcycle%20related%20stuff/?action=view&current=100_2877.flv][img]https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/12/103.jpg[/img][/URL]

As you can see, the action=view is the defining part of the string to separate a IMG from a Video, so there should be no issue with a replacement that looks for that action=view

I wish I was good enough at regex to try and write one myself.

But if I can't do that, I figure the least I can do is T it up for someone that actually can write regex...:P

Quote:

Originally Posted by h2ojunkie (Post 1673553)

yeah, I assumed you were talking about the IMG embed codes.

The IMG embed code is the same format for just an image alone, as the IMG embed code I pasted above that is part of the video string.

But if the replacement was only looking for a URL= with photobucket and action=view it could replace everything between the opening URL tag and closing URL tag so the IMG embed would be irrelevant and never cause a conflict on an image emb used alone.

URL image tag:

[URL=http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa229/h20junkie/Misc/IMG_1927.jpg][IMG]http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa229/h20junkie/Misc/th_IMG_1927.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

URL video tag

[URL=http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/Whitey818/motorcycle%20related%20stuff/?action=view&current=100_2877.flv][img]https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/12/103.jpg[/img][/URL]

As you can see, the action=view is the defining part of the string to separate a IMG from a Video, so there should be no issue with a replacement that looks for that action=view

I wish I was good enough at regex to try and write one myself.

But if I can't do that, I figure the least I can do is T it up for someone that actually can write regex...:P

Hrm, I'm not sure we're on the same page then. See, I have a Photobucket (Videos) definition in my Add-On thread, but videos are converted based on the page URL. Are you suggesting a conversion of the offered image embed codes, or the permalink/page URL?

I was wondering why myspace vid is not working.
And i would like to add livemarco vid as well. How do i add that?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi (Post 1673776)

Maybe we aren't on the same page as you said.

I'm talking about a conversion specifically for the PB offered IMG Code - Forums & Bulletin Boards for videos.

When I tested the photobucket (videos) definition with:

[url=http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/Whitey818/motorcycle%20related%20stuff/?action=view&current=100_2877.flv][img]https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/12/103.jpg[/img][/url]

Here's the HTML rendered by the Photobucket (Videos) definition:

HTML Code:

<A title="<img src=" 

href="http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/Whitey818/motorcycle%20related%20stuff/?action=view&amp;current=100_3043.flv" 

alt="" border="0" th_100_3043.jpg? motorcycle%20related%20stuff Whitey818 i237 

albums i73.photobucket.com http:>" target="_blank"&gt;<IMG alt="" 

src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/Whitey818/motorcycle%20related%20stuff/th_100_3043.jpg" 

border=0></A> </TD></TR></THEAD>

<TBODY>

<TR>

<TD class=panelsurround align=middle><EMBED 

src=http://photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/Whitey818/motorcycle%20related%20stuff/100_3043.flv 

width=430 height=389 type=application/x-shockwave-flash 

wmode="transparent"></EMBED>

As you can see, I ended up with a broken layout. The page was rendering the default photobucket image that is shown for videos, followed by the video player rendered by your product.

I was assuming your Photobucket (Videos) definition was written just to do replacements on the url portion only, and wasn't designed to account for the embed code PB provides as shown above. (at least that's what the regex looked like)

I got the idea of adding support for the PB embed code from use of this mod:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ht=photobucket

It adds a photobucket image/video search and upload when making posts using:
http://photobucket.com/landing/plugin_wizard.php

And, if you search photobucket using that mod for a video, the only URL photo bucket gives you for the video via the IFRAME used by that mod, is the IMG code I listed above.

Anyway, I personally love that PB image search/upload since it gives an easy way for users to post videos to the site without having to allow users to upload attachments.

I had to shut off your Photobucket (Videos) definition since it broke the page whenever someone would use the PB code provided by the IFRAME uploader.

Hopefully, I'm explaining myself better this time.

Thanks again for a killer product.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi (Post 1673273)

I was only recently turned me on to this, so it will be part of the next definition update, but you'll have to get that from one of my Add-On threads.

Where i found that?

Quote:

Originally Posted by MotMann (Post 1673952)

Where i found that?

Please read more carefully. He said "next definition update" and "you'll have to". In other words, it has not been released yet!

