Major Additions - AME 2.5 - Media Embedding for posts, sigs, vm's, groups and blogs

From the makers of the letters O and Yea comes the hottest 'must have mod' of the season: AME 2.5 - The Return of The Hot Mama.

Thanks everyone for making AME 2.5 Mod of the Month

AME is the multi award winning modification that smartly scans new and edited posts for URLs from a customisable variety of web sites (i.e. YouTube or Amazon or about 200 others). If it finds a match, AME will 'transform' the URL into inline embedded media without your users ever having to even think about it.

It was important for me to create a system that did not need updating (and subsequent reinstalling) every time one of the sites it supported decided to change the way it displayed its media (which is all the fricken time). Therefore I built a system in which the 'definitions' for each site could be imported, exported, tweaked and shared on a whim. This way, you only have to import the definitions that you want. It also allows the vB community to get creative and share definitions that I wouldn't of thought of!

Which sites are supported?

Included in the default installation is YouTube and Amazon. At time of posting this, I believe that there are over 180 sites supported that have been created by the vBulletin community. These range from sites that stream videos to Amazon referral links to locally hosted music and video files.

Check out the 'add ons' section of this post below to see availible add-ons.

For a total list of features and an FAQ, see click here.
For a post on troubleshooting, click here.

Though not tested on any version of vBulletin lower than 3.7.4, in theory it should work on versions 3.5 and higher (just dont quote this bit!).

Big thanks goes out to all those in the community that have supported this mod. Especially Digital Jedi who gives great support on this mod and has created over 160 definitions for this system alone!


Installation/Upgrade

• Upload the contents of the forums folder into your forums directory and import the product-ame.xml file into your product manager (if upgrading, choose 'yes' to overwrite previous installation).
• 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.

Change Log

• 20/1/09 - Uploaded to vb.org
• 22/1/09 - v. 2.5.2. Adresses a couple minor issues and character sets
• 23/1/09 - v. 2.5.3 minor update: Fixed ksort error on import and nomedia display
• 3/2/09 - v. 2.5.4 minor update to address rare bug with some page titles
• 3/7/09 - v.2.5.5 minor updates to address rare bug editing media with brackets in name
• 9/12/09 - v.2.5.6 minor updates youtubes validation process, a ccurl bug and rebuild not using the date like a good girl

nJoy

[cliffhanger]

Hello, I'm an 8th grade teacher who uses tutorial videos within forum postings for my students.

I've been successful getitng a pencast (livescribe) into my forum (you can't download actual files for the pencasts, you have to put in an XML refererence within the embed code)

The regular expression I'm using is:

http://[\w]*[\.]*mywebsite\.[\w/&;%-\.]+/([\d\w]+)(?:.*)

I did it this way so when I use $p1 I can just type in http://www.mywebsite/xmlfilename without using the extension because an extenstion like .mp4 will mess things up (as I'm referencing an XML file. However, the above expression is going to try and embed anything now that has 'mywebsite' domain in the URL.

Is there anyway that I can set $p1 or $p2, etc so it only grabs the filename (as an example, if I had video.mp4, it only grabs video to put in for $p1 instead of video.mp4 -- I don't want the .mp4 or whatever extension included in $p1). I need some kind of extension so AME only embeds the appropriate links. I've tried everything, and even went to http://www.regexbuddy.com and I got to the point that the above expression sets $p1 without the extension, but now everything embeds.

Help please. My 8th grades will be very appreciative, and me too

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by cliffhanger

Help please. My 8th grades will be very appreciative, and me too

lol. Play my heart strings!

