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From the creators of French and Toast comes a sweet and sticky enchanement to the New York Times best-seller: AME - Auto Media Embedding

AME 2.0 - The Embedder Strikes Back!

AME has won Mod of the Month for Spetember 08. Thanks!

Note that 2.5 Gold has been released. Click Here.

Discussions for AME 2.5 RC 1 start here

AME 2.0 is the next version of the "Mod of the Month" winning media embedder that:

• Allows user to simply 'paste' in a URL (i.e. a youtube link) without needing to know any special tags. However instead of displaying just the URL, it will show the media within the post
• is lightweight as it does all of her chores without the overhead of having 1 bbcode per pattern or trying to parse a post every single time it gets displayed with a bunch of patterns. AME radically reduces overhead and speeds up processing. The only time ame will kick in is after creating a new post or after editing an existing one (or if an ame tag is found)
• is extensible. She allows you to add, edit, delete, import and export patterns. That way you can decide which services to support, how they should look and then share them with others! At time of typing this, there are over 150 media sites that have been contributed by vBulletin.org members
• can extract the title (requires your server to allow url wrappers with fetch_contents)
• can extract embed code from sites whose URLs do not contain sufficient information to embed the video
• can rebuild your old posts to convert your 'other' mediaish tags into URL tags.
• can rebuild your old posts, blogs, comments, visitor and social group messages to convert URL tags into ame tags where needed
• can convert her codes BACK to url codes so you're not stuffed with a bunch of dead tags if you uninstall!
• won't uglify your site by having videos appear in quotes, php, code or html blocks (blech!)
• can be globally disabled
• can be excluded from forums
• can exclude usergroups
• can be toggled on/off per post, blog, comment, visitor and social group message
• would cook dinner for you if she had arms
• can wrap the output in a 'container' with original URL
• has a super comprehensive admincp help system. Yes, I actually took the bloody time to add all the info you need into vB's admincp help system. If you ask a silly question in this thread that is addressed in the help system, you will be taunted.
• is fully phrased
• has hooks around integral operations so you can extend it
• Supports embedding in vbBlog, Visitor Messages and Social Groups.
• Can be disabled in one or more of the following sections: Posts, vbBlog, Visitor Messages and/or Social Groups

Apart from the additional areas of support around vbBlog, Visitor Messages and Social Groups, little has changed about AME since version 1.0 released over a year ago. I cleaned up a few minor bugs, trimmed and updated the default definitions.

Which sites are supported?

At time of counting this, there are about 170 sites supported. But I have only included a few common standards as default (yahoo, youtube, myspace, google and Amazon). Why only these? AME was designed with its own import and export system that enables users to create or modify definitions and share them with the community. This keeps the system lightweight, customisable and saves us all from having to upgrade every time a media site changes their URL structure or if I add another site.

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



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.

Big thanks goes out to all those in the community that have supported this mod. Especially Digital Jedi Who has created about 155 definitions for this system alone!

Change Log


2.0.2 - fixed added slashes in quote blocks (DoH!), vm advanced error and incrimented product version. You need to replace include/ame_bb_code.php and re-import the product-ame.xml to upgrade
2.0.1 - fixed missing backslashes in code blocks

2.5 Pre-Release information

Attached to this post is pre-release of version 2.5

2.5 is a pretty major upgrade from the 2.0 series and adds the following functionality to 2.0:

• New in Beta 3 - Validation ability. This will help prevent media being embedded that can not be embedded (i.e. youtube videos that the author has stipulated can not be shown off of youtube). This option requires the extraction option to be turned on and a valid validation regexp. I have included one in the default youtube version. When a video on you tube gets embedded, but the author doesnt allow embedding, a link (with icon) is shown instead.
• Ability to prevent non authorised usergroups from viewing (see Readme file in zip for more info)
• Usergroup permissions (edit usergroup to adjust edit/view permissions)
• Template driven system - uses templates now instead of 1 master replacement (see Readme file in zip for more info)
• Signatures supported
• Different sizes and template configurations for each supported zone (posts, blogs, groups, visitor messages and signatures)
• A couple new hooks (Mainly to support a future add on for AME media in profiles)
• Notfication system (similar to vB's to check for errors)
• Definition keys for easier updating of definitions and to use in templates
• File caching system which radically reduces processing
• And more that I cant think of off the top of my head!

