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

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by testbot

it means (s)he's in love

^^ This.

And "Your Settings have been saved" is sooooooo boring

[testbot]

great, thanks!

ps- good luck with you know what.

[Alan_SP]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Not too sure here. Sounds like the script is either timing out or there is an error in one of the definitions that you are importing on the large file.

I think it's not the timing out, it takes about 15 seconds, which is ok.

Maybe one or more definition is problematic?

And I have to say I'm very glad you already work on vB4 version of AME. It's an excellent add-on, a must!

[chick]

Originally Posted by The Geek

It can only pull the name if extraction is on. Try 2.5.6 and turn the extraction back on.

Upgrade, followed instructions to the letter... older video still shows YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.

BUT newly posted video now shows YouTube

so it has changed but it's still not pulling the video name.

Any ideas?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by chick

Upgrade, followed instructions to the letter... older video still shows YouTube- Broadcast Yourself.

BUT newly posted video now shows YouTube

so it has changed but it's still not pulling the video name.

Any ideas?

That is an indication that your server isn't allowing any remote calls. Note that there are 2 spots where extraction may be off. First one is globally in amecp>settings and the other is by editing the definition itself. Check that both of those are on.

Also remember that if the contents of the post have been cached by vB, you won't see these changes right away. Best bet is to paste a new URL into a post and/or edit/save an existing.

[chick]

I quadruple checked and rebuilt everything, posted new youtube vids and it's still the same, says YouTube not the vid name.

I know my dedi server is properly set, I had no problem before this youtube business.. other definitions are working properly... and I have '8wayruns Video' