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

[Dannyloski]

DoB Rhapsody, your only hope on a fix is to do what Digital Jedi suggested, if you dont do that then sorry but nothing else that can be done ... Just set the Character Limit a little bit more, because take into consideration that this is changing a URL into an entire Embed Code + Contained HTML, so you need to add the appropriate length ... There is no other way around it.

[BBF]

when i'm embedding a video i get this databse error:

Database error in vBulletin 3.7.2:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE post SET pagetext ='[ame]http://youtube.com/watch?v=9i-7AxJb4OE[/ame]\n\n test message', ame_flag=1 WHERE postid=171179;

how to fix it?

[jim6763nva]

Any idea how I can get this metacafe URL to work with this addon?

http://www.metacafe.com/w/178495

All I get is a link.

EDIT: NEVER MIND - I haven't eaten in a while so I was getting a little spacey.. I got it working. Was looking at the wrong URL

[tt_chatter]

Is there something similar to this or possibly this that would work with the videos from MSNBC or CBS news feeds?

[Digital Jedi]

The definition for MSNBC videos is available in the Add-On for this mod. However CBS is not available because CBS doesn't provide embed capability. This is also true for most of the major news media outlets.

[d-wiz]

Still no luck getting this to work. When turned on replies go to blank page?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by d-wiz

Still no luck getting this to work. When turned on replies go to blank page?

Do you have an old video mod installed still, like passiveVid?

[d-wiz]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Do you have an old video mod installed still, like passiveVid?

I just uninstalled it, still no luck?

[dklassen]

I've tried AME and PassiveVid. Both produce white pages after the reply button is hit.

What's strange is that on my site, same version vb (3.7.2) it works perfect. On our other site which is virtually identical it produces these white pages when either of these mods are used.

Any thoughts on how to fix or what's happening?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by dklassen

I've tried AME and PassiveVid. Both produce white pages after the reply button is hit.

What's strange is that on my site, same version vb (3.7.2) it works perfect. On our other site which is virtually identical it produces these white pages when either of these mods are used.

Any thoughts on how to fix or what's happening?

Originally Posted by d-wiz

I just uninstalled it, still no luck?

There was some issues some folks had with passiveVid being still installed, or some tables still being in the database that they didn't know where still in there. I can't quite remember what the issue was, but I'd suggest trying a search of this thread and the various XML threads for this mod to see if the solution is in there somewhere.