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

[DieselMinded]

Thanks

My AME's ...Did I Miss Any? BTW I Uninstalled WMV

Amazon
Long Island
Photobucket
GameTrailers
You Tube
FileCabi
QuickTime
RealMedia
DivX
MySpace
Google Video
Bolt
iFilm
Meta Cafe
LiveLeak
MyVideo
Yahoo
Daily Motion
Videotube
Carpix TV
ClipfishVideos
Streetfire
Yahoo Video VonYahoo
ClipShack
CurrentVid
LiveVideo
LiveVideo (without Subfolders)
EHOWA Videos

[DieselMinded]

The EHOWA video is showing about 1 " by 1" can i fix that ?

[Dannyloski]

DM, you can do the following: AdminCP > AME CP > Display > EHOWA Videos > [Edit] and change the "width" and "height" to the pixel size you want - you'll find them in the Replacement Code section (where you see the <object> and <embed> stuff).

As far as if you've missed any AME's I have no idea - I did not install all of the ones that were available, for instance I did not know there was one for Long Island, StreetFire, etc ...

[DieselMinded]

The Player is changing but the video is the same ... ANy Ideas...

<object id="MediaPlayer" width=400 height=400 classid="CLSID:22D6f312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95" standby="Loading Windows Media Player components…" type="application/x-oleobject" codebase="http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=6,4,7,1112"><param name="filename" value="http://movies.ehowa.com/08281218PM/$p1"><param name="Showcontrols" value="True"><param name="autoStart" value="False"><embed type="application/x-mplayer2" src="http://movies.ehowa.com/08281218PM/$p1" name="MediaPlayer" width=320 height=400></embed></object>

[DieselMinded]

Never Mind I got it thanks !!!

[DieselMinded]

If you double click the video it goes full screen SWEET !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DieselMinded]

<a href="http://www.relax.net" target="_blank">www.relax.net</a>

[Dannyloski]

DM, yeah if the Video is double clicked it becomes Full Screen, that's part of the option from Windows Media Player - its pretty cool. Oh and yeah you have to change the Width & the Height in both locations of the code. As far as relax.net, it requires the Extract Info feature.

A note to everyone: A quick way to determine if the Video requires the Extract Info Feature is by checking out the Link and the Embed Code provided by the site. If you see the Video's Link in the Embed Code, then I can do a RegEx for it, but if its completely not there at all, then it will require the Extract Info feature and I cannot add support for those sites. I do not know why these Video Sites make it so complicated and not just keep it simple like YouTube does, but oh well ...

[Chadi]

Hi Danny. Thanks for the mod.

If you can do godtube.com that would be great.

I know nothing about programming but the embed code looks similar to any other video site like youtube.com

Example:

 <embed src="http://godtube.com/flvplayer.swf" FlashVars="videoThumb=http://www.godtube.com/thumb/1_11096.jpg&flvPath=http://www.godtube.com/flvideo1/7/11096.flv" wmode="transparent" quality="high" width="330" height="270" name="flv_demo" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></embed>

[Dannyloski]

chadi, unfortunately GodTube requires the Extract Info Feature for it to work. I had checked it out earlier today as I saw your request post, but didnt do it because of this. Let me explain why it cant be done (unless the Extract Info Feature is used).

Here is a Video's Link from GodTube:

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=e53892347e39b6b00ee8

Here's the Embed Code for the Above Video:

<embed src="http://godtube.com/flvplayer.swf" FlashVars="videoThumb=http://www.godtube.com/thumb/1_24081.jpg&flvPath=http://www.godtube.com/flvideo1/34/24081.flv" wmode="transparent" quality="high" width="330" height="270" name="flv_demo" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /></embed>

As you can see the Video's Link is nowhere to be seen inside the Embed Code, so it would need the use of the Extract Info Feature to extract the Actual URL for the Video and use it in the Embed Code.

If you look at the Embed Code you see that the Actual URL for the Video is:

http://www.godtube.com/flvideo1/34/24081.flv

I cannot create the Actual URL for the Video (Above URL) from the Video's Link via RegEx's ... It would need the feature that The Geek (author of this Hack) added, which is the Extract Info Feature. What this feature does is it opens up the Video's Link Page and searches (with an extra RegEx) for the Actual URL for the Video, so that then it can be added into the Embed Code and make the Video work/show up. I understand the concept and how it works, but not how to make it actually work.

I hope this helps a little so people know which sites can be added and which cant at this point - by me at least.