Show Thread Enhancements - AME - Auto Media Embedding (youtube, Amazon, google, myspace, etc...)

From the inventors of Swiss Cheese and the Egg comes AME - The Automatic Media Embedding System.

Note that Version 2.0.0 can be found here

AME is derived from GAL 6 base code but instead of linking keywords, it converts URLs that users paste or enter in their posts into inline embedded video streams.

Big credit goes out to mfyvie for the original concept that jazzed me up enough to lift code that I have been working on to radically improve his fresh idea. Though the same goal, I have taken a totally different approach to his initial release. This mod is 100% steaming fresh code straight from the Geeks oven of love.

First... the overview

AME scans new and edited posts for pre-defined patterns of URLs (i.e. youtube's). If it finds a match, it swaps the url tag for an ame tag.
When a post get parsed for bbcode and an ame tag is found, instead of hammering away at the post with umpteen bbcodes, AME quietly figures out which pre-defined embedding should be placed there and... viola', you have a pretty little embedded video like this:

Attachment 66927

This is significantly faster, has much lower overhead and is much easier to manage than loads of bbcodes or a than scanning every single post as the user views it to see if there are any conversions that need to be made.

Now for the bells and whistles

AME:

• 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. This radically reduces overhead and speeds up the 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 in a post)
• 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!
• 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 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
• 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 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

Add ons

AME comes configured with YouTube, Myspacetv, Google Video, Bolt, iFilm, Yahoo, Dailymotion, Amazon and MetaCafe Support built in. Since the amount of providers are always changing and most sites will only need a particular amount, AME has been designed with an import and export system to allow members to easily share formats with one another. In fact, the second post of this thread is updated periodically to relflect those add ons. Currently there are over 12 more additional formats contributed by AME users. Click here to see them.

Installation

• Upload the contents of the forums folder into your forums directory and import the product.xml file into your product manager.
• 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.

Troubleshooting

See this post on troubleshooting

A note about support and such

I have my plate pretty full with taking care of my commercial mods and the support that comes with them. Saying that, I will help when I can - but to be honest, I have ensured that there should be little to no support needed on this mod as it is very much self contained.
Please do not PM or post asking me to give you regexp's to support additional media streams. I built the system so that you can add your own providers as well as the ability to import and export them. If you still need a pattern but are not great with regular expressions (who is?) then I suggest getting RegExpBuddy. Although I am not expert at regular expressions, I did a quick start tutorial on AME regexps here if you want to check it out. I don't mind you guys asking amongst each other for these things, but just note that I will most likely not respond to the requests.

I will reserve the first couple of posts in this thread to periodically add user contributed patterns to import and for additional information (I hate mega long first post's in the release section). So check there for up to date information.

nJoy

[rapidphim]

When I view source, I got this link
http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x48b5h

how did you come up with this link
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3f...nk2_shortfilms

And it's not embed:
http://www.vshares.net/showthread.php?p=77#post77

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by rapidphim

When I view source, I got this link
http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x48b5h

That's what I'm saying, your not supposed to use anything from the source code. Just post the URL of the page you found the video on at Daily Motion.

how did you come up with this link
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3f...nk2_shortfilms

I did a search on Daily Motion for the term "thegioifilm" and just picked a random video.

And it's not embed:
http://www.vshares.net/showthread.php?p=77#post77

Did you download and import the updated XML files for Daily Motion in the link I gave you? Hotwheels made two more Daily Motion XMLs, and they seem to work fine for me. [Example] The default one that comes with AME no longer works.

[ellabella]

Can someone help me install this thing. I have uploaded all the files into my forum folders but I don't know where "AME CP->Settings" is? What's AME CP? I'm assuming this is in my VB admin area.

Basically I want to be able insert blip.tv videos onto my forum. How do I do this?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by ellabella

Can someone help me install this thing. I have uploaded all the files into my forum folders but I don't know where "AME CP->Settings" is? What's AME CP? I'm assuming this is in my VB admin area.

Basically I want to be able insert blip.tv videos onto my forum. How do I do this?

Did you remember to import the XML file after you uploaded the files?

[ellabella]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Did you remember to import the XML file after you uploaded the files?

Ah no I didn't - te he! Thanks. It's now showing up.


Ok so now I'm not sure how I allow blip.tv imports. Can you help me with that? Code is not my forte :P

[rapidphim]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Did you download and import the updated XML files for Daily Motion in the link I gave you? Hotwheels made two more Daily Motion XMLs, and they seem to work fine for me. [Example] The default one that comes with AME no longer works.

Jedi, Yes, I did download the two dailymotion and imported them. Not sure what happened thou...

[ellabella]

Originally Posted by ellabella

Ah no I didn't - te he! Thanks. It's now showing up.


Ok so now I'm not sure how I allow blip.tv imports. Can you help me with that? Code is not my forte :P

Please can somebody help me with embedding blip.tv videos?

