BB Code Enhancements - AME3 - Auto Media Embeding and Video Extender

From the makers of Smooth and Jazz comes the singing sensation my mom has been waiting months for:

AME3. Bigger. Badder. Bestest.

NOTE ABOUT vB4.0.3: ------------------------------------------------------------

vBulletin 4.0.3 has changed the way video codes are handled and in the process, inadvertently broke AME3. I have submitted a bug report and believe that the issue will be quickly resolved. There is a manual fix you can apply for 4.0.3 here in the interim.
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AME3 is the sequel to the multi award winning AME 1x and AME 2x systems. AME3. This time, its different.

Vote for AME3 as MotM!

If you like AME3, you'll love AME'fy for your profiles!

AME3 does 3 things:

• It allows users to simply paste URLs into their message without having to use the video bbcode or video popup box.
• It allows you to add, edit and customise the video definitions that ship with vB4
• It allows you to import community created definitions to extend the system in ways you otherwise couldn't.

Now you can use AME anywhere you can use video bbcode: posts, blogs, visitor messages, the CMS, etc...

Note that I am releasing this early for beta testing and general feedback. There is currently a bug in RC2, RC4 and 4.0.0 that will prevent AME from working however there is a workaround posted below.

I have written a pretty comprehensive readme and attached it seperatly to this post. I suspect both this post and the readme will get updated as AME3 becomes finalised.

[Digital Jedi]

I'm actively trying to work out the bugs in the definitions set for AME 3, if anyone is still interested. It's been...weird, to say the least. I'm currently operating on a vB 4.0.3 test board. If there is anyone that wouldn't mind opening a section up on their board (test board or otherwise) to me using 4.1 or higher, then I'd be happy to do some development there as well. Keeping in mind, things can get wiggy, and sometimes things can just conk out. There are some oddities with how AME 3 reacts with vB4 that I'm not entirely sure why they do what they do. I'll post a beta set in a separate thread when I have something I'm comfortable with sharing.

[dknelson]

Is this mod working at all on 4.2.1. I installed it on my new forum with just the 5 or 6 definitions that it came with but it doesn't do anything when I paste a link into a forum. Just the link shows up.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by dknelson

Is this mod working at all on 4.2.1. I installed it on my new forum with just the 5 or 6 definitions that it came with but it doesn't do anything when I paste a link into a forum. Just the link shows up.

As I understand it, it should. Provided you make the hook change mentioned a few posts back.

[dknelson]

Yes, that worked. Thank you very much.

[Ross L]

I have a strange issue with this plugin.

I have one forum, which has been running this mod from the early days of vB4 and on that site (it is updated to the latest revision of vB4), it works perfectly. I have tried installing this on fresh installs, with the changes detailed in this thread and it doesn't work. Any ideas as to why this could be?

Thanks in advance.

Ross

[Digital Jedi]

For anyone interested, my Beta set of definitions is posted: www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=302731

[Digital Jedi]

Just to let everyone know, I will be forking my own version of AME for release here, and will attempt to address any bugs related to AME 3. My first release will, however, be AME 2.5.7 for the vB 3 series. As soon as my version is completed and release (it's almost done, actually), I'll start working on a new version of AME 3. The two mods are very different, so, as usual, bear with me while I work on getting things ready.

[katie hunter]

Where is the rest of the file, i couldn't find the xml file in the zip file.

I uninstalled ame on vb 3.7.x before i upgraded to vb 4.2.1 but this version is missing the xml, or am i missing something ?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by katie hunter

Where is the rest of the file, i couldn't find the xml file in the zip file.

I uninstalled ame on vb 3.7.x before i upgraded to vb 4.2.1 but this version is missing the xml, or am i missing something ?

Yeah.

Originally Posted by The Geek

From the troubleshooting section of the readme:

3. Where is the product XML file?
By default, AME requests that you read the installation instructions. This is where it says ?The AME3 product file is in your includes/xml folder and is called product-ame.xml.?



I have a feeling I'm going to need to move that back out to the root zip

[katie hunter]

Hi Jedi thanks, is there a way i can install it right away? or do i have to apply the changes you referred to in the previous posts, i haven't checked your posts yet but you said this

As I understand it, it should. Provided you make the hook change mentioned a few posts back.

Would you know when will you release your own version? This is a very popular and good mod since vb 3.7