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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[MjrNuT]

Originally Posted by 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.

Hi, I made sure to check your Troubleshooting Post.

The particular issue that addresses my needs is:

Media won't embed, it just gives the link with an icon after it.
This means that the publisher of the video has disallowed the video to be shown off site. Its actually a feature of AME to do that

This is not the case as I created a separate BBCode tag for WeGame and it works just fine. I'd prefer it work with AME though.

Anyone have a working AME for using WeGame?

Thanks in advance.

[jca2112]

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.

Well I hope this mod gets updated to address whatever is causing YouTube video urls from being parsed -- it's a great mod and needs to continue.

Back to speculation -- maybe this YouTube glitch is related to using the legacy YouTube API that was shut down on Nov. 11?

http://apiblog.youtube.com/2009/11/f...or-legacy.html

[The Geek]

Sounds like the validation of youtube is barfing up. Either disable extraction, OR remove the validation setting for youtube.

To be honest, the validation process is a PITA and youtube have fixed the reason I had to validate the links in the first place. If removing the validation works, Ill update the mod to remove it altogether.

Regarding 4.0:
I have requested a couple of small 4.0 code changes to be able to extend their video bbcode system in an AME'ish way. Will let you know how it proceeds.

[therogueforums]

Turning off "Extract Info" does not seem to be working for me.

[gnatster]

Turning off Extract Info fixed the issue for me.

[M.C.]

I noiced that it has conflict with vbAnonymizer

[tylercruz]

Thank you for this. I bought the pro version of PassiveVideo, but they refused to give any support on the recent YouTube issue, so I uninstalled and switched to AME, which I was able to get to work with YouTube by disabling extraction.

[Ghostt]

how/where can i edit the "default ame template" (container) ?

[Ghostt]

omg found it finally at Style & templates option...

[khashabawy]

for old topics : [vbAnonymizer installed]

the video is ok on youtube but it still shows the link and image beside

it just shows : YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.

i should edit the post and post it a gain

the reasone is vbAnonymizer

can you fix it so the links be checked if they are youtube links or not b4 they are vbAnonymized