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]

Originally Posted by athlon64bit

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.

It's not my mod, so I'm afraid I can't do that. I can only do what I'm doing now and try to help folks out as best I can.

Also, I'd have to say that's a misconception. The vast majority of 3.7 users who have upgraded from older versions often have made the move with older mods still installed on their forum, or know to check older versions for something they're looking for. A good number of them are still compatable.

[SBlueman]

I am looking for media definitions for more porn sites outside of redtube which is already supported. We have a VIP section where members over 18 can post XXX rated videos but they have been clamoring for more options outside of the only supported site.

Can anyone help?

[d-wiz]

Still no solutions to the blank page problem due to remaining passiveivd files, anyone?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by SBlueman

I am looking for media definitions for more porn sites outside of redtube which is already supported. We have a VIP section where members over 18 can post XXX rated videos but they have been clamoring for more options outside of the only supported site.

Can anyone help?

I wish I could help, but I've mentioned before why I can't work on this.

Originally Posted by d-wiz

Still no solutions to the blank page problem due to remaining passiveivd files, anyone?

I can't seem to find the one conversation I remember on this, but as I recall, it had something to do with there still being passiveVid tables in the database. Have you seen any tables in your database still relating to passiveVid?

[d-wiz]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

I can't seem to find the one conversation I remember on this, but as I recall, it had something to do with there still being passiveVid tables in the database. Have you seen any tables in your database still relating to passiveVid?

Nope I tried searching the templates for passivevid, but didn't come up with anythinng?

[Digital Jedi]

Not your templates. Your database.

[c4smok]

THis can be used to embed Lively =)

http://www.gameopen.com/community/f3...hat-room-t4518

Googles new VR Chat Client

http://[a-z]*?[\.]?lively\.com/.*?(\d+)[&\w;=\+_-]*

<iframe src='http://embed.lively.com/iframe?rid=-$p1' width='600' height='522' marginwidth='0' marginheight='0' frameborder='0' scrolling='no'></iframe>

[d-wiz]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Not your templates. Your database.

How do I look through that?

I'm new to all this

[Digital Jedi]

You can look at your tables in your Admin CP >>> Maintenance >>> Repair / Optimize Tables to see if anything from passiveVid is still in there. I'd check with the mod developer or someone who has it installed to find out what those tables are named. But to delete them, you'd have to remove them via phpMyAdmin in your hosting account. Though you might want to ask on the passiveVid thread (if you haven't already) if the mods doesn't fully uninstall properly first.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by c4smok

THis can be used to embed Lively =)

http://www.gameopen.com/community/f3...hat-room-t4518

Googles new VR Chat Client

It needs just a little tweaking so it will embed all the Lively Rooms, but other then that it's a great idea. I'll add this to the list of updates in my definition thread.