Note that while previous definitions will work with the new system, they will not be sizeable by zone. Since DJ helped with the private beta testing, I am sure he will be releasing 2.5 versions of his definitions soon.

Please note that 2.5 is a pre-release so there will be issues. If you want more stability, use 2.x until this version becomes gold FWIW: The only items currently outstanding are to add some missing admincp help. The rest is working as intended as far as I can tell

nJoy

[jerx]

Originally Posted by Breakpoint

How easy will it be to upgrade from version 2.0 to 2.5 when it releases?

Do I also have to uninstall the mod when a new version of VB is released, or what will happen to the mod when you upgrade?

Thanks, Im new to VB and would like to add this mod

I haven upgraded this mod yet, but I think upgrades will be easy. Just overwrite the existing add-on. If it does not work, you could uninstall the mod and install the updated version.

If you update vbulletin, you do not need to uninstall any mods. I have been doing quite a few updates recently (vb 3.73 -> 3.8b2 -> 3.8b3 -> 3.8b4) and never uninstalled my mods. Just follow the update instructions.

But to make sure, you might want to test updates on a test installation. Sometimes you will face problems on updates. Some mods require changes after updating to a new vb version. As I said before, I did not need to do any changes to my mods, so most vb 3.7 mods should also work on vb 3.8.

Originally Posted by MotMann

The Update yes.. but i can get that from the Add-On Thread right now. That's i understand

And i don't found that one

Oh, come on. Just admit that you have been wrong instead of hiding the most important words in your quote.

He said, that it will be part of his next definition update and that his definitions are available in one of his add-on threads. And you know that, because you have already used his definitions. But if you do not want to believe that, go ahead and search for it. Good luck!

[JVSP]

I have 2.5 installed on my board but it affects the vbgooglemap plug in. Half the pins on the map disappear with 2.5 enabled, when I disable the AME plug in, the pins reappear. I did not have this problem with the previous version of AME.

Thanks

[dkawika]

for some reason every video posted says sorry this video is not availible right after its been posted and i know the video wasnt deleted on youtube because i can still watch it on youtube, anyone know why?

[Roi Danton]

I've changed width & height for all zones, it got changed in the database but not in my posts (resized videos look crap), e.g.

                        <a href="http://www.gametrailers.com/player/28558.html" title="Hexer Review" target="_blank">Hexer Review</a>
                </td>
        </tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
        <tr>
                <td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" id="gtembed" width="480" height="392">    
                <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
     <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true">
                <param name="movie" value="http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=28558">
                <param name="quality" value="high">
                <embed src="http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=28558" swliveconnect="true" name="gtembed" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" allowfullscreen="true" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" width="425" height="350">

I try to find out why.

EDIT: You have to reedit the post if you change the AME Zone size settings afterwards for posts that were created before AME was installed. There should be a hint in the AME help to renew the post cache.

Embed size
Btw, I think the embed size shouldn't be globally if an AME definition has its own size. The default size sucks for e.g. Game Trailers. The quality of passiveVid is much higher since it doesn't resize (resp has the correct size for Gametrailers). The admin should be able to disable Zone sizes and only use Definition sizes.

Tools
EDIT #2: "How far back to go" doesn't seem to work in 2.5 RC1 and "Ignore previous" doesn't work as well if I did "Remove [ame] codes" before and want to get the ame tags back again ("no changes" for any post).

Due to (fixable) resizing issues I've uninstalled AME again and continue using passiveVid 1.x.
Besides that your module seems to be quite good and fast and uninstallation works as well (only data left in table datastore -> usergroupcache and table administer and the cache is not deleted, too (good for lazy admins )).

[MonkYZ]

Originally Posted by fxlr8

I have 2.5 installed on my board but it affects the vbgooglemap plug in. Half the pins on the map disappear with 2.5 enabled, when I disable the AME plug in, the pins reappear. I did not have this problem with the previous version of AME.

Thanks

I have the same issue (plus more others). I think i'll go back to older AME version untill 2.5 gets final....

