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

[DieselMinded]

Originally Posted by Dannyloski

No problem, glad to help you guys out ...

DiesellMinded, as far as making it so that the End User can use any of the links in the Video Sites and having this work, that would be up to the coder of the .XML's and if he/she is willing to go through the trouble of making the RegExs work like that.

Personally I tried to make my RegEx so that the End User can use any of the links that are provided by the Video Sites and have the Video still show up on the Post. However, I did not add support for the Embed Code. There is no reason why someone would add the Embed Code into to a Post (I dont see why someone would do that). If they place a Link to the Video into their Post, then it will be converted into the Video automatically - this is what this system achieves.

Thanks And I would like to comment ...

Most of my users are not puter savvy , When wanting to post a video on the site , The Obvious Choice on there behalf would be to use the EMBED code to Embed it in there posts.

Its just one of them things that make since .

Sometimes when they do this the AME makes 2 videos in the same post of the same thing

Ill Request that all xmls that are submitted to be formated with the proper code to allow end users to use any link available on the specific video site to identify the file .

In the mean time i will post a FYI to only use the links in the URL , But you know how the FYIs go its going to come up sooner or later

Thanks to all who have contributed to this its a nice feature on my site and gets used often

DM

[Dannyloski]

Attached is support for Vimeo and Veoh ... Enjoy!

At this point it wont support Grouper Videos because I have yet to understand how the "Embedding RegEx" option works and The Geek is on vacation now, so he cannot explain it. After he has explained it I might be able to add support for Grouper Videos.

DiesellMinded, I am gonna go ahead and say this: I personally am not gonna add support for the Embed Code to my RegEx's and I am almost 100% sure that other people who submit RegEx's will not either. The Embed Code is to be used on sites where HTML is allowed to be entered, if you allow HTML on your vB that is a high security risk that you'll be dealing with. If you would like to have support for Embed Codes then I suggest you Download RegexBuddy and take their Tutorial (pretty intense) then you can create your own RegExs that support the Embed Code.

[DieselMinded]

Thanks !

[jasculs]

Originally Posted by Dannyloski

Attached is support for Vimeo and Veoh ... Enjoy!

At this point it wont support Grouper Videos because I have yet to understand how the "Embedding RegEx" option works and The Geek is on vacation now, so he cannot explain it. After he has explained it I might be able to add support for Grouper Videos.

DiesellMinded, I am gonna go ahead and say this: I personally am not gonna add support for the Embed Code to my RegEx's and I am almost 100% sure that other people who submit RegEx's will not either. The Embed Code is to be used on sites where HTML is allowed to be entered, if you allow HTML on your vB that is a high security risk that you'll be dealing with. If you would like to have support for Embed Codes then I suggest you Download RegexBuddy and take their Tutorial (pretty intense) then you can create your own RegExs that support the Embed Code.

Thanks again, though after importing the vimeo and veoh plugin I get this error:

Warning: preg_replace() [function.preg-replace]: Compilation failed: range out of order in character class at offset 44 in /includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 414

[pspcrazy]

Well when i try to inport the gametrailers or mov plugin, and import it using product upload or plugin upload it doesn't work. where do i import it?

[Dannyloski]

jasculs, Oh man, sorry bout that, I thought I had uploaded the most recent file, I uploaded the wrong one ... please delete the files from your AME CP and re-download the .xml and import it ... Damn, what's going on with me today, too many mistakes, lmao ...

pspcrazy, these RegExs are not Products nor Plugins do NOT use the Product Manager to import these files. Do the following:

AdminCP > AME CP > Import > Import the .xml Files you downloaded

[pspcrazy]

Thanks for that, i had to refresh the admin cp to notice lol.

[DieselMinded]

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Hit me

lol

DM

[Dannyloski]

^ That will require the "Extract Info" Feature and I still dont know how to make RegExs with that option, sorry ...

[djjeffa]

any chance of getting it to work with ebaumsworld.com ?