But I am sure that you will not be able to find it in this thread, but in the other thread. This thread is about the AME mod and the other one has been created by DJ to provide his definitions.

I also like to ask everybody to discuss definitions in the other thread. Such discussion clutter this thread and makes it harder for DJ to keep track of definition problems.

Quote:

...but you'll have to get that from one of my Add-On threads.

The Update yes.. but i can get that from the Add-On Thread right now. That's i understand :)

And i don't found that one ;)

How easy will it be to upgrade from version 2.0 to 2.5 when it releases?

Do I also have to uninstall the mod when a new version of VB is released, or what will happen to the mod when you upgrade?

Thanks, Im new to VB and would like to add this mod :)

This is one sweet hack, thanks "Clicked Installed"

Xray

Quote:

Originally Posted by Breakpoint (Post 1674124)

I haven upgraded this mod yet, but I think upgrades will be easy. Just overwrite the existing add-on. If it does not work, you could uninstall the mod and install the updated version.

If you update vbulletin, you do not need to uninstall any mods. I have been doing quite a few updates recently (vb 3.73 -> 3.8b2 -> 3.8b3 -> 3.8b4) and never uninstalled my mods. Just follow the update instructions.

But to make sure, you might want to test updates on a test installation. Sometimes you will face problems on updates. Some mods require changes after updating to a new vb version. As I said before, I did not need to do any changes to my mods, so most vb 3.7 mods should also work on vb 3.8.

Quote:

Originally Posted by MotMann (Post 1674004)

The Update yes.. but i can get that from the Add-On Thread right now. That's i understand :)

And i don't found that one ;)

Oh, come on. Just admit that you have been wrong instead of hiding the most important words in your quote.

He said, that it will be part of his next definition update and that his definitions are available in one of his add-on threads. And you know that, because you have already used his definitions. But if you do not want to believe that, go ahead and search for it. Good luck! :D

I have 2.5 installed on my board but it affects the vbgooglemap plug in. Half the pins on the map disappear with 2.5 enabled, when I disable the AME plug in, the pins reappear. I did not have this problem with the previous version of AME.

Thanks

for some reason every video posted says sorry this video is not availible right after its been posted and i know the video wasnt deleted on youtube because i can still watch it on youtube, anyone know why?

I've changed width & height for all zones, it got changed in the database but not in my posts (resized videos look crap), e.g.

Code:

                        <a href="http://www.gametrailers.com/player/28558.html" title="Hexer Review" target="_blank">Hexer Review</a>

                </td>

        </tr>

</thead>

<tbody>

        <tr>

                <td class="panelsurround" align="center">

<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="392">    

                <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">

     <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true">

                <param name="movie" value="http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=28558">

                <param name="quality" value="high">

                <embed src="http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=28558" swliveconnect="true" name="gtembed" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" allowfullscreen="true" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" width="425" height="350">

I try to find out why.

EDIT: You have to reedit the post if you change the AME Zone size settings afterwards for posts that were created before AME was installed. There should be a hint in the AME help to renew the post cache.

Embed size
Btw, I think the embed size shouldn't be globally if an AME definition has its own size. The default size sucks for e.g. Game Trailers. The quality of passiveVid is much higher since it doesn't resize (resp has the correct size for Gametrailers). The admin should be able to disable Zone sizes and only use Definition sizes.

Tools
EDIT #2: "How far back to go" doesn't seem to work in 2.5 RC1 and "Ignore previous" doesn't work as well if I did "Remove [ame] codes" before and want to get the ame tags back again ("no changes" for any post).

Due to (fixable) resizing issues I've uninstalled AME again and continue using passiveVid 1.x.
Besides that your module seems to be quite good and fast and uninstallation works as well (only data left in table datastore -> usergroupcache and table administer and the cache is not deleted, too (good for lazy admins :D )).

Quote:

Originally Posted by fxlr8 (Post 1674678)

I have the same issue (plus more others). I think i'll go back to older AME version untill 2.5 gets final....

Hi,

At the bottom of my Youtube video embedments i get this coding

" title="YouTube - Up and at 'em, Clay!" target="_blank">YouTube - Up and at 'em, Clay!

