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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[P.Jackson]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Post an example of where that's happening.

http://www.clan-killers.com/forum/ge...eens-vids.html

Happens every time we try it we have to use a ame bbcode atm to get it to show


http://www.clan-killers.com/forum/ha...tml#post195465

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by P.Jackson

http://www.clan-killers.com/forum/ge...eens-vids.html

Happens every time we try it we have to use a ame bbcode atm to get it to show


http://www.clan-killers.com/forum/ha...tml#post195465

You appear to have something on your board that affects the content of posts, other than AME. The code is there if you look at the Source Code of your pages, but it's literally translating the Replacement HTML into ampersand commands (&lt; instead of < for example) and putting line breaks <br /> where there shouldn't be.

		<!-- message -->
<div id="post_message_195465" class="vb_postbit">

<a href="http://&lt;div style=&quot;display: none;&quot; id=&quot;ame_noshow_post_1253102005_1&quot;&gt;<br />
&lt;a href=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;YouTube&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;<br />
&lt;/div&gt;<br />
&lt;div style=&quot;display: inline;&quot; id=&quot;ame_doshow_post_1253102005_1&quot;&gt;<br />
&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;<br />
&lt;table class=&quot;tborder&quot; cellpadding=&quot;6&quot; cellspacing=&quot;1&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; style=&quot;margin:10px 0&quot;&gt;<br />
&lt;thead&gt;<br />
&lt;tr&gt;<br />
&lt;td class=&quot;tcat&quot; colspan=&quot;2&quot; style=&quot;text-align:center&quot;&gt;<br />
&lt;a href=&quot;&quot; title=&quot;YouTube&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;YouTube&lt;/a&gt;<br />
&lt;/td&gt;<br />
&lt;/tr&gt;<br />
&lt;/thead&gt;<br />
&lt;tbody&gt;<br />
&lt;tr&gt;<br />
&lt;td class=&quot;panelsurround&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;<br />
&lt;object width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;350&quot;&gt;<br />
&lt;param name=''movie'' value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/MUx9Z3l6S7U&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;fs=1&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;<br />
&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/param&gt;<br />
&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/MUx9Z3l6S7U&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18&amp;fs=1&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;350&quot; wmode=&quot;transparent&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;<br />
&lt;/td&gt;<br />
&lt;/tr&gt;<br />
&lt;/tbody&gt;<br />
&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;<br />
&lt;/div&gt;" target="_blank">YouTube - Slife 2</a>
</div>
		<!-- / message -->

[Digital Jedi]

Hey Geek, I just noticed something odd on my installation. AME seems to be ignoring my character count settings passed 20, and clips them kind of short anywhere below that. Right now I have this set at 50: http://www.cogonline.net/forums/show...80&postcount=8

Also, I don't know if this is really important or not, but I notice when merging posts, you have to re-edit to get the parsing.

[fly]

So, AME won't let me delete any definitions. I imported an update that DJ made for photobucket, but when I try to delete the old one - nothing happens. Any ideas?

[Drache]

Will this increase the server load? does it adds many queries?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Hey Geek, I just noticed something odd on my installation. AME seems to be ignoring my character count settings passed 20, and clips them kind of short anywhere below that. Right now I have this set at 50: http://www.cogonline.net/forums/show...80&postcount=8

Also, I don't know if this is really important or not, but I notice when merging posts, you have to re-edit to get the parsing.

Are you using $title or $aminfo[title]? $title wont get trimmed, the latter will.
Re: Merging, this makes sense if the post you merge into doesn't have ame in it, however it should work if the post you are merging to does (if that makes sense). Not sure it would be frequent enough to warrent the merge code, but will look into it!

Originally Posted by flypaper

So, AME won't let me delete any definitions. I imported an update that DJ made for photobucket, but when I try to delete the old one - nothing happens. Any ideas?

Sounds like you may be using the file cache, but for whatever reason, the server can no longer write to the aminfo folder. Check chmod on the folder and its files. Alternatively, turn off the file cache.

Originally Posted by Drache

Will this increase the server load? does it adds many queries?

AME is designed to have minimal footprint and won't increase load or queries on threads that contain no media. If you are using the file cache, there will be no additional queries when a post with AME appears, but load will increase slightly as the media definitions are loaded up into memory.

The more noticeable area for load with AME isn't really server load. If you are including media in a post that extracts destination data (i.e. a youtube video that extracts the destination pages title) then there will be a slight delay when you save the post as AME fetches the destination page and extracts the title. Obviously the more AME you have in a post, the longer this takes (i.e. if you put 10 videos in your post that all extract data, thats 10 pages AME will download while you are saving your post). Saying that, it is only when you save it. After that, its pretty much undetectable.

[The Geek]

If you guys installed, please click install

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by P.Jackson

http://www.clan-killers.com/forum/ge...eens-vids.html

Happens every time we try it we have to use a ame bbcode atm to get it to show


http://www.clan-killers.com/forum/ha...tml#post195465

Most likely a mod conflict. Most likely a mod that changes URLs (i.e. a mod that tracks outbound links).

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Are you using $title or $aminfo[title]? $title wont get trimmed, the latter will.

I'm using the $ameinfo[title]. Also, it's not abbreviating even in the container template, not just the definition. From what I've observed so far, it appears kind of random. In some cases it seems to be abbreviating fine and others it ignores or only works under a certain character count. It seems to be site by site.

Re: Merging, this makes sense if the post you merge into doesn't have ame in it, however it should work if the post you are merging to does (if that makes sense). Not sure it would be frequent enough to warrent the merge code, but will look into it!

You mean like if the earliest post already has an AME converted video in it, right? In the six cases I had to do a merge, all the posts had video. But I agree, I don't know if it's important enough to worry about, just thought I'd mention it.

[Chadi]

Originally Posted by Chadi

Feature Request:
*************

Jquery implementation (lightbox)

http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/...ightbox-clone/

Really nice

Can we get votes on this please?