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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

[ArnyVee]

Anyone having issues this morning with only the URL showing?

I tested it on visitor messages and regular posts. On the regular posts it shows a link to nowhere and on the visitor messages just places the text to the video title.

Anyone else know of this issue and found a fix?

[ArnyVee]

Something really weird is going on here....now I edited one of the 'non-working' links with another url from YouTube and it's showing "DIV" tags and stuff.

Here's where it's showing.... http://www.waltdisneyboards.com/disn...isneyland.html

And, this is the video I'm trying to add....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcU0P2y5lwI

[Adeawan]

Originally Posted by The Geek

works on at least 1,000 others. You need to provide more information that you are (i.e. a link to a page that isnt working and/or the URL that isnt converting).

I would also suggest using 2.5 as it .5 newer

Ohhh It Just Start Working Today

I Was Gona Give The Link But Just Seen That It Start Working

Thanks Alot

[ArnyVee]

I am having issues (just started this morning) where I cannot have a YouTube (or other) video embedded correctly. I'm currently running 3.7.4, if I upgrade to 2.5 will it help with this issue?

I changed the "URL" to "AME" as someone had mentioned in the 2.5 thread (and possibly here on this thread), but it simply displays the following code on the post....

<div style="display: none;" id="ame_noshow_post_1234038437_3">
<a href="" title="YouTube" target="_blank">YouTube</a>
</div>
<div style="display: inline;" id="ame_doshow_post_1234038437_3">
<div align="center">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" 425 style="margin:10px 0">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2" style="text-align:center">
<a href="" title="YouTube" target="_blank">YouTube</a>
</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<object width="425" height="350">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dZZfuCJ970w"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dZZfuCJ970w" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div>
</div>

....any thoughts?

[mgmods]

Hi,

Great mod! Is there anyway to make this so that it works with a forum RSS feed poster bot? For example, I have break.com's feed in one of my forums, and the posts don't get the video embedded (I have the addon XML pack so they normally do). If I edit the post and click save then it works perfectly. Is there some kind of cronjob I could set up to rebuild the posts in that particular forum every so many minutes?

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Matt

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by mgmods

Hi,

Great mod! Is there anyway to make this so that it works with a forum RSS feed poster bot? For example, I have break.com's feed in one of my forums, and the posts don't get the video embedded (I have the addon XML pack so they normally do). If I edit the post and click save then it works perfectly. Is there some kind of cronjob I could set up to rebuild the posts in that particular forum every so many minutes?

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Matt

hmmm... there isn't a cron job per say, however I am not sure why it wouldnt work with an RSS feed. Let me look into it.

@Arny... I responded to you in the 2.5 thread

[Dabbi]

Not sure why but this mod was adding an extra http to urls members would just drop into a post. It caused an error and I had to actually delete the posts since it wouldn't allow me to edit the links out.

This mod is now disabled and the problem has gone away but I'd really like to be able to allow members to embed YouTube videos so would appreciate a solution rather then my having to delete the mod.

Thanks for any help.

[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by Dabbi

Not sure why but this mod was adding an extra http to urls members would just drop into a post. It caused an error and I had to actually delete the posts since it wouldn't allow me to edit the links out.

This mod is now disabled and the problem has gone away but I'd really like to be able to allow members to embed YouTube videos so would appreciate a solution rather then my having to delete the mod.

Thanks for any help.

While it is surely terrible that you have this issue, please re read your post and ask your self a question. What information have I supplied in this post that gives anyone .0000001% of a chance to help me fix it.

You have not given any real symptoms of your problem, no link to your forum, no utube link you have had fail, no version of your forum, no list of addons NOT ANYTHING that can possibly allow you any help with the problem.

[Dabbi]

Here's the thread here where I originally asked for help:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=205238

UPDATE: In searching some more I've found that there was a conflict with this mod I had installed:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=96926 I have now disabled that mod and turned this one back on. It would be handy if I could have both functioning at the same time but I can switch on and off if I need to use this HTML mod for some reason.

[Gladhatter]

Thank you for your clarifications. I will say only this to allow others with better knowledge to input. Using Html on forums has only brought me great pain and many hacks due to the vunerability of Html injections that allows hacker access.