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

[irishblue]

has anyone successfully embedded a yahoo video? if so, could you paste a sample working url you used?

here's the type of url I used:
http://hk.video.yahoo.com/video/play?vid=582256
I tried posting direct without going through a preview but it still displays it as a link instead of embed.

[Dannyloski]

irishblue, that's because the Yahoo Videos current do not support Videos outside US I believe ... yours contains "hk" in front of it ... It might be a quick fix, but without RegExBuddy I cant do it ... sorry ...

TrIn@dOr, that's because the link you're using is not a working one. The Add-On I made HERE is to display Videos added to your site. Although, it can be used for other Sites, but in order to work their link must contain the Actual Video URL Link in the Address Bar ... So in order to display that transformer Trailer you would have to use this link: http://images.apple.com/movies/dream...tlr4_h.640.mov, which can be found in the Page's Source Code ...

FreshPrince, it's might possible, but pretty tricky as those videos require the user to choose a Video Player before being able to watch it. We would need to first choose one either Windows Media Player or RealPlayer to use for this Hack. Then, we would also need to use the Extract RegEx function to set this up (I do not know how to use it still, so cant help you out). Finally, you would need to figure out which "Link" would be posted into the Forum Post, as those videos do not provide one. It must be a link that can be used with the Extract RegEx function ... Like I said this one will be quite tricky, but might be possible with the correct RegEx's ...

Underlab, I would love to help, but I have no idea why that's happening for you ... I'd say wait for The_Geek to get back and let him help you figuring this error out ...

[TrIn@dOr]

Originally Posted by Dannyloski

TrIn@dOr, that's because the link you're using is not a working one. The Add-On I made HERE is to display Videos added to your site. Although, it can be used for other Sites, but in order to work their link must contain the Actual Video URL Link in the Address Bar ... So in order to display that transformer Trailer you would have to use this link: http://images.apple.com/movies/dream...tlr4_h.640.mov, which can be found in the Page's Source Code ...

Thanks for the help but something continues wrong, perhaps me

Look please at this example, i pasted your link of the trailer but i see it in a strange way.

[Dannyloski]

TrIn@dOr, I cannot see that post/thread cause I am not a member on your Forum ... But I put the link on My Forums and saw what you were trying to point out. The reason that's occurring is because the Trailer is in 16:9 Format, so you would have to modify the QuickTime RegEx. Simply go to AdminCP > AME CP > Display > Quicktime Movies > [EDIT] and under the Replacement Code change the "width" and the "height" attributes to your desired ones ... Note that the width and height attributes appear two times under the "Replacement" Code section and must be changed in both places

I think now I understand what Finster was talking about on this post regarding 16:9 and 4:3 Videos ...

[a1whs.com]

Alright marked as uninstall, seems like geek has not even tried what i asked him to , so troubleshooting the issue now seems far fetched.

Good luck geek.

[Dannyloski]

a1whs.com, you do understand that he is in Vacation and has limited access to the Comp ... He hasn't posted in a very good while due to this ... When he comes back I'm sure he will be able to help you out ... Be patient ...

mini2, yeah please do ... I wanna know which Hack is interferring with AME ... just curious to find out since all those links are working for me no matter how I post them (New Reply, Quick Reply, New Thread, etc)

[JeepinJeff]

Just tried to install it and it's not working. I hit quick reply on a post, put in a youtube url, and when I hit submit it said an error had occured and wouldn't post.

[rinkrat]

http://www.collegehumor.com/
PLEASE

www.break.com
PRETTY PLEASE

[Dannyloski]

JeepinJeff, its working for me ... Are you sure that you've uploaded all the files on the "Upload" folder to their correct destinations? Also, make sure that you imported the product via the Add/Import Product feature of vB.

rinkrat, I would love to give CollegeHumor.com a try, but I do not have RegExBuddy anymore (trial ran out) and I'm not going to spend $40.00 out my own pocket to buy it. If you want me to add support for CollegeHumor then you can buy a license for RegExBuddy, give me it, and I'll add Support for CollegeHumor and other sites that are requested.

As far as Break.com Support, that you need to wait until The Geek makes a tutorial on how to use the new feature of AME, which allows extraction of contents of a site, so that I can add support for Break.com and other videos sites that are not supported and have been requested.

[iogames]

Hi! Danny! what about this?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...61#post1305761

AOL Video