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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[dklassen]

Running vb 3.8.4 with AME and everything's been fine. All of a sudden all the embedded youtube videos are all links. When you try to add a new video it just puts a link in the post. Didn't change anything in admin and the setting all look correct.

How to fix?

Thanks.

[Bill from Cleve]

Originally Posted by dklassen

Running vb 3.8.4 with AME and everything's been fine. All of a sudden all the embedded youtube videos are all links. When you try to add a new video it just puts a link in the post. Didn't change anything in admin and the setting all look correct.

How to fix?

Thanks.

Same problem here. No Changes were made either.

[Dream]

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.

Thanks, that did it

[dklassen]

It worked me to but only on new posts. The old one's are still links. Looks like all the old youtube vids are now tagged with URL bb code. Funny thing is, on my other site all the vids are fine.

[Bill from Cleve]

Originally Posted by dklassen

It worked me to but only on new posts. The old one's are still links. Looks like all the old youtube vids are now tagged with URL bb code. Funny thing is, on my other site all the vids are fine.

Same here. I hate when they pull this stuff. Yes we benefit from their services, but they also benefit. We are just regarded as trash in their corporate eyes I guess????

Looking for a script to update older effected posts if anyone has one?

[webgroup]

theres no problem with the old posted and correctly parsed videos.
any videos posted after the youtube change will be affected.

[ahheng]

Hi The Geek, wonder isit possible that you can code this to vb4 soon? i am sure a lot vb4 users badly need this. :x

[chick]

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.

That worked great with AME on my unmolested site... now I need help with my heavily modded site that has Passive Video Premium installed and YouTube stopped working... it does not have the same type tick boxes as AME... and it's so modified AME throws errors... so I can't use AME on this one........ drat

[MjrNuT]

Your plugin is great as I've just begun to start using it. No hitches with Youtube, except for having to set Extract Info to No.

Issue though as it appears that WeGame is not embedding. What kind of info do you need to help diagnose this? I have Extract info set to off and just pasted the link in like for youtube.

Thanks for your time.

[gnosisprod]

How do you disable videos from automatically playing? I'm embedding wmv files and I haven't found an option to disable autoplay.