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

[JustJon]

I'm trying to install this mod, but when I go to the import product screen, and upload the xml file, the installer goes to a blue screen and hangs. Why can't I install this mod?

[Chadi]

How do I allow certain usergroups to post video links, yet automatically be moderated first?

[Dannyloski]

JustJon, this Hack/Mod, during Installation of the Product adds a field to the "Post" table in your Database, so considering your forum is a large one then it can take a couple of hours for it to get it done. My suggestion would be to shut down your forums, import the Product, let it take as long as it needs (like I said it can be hours), and then reopen your forums. It is worth it though, believe me - this Hack is awesome and I love it!

chadi, what you could do is set the setting "Follow Forum Moderation Rules" to "No" for the specific Usergroup you want. This will then Moderate ALL of the post made by the Members of this Usergroup by sending the posts made to the Moderation Queue ... You will then have to manually approve each post in order for it to show in the forums. Take into consideration that this will move ALL of the posts they make into the Moderation Queue and not just the ones containing Video Links. As of now, there is no way to only move the post containing a Video to the Moderation Queue ... Its all or nothing basically, so you decide what to do, hope this helps ...

[SKULL1985]

This is a grate mod and one of the best media mods i have seen released so far.

I have a few sites i would like to be added is possable.

www.spikedhumor.com
http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/index

[DieselMinded]

The EHOWA has stopped working why?

[hotwheels]

The Geek? After you find the site you want to use and you use regexp, how do you locate the actual player and set it up in the html section.....I spent several hours trying to get a couple of websites to work, and just haven't had much luck.....

Several of the site's that were/are set up from here as .xml's, come out as 2 players and show the code from the html box.....

Any help would be greatly appreciated......

[hotwheels]

k, I figured out part of the html problem......

[cclaerhout]

I just have a look at slide.com. I don't think it's possible to make it work with AME because the video code in the URL link isn't the same than the video code in the embed flash link.

[Saviour]

I would like to embed content from JoeCartoon.com. Can anyone help with this?

Thanks in advance...

Update:

Actually...I'm not familiar with regular expressions...I downloaded the trial version of RegExBuddy...but after reading some of the tutorial and how to use it...I just gave up. I just don't feel like racking my brain to get content from joecartoon.com to display properly within my forum.

So, if anyone has any suggestions or can accomplish this for me, it would be greatly appreciated. I know...I know...that and $2.50 will get you a large cup of coffee at Dunkin Donuts, but the truth is...I just don't have the patience when it comes to learning new software.

Hopefully, someone will see this post and have mercy on me.

Again...thanks for taking the time to at least read this post...

[cclaerhout]

The hack doesn't work with blogs (from vB)