I've been meaning to try installing Goldbrick and PassiveVid on my demo board, posting a few videos and then unintalling and installing AME just to see if there's some kind of conversion process we can take advantage of. As far as I know, unless Goldbrick has something that will let you convert media tags, they'd just be regular URL tags.

Goldbrick is supposed to sense whether the url is to an image or to a video at a designated file sharing site. Either way, it is supposed to add opening an closing media tags, but sometimes it just auto-adds url tags. It is buggy that way as one has to go back and edit a post to edit in media tags. That is lame.

I am a little confused, (not hard to do) what is the diff between your DJ AME and the Geek's?

My AME? Oh, you mean my thread add-on? That's just the extended definitions in one collected thread. The Geek only stocks the core product with a handful of definitions to keep it light. Then the rest of us can add sites periodically and I collect them in my thread. That's why there's so many supported sites, since anyone with a little RegEx knowledge can whip one up. I really on learned RegEx myself so I could support the additional XMLs.

If Goldbrick adds unique BBCode media tags, then that's perfect. AME has a rebuilding tool that lets you change any old BBCode tags to AME tags. Say for instance someone used to use [youtube] and [metacafe] tags and their all over their forum. They can have AME rebuild all the YouTube and MetaCafe tags to [AME] tags. AME itself doesn't usually use BBCode, but it comes with that stock code for situations like this. Plus you can test rebuild first just to make sure it's something you want to do.

Afetr uninstalling goldbrick all my links in post has [media] tags and AME dont rebuild it.
What can I do to fix it? Is it possible at all ? Thanks in advance

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I am playing with the converter will see the results.

Nope didnt worked.

Did you print it out in Test and Verbose Mode to see a more detailed evaluation of what's happening?

I'm sorry, I should have said Convert, not Rebuild.

So, has anyone been able to get AME to work with a custom page? If so, how do we go about doing that?

Are you using Logicians WebTemplates or vBadvanced for the custom pages, Arny? If your using vBadvanced, it will do it automatically. At least I've confirmed that in 2.0.

whit the new DJ's Master XML 2.xml

when i use the tools for posts i receive this error

Brilliant answer, I'm going to bookmark this mod and try it out sometime! Thanks! :D

You should probably discuss this in my thread then. But try going into your Blip definition and escaping the single quoutes in the Replamement HTML with a backslash, like this \'

I'm getting 2 screens in post, one large one small :(

You have duplicate definitions. You probably imported a new set before deleting the old ones.

Getting blank box when linking vids to Visitor messages and Social groups. In posts everything is fine.

Set me up with an account at your site, socal, and link me to one of the videos (Guests can't view memberinfo). I don't know the answer to your NoSpam questions so I can't register to see what the problem might be, and I don't have my old account info anymore.

why is this not working for me?

Is there any way I can get the video from my own hosting? I am doing a project for some restaurants and need to embed videos without using a video host. Thanks for any info!

What is not working exactly?


Yes, just use the Local Hosted definitions in the Add-On links towards the bottom of the post.

Which version of AME or vBulletin?

I'm using the latest AME, and vBulletin 3.8. I realsie this is a 3.7 mod, but I've got it to work on my two other 3.8 boards with no issues.

Yes, I set the path. :)

I should have looked at the error message more closely, it looks like you might be missing a AME file. Have you tried re-uploading the files to make sure no files where dropped by you FTP client?

Need help with making this mod work properly.

When I start a new thread with youtube link for example, the post only shows the link/url and will not properly show the video. However, when you use the tag [ame]..[/ame] ( I did not even know this tag existed, found through reading this thread) the video will show up properly.

Again here are some issues:

I have vb 3.7.4
I installed 2.5 RC 1
No errors after installation
When you post url of youtube for example, only shows URL
But when you use [ame] tag, it shows the video

Any help would be appreciated.

Dan

Have you tried just editing the post after creating your thread? I've noticed you sometimes don't get a conversion upon a new thread, but a quick edit of the post puts it in.

Nope, editing does not work. The plugin will not convert the url.

Mind if you post an example to a thread where this is the problem?

DJ, great hack. I'm using it on my production site now and it's working flawlessly so far. I do have a question. I've noticed that if a user uses the URL BB code inside a sentence to link to a video, the video is embedded correctly but it chops the sentence in half and uses the linked text as the video title. Is there a simple way to make AME ignore a link if it's in URL tags so that only stand alone pasted URLs are converted? I doubt it considering I have automatic parsing of links on, but I thought I would ask the Jedi.

- Jake

There's an option not to parse media below the text editor. And remember, it's The Geek's hack. ;)

Yep, I tried that - no luck.

I'm still inclined to think that there's something going on with your AME cache. Maybe check to see if there are no typos in the path and make sure the directory is CHMOD 777.

All seems present and correct, as far as I can tell. To double check, here's my path:

/www/enworld.org/production/htdocs/tardis/forum/amecache/

Unless I should have entered it in a different way?

And you folder is CHMODed correctly?

Yep, 777.

Will, this hack be updated to be compatible with 3.8 when it goes GOLD?

it works perfectly on two of my 3.8 boards. Just not the third, although I don't think that's because it's a 3.8 board.

Are you running RC2?

RC1.

hello guys.
so far my ame along with DJ's list worked pretty fine.
now i installed blog 2.0.0 and whenever i or someone else tries to comment on someone's blog, we receive an error saying it contradicts with AME modification.

i sought support from vbulletin team but they said they cant support if this modification is installed and that i have to ask it here.

so could someone suggest what could be the problem and how i can get rid of it?

the error i face is as following:

please help me someone:confused::(

The AME column doesn't exist in your database if you install the Blog AFTER you've install AME. You need to go into your AME Tools menu and click the Add Blog Support link to build that column.

oh so DJ if i click that add blog thingy then my problem will go away? i dont need to do anything else?

That should be it.

How can I code HookTV into your definitions. I get lots of request for that site and I got no idea how to code it.

Here is the URL http://www.hook.tv/player.php?key=D3BC753D8DFD82ED