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:

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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

[Digital Jedi]

Yeah, it appears to be doing that for me now, too. It looks like there's some differences in the embed code.

[Jhonnyf]

The Problem with the Dailymotion is that the Currently "Extraction Information" find this

value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/THE_CODE"

and the embled code has change to
value="http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/THE_CODE&v3=1&related=1"


like you see, the Expresion Regular for the Extraction Information is diferent and this return empty


Like this is Empty, the AME use the First Parameter obtaint in the URL that you post U_U

Solution:

Change the Extraction Information

PHP Code:

value="([http://]*[a-z]*\.dailymotion\.[a-z]+/swf/[\w\d]+[\&|\&]+v3=1+[\&|\&]+related=1)" 


I


Use this Embled Code

<center>
<div><object width="420" height="331">
<param name="movie" value="$p1"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param>
<embed src="$p1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="331" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always"></embed></object><br /></center>

[nyplaya47]

Hello,

I just installed this mod and it works beautifully.

I just have one queston, I'm trying to change the font color of the video's title, and being an html noob, I'm just not sure where to add the code. I asw someone had a similiar problem in an earlier post, but I didn't see the answer.

I know the settings are added here:

AdminCP > AME CP > Settings > Container HTML

but I just dont know what code to add, and where in the code to add it. I googled and tried several things but not seems to effect the font's color.

Could someone please post an example?

Thanks in advance.

[VodkaFish]

My RSS Feed Manager drops links properly, but seems to ignore AME. Anyone know how to set that up?

[Expedition]

Just installed.
But, I don't know how to integrate videos on my pages.
Large search/read of posts, and no instruction find.
"Disable New items" I set to "No".
What I missing?
I'm not familiar either with vBulletin or codes.
Thanks for help.

[mindwatch]

Hi everyone,
everything installed and works fine. I also have downloaded the .mov xml and it reads my .mov videos on my server, but the video has no controls. I only see a portion of the screen as the video is 640/480.

Is there a way to run my videos from my own server without uploading them to a public place?
Can I play them in a larger resolution, 640/480?
Is this the right script to do this?

Thanks for your support
Marcus

[NeverBored]

Some kind of issue with firefox here... When using firefox and posting a video via quick reply, the page hangs. The page goes white and doesn't load period, BUT going back and reloading the thread the post is posted with the video embedded.

I tried setting the extract on and off, no change, I tried different video sites, still the same problem.

I then thought to try internet explorer, and it works no problem. So I guess there is some kind of issue here going on with firefox, what it is is beyond my knowledge level. Hopefully someone can help with this. This is an excellent mod otherwise, seems to be working perfect for me other than the quick reply.

I'm on 3.7 beta 5, btw.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Expedition

Just installed.
But, I don't know how to integrate videos on my pages.
Large search/read of posts, and no instruction find.
"Disable New items" I set to "No".
What I missing?
I'm not familiar either with vBulletin or codes.
Thanks for help.

The idea behind the mod is that you don't have to do anything. Once you install it properly, all anyone has to do is post the URL to a video from one of the supported site, and it auto-embeds.

Originally Posted by mindwatch

Hi everyone,
everything installed and works fine. I also have downloaded the .mov xml and it reads my .mov videos on my server, but the video has no controls. I only see a portion of the screen as the video is 640/480.

Is there a way to run my videos from my own server without uploading them to a public place?
Can I play them in a larger resolution, 640/480?
Is this the right script to do this?

Thanks for your support
Marcus

You can edit the size of your video for each supported site in the AME CP. Just look for Replacement Code and change each instance of hieght and width.

Originally Posted by NeverBored

Some kind of issue with firefox here... When using firefox and posting a video via quick reply, the page hangs. The page goes white and doesn't load period, BUT going back and reloading the thread the post is posted with the video embedded.

I tried setting the extract on and off, no change, I tried different video sites, still the same problem.

I then thought to try internet explorer, and it works no problem. So I guess there is some kind of issue here going on with firefox, what it is is beyond my knowledge level. Hopefully someone can help with this. This is an excellent mod otherwise, seems to be working perfect for me other than the quick reply.

I'm on 3.7 beta 5, btw.

I'm willing to bet that's why. I haven't encountered that problem in FireFox with my older vBulletin. Beta is, as implied, a little buggy. (I drove in here in a little buggy. <rim shot> :down: )

[mindwatch]

This is a cool mod and I am happy that I have installed it. Very convenient and quality is very fast and clear. The resize of the widow is a cool feature as some sites have much better quality than Youtube.

Is there a plan to integrate Facebook videos?

Thanks
Marcus

[ManagerJosh]

Anyone able to get this to function with additional products that plugin to vBulletin like vBaDynamics?