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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[Ghostt]

sry for the maybe offtopic question but its important.
is there a mod like that AME for wordpress ?
thanks very mutch for answer

[Wonksta]

Anyway to make the embedding of YouTube be more widescreen like the widescreen on YouTube?

[BirdOPrey5]

In the AME CP -> Settings there are several default width and heights... "Posting Zone" deals with posts.

I set my width to: 640 and height to: 385, I believe that matches the widescreen youtube settings.

[Wonksta]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

In the AME CP -> Settings there are several default width and heights... "Posting Zone" deals with posts.

I set my width to: 640 and height to: 385, I believe that matches the widescreen youtube settings.

Thanks champ!

[snakes1100]

Youtu.be Addon:

Title = Your Choice
Description = Your Choice
Unique Key = Your Choice
Display Order = Your Choice
Active = Yes
Contain = Yes

Regex

http:\/\/youtu\.be\/([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)

Replacement

<object width="$ameinfo[width]" height="$ameinfo[height]">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/$p1&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/$p1&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="$ameinfo[width]" height="$ameinfo[height]" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>

Noted Correction:
New Code - param name="movie" <-- Double quotes
Old Code - param name=''movie'' <-- Two single quotes

[BirdOPrey5]

Unfortunately with the new shorter youtube URLs I can no longer check if embedding is allowed anymore. If I attempt to "validate" it always fails with a "302" error- must be from youtu.be forwarding to youtube.com. If anyone knows how to get validation working on the shorter URLs please let me know.

[joeychgo]

This doesnt work properly for me on 3.8.7

Originally Posted by snakes1100

Youtu.be Addon:

Title = Your Choice
Description = Your Choice
Unique Key = Your Choice
Display Order = Your Choice
Active = Yes
Contain = Yes

Regex

http:\/\/youtu\.be\/([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)

Replacement

<object width="$ameinfo[width]" height="$ameinfo[height]">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/$p1&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/$p1&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="$ameinfo[width]" height="$ameinfo[height]" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>

Noted Correction:
New Code - param name="movie" <-- Double quotes
Old Code - param name=''movie'' <-- Two single quotes

[viper357]

Originally Posted by joeychgo

This doesnt work properly for me on 3.8.7

Doesn't work for me either on 3.8.5, however the couple of video's that I have come across with the new youtu.be thingy are still youtube.com in the address bar so I just use the link from the address bar and it works fine.

[BirdOPrey5]

Here's what I'm using for the new short youtube URLs...

Probably could be more efficient but it works for me. Even does a custom start time if you append #t=90 to the URL where 90 is the start time in seconds.

Import into your AME Control Panel.

EDIT- Updated file, now in post #1495

[fly]

I'm pretty sure that whoever invented regex did it because he hated people.

Thanks BirdOPrey5!!!