I've also noticed an oddity with the youtube media definition not always working. I cannot state wether this was due to the 3.8.3 upgrade or not, but I don't think it is.
Why? Well I've spoken to some users and asked them to supply me with the URLS they actually put into their posts, both for working and non working youtube media. I've found the following:

A url of this format does work:
A url of this format does NOT work:
The reason to me is obvious, the format of the urls are different and the youtube definition seems to be working on the one with "watch?" as part of the url. Thus I would assume you could add a new definition via exporting the existing youtube one, changing the key for it and of course the regular expression it's looking at and then import it as a new definition

I've exported and imported my "new" definition, but I'm no expert on regular expressions, so I'm a bit stuck here.

It's possible this problem has always existed, or it could be that youtube has changed something in regards to it's url format and it's co-incidence that this occurred when vB 3.8.3 was released.

Id paste the link of a Metacafe video and i'm getting only the link, not the video itself.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/sy-258...l_music_video/

Well not only that, now i only get links even with youtube, i will like to go to my previous status, how can i do that? Just by dissabling the mod?.

I want to be able to see at least the youtube videos embeded.

Provide some example youtube urls for me to check out. It could be that the validation is failing because of some other error. You can try editing the definition and clearing out the validation regexp which will prevent AME from trying to validate the media.

I dont fully follow you, but it could be related to the post above. Can you provide some URLs that are not working?

That could cause a problem. Please post some example URLs though that are having a problem.

Youll have to ask the person who did the metacafe definition.

Hmm... will start to run some 3.8.3 tests.

FWIW, I just installed a fresh copy of 3.8.3 and AME 2.5.4 and can't see any issues. Everything I am posting from youtube is working as expected so if you think that AME is getting false positives on validating embedding, please provide some example URLs that should be embedding but aren't.

Thanks all

A user recently posted this URL and it doesn't get converted to the embedded player:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzShwtQHYms

I assume the bracket in the video title confuses the parser.

Bracket should be fine. In fact, just tested it on default install and it embeds fine. Have you tried it?

Here is the result: http://www.soundtrack-board.de/11647...tml#post153185

Like I said, it works on a default install. My guess would be that another mod is conflicting or a sloppy paste job. Am assuming you are using the default youtube definition.

HTHs

Hi The Geek or anyone else that knows, is this correctly set?

See screenshot please.

This is what I'm getting, a kind of little linked dot.

Example

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrQIA-0C9WY


hehe sorry my thought process at the time i made the post.


If I throw it in AME tags, it works fine.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2009/06/53.jpg

Ok, here you go:

URL from YouTube that AME parses correctly when put in a post:

URL from embed link that AME is not parsing (shows an icon followed by the link to the video)

^^ by your above logic that means my post should have been parsed correctly and it is not. see my post above yours for the link.

when any body post any new youtube links in forum but not show videos and display only youtube links...

please check that links...

youtube
01. http://www.newsoftworld.com/forums/f...scary-rat.html

02. http://www.newsoftworld.com/forums/f...-nail-gun.html

03. http://www.newsoftworld.com/forums/f...wc-2009-a.html

metacefa
04. http://www.newsoftworld.com/forums/e...html#post11462



please help on that problem.
Thanks in ADVNS

Bug notice where URLs are only showing instead of the media (or showing oddly) in vB3.8.3:

It looks like there is a bug with the latest WYSIWYG editor. I have only done initial tests and have only just posted a bug in the vB bug tracker so it could be a little early yet to pin point, however: It appears that when using the WYSIWYG editor in IE on vb3.8.3, the editor will include color tags within the URL tags. This doesnt appear to happen with FF or earlier versions of vB. It appears that if indeed this is the reason, that AME is choking on the HTML/BBcode that is chucked in with the URL.

I am sure I can insert some tests to strip these out if needed, but in the meantime the only workaround I can find is to either post in FF or toggle to the normal text editor.

I am going out of town tomorrow so I may not get a fix posted until next week.

The above isn't a valid URL. Its a direct link to the actual flash object and one that wouldnt appear in the address bar when browsing youtube. AME needs a valid URL (though a custom definition could possibly be created)

Ah, well that would probably explain the issue I'm seeing then. So, basically, I should ensure that if someone is going to post a url from youtube they make sure it's a proper url, by this I mean it's copied from the youtube page it's being viewed from and has the "watch" portion included.

Great mod.

I'm using this in conjunction with a Forms app. For example, I have the user enter the URL of a show on Hulu and it is supposed to automatically show up embedded on the thread that is generated. However, it's not changing the link into an imbed. Is there some setting I am missing or does this just not work on posts not made using the traditional means?

I need help!!!! Youtube isn't showing up. All I get is the title of my post. And that's it. In fact I have tried several different sites and the only one I've had any success with is Google. However the videos in Google are small. Please Help

http://www.unitygospel.net/forum/showthread.php?t=240

I have good success with Yahoo videos.

