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

nJoy

[ericgtr]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Are you sure you don't have duplicate definitions? Can you post an example URL?

I checked and I only have the two default definitions of youtube and Amazon, all else should also be default since I completely re-installed. I noticed that another mod that inserts copyright info https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201986 also had a display:none in it so I removed that mod entirely. I am still getting an error though, here is a link so you can see http://www.politicalgroove.com/showthread.php?t=18139

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by ericgtr

I checked and I only have the two default definitions of youtube and Amazon, all else should also be default since I completely re-installed. I noticed that another mod that inserts copyright info https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=201986 also had a display:none in it so I removed that mod entirely. I am still getting an error though, here is a link so you can see http://www.politicalgroove.com/showthread.php?t=18139

mmm. Are you using anything to track outbound links or another mod that somehow changes links? If not, have you recently installed an accelerator of any kind?

[jayjenxi]

YouTube videos are not showing up for me. An example here: http://adventdestiny.com/forum/f104/...-trailer-5377/

[ericgtr]

Originally Posted by The Geek

mmm. Are you using anything to track outbound links or another mod that somehow changes links? If not, have you recently installed an accelerator of any kind?

I'm not sure what I did but it's definitely on my end, I'll keep digging.

[Breakpoint]

How good is this with Amazon referral links?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by jayjenxi

YouTube videos are not showing up for me. An example here: http://adventdestiny.com/forum/f104/...-trailer-5377/

er... shows for me? Check your permissions

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by ericgtr

I'm not sure what I did but it's definitely on my end, I'll keep digging.

By the looks of its, its a mod that is hooking into URLs for one reason or another (usually to track outbound links or to add rel="nofollow"). That is conflicting with AME

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Breakpoint

How good is this with Amazon referral links?

I don't use them, but would assume its about as good as can get. You will need to edit the definition to include your affiliate code though, but that should be a quick one off.

[The Ayatollah]

When uploading the files, I am not entirely clear on which folder to choose to FTP.
1) the "upload" folder
2) The "forums" folder
3) the contents of the "forums" folder

Also, if you don't have a "forums" directory, where else would be appropriate to upload to?

[MagicThemeParks]

The Ayatollah,

If you don't have a 'forums' directory, simply use the root directory. You'll notice the files within the 'forums' folder should correspond to what is in your root.