Naturally it changes with the title but how do i get rid of it

Hi The Geek,

thanks a lot for this fantastic mod (AME 2.5 RC1).
It seems that there's a problem if the vB forum has the UTF8 charset.

take this vid (french video, with accents in the title):
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=TjlMa1...eature=related

if you put it on an UTF8 forum AME gives you :

Quote:

[ame="http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=TjlMa14-WfQ&feature=related"]YouTube - Soci

in the post.

or this one :
http://www.dailymotion.com/ti-dav/vi...on-fling_music
gives you :

Quote:

[ame="http://www.dailymotion.com/ti-dav/video/x64vls_renaud-o-cest-que-jai-mis-mon-fling_music"]Dailymotion - Renaud- O

i've found a workaround, in the file ame_bbcode.php :

you got :

PHP Code:


		
			
function ame_fetch_www_title(&$content)

{

    



    if(preg_match("|<[\s]*title[\s]*>([^<]+)<[\s]*/[\s]*title[\s]*>|Ui", $content, $match))

    {

        

        $title = trim(str_replace(array("\t","\n"), "", $match[1]));

        $title = unhtmlspecialchars(utf8_decode($title), true);

        return $title;

        

    }

    else

    {

        

        return false;

        

    }



}

The utf8_decode seems to be the problem, if your forum has the UTF8 charset you don't have to convert the title in ISO ...

My workaround :

PHP Code:


		
			
function ame_fetch_www_title(&$content)

{

    global $vbulletin;



    if(preg_match("|<[\s]*title[\s]*>([^<]+)<[\s]*/[\s]*title[\s]*>|Ui", $content, $match))

    {

        

        $title = trim(str_replace(array("\t","\n"), "", $match[1]));

        if ( strtolower($vbulletin->config['Mysqli']['charset'] )!= 'utf8')

        {

            $title = utf8_decode($title);

        }

        $title = unhtmlspecialchars($title, true);

        return $title;

        

    }

    else

    {

        

        return false;

        

    }



}

Not sure it's a clean code but works for me.
Now every videos work on my UTF8 forum !

Quote:

Originally Posted by Creative Liquid (Post 1610994)

never mind, figured it out. You may have to reinstall your flash plugin.

Is this a flash plugin with FF?
What about Chrome?
Have Mac users had any problems with the embedded video play?

Quote:

Originally Posted by h2ojunkie (Post 1673856)

HTML Code:

<A title="<img src=" 

href="http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/Whitey818/motorcycle%20related%20stuff/?action=view&amp;current=100_3043.flv" 

alt="" border="0" th_100_3043.jpg? motorcycle%20related%20stuff Whitey818 i237 

albums i73.photobucket.com http:>" target="_blank"&gt;<IMG alt="" 

src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/Whitey818/motorcycle%20related%20stuff/th_100_3043.jpg" 

border=0></A> </TD></TR></THEAD>

<TBODY>

<TR>

<TD class=panelsurround align=middle><EMBED 

src=http://photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/Whitey818/motorcycle%20related%20stuff/100_3043.flv 

width=430 height=389 type=application/x-shockwave-flash 

wmode="transparent"></EMBED>

We probably should discuss this in my Add-On thread after this, that's a good point. I forget where I am sometimes.

I understand what you mean now, and I don't think I recall seeing the embed code for thumbnails videos before. Yeah, it's parsing the URL of the video so the HTML for the thumbnails gets shattered. RegEx for BBCode is tricky, but not impossible I don't think. I'd just have to give it a try.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Breakpoint (Post 1674124)

So far, the old 3.6 version continued to work into the 3.7 series. The Geek only updated it because, well one, he had some free time, but to add support for 3.7 features that weren't in 3.6, like blogs and profile comments. He also added the resizing feature. Unless there are some significant changes to vBulletin, or a change to a key feature that AME uses, it's unlikely you'd have to do anything when upgrading.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dkawika (Post 1674914)

If the author of the video has disabled embedding, then it will show up as not available.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roi Danton (Post 1675141)

I've changed width & height for all zones, it got changed in the database but not in my posts (resized videos look crap), e.g.