TBH, I couldn't really follow what you are trying to do. If you can provide actual examples of what users would type/paste in and what the site should show (embed code wise) I can see what I can do

[cliffhanger]

Here's the replacement embed code that I'm using

<object height="316" width="228" align="middle" id="myFlashContent3" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param value="http://www.livescribe.com/media/swf/pencastPlayer.swf?path=http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/flashXML?xml=$p1" name="movie" /><param value="high" name="quality" /><param value="true" name="allowfullscreen" /> <object height="316" width="228" align="middle" data="http://www.livescribe.com/media/swf/pencastPlayer.swf?path=http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/flashXML?xml=$p1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param value="high" name="quality" /><param value="true" name="allowfullscreen" /> <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img alt="Get Adobe Flash player" src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" /></a></object></object>

I have $p1 as a replacement, and the following text gets put in for $p1

0000C0A80116000009C5920D00000124F67ECAA959F4B88C

and that's it. There's no typical filename like .mp4 or .flv. So the actual code after the $p1 is replaced looks like:

<object height="316" width="228" align="middle" id="myFlashContent3" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"><param value="http://www.livescribe.com/media/swf/pencastPlayer.swf?path=http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/flashXML?xml=0000C0A80116000009C5920D00000124F67ECAA959F4B88C" name="movie" /><param value="high" name="quality" /><param value="true" name="allowfullscreen" /> <object height="316" width="228" align="middle" data="http://www.livescribe.com/media/swf/pencastPlayer.swf?path=http://www.livescribe.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/LDApp.woa/wa/flashXML?xml=0000C0A80116000009C5920D00000124F67ECAA959F4B88C" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"><param value="high" name="quality" /><param value="true" name="allowfullscreen" /> <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img alt="Get Adobe Flash player" src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" /></a></object></object>

The problem is when I had the regular expression as

(http://[\w]*[\.]*mysite\.[\w/&;%-\.]+\.mp4)

I could write 0000C0A80116000009C5920D00000124F67ECAA959F4B88C.m p4 even though it's not really an mp4 file, the $p1 includes the .mp4 extension. This way I can specify which linkes get embedded with a dummy .mp4 extension. But if I leave the regular expression as

http://[\w]*[\.]*mysite\.[\w/&;%-\.]+/([\d\w]+)(?:.*)

$p1 replaces correctly as 0000C0A80116000009C5920D00000124F67ECAA959F4B88C but then every link that has my domain name in it tries to get embedded. I just need a way to set $p1 or have a $p2 so I can have the correct xml reference put in (like 0000C0A80116000009C5920D00000124F67ECAA959F4B88C)

I hope that makes more sense. If you'd rather me message you privately with my actual site name for my students, I can do that, but I don't want to say it here publicly since it's a site closed to the public only for my students and for their school work and tutorial videos.

Thanks!

Tim

[morphin]

is anyone havign problems with this plugin?? it says embedding disabled by request watch on youtube when I click the vid to watch

[MagicThemeParks]

Originally Posted by morphin

is anyone havign problems with this plugin?? it says embedding disabled by request watch on youtube when I click the vid to watch

See notes here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....64&postcount=3

[cliffhanger]

To further clarify my previous post, I think really all I need help with is setting up the regular expression formula:

Either

http://[\w]*[/url][\.]*mysite\.[\w/&;%-\.]+/([\d\w]+)(?:.*)

or

http://[\w]*[/url][\.]*mysite\.[\w/&;%-\.]+\.mp4)

to have a second backreference (on how to do that) so I can use $p2. I've tried altering the formula many times, and so far nothing seems to be working.

Thanks,

Tim

[cliffhanger]

I think I finally figured it out. I must have finally put the right symbol by trial and error into my regular expression. The following works in order for me to get a livescribe pencast correctly embedded:

http://[\w]*[\.]*mysite\.[\w/&;%-\.]+/([\d\w]+)\.live

The .live is just a dummy extension so I'm able to identify which links are livescribe video pencasts. Thanks for your offering to help earlier -- I think I have it all figured out now.

Tim

[furst]

Is there any way to make the container re-sizable to a greater width and height by pressing a collapse button in the corner?

[webgroup]

This hack has stopped working since yesterday, seems like it needs to be updated for new Youtube settings.

[jca2112]

Yeah, I can also confirm the hack has stopped parsing all YouTube links since yesterday -- it simply shows the url with the "External Embedding Not Available" title on all links (regardless whether external embedding has been enabled or not.)

Maybe something changed with YouTube's 1080p rollout?