The problem is that a google video URL will now show a youtube page, or a vimeo page, or a thousand others (even though the URL is a googles). This just changed and pretty much screws any chance to be able to decipher an embed code automatically.

Ahhh ok, so what do we do so that these types of urls are just pruned with a hyperlink bb code versus changing them to a box with nothing in them if it cannot embed?

It embeds fine on previous versions, just not on 2.5 or so it appears in this case.

If the site their displaying is a supported site, you can embed the link to that page instead. Like this video is not a Google Video, but a YouTube video. The YouTube link is right there. Or this one. It's a MetaCafe video. No link, but Google lets you close the side bar and just open the site in a full frame. Just grab that URL. As long as you have the appropriate definitions from my Add-On, most of those sites I see on Google are supported, with the exception of Forbes.com. But I'll try and get to those eventually.


I tried on 2.5RC1, the latest release, and it appears to be working for me. Is the latest definitions still installed?

Hmmm well all I can say is I did an upgrade...then because the permissions were not correct, I edited and then saved the thread to make sure it was updated...at that point is when it stopped working.

I am utterly confused here. If you are asking why the google video was working before the upgrade and now it isnt... than its because its coincidence. They changed format about the same time you upgraded. Google video will more than likely not be supported moving forward and I can't actually think of a system that could.

The engine that controls the embedding hasn't really changed very much since 2.0.2, its mainly just been optimised and additional areas of support added.

HTHs :)

I do have the Ignore Previous set to yes. This ignores the posts though, which I didn't think I wanted, so I also tried to set it to no and ran it. Neither one worked:(

So if I understand correctly, there is a post that has a URL in it that didnt convert (inside your test forum)?

If so, please provide the URL you think should be working so I can test it on my end. Secondly, make sure you have disabled any potentially conflicting add ons (like the other media one).

here's the URL of the thread that I have in my test forum:

http://forums.trossenrobotics.com/showthread.php?t=2466

Here are the steps that I did:

I created that new thread, adding two links: one link using the media tag, the second link using the ame tag.

Next, in admincp -> AME CP -> Tools, I ran the convert tool. When I checked the thread above after I ran the conversion, the media tag was changed to a url tag, and the second url, as expected, was not changed and was still using the ame tag.

Finally, again in admincp -> AME CP -> Tools, I ran the Rebuild -> Posts. I chose the options that I stated in this post and ran the rebuild.

There were a couple of problems with the rebuild. The main problem, is that the url that was changed from the media tag, was not changed to an ame tag. The other problem with the rebuild is that I specified it to go back a week, but when I clicked Save, it displayed 29 pages, with only 3 of them being within that specified week.

So, your saying that this link that you posted doesn't embed: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...70482484764613?

hi, just installed this great mod (i mean the RC1) but when i tried to update my signatures i've got this error

how i can fix that? thx

edit: i just tried to put a video into my sign but it doesn't works ... :(
CHECK yourself :(