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

[KURTZ]

@Free: just wondering: it's possible that this hack makes my board slow?

@Spread: better 100% :P

news about a new 3.7.x version of this marvelous hack?

[rapidphim]

Can someone please check the Google video code?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...23880622971014

Somehow it's not working for me. Thanks.

P.S. still using it on 3.6.8 patch 2

[Bilderback]

I have it installed to 3.7beta4 but found a BBC issue.
I just tried to post [CODE] in the forum to show someone basic use of PHP variables.
The problem is that the $variables disappeared after submitting.
Example:

$my_variable = "my_string";

After submitting the post, it displays as shown below:

= "my_string";

^^ removes the $my_variable
Does anyone have a clue why this is happening?
Is the PHP parsing within the forum for some reason?
It does the same thing with [QUOTE],[PHP] and [HTML]

[rapidphim]

can any one help me to find out why the below code is not working? Dailymotion already came pre-installed but not working with the below link. Thanks.

http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x48b5h

Is there a way to adjust the video size instead of the box?

[mrmunson]

Hi all. I've searched this thread to see if someone has had previous experience with this but to no avail.

My setup is vB 3.7 beta 3 and I have the latest version of AME installed at the writing of this post. All URL's I've posted (along with other users on my board) has been working like a charm. Until yesterday that is. We've tried all sorts of different embeds (only YouTube) and all work except this one (extremely funny video). Trying to view it "embedded" you get a "this video is no longer available" message. Viewing the clip directly on YouTube works like a charm. Here's the adress for the clip (exactly the one wre trying to post):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxhrJrL20_8

Any help on this matter would be great. Mind that this is the only URL that doesnt work. We've tried loads of different YouTube-videos and they all work.

[Digital Jedi]

The few times I've seen that happen is due to a problem on YouTube's end. Even if the video plays on their site.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by mrmunson

Hi all. I've searched this thread to see if someone has had previous experience with this but to no avail.

My setup is vB 3.7 beta 3 and I have the latest version of AME installed at the writing of this post. All URL's I've posted (along with other users on my board) has been working like a charm. Until yesterday that is. We've tried all sorts of different embeds (only YouTube) and all work except this one (extremely funny video). Trying to view it "embedded" you get a "this video is no longer available" message. Viewing the clip directly on YouTube works like a charm. Here's the adress for the clip (exactly the one wre trying to post):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxhrJrL20_8

Any help on this matter would be great. Mind that this is the only URL that doesnt work. We've tried loads of different YouTube-videos and they all work.

The link you posted tells me that this video is not available in my country. That's probably the problem.

Originally Posted by rapidphim

can any one help me to find out why the below code is not working? Dailymotion already came pre-installed but not working with the below link. Thanks.

http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x48b5h

Is there a way to adjust the video size instead of the box?

Daily Motion URLs should look like this, otherwise they wont embed:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3f2az_soi-day-chuyen-dinh-menh-2newchunk2_shortfilms

[hotwheels]

I will try coming back this week and looking at some of the requests.........I have had some family issue's come up that had to be taken care of.......sorry bout that.

[rapidphim]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

The link you posted tells me that this video is not available in my country. That's probably the problem.


Daily Motion URLs should look like this, otherwise they wont embed:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3f2az_soi-day-chuyen-dinh-menh-2newchunk2_shortfilms

I thought that should be more simple step to get dailymotion. I am to go through bunch of steps to get that link? Do you have any other better or faster way to embel from dailymotion?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by rapidphim

I thought that should be more simple step to get dailymotion. I am to go through bunch of steps to get that link? Do you have any other better or faster way to embel from dailymotion?

Okay, first off, you shouldn't have to go through any steps. All your supposed to do is post the link that the video is displayed on, and AME will convert it into an embedded video. For example, here's the link I posted above: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3f...nk2_shortfilms See? Nothing special, it's just the page the video is on.

Second, Daily Motion changed their URL structure since AME's initial release. Go here, and get the updated Daily Motion XMLs, and your videos should embed just fine.