[chrisdowns]

Hi,

At the bottom of my Youtube video embedments i get this coding

" title="YouTube - Up and at 'em, Clay!" target="_blank">YouTube - Up and at 'em, Clay!

Naturally it changes with the title but how do i get rid of it

[Arnall]

Hi The Geek,

thanks a lot for this fantastic mod (AME 2.5 RC1).
It seems that there's a problem if the vB forum has the UTF8 charset.

take this vid (french video, with accents in the title):
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=TjlMa1...eature=related

if you put it on an UTF8 forum AME gives you :

[ame="http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=TjlMa14-WfQ&feature=related"]YouTube - Soci

in the post.

or this one :
http://www.dailymotion.com/ti-dav/vi...on-fling_music
gives you :

[ame="http://www.dailymotion.com/ti-dav/video/x64vls_renaud-o-cest-que-jai-mis-mon-fling_music"]Dailymotion - Renaud- O

i've found a workaround, in the file ame_bbcode.php :

you got :

PHP Code:

function ame_fetch_www_title(&$content)
{
    

    if(preg_match("|<[\s]*title[\s]*>([^<]+)<[\s]*/[\s]*title[\s]*>|Ui", $content, $match))
    {
        
        $title = trim(str_replace(array("\t","\n"), "", $match[1]));
        $title = unhtmlspecialchars(utf8_decode($title), true);
        return $title;
        
    }
    else
    {
        
        return false;
        
    }

} 


The utf8_decode seems to be the problem, if your forum has the UTF8 charset you don't have to convert the title in ISO ...

My workaround :

PHP Code:

function ame_fetch_www_title(&$content)
{
    global $vbulletin;

    if(preg_match("|<[\s]*title[\s]*>([^<]+)<[\s]*/[\s]*title[\s]*>|Ui", $content, $match))
    {
        
        $title = trim(str_replace(array("\t","\n"), "", $match[1]));
        if ( strtolower($vbulletin->config['Mysqli']['charset'] )!= 'utf8')
        {
            $title = utf8_decode($title);
        }
        $title = unhtmlspecialchars($title, true);
        return $title;
        
    }
    else
    {
        
        return false;
        
    }

} 


Not sure it's a clean code but works for me.
Now every videos work on my UTF8 forum !

[Birute]

Originally Posted by Creative Liquid

never mind, figured it out. You may have to reinstall your flash plugin.

Is this a flash plugin with FF?
What about Chrome?
Have Mac users had any problems with the embedded video play?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by h2ojunkie

Maybe we aren't on the same page as you said.

I'm talking about a conversion specifically for the PB offered IMG Code - Forums & Bulletin Boards for videos.

When I tested the photobucket (videos) definition with:

[url=http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/Whitey818/motorcycle%20related%20stuff/?action=view&current=100_2877.flv][img]https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/external/2008/12/103.jpg[/img][/url]


Here's the HTML rendered by the Photobucket (Videos) definition:

<A title="<img src=" 
href="http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/Whitey818/motorcycle%20related%20stuff/?action=view&amp;current=100_3043.flv" 
alt="" border="0" th_100_3043.jpg? motorcycle%20related%20stuff Whitey818 i237 
albums i73.photobucket.com http:>" target="_blank"&gt;<IMG alt="" 
src="http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/Whitey818/motorcycle%20related%20stuff/th_100_3043.jpg" 
border=0></A> </TD></TR></THEAD>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD class=panelsurround align=middle><EMBED 
src=http://photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://s73.photobucket.com/albums/i237/Whitey818/motorcycle%20related%20stuff/100_3043.flv 
width=430 height=389 type=application/x-shockwave-flash 
wmode="transparent"></EMBED>

As you can see, I ended up with a broken layout. The page was rendering the default photobucket image that is shown for videos, followed by the video player rendered by your product.

I was assuming your Photobucket (Videos) definition was written just to do replacements on the url portion only, and wasn't designed to account for the embed code PB provides as shown above. (at least that's what the regex looked like)

I got the idea of adding support for the PB embed code from use of this mod:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ht=photobucket

It adds a photobucket image/video search and upload when making posts using:
http://photobucket.com/landing/plugin_wizard.php

And, if you search photobucket using that mod for a video, the only URL photo bucket gives you for the video via the IFRAME used by that mod, is the IMG code I listed above.