[MotMann]

There are W3C Org mistakes:

Line 602, Column 174: there is no attribute "src".
…om/v/VeCKIRfElaI"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VeCKIRfElaI" t
✉
You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not support that attribute for this element. This error is often caused by incorrect use of the "Strict" document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use the "Transitional" document type to get the "target" attribute), or by using vendor proprietary extensions such as "marginheight" (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect instead).

This error may also result if the element itself is not supported in the document type you are using, as an undefined element will have no supported attributes; in this case, see the element-undefined error message for further information.

How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and attribute, (Remember XHTML is all lower-case) and/or check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, and/or use CSS instead of this attribute. If you received this error when using the <embed> element to incorporate flash media in a Web page, see the FAQ item on valid flash.

Line 602, Column 218: there is no attribute "type".
…/www.youtube.com/v/VeCKIRfElaI" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="4
✉
You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not support that attribute for this element. This error is often caused by incorrect use of the "Strict" document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use the "Transitional" document type to get the "target" attribute), or by using vendor proprietary extensions such as "marginheight" (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect instead).

This error may also result if the element itself is not supported in the document type you are using, as an undefined element will have no supported attributes; in this case, see the element-undefined error message for further information.

How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and attribute, (Remember XHTML is all lower-case) and/or check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, and/or use CSS instead of this attribute. If you received this error when using the <embed> element to incorporate flash media in a Web page, see the FAQ item on valid flash.

Line 602, Column 256: there is no attribute "width".
…application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent"><
✉
You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not support that attribute for this element. This error is often caused by incorrect use of the "Strict" document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use the "Transitional" document type to get the "target" attribute), or by using vendor proprietary extensions such as "marginheight" (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect instead).

This error may also result if the element itself is not supported in the document type you are using, as an undefined element will have no supported attributes; in this case, see the element-undefined error message for further information.

How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and attribute, (Remember XHTML is all lower-case) and/or check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, and/or use CSS instead of this attribute. If you received this error when using the <embed> element to incorporate flash media in a Web page, see the FAQ item on valid flash.

Line 602, Column 269: there is no attribute "height".
…-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent"></embed></obje
✉
You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not support that attribute for this element. This error is often caused by incorrect use of the "Strict" document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use the "Transitional" document type to get the "target" attribute), or by using vendor proprietary extensions such as "marginheight" (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect instead).

This error may also result if the element itself is not supported in the document type you are using, as an undefined element will have no supported attributes; in this case, see the element-undefined error message for further information.

How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and attribute, (Remember XHTML is all lower-case) and/or check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, and/or use CSS instead of this attribute. If you received this error when using the <embed> element to incorporate flash media in a Web page, see the FAQ item on valid flash.

Line 602, Column 281: there is no attribute "wmode".
…lash" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent"></embed></object></td>
✉
You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not support that attribute for this element. This error is often caused by incorrect use of the "Strict" document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use the "Transitional" document type to get the "target" attribute), or by using vendor proprietary extensions such as "marginheight" (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect instead).

This error may also result if the element itself is not supported in the document type you are using, as an undefined element will have no supported attributes; in this case, see the element-undefined error message for further information.

How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and attribute, (Remember XHTML is all lower-case) and/or check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, and/or use CSS instead of this attribute. If you received this error when using the <embed> element to incorporate flash media in a Web page, see the FAQ item on valid flash.

Line 602, Column 294: element "embed" undefined.
…425" height="350" wmode="transparent"></embed></object></td>
✉
You have used the element named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not define an element of that name. This error is often caused by:

incorrect use of the "Strict" document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use the "Frameset" document type to get the "<frameset>" element),
by using vendor proprietary extensions such as "<spacer>" or "<marquee>" (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect instead).
by using upper-case tags in XHTML (in XHTML attributes and elements must be all lower-case).

Can anyone fix that?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by MotMann

There are W3C Org mistakes:



Can anyone fix that?

Embedded videos generally wont validate. There's an article here explaining why that is so, and you may be able to implement some of the suggestions. I did this for videos on my Home Page. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/

Originally Posted by ellabella

Please can somebody help me with embedding blip.tv videos?

You can request Blip be added in this thread. But it may take some time, as there's only person, Hotwheels, who's been able to make the XMLs for us. I've been trying to learn, but haven't really had the time.
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=157109

Originally Posted by rapidphim

Jedi, Yes, I did download the two dailymotion and imported them. Not sure what happened thou...

You may need to delete the old Daily Motion from your library.

[MotMann]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Embedded videos generally wont validate. There's an article here explaining why that is so, and you may be able to implement some of the suggestions. I did this for videos on my Home Page. http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/

uo. that in englisch You have the clean code for youtube for me?

And what i must do, that the QT Plug In first start to download the File, if the User click on the Startbutton?