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

[tt_chatter]

Just my two cents guys. For the people who wanted to use the RSS feeds and embed videos from them this is what I did. I used the RSS feed from MSNBC and ran the feed to my forum. I edited the template to say the fallowing;

[AME] {feed:link} [AME]

I clicked preview and all the video feeds came threw instead of just showing the link. Now I dont recommend hitting preview with all those feeds because my computer nearly blew up trying to embed all those videos at the same time in the preview. I haven’t seen the videos go threw to the forum yet. No more feeds to add right now, but im pretty confident it should work.

[Digital Jedi]

Yup, that's what I suggested earlier. It should work, because I had the same problem with [url] codes going though and the same fix worked.

[d-wiz]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

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.

Thank you. I ran through a lot of threads, a few people mentioned similiar problems but still no solution. It might be out there somewhere, just don't have the time right now.

Sounds like you're righ, though :up:

[tt_chatter]

This was the result of the AME tags with the rss feed.

http://www.the-amt.com/upload/showthread.php?t=259

There is one little problem. I get these lil url tags showing up around the video. Not really a problem just anoying. I did disable the option that says Convert HTML to BB Code but i dont think that has to do with any thing.

I was going to leave the description their so i can use that as an archive for CMS on my home page.

[Digital Jedi]

Tell me something. Is the code written just like you show in the post above?

[AME] {feed:link} [AME]

With the spaces on either side of {feed:link}? If that's the case, I notice the same spaces in the source code. Try removing those spaces on the next attempt and see if the URL tags fail to parse again.

[AME]{feed:link}[AME]

[tt_chatter]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Tell me something. Is the code written just like you show in the post above?

[AME] {feed:link} [AME]

With the spaces on either side of {feed:link}? If that's the case, I notice the same spaces in the source code. Try removing those spaces on the next attempt and see if the URL tags fail to parse again.

[AME]{feed:link}[AME]

Ok ill give it a try. Also my tags actualy are "[AME] {feed:link} [/AME]" kind of important lol.

[tt_chatter]

Your a genious. Works perfectly. Only wish I could get more news sites .

Thanks for the help.

[Digital Jedi]

One of these days they'll catch on that MSNBC has the lead in that department. Until then, I'll keep an eye on them. I work with CNN, MSNBC, CBS and Fixed---er Fox News online videos playing in the background most days. So if they change it, I'll catch it.

[d-wiz]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

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.

Wasn't able to find it, anyone?

[athlon64bit]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

It's already compatable with 3.7.1, so I don't think .2 would be that much different.

You should release it on the 3.7 mod board so that people know that this works on 3.7 and so that people know this mod exists who use 3.7. Most 3.7 users will only search the 3.7 mod board for addons.