But, I too, am having a problem with YouTube not parsing. I get the link instead of the video. However, it's only intermittent, not all the time.

See Here - http://www.rushhourmadness.com/showt...p?t=124&page=2

You'll note in that specific Youtube video, in the embedding link:

This would be why it doesn't work.

If the video couldn't be embedded, there needs to be some sort of warning for the user, it only makes sense, but that would be why that youtube video didn't work right. In fact, if you look at most of them that don't work right (if not all), I'd bet you would see the same thing

According to the definition it is. Also if you wrap it in AME tags, it loads up just fine.

Btw I am using FF and not the advanced WYSIWYG



Definition:

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

update, i went into the definition and turned off Extract Information and youtube started working again just fine.

Looks like there is an issue w/ the Extract Information functionality.


the extract definition date value is:

value="http://www\.youtube\.com/v/([\w\-]*)?&

Hey

Is there any possible way to make AME only come into effect when the URL is posted in it's URL form

http://youtube.com/etc

and not if it was inside a marked up text link [URL] ?

Is this possible at all ?

Thanks for great helping and also after doing that, working start only youbue videos but youtube videos are twice a time show in post....please below link....

http://www.newsoftworld.com/forums/f...-nail-gun.html


please any idea ???

Well darn. I thought that the other link would work.

Thanks for your help.

Sorry if this has been posted before but there are too many posts in the thread to read them all.

I want to show YouTube HD in a 16:9 format and not the 4:3 format provided now. Anyone know how to change the definition to accommodate this?

I have just uploaded AME 2.5.5 to address a couple of minor issues. Mainly surrounding editing of existing AME links that contain brackets inside the name. This could (in rare cases) also affect posts with multiple media URLs in them.

I also added another hook to extend additional functionality for media that fails to validate (i.e. a youtube link that doesn't allow external embedding). I do not currently have plans to extend this area further than I have done, but its there :)

Files changed:

• forums/includes/ame_bbcode.php
• forums/includes/xml/hooks_automediaembed.xml

I have also updated the ame_nomedia template to add the phrase 'External Embedding Not Available' as the title to the link. This appears if the definition does not validate along with an icon. If you want to make it more obvious to the user that AME is working, but the video won't embed, I suggest playing with that template (or use the new hook).

To upgrade:

Download the latest package
Unzip and upload the contents of the upload/forums folder into your own forums folder (be sure to upload ALL the files and folders choosing to overwrite existing files).
Import the product_ame.xml file into your admincp product system (choosing to overwrite existing version)

Depends on a couple things. I moved the position of one of AMEs hooks in 2.5.5 to hopefully accommodate what I think you're after.

If only using the default youtube definition and you only want youtube videos with hd=1 in the URL to be a larger size, then just create a new plugin:

Hook Location: automediaembed_parse_bbcode_match_start
Title: Youtube HD Bigga Please
Code:
Obviously adjust width and height as you fancy.

What this will do is check the definition key and the zone you are in. If the matching definition key is youtube and the zone is post, then it will check the URL for hd=1 (which is my understanding of how youtube marks HD URLs. It then overrides the zones size.

I am sure you can get even more creative :)

Anyhoo, hope this helps!

Double posting indicates duplicate definitions.

Not sure if I follow. vB wraps all text it thinks are URLs with URL tags before AME gets to it (as long as the option to automatically parse links in text is checked). AME only checks URL tags and not the text itself so you have a couple options:

1- Untick the option to parse links in text
2- Untick the 'Automatically embed media' option when posting

Hope that helps!

I think you are using another definition here.

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

Will not match

http://www.youtube.com/v/XXXX-XxXXxxX

Nor should it because http://www.youtube.com/v/XXXX-XxXXxxX in an address bar will not take you to a video as it is the movie object address. When AME validates, it uses

value="http://www\.youtube\.com/v/([\w\-]*)?&

Because that is the HTML that is in the source when the embed URL is present on the page. Otherwise it isn't there and instead 'Embedding disabled by request' or whatever.

I have tested this pretty throughly and while bugs in anything are inevitable, I am confident that the default install works as intended. If you are using custom or new definitions, that could be the culprit.

If the video doesn't allow embedding, the page title will still appear and an icon will be displayed. Furthermore in 2.5.5 I put 'External embedding not available' in the anchor title. I also added a hook to enable modders to extend this functionality, but apart from that, not sure how much more I can do. Personally I would suggest editing the ame_nomedia template to maybe put text after the link like: (media cannot be embedded). I didn't do that by default because I didn't want to go overkill on visual hints.

The forms app would need to hook into AME to prep and parse the text. Check out AMEs plugins to see how AME is doing it for blogs, visitor messages, posts, etc... for an idea of how to do it.

HTHs!

updated.

Break.com
ESPN
and AOL video are still NOT working:confused:

Just FYI Geek, theres an error in the version checking of this modification

dang, I just installed it too:o