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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[HMBeaty]

It doesn't affect installation, just checking to see if there's a newer version of the modification

[TI3GIB]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Not sure if I follow. vB wraps all text it thinks are URLs with URL tags before AME gets to it (as long as the option to automatically parse links in text is checked). AME only checks URL tags and not the text itself so you have a couple options:

1- Untick the option to parse links in text
2- Untick the 'Automatically embed media' option when posting

Hope that helps!

Think of it this way. Posting something that has a youtube video in it's regular http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubfWnIid5J8 format, it would parse.

But I want to have YouTube links in a "Click Here" format without it detecting that it's a YouTube link and parsing it.

I tried to untick AME from parsing in the post options bit, but that turns off all parsing, including the one that I wanted parsed.

I also tried to [/AME] link [AME] so that AME would stop parsing anything after the bracket, and show the link as it normally would ( a regular link to youtube ) and start parsing again after it, but that did not work.


Thanks for the feedback btw. You guys are great. :up:

[MonkYZ]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Depends on a couple things. I moved the position of one of AMEs hooks in 2.5.5 to hopefully accommodate what I think you're after.

If only using the default youtube definition and you only want youtube videos with hd=1 in the URL to be a larger size, then just create a new plugin:

Hook Location: automediaembed_parse_bbcode_match_start
Title: Youtube HD Bigga Please
Code:

PHP Code:

if ($ameinfo['key'] == "youtube" && $ameinfo['zone'] == "post")
{
    if (strpos($ameinfo['url'], "hd=1"))
    {
        $ameinfo['width'] = "640";
        $ameinfo['height'] = "480";
    }
} 


Obviously adjust width and height as you fancy.

What this will do is check the definition key and the zone you are in. If the matching definition key is youtube and the zone is post, then it will check the URL for hd=1 (which is my understanding of how youtube marks HD URLs. It then overrides the zones size.

I am sure you can get even more creative

Anyhoo, hope this helps!

Unfortunatelly, this doesn't work for me, as the HD YouTube links don't contain any "hd=1" in the links... Is there other way to fix this ? Thank you in advance !

[IRANCITY]

this mod have problem with vb blog
what am i doing?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by jkcerda

updated.

Break.com
ESPN
and AOL video are still NOT working

These are custom definitions, you will need to speak to the author (though I think I did update the break.com definition in DJ's thread today)

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Redlinemotorsports

Just FYI Geek, theres an error in the version checking of this modification

Noticed that, but not sure what to do about it as it works if you paste the URL into a browser. I just assume its a vb.org thing

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by TI3GIB

Think of it this way. Posting something that has a youtube video in it's regular http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubfWnIid5J8 format, it would parse.

But I want to have YouTube links in a "Click Here" format without it detecting that it's a YouTube link and parsing it.

I tried to untick AME from parsing in the post options bit, but that turns off all parsing, including the one that I wanted parsed.

I also tried to [/AME] link [AME] so that AME would stop parsing anything after the bracket, and show the link as it normally would ( a regular link to youtube ) and start parsing again after it, but that did not work.


Thanks for the feedback btw. You guys are great. :up:

Suppose you can wrap the URL in nomedia tags like:

[nomedia="http://www.youtube.com/url"]click here[/nomedia] though I haven't tried it.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by IRANCITY

this mod have problem with vb blog
what am i doing?

Can you be more specific?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by MonkYZ

Unfortunatelly, this doesn't work for me, as the HD YouTube links don't contain any "hd=1" in the links... Is there other way to fix this ? Thank you in advance !

I tested the above with HD links and it works, but have to confess I am no connoisseur of youtube HD links. Just noticed that the ones I was testing had hd=1 in them. If there is no way to tell a difference between a normal URL and an HD one, I don't think there will be a way around it. Saying that, the plug in is still a good way to customize media based on its type.

[newsoftw]

i update mod but still all video should not display and it's not working for me again........

please check links after updating this mod...still show links only even edit old post new but same..

youtube link:
http://www.newsoftworld.com/forums/f...scary-rat.html

meta cafe link:
http://www.newsoftworld.com/forums/e...ttlefield.html

please help......