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

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by hotwheels

K, this one is an update for jumpcut.com

Go to your amecp, and then display. Delete the old jumpcut.xml

Now upload this new one.......should be good to go.....If you run across any issues with this one, please let me know.

I tested 7 different jumpcut video's and they all worked.......

hotwheels

Not working for me.

Just tried this as a sample:

http://www.jumpcut.com/view?id=986CF...0F000423CEF5B0

It just leaves the URL, doesn't convert it at all.

[Nikoo]

Hi,


I wonder what kind of modification do i need to do to add videos from this site?

http://www.pokertube.com/


Thanks ( :

[hotwheels]

Originally Posted by Tralala

Not working for me.

Just tried this as a sample:

http://www.jumpcut.com/view?id=986CF...0F000423CEF5B0

It just leaves the URL, doesn't convert it at all.

My bad.....When i snooped the url, I left a / in the xml which didn't need to be there......and i am at work right now, so i don't have my software with me to change the xml........If you put a / right after "view" it will work........ www.jumpcut.com/view/

I will fix it tonight.......

SBlueman:Can the zip file in the first post be updated to include all the sites that have been added after July 13th?

I have been thinking about doing that......Right now this entire thread is kind of a mess. We have xml's here and in another thread........Maybe i will start a new xml thread and add all of the video site's i have that are currently working. I believe at last count, i have over 75 working xml video sites......and the wonderful thing about this mod is the fact that you can pick and choose from the 75 xmls........

Would me starting a new xml add on thread be the way to go or what? I know i have asked this before and never really got anywhere with an answer.....

This was supposed to be the add on xml thread: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=157109 But sadly, the thread owner hasn't really had time to keep up with all of the xml's that have been made........if a person was to take time and go through that thread and this thread, they would find all of the xml's..........

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by hotwheels

I will fix it tonight.......

Thanks, man. It's certainly appreciated.

Originally Posted by hotwheels

I have been thinking about doing that......Right now this entire thread is kind of a mess. We have xml's here and in another thread........Maybe i will start a new xml thread and add all of the video site's i have that are currently working. I believe at last count, i have over 75 working xml video sites......and the wonderful thing about this mod is the fact that you can pick and choose from the 75 xmls........

Would me starting a new xml add on thread be the way to go or what? I know i have asked this before and never really got anywhere with an answer.....

I think starting a new thread is the way to go. You could offer up a current zip, and update the first post with new XML files as they get shared. The new thread would supersede the other one and serve as the official companion to this one.

At least, that's my 2 cents...

[Tralala]

I'm having a weird issue with AME (and one of my skins, it seems?)

It works fine with replies. But it doesn't work when a video clip URL is included in the first post of a thread. It's simply left as a clickable URL.

If the poster goes in and edits the post afterwards, removing the [url] and [/url] tags that get added, it works. But it's not autoconverting to an embedding video clip like it should.

What should I be looking for, in this specific skin? (It's Aqua-Soft, by the way.)

[glorify]

Originally Posted by Tralala

what is Gal?

Geek Auto Linker. One of Geeks paid hacks.

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by Tralala

I'm having a weird issue with AME (and one of my skins, it seems?)

It works fine with replies. But it doesn't work when a video clip URL is included in the first post of a thread. It's simply left as a clickable URL.

If the poster goes in and edits the post afterwards, removing the [url] and [/url] tags that get added, it works. But it's not autoconverting to an embedding video clip like it should.

What should I be looking for, in this specific skin? (It's Aqua-Soft, by the way.)

I've investigated and now see the issue. The skin I'm using doesn't show this checkbox option in the Post/Reply composition window:

"Automatically embed media (requires automatic parsing of links in text to be on)."

It's there on the default VB skin, but not on my custom one, and I have to believe that's why the embedding's not working on the first post.

So... how can I add this checkbox option/line to my custom skin?

Relevant section from default "newthread" template:

				<if condition="$show['misc_options']">
				<fieldset class="fieldset">
					<legend>$vbphrase[miscellaneous_options]</legend>
					<div style="padding:$stylevar[formspacer]px">
						<if condition="$bbuserinfo['signature'] != ''"><div><label for="cb_signature"><input type="checkbox" name="signature" value="1" id="cb_signature" tabindex="1" $checked[signature] />$vbphrase[show_your_signature]</label></div></if>
						<if condition="$show['parseurl']"><div><label for="cb_parseurl"><input type="checkbox" name="parseurl" value="1" id="cb_parseurl" tabindex="1" $checked[parseurl] />$vbphrase[automatically_parse_links_in_text]</label></div></if>
						$disablesmiliesoption
					</div>
				</fieldset>
				</if>

vs.


Relevant part from "newthread" template in my custom skin:

								<if condition="$show['misc_options']">
				<fieldset class="fieldset">
					<legend>$vbphrase[miscellaneous_options]</legend>
					<div style="padding:$stylevar[formspacer]px">
					<table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0">
						<if condition="$bbuserinfo['signature'] != ''">
							<tr>
								<td></td>
								<td><label for="cb_signature"><input type="checkbox" name="signature" value="1" id="cb_signature" tabindex="1" $checked[signature] /> $vbphrase[show_your_signature]</label></td>
							</tr>
						</if>
						<if condition="$show['parseurl']">
							<tr>
								<td></td>
								<td><label for="cb_parseurl"><input type="checkbox" name="parseurl" value="1" id="cb_parseurl" tabindex="1" $checked[parseurl] /> $vbphrase[automatically_parse_links_in_text]</label></td>
							</tr>
						</if>
						$disablesmiliesoption
					</table>
					</div>
				</fieldset>
				</if>

They seem similar... so why isn't my custom skin getting that option to display?

[hotwheels]

Not sure on that stuff there yet tralala......Looks like i will be working a 16hr day today, so probably won't be able to look at the xmls or anything till tomorrow night, maybe....

[Tralala]

Originally Posted by hotwheels

Not sure on that stuff there yet tralala......Looks like i will be working a 16hr day today, so probably won't be able to look at the xmls or anything till tomorrow night, maybe....

No worries, I'll hang tight. In the meantime, Im struggling to figger out my bigger issue, one post above, about AME not working 100% with my custom skin. That's a dealbreaker if I can't get it going anyway...

[Subah]

Tralala there is some thing worng with this hack i try to ask The Geek to fix it and he is ignor me i hope you can do it , there is some video in youtube there title is in arabic langugae and when i use this hack they are work but the title appear as a rappesh ?
How can i let the arabic langugae appear ?