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:

Attachment 66927

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

[4x4 Mecca]

It seems that the and sign '&' is what's messing up my code... here's the code, I've tried a dozen differen't ways, and it this is the most common result.

expression

http://([\w.]+)\.photobucket\.([\w.]+)/([\w\/\.\:]+)/([?action=view/&current=]*)([\w.]+)

Replacement

<embed src="http://www.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://$p1.photobucket.$p2/$p3/$p5" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="531" height="416" name="ePlayer" 
align="middle" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed>

Result in posts
It tries to embed a video, but the link it's trying to use is

<embed width="430" height="389" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://s5.photobucket.com/albums/y177/MrK5/Videos/view"></embed>

and it shows this under the video screen meaning it wasn't used.

&current=Bunce.flv

[mktrilogy]

Originally Posted by furst

It doesn't work for me. When I post an url to youtube, the regular url comes out. The ame bbcode does not get appended to the post. When I manually add the ame tags, the video does work.

Edit: I've disabled all hacks and plugins except for AME, and it still doesn't work

Same here bro. Must be other hacks installed or something. Am using Extremepixels skins and i cant think of anything that can not allow it to work. help.

[furst]

Originally Posted by mktrilogy

Same here bro. Must be other hacks installed or something. Am using Extremepixels skins and i cant think of anything that can not allow it to work. help.

I thought it may have been a skin problem, so I tried posting under the default vbulletin skin and it was still a no go.

[A|X]

Hi,

I just install AME.
When i paste youtube url http://youtube.com/watch?v=noyl1PKkBdE nothing happen.

Please help what should i do?

[Ren? Kunze]

@a|x

Have you Disable New items of No or Yes.

@ Coders Shack

I have tested with the link and by me it is function.

[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!

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/693063/lion_attack

You tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnujO3SCGBE

my space
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=87816 7267

google
http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=4776181634656145640

ifilm
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2846503

metacafe
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/692030/tiger_woods_make_a_sensational_shot

bolt
http://www.bolt.com/nakhon/video/WhaleShark_at_Andaman_Sea/2201227

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

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by DaNIEL MeNTED

I changed my open close HTML to this:

<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" border="0" width="400" style="margin:10px 0">
<thead>
	<tr>
		<td class="tcat" colspan="2" style="text-align:center">
			<a href="$url" title="View this video at YouTube in a new window or tab" target="_blank">$title</a>
		</td>
	</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
	<tr>
		<td class="panelsurround" align="center">

</td>
	</tr>
</tbody>
</table>

**LIVELEAK removed - not working right.

Daniel, I love these changes to the container, I subbed $title in the URL's title slot and wrapped the table in a centred div. Ill add a link to it in the add on post.

[therogueforums]

Downloaded, will install tomorrow, and get back to you.

[The Geek]

The photobucket one is a beast. I almost have a consistant one licked, but wont be able to work on it until later... its Saturday you know!

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

Hey geek, hope this has not been asked already, but I am using mfyvie hack.

I am worried if i uninstall his i will have heaps of ugle bb codes around the site, will this hack convert those as well? or will i just have to put up with them?

The problem is that his doesnt remove the codes when you uninstall it. THats good as you wont have dead codes laying around, but bad because the bbcodes still try to parse your messages!

This system has a converter in it that should be able to convert other media tags into standard URL tags.
THen you can use the AME rebuild posts tool to convert old post URLs into new ame tags.

In other words, this system can convert old posts and old codes.

HTHs!