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

[desimedia]

What??
I don't even have the 'Resolve URL titles' option..
am I missing something>

Originally Posted by The Geek

How to troubleshoot.

1. Make sure that the disable setting is set to no (admincp->AME CP->settings)
2. Disable 'Resolve URL titles' (admincp->AME CP->Settings).
3. Here are some random links to put into a post. See if all/some/none work (if you have not disabled the Resolve URL titles setting, this could take awhile to post!



Disable all other modifications except this one and repeat the process.

If none of these work, post:
1. Check your apache error log for any info you could post to help us find the problem
2. Make sure you post your version# of PHP

[desimedia]

my urls are not resolving

can someone try

http://media.putfile.com/Rama-Rama-K...desi9-com--1/e

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by desimedia

What??
I don't even have the 'Resolve URL titles' option..
am I missing something>

It's called Extract Destination Data.

Originally Posted by desimedia

my urls are not resolving

can someone try

http://media.putfile.com/Rama-Rama-K...desi9-com--1/e

Worked fine for me. Where did you get your Putfile XML?

[desimedia]

I got it from the other thread.. which has all of the xml files for all video sites.
can you send me what u got ?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by desimedia

I got it from the other thread.. which has all of the xml files for all video sites.
can you send me what u got ?

I got mine from the same place. Are you sure it's enabled?

[desimedia]

Here is what it looks like

[MotMann]

again:

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

I'm not sure what you mean.

The Quik Time Plug In start the download, if the user load the side. Thats not good, because there are files over 10 MB.
Its better, that the DL first start, if the User Click on the Playbutton.

How i can do that?
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The Code from youtube Plug In is that one:

<embed src='$p1' flashvars='$p2' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='425' height='350' wmode="transparent"></embed>

I dont know, how i change that, that w3c org ist ok. The mistake is in the Code....

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by MotMann

again:


The Quik Time Plug In start the download, if the user load the side. Thats not good, because there are files over 10 MB.
Its better, that the DL first start, if the User Click on the Playbutton.

How i can do that?

I don't know much about QuickTime, but I've never seen a QuickTime player that starts downloading after you click play. That's usually why their on separate pages.

The Code from youtube Plug In is that one:



I dont know, how i change that, that w3c org ist ok. The mistake is in the Code....

It took my a while to make the one I told you about. It would probably be best if you looked over that article a bit more, even if you don't fully understand it all. Most of that article is just him explaining why he did it. But towards the end he just shows you the most important parts. I'd make one for you if I had more time. But my time on this site is in spurts.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by desimedia

Here is what it looks like

You setting look fine to me.

[desimedia]

Actually it works now, however, the case with PutFile is, it won't play on my site. I can click on the play button, but it doesn't do anything, so I end opening the actual putfile page.

Is this what happens for u ?