Code:

                        <a href="http://www.gametrailers.com/player/28558.html" title="Hexer Review" target="_blank">Hexer Review</a>

                </td>

        </tr>

</thead>

<tbody>

        <tr>

                <td class="panelsurround" align="center">

<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="392">    

                <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">

     <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true">

                <param name="movie" value="http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=28558">

                <param name="quality" value="high">

                <embed src="http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=28558" swliveconnect="true" name="gtembed" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" allowfullscreen="true" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" width="425" height="350">

Naturally it changes with the title but how do i get rid of it[/quote]
The 2.5 definitions are kind of a BETA thing as well. But if you had wanted to ignore the global sizing issues with GameTrailers, you could have deleted the GamerTrailers definition and imported the other one from my "Third Times the Charm" thread, or you could have edited the Replacement HTML directly and removed the $ameinfo[height] $ameinfo[width] tags and put in the default sizes.

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrisdowns (Post 1675492)

Hi,

At the bottom of my Youtube video embedments i get this coding

" title="YouTube - Up and at 'em, Clay!" target="_blank">YouTube - Up and at 'em, Clay!

You have duplicate definitions for YouTube's videos. You'll need to delete one.

I cant get this to install. I suspect like the other guy is due to the size of my database.. we have 1.5 million posts.. mod just hangs on install.. its been sitting there a while.. I guess ill let it sit a while longer. A way to get this to install on large forums would be a plus.

hallo folks, i've a trouble with google videos ...

http://www.fniv.it/board/4387-post7.html

check here :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by KURTZ (Post 1676517)

hallo folks, i've a trouble with google videos ...

http://www.fniv.it/board/4387-post7.html

check here :)

Is this the default Google definition or the one from my Add-On?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi (Post 1676914)

Is this the default Google definition or the one from my Add-On?

default DJ :)

edit: with yours runs correctly :p

New MySpace video player fix.

Set this as the html replacement:

Code:

<embed src="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=$p1" width="$ameinfo[width]" height="$ameinfo[height]" wmode="transparent"></embed>

Youtube embed is not working if one is logged on to youtube. It works if you logout from youtube? How do i fix this?

check out this page: http://www.defence.pk/forums/militar...2008-a-39.html

It looks like the preview problem already existed in former AME version 1.2. I first thought that it might be a style problem on my side, but it is the same with default style.

So this is a bug report.

Video preview does not work here:
blog
signature
new thread
new dicussion (and reply)
private message (I think AME does not cover this anyway)

Preview works at:
edit post
reply to thread
visitor message

Someone said that the link bb code is the reason. I don' t think so, because when you turn off automatic link conversion, preview still does not work.

You tube did a mnassive update today and the embedding has stopped

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrisdowns (Post 1678252)

You tube did a mnassive update today and the embedding has stopped

It works without any problem for me. But I am using DJ' s definitions, which might be different from the original.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jerx (Post 1678280)

It works without any problem for me. But I am using DJ' s definitions, which might be different from the original.

But are you logged into Youtube?

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Template Usage: (1)ad_footer_end (1)ad_footer_start (1)ad_header_end (1)ad_header_logo (1)ad_navbar_below (3)bbcode_code_printable (4)bbcode_html_printable (2)bbcode_php_printable (27)bbcode_quote_printable (1)footer (1)gobutton (1)header (1)headinclude (6)option (1)pagenav (1)pagenav_curpage (4)pagenav_pagelink (1)pagenav_pagelinkrel (1)post_thanks_navbar_search (1)printthread (40)printthreadbit (1)spacer_close (1)spacer_open Phrase Groups Available: global postbit showthread	Included Files: ./printthread.php ./global.php ./includes/init.php ./includes/class_core.php ./includes/config.php ./includes/functions.php ./includes/class_hook.php ./includes/modsystem_functions.php ./includes/class_bbcode_alt.php ./includes/class_bbcode.php ./includes/functions_bigthree.php Hooks Called: init_startup init_startup_session_setup_start init_startup_session_setup_complete cache_permissions fetch_threadinfo_query fetch_threadinfo fetch_foruminfo style_fetch cache_templates global_start parse_templates global_setup_complete printthread_start pagenav_page pagenav_complete bbcode_fetch_tags bbcode_create bbcode_parse_start bbcode_parse_complete_precache bbcode_parse_complete printthread_post printthread_complete
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