[Digital Jedi]

Right, AME scans for a URL and swaps the URL --

Example:

 
<a href="http://www.videolink.com">www.videolink.com</a>)

-- for AME's predefined tags, meaning the embed code --

Example:

 
<object object width="424" height="337"> 
    <param name="movie"/>
    <param src="movieurl" />
    <embed src="movie="url"></embed>
</object>)

-- for a certain site.

When a post gets parsed for BBCode (i.e. URL tags) and it recognizes one of the predefined definitions for a certain site, it switches the BBCode HTML out for the embed code. In fact, the whole thinking behind AME is to eliminate the need for special media BBCode, as this is much less of a strain on the forum.

But your URL tags don't go anywhere. In fact, you can turn off specific sites, and those embedded videos will just be the original links (in fact they'll look a bit neater), or you can disable the whole product and all your embedded media will become links.

The only time you use the [AME][/AME] tags, which is what your probably thinking of, is when you want to rebuild old BBCode media tags you may have used. AME can go though your forum and replace them for older posts. But that's entirely optional, and not neccesary for new posts.