Anyway, I personally love that PB image search/upload since it gives an easy way for users to post videos to the site without having to allow users to upload attachments.

I had to shut off your Photobucket (Videos) definition since it broke the page whenever someone would use the PB code provided by the IFRAME uploader.

Hopefully, I'm explaining myself better this time.

Thanks again for a killer product.

We probably should discuss this in my Add-On thread after this, that's a good point. I forget where I am sometimes.

I understand what you mean now, and I don't think I recall seeing the embed code for thumbnails videos before. Yeah, it's parsing the URL of the video so the HTML for the thumbnails gets shattered. RegEx for BBCode is tricky, but not impossible I don't think. I'd just have to give it a try.

Originally Posted by Breakpoint

How easy will it be to upgrade from version 2.0 to 2.5 when it releases?

Do I also have to uninstall the mod when a new version of VB is released, or what will happen to the mod when you upgrade?

Thanks, Im new to VB and would like to add this mod

So far, the old 3.6 version continued to work into the 3.7 series. The Geek only updated it because, well one, he had some free time, but to add support for 3.7 features that weren't in 3.6, like blogs and profile comments. He also added the resizing feature. Unless there are some significant changes to vBulletin, or a change to a key feature that AME uses, it's unlikely you'd have to do anything when upgrading.

Originally Posted by dkawika

for some reason every video posted says sorry this video is not availible right after its been posted and i know the video wasnt deleted on youtube because i can still watch it on youtube, anyone know why?

If the author of the video has disabled embedding, then it will show up as not available.

Originally Posted by Roi Danton

I've changed width & height for all zones, it got changed in the database but not in my posts (resized videos look crap), e.g.

                        <a href="http://www.gametrailers.com/player/28558.html" title="Hexer Review" target="_blank">Hexer Review</a>
                </td>
        </tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
        <tr>
                <td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,0,0" id="gtembed" width="480" height="392">    
                <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
     <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true">
                <param name="movie" value="http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=28558">
                <param name="quality" value="high">
                <embed src="http://www.gametrailers.com/remote_wrap.php?mid=28558" swliveconnect="true" name="gtembed" allowscriptaccess="sameDomain" allowfullscreen="true" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" align="middle" width="425" height="350">

I try to find out why.

EDIT: You have to reedit the post if you change the AME Zone size settings afterwards for posts that were created before AME was installed. There should be a hint in the AME help to renew the post cache.

Embed size
Btw, I think the embed size shouldn't be globally if an AME definition has its own size. The default size sucks for e.g. Game Trailers. The quality of passiveVid is much higher since it doesn't resize (resp has the correct size for Gametrailers). The admin should be able to disable Zone sizes and only use Definition sizes.

Tools
EDIT #2: "How far back to go" doesn't seem to work in 2.5 RC1 and "Ignore previous" doesn't work as well if I did "Remove [ame] codes" before and want to get the ame tags back again ("no changes" for any post).

Due to (fixable) resizing issues I've uninstalled AME again and continue using passiveVid 1.x.
Besides that your module seems to be quite good and fast and uninstallation works as well (only data left in table datastore -> usergroupcache and table administer and the cache is not deleted, too (good for lazy admins )).

Naturally it changes with the title but how do i get rid of it[/quote]
The 2.5 definitions are kind of a BETA thing as well. But if you had wanted to ignore the global sizing issues with GameTrailers, you could have deleted the GamerTrailers definition and imported the other one from my "Third Times the Charm" thread, or you could have edited the Replacement HTML directly and removed the $ameinfo[height] $ameinfo[width] tags and put in the default sizes.

Originally Posted by chrisdowns

Hi,

At the bottom of my Youtube video embedments i get this coding

" title="YouTube - Up and at 'em, Clay!" target="_blank">YouTube - Up and at 'em, Clay!

You have duplicate definitions for YouTube's videos. You'll need to delete one.

[KidCharlemane]

I cant get this to install. I suspect like the other guy is due to the size of my database.. we have 1.5 million posts.. mod just hangs on install.. its been sitting there a while.. I guess ill let it sit a while longer. A way to get this to install on large forums would be a plus.