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

[Dannyloski]

Finally got back and upgraded to 1.2 and I must say its freaking awesome! Great job on it The Geek :up: to you! Would it be possible for you to add a little bit of explication to the Tutorial Here on how/what we need to do to add support for those sites that require the Extract Info option to be enabled? Such as how do we create or know what to put in the "Embedding Regexp" under the "Extraction Information" section.

Originally Posted by Carlos2

What i have to do for working the wmv files addon?? i have to put it where?

Simply Import it to the AME CP after you've downloded it ... AmdinCP > AME CP > Import > Browse

Originally Posted by furst

For some reason it's adding this little "middot;" thing to all of the titles when I embed from stage6. Any idea why that's happening?

"Stage6 · George Carlin"

Hi, unfortunately that is something I cannot control. If you look at every page from Stage6 you see that the title is "Stage6 ? Video_Name_Here" ... Because of the "?" in the title, it shows up as · on your Embed Code. Stage6 would have to change their code if this is something that you do not want to appear on your Forums. Although, there a solution ... You could simply uncheck the "Extract Info" option from the Settings for the DivX Stage6 Videos, and it will display "DivX Stage6 Videos" on the title, instead of the Title of the actual video. Hope that helps you out ...

[Carlos2]

Thanks Danny

[nix]

Stage6 doesn't need to change their code. Its doable.

[iogames]

Hi!
I think The Geek, Danny & Nix understand media better than everybody, can you include or modify this bbCode cause it keeps failing please...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...94#post1292894

[InTeNsE-HuMoR]

I think i'll switch to this mod as the original one is no longer supported or updated with new video sites. I have attached a .txt file with some BB codes you could add (they converted first).

[Dannyloski]

Originally Posted by nix

Stage6 doesn't need to change their code. Its doable.

Nix, I'm sure it might be doable, but not from my point of things. The Geek would have to modify the hack coding for it to happen, as from the user level (managing the AME CP) that is something that cannot be changed.

Originally Posted by iogames

IGN Movie Trailers
Hi!
I think The Geek, Danny & Nix understand media better than everybody, can you include or modify this bbCode cause it keeps failing please...

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showt...94#post1292894

Originally Posted by InTeNsE-HuMoR

I think i'll switch to this mod as the original one is no longer supported or updated with new video sites. I have attached a .txt file with some bb codes you could add.

I'll check and see what I can do for your guys ... Cant promise much as I'm really busy, but I'll try and give it a shot later today

[InTeNsE-HuMoR]

@Dannyloski Please re-download the attachment (if you have already) as I added an update with LiveVideo embed code. Thanks.

[Dannyloski]

Okay Guys,

Here is another .xml that includes Support for ClipShack, CurrentVid, and LiveVideo ... Enjoy support for these sites guys, just import this attached .XML and it'll add these sites automatically.

I know that some people have requested support for IGN, Sharkle, Break, eSnips, and a couple other sites - I want to let you guys know that I am trying my best, but I am not able to add support for those sites just yet. First, I need to get a hold of The Geek so that he can explain to me or do a Tutorial on how the new "Embedding Regexp" setting works. After he explains I will be able to get the RegExs for those sites working (hopefully) ... Until then, enjoy support for the sites attached here ...

[MajorFm.com]

Originally Posted by MajorFm.com

Can i just say, this is the best hack i have every installed, exactly what was needed...

Please create imports for:

www.pornotube.com
www.youporn.com

Thanks in advance....

Any luck at all with these ?

[InTeNsE-HuMoR]

@Dannyloski thanks alot!