Major Additions - AME 2.5 - Media Embedding for posts, sigs, vm's, groups and blogs

From the makers of the letters O and Yea comes the hottest 'must have mod' of the season: AME 2.5 - The Return of The Hot Mama.

Thanks everyone for making AME 2.5 Mod of the Month

AME is the multi award winning modification that smartly scans new and edited posts for URLs from a customisable variety of web sites (i.e. YouTube or Amazon or about 200 others). If it finds a match, AME will 'transform' the URL into inline embedded media without your users ever having to even think about it.

It was important for me to create a system that did not need updating (and subsequent reinstalling) every time one of the sites it supported decided to change the way it displayed its media (which is all the fricken time). Therefore I built a system in which the 'definitions' for each site could be imported, exported, tweaked and shared on a whim. This way, you only have to import the definitions that you want. It also allows the vB community to get creative and share definitions that I wouldn't of thought of!

Which sites are supported?

Included in the default installation is YouTube and Amazon. At time of posting this, I believe that there are over 180 sites supported that have been created by the vBulletin community. These range from sites that stream videos to Amazon referral links to locally hosted music and video files.

Check out the 'add ons' section of this post below to see availible add-ons.

For a total list of features and an FAQ, see click here.
For a post on troubleshooting, click here.

Though not tested on any version of vBulletin lower than 3.7.4, in theory it should work on versions 3.5 and higher (just dont quote this bit!).

Big thanks goes out to all those in the community that have supported this mod. Especially Digital Jedi who gives great support on this mod and has created over 160 definitions for this system alone!


Installation/Upgrade

• Upload the contents of the forums folder into your forums directory and import the product-ame.xml file into your product manager (if upgrading, choose 'yes' to overwrite previous installation).
• After installation, make sure that the system is on (admincp->AME CP->Settings)
• Then you may want to try to rebuild old URLs via the tools option.

Change Log

• 20/1/09 - Uploaded to vb.org
• 22/1/09 - v. 2.5.2. Adresses a couple minor issues and character sets
• 23/1/09 - v. 2.5.3 minor update: Fixed ksort error on import and nomedia display
• 3/2/09 - v. 2.5.4 minor update to address rare bug with some page titles
• 3/7/09 - v.2.5.5 minor updates to address rare bug editing media with brackets in name
• 9/12/09 - v.2.5.6 minor updates youtubes validation process, a ccurl bug and rebuild not using the date like a good girl

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[Digital Jedi]

Also posted in my definitions thread, but wanted to catch everyone's attention. Anyone think they'd be interested in a definition that embeds the ten newest Pins on a Pinterest board?

[Wonksta]

Yes that would be good

[karabaja3]

Hi there!

I forogot how to remove frame for embed videos and I cant find it anymore in this thread. Can someone guide me?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by karabaja3

Hi there!

I forogot how to remove frame for embed videos and I cant find it anymore in this thread. Can someone guide me?

By frame, do you mean the table that surrounds the videos? Turn off Contain per definition.

[karabaja3]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Bdo you mean the table that surrounds the videos?

Yes.

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Turn off Contain per definition.

Where is that option? It's not inside 'AME settings' inside AdminCP

EDIT: Found it. Thx!

[creativepart]

YouTube seems to be using all HTTPS urls now. This has broken my YouTube definition. Do I just edit the definition in the CP? If so, what's the correct edit?

Thanks

[creativepart]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

If it starts with http:// just change it to https*:// and that should work with both http and https links.

I tried that before posting. It doesn't work. Seems like it should.

Right now I changed the definition to HTTPS from HTTP and it's still working for both. I'm not sure how and I doubt it's correct.

[BlackxRam]

Http and https don't matter really in linking videos. Just use http and its just fine.

[creativepart]

Originally Posted by BlackxRam

Http and https don't matter really in linking videos. Just use http and its just fine.

Actually that is not at all how it works.

When it's set to HTTP all Video embeds that have a HTTPS URL are turned into links.

So, I'm not sure why you think that is "just fine."

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by creativepart

Actually that is not at all how it works.

When it's set to HTTP all Video embeds that have a HTTPS URL are turned into links.

So, I'm not sure why you think that is "just fine."

The definitions that come with AME are outdated. You can pick up an updated one in my thread, linked in the first post as one of the Add-Ons.