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

[hotwheels]

hoffi, what exactly is "ebay affilate"? I am not sure what that is, other then a part of ebay.

[Tralala]

The AME Amazon plug-in doesn't seem to cooperate with this one
Dynamically Create Amazon Links to use your associate id



Here's a similar, but newer version I'm about to try: Dynamic Amazon links


Is there any way that AME can handle the tasks of both? That is, convert any Amazon links to have the Amazon logo, use the name of the product (as it already does) and lastly, use the Amazon Associates ID in the URL? That'd be ideal...

[hotwheels]

Tralala, what is the amazon for? Isn't it a store? Are people wanting to use amazon on their webpages? I have seen this requested before, but never really understood what the user is wanting from the amazon page........

hotwheels

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by hotwheels

Tralala, what is the amazon for? Isn't it a store? Are people wanting to use amazon on their webpages? I have seen this requested before, but never really understood what the user is wanting from the amazon page........

hotwheels

Yes, Amazon.com is the internet's biggest and most well-known store. They sell nearly everything and have hundreds of thousands of partner marketplaces. Their online catalog is pretty much a directory of any purchasable product.

AME's default installation already includes an Amazon plugin. It takes a long AmazonURL and converts into the name of the product being linked to, next to a nice Amazon logo. So, for example, this:
http://www.amazon.com/1-Habits-Highl...pd_sim_b_img_1
would be converted to this:
The 7 1/2 Habits of Highly Humorous People

Amazon also has an "associates" program that a lot of webmasters are a part of. Link to a product and include your associates "referrer ID" and you get a small commission. So there are plug ins for vBulletin that automatically convert any Amazon URL in a forum, to include the webmaster's "associates" referrer ID.

My suggestion, since these two add-ons appear to conflict with each other, was to create an AME plug-in that accomplished both tasks.

[Hoffi]

I use AME for Amazon. Just edit the Replacement with your ID that it fits.

eBAy Affilinet I mean. Partnertprogram in Germany.

Are Blogs also Changed? That would be great.

[Hoffi]

Just another Questtion.

I am Affilinet Partner for Clipfish. So I want to change the Link in the Title to the Video-Page to an Affilint-Link. Is that possible?

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by Hoffi

I use AME for Amazon. Just edit the Replacement with your ID that it fits.

Where in the HTML replacement do you put the ID?

<a href="http://www.amazon.$p1/$p2/$p3/" target="_blank" title="$title"><img src="images/misc/amazon_icon.gif" border="0" alt="$title" />$title </a>

[Kaelon]

Originally Posted by Hoffi

I use AME for Amazon. Just edit the Replacement with your ID that it fits.

eBAy Affilinet I mean. Partnertprogram in Germany.

Are Blogs also Changed? That would be great.

How exactly do you do this? I'm having the same issue that Tralala is having.

Blogs do not seem to benefit from this add-on, unfortunately. If anyone knows how to extend functionality to blogs, that would be great.

[hotwheels]

Originally Posted by Tralala

Jumpcut's not working for me (but all the others are.) Once a Jumpcut URL is posted, the thread page stops loading and hangs looking for this:

http://media.www.jumpcut.com/media/.flv

Any help appreciated.

When i go to jumpcut with the above address, no videos play at all on their site......when i get rid of the media. in the address, it works fine...Not sure how to make that work correctly if it's not working on their own site.....let me know if you get a working video with that addy.......

hotwheels

[hotwheels]

Here is The Onion .xml