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

[lowey]

Dannyloski, thanks for the info! I didn't even notice any advanced options.

BTW, is it also possible to embed .swf-Files using AME? If so, can someone please point me to the Addon?

Thanks!

[acquiesce]

Installed at http://teenchillout.com

Works brilliantly. Thankyou for such an absolutely fantastic mod.

[loonytune15]

This hack works great. I have installed it on 2 forums and both work perfectly

[Dannyloski]

Originally Posted by lowey

BTW, is it also possible to embed .swf-Files using AME? If so, can someone please point me to the Addon?

You want to embed .swf Files from what site? Your own or what? Let me know, and maybe I can help you out ...

[The Geek]

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"

Thats because vB is translating the special characters into their HTML characters. Ill have to add that one to the exception list when I get back in town.

[The Geek]

Danny, Just wanted to say a huge thanks for the help you are giving everyone here and the extra add ons you have submitted. Im still out of town until late next week (I stole a computer to try and catch up on things). Ill do a tutorial on using the extraction regexp on my return. It is pretty easy and with playing around with the yahoo def, you should be able to figure it out pretty easily

Anyhoo, thanks everyone and we will see you soon!

[Dannyloski]

^ No problem man :up: ... I'll try and play around with the Yahoo Code see if I can understand it, but that Tutorial would be awesome and I'll look forward to it when you get back ...

[Dannyloski]

mini2, umm what YouTube links are you using?

[Dannyloski]

mini2, it has to be a Hack that you've got installed in the newreply template or that works in that template ... I tried those links by doing a new thread and posting them, doing a quick reply and posting them, and doing a regular reply to a thread and posting them and ALL worked. If the Regular Reply is not working for you then check to see the Hacks that you've got installed that affect that template and try disabling them and see if that's the case ...

[UgLy-NeRd]

<a href="http://digg.com/tools/integrate" target="_blank">http://digg.com/tools/integrate</a>

Could someone make an addon for digg? I tried and don't understand the RegExp very well.