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

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[gnatster]

Originally Posted by 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?

Same here as well.

Only other thing changed on my site recently is a vBSEO patch.

[NetX]

Same thing in my forum.

Since yesterday, the hack is not parsing the youtube videos

[MagicThemeParks]

I just tested some youtube videos and it worked. Seems to be working still.

[webgroup]

old already parsed videos is not the problem, the problem is when you post a new video, its not working anymore.

[Gav-n-Tn]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Sounds like you uploaded the mod to the wrong file location. The only blank index is in the amecahce folder which shouldnt stop anything on the site.

I'll go back and take a look at it again. If I remember correctly, I tried loading to like named files AND also tried just loading to the root folder. The index.html DEFINITELY caused the problem. Once it was deleted, all good.

[MagicThemeParks]

Originally Posted by webgroup

old already parsed videos is not the problem, the problem is when you post a new video, its not working anymore.

Yes, posted new videos to a 3.7 site and a 3.8 site that I run and they both worked.

[jca2112]

Still not working here. (Just tried posting another video.) I've made no changes to vBulletin, our configuration, server, etc. to associate with this problem.

[chick]

Originally Posted by 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?

Same here it must be youtube because my passive video stopped working too, so Installed AME and I get the same link that external embedding is not available.

Losing my mind and members are having a fit.

[MartinH66]

As a workaround while YouTube's API changes are digested I found that unticking "Extract Info" for the YouTube definitions allowed new videos to be embedded again. No titles or anything but at least the vids work until a full solution is found.

[Thelonius Beck]

Originally Posted by MartinH66

As a workaround while YouTube's API changes are digested I found that unticking "Extract Info" for the YouTube definitions allowed new videos to be embedded again. No titles or anything but at least the vids work until a full solution is found.

Worked for me as well.