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

[bullboykennels]

this is a very nice mod, thank you.

[andrewrhs]

I want to add this site, if you could find it.

www.crunchyroll.com

Thanks

[WEBclay]

Originally Posted by DiesellMinded

Guys Lets all get together on getting regEXbuddy for Danny Come on Lets Donate $5 ..... All at once We all want more links to Embed and are waiting for someone to step up here

Im not going to be the only one or i would just pay him for my board only as im sure most of you would also ,,, So I say we get together and Donate $5 to him

Whos With ME?

DM

Count me in, whats your paypal addy Danny?

[Dannyloski]

Those interested in Donating can send any amount of $ to my PayPal Account: shop@talkjdm.com ...

CrunchyRoll.com uses JavaScript for their Videos as well as it requires the user to be logged into the site in order to load the video. Basically it would require the use of the Extract Feature from AME plus some other type of coding to try and check if the user is logged in or not. So I cant add support for that one.

BangedUp.com is an adult site - I normally dont add support for those types of video sites. Someone had requested PornoTube and I said no previously. Where will this be used though. The reason I dont support Adult Sites is because kids can have access to your forums and if someone posts a link that auto converts into a Video and some little kid sees that, then you know, they shouldn't have. Anyways, I checked out the sites and didnt see any Video Links, etc? Care to point me in a correct direction? Also, I would need a Forum to test these Adult Site RegExs if I decide to do them - My current Host does not allow any type of material that relates to this type of content and since they are pretty strict with their TOS I dont want to violate it and risk on getting my account suspended.

[DieselMinded]

I have an Adult pass word protected area and users must have the over 18 BD in there profile to even see the forum is there ,

No Biggie at all ,,,

DM

[WEBclay]

20$ are on the way to you If possible I would love a http://www.sclipo.com/ regex

[Dannyloski]

Originally Posted by DiesellMinded

I have an Adult pass word protected area and users must have the over 18 BD in there profile to even see the forum is there ,

No Biggie at all ,,,

DM

I still dont see any Videos on that site, point me in the right direction and I will see if I can do the RegEx for them.

Originally Posted by WEBclay

20$ are on the way to you If possible I would love a http://www.sclipo.com/ regex

Received, thank you. I checked out Sclipo.com, but it needs the Extract Info Feature in order for it to work. Since I still dont understand how that works even after several hours of trying to understand it and testing with no results, I guess I cant add support for it just yet.

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Anyways, attached are a couple of new RegEx's for those who want to use 'em ... I checked a couple pages back and saw that some people wanted these. For more info on each RegEx see below ...

WMV Files: It will auto convert Files with an extension of .wmv ... These can be either files uploaded to your server or on other servers. Simply input the Direct URL to the File (ie: http://yoursite.com/videos/vid.wmv) into the Text Box on vB and it will display the Video. NOTE: I had previously released this, but found a small error on it, so please delete the old one and replace it with this one.

RealMedia Files: It will auto convert Files with an extension of .rm or .ram ... These can be either files uploaded to your server or on other servers. Simply input the Direct URL to the File (ie: http://yoursite.com/files/filaname.rm) into the Text Box on vB and it will display the Video. NOTE: I had previously released this, but found a small error on it, so please delete the old one and replace it with this one.

DivShare (Videos): It will auto convert Video Files from DivShare.com ... The only down side is that you have to choose if you want to see Videos or Audio from DivShare on your Forums. If you install this RegEx you cannot install DivShare (Audio) - It will cause an error.

DivShare (Audio): It will auto convert Audio Files from DivShare.com ... The only down side is that you have to choose if you want to see Videos or Audio from DivShare on your Forums. If you install this RegEx you cannot install DivShare (Videos) - It will cause an error.

MTV Videos: It will auto convert Videos from MTV (http://www.mtv.com/overdrive) ... MTV allows the Embedding of certain Videos only. So if you see a message such as "This video available only on MTV.com, your next video will begin shortly" then that means that MTV has disabled Embedding on outside sites for that specific Video. It will give you the link to view the video on MTV.com.

SWF Files: It will auto convert Files with an extension of .swf ... These can be either files uploaded to your server or on other servers. Simply input the Direct URL to the File (ie: http://yoursite.com/files/video.swf) into the Text Box on vB and it will display the Video.

MP3 Files: It will auto convert Files with an extension of .mp3 ... These can be either files uploaded to your server or on other servers. Simply input the Direct URL to the File (ie: http://yoursite.com/music/filename.mp3) into the Text Box on vB and it will play the MP3 File in a Small Player.

[DieselMinded]

Dont worry about it ...

how about

www.ehowa.com

or

www.brawl-hall.com

[DieselMinded]

<a href="http://www.consumptionjunction.com/videos" target="_blank">http://www.consumptionjunction.com/videos</a>

[Dannyloski]

Attached is the RegEx for ehowa.com but please keep in mind that if you use that one, then you cannot use the "WMV Files" RegEx found in Post #595 because it will display an error as they interfere with each other - unfortunately there is no way around this.

brawl-hall.com and consumptionjunction.com cannot be done without the use of the Extract Info Feature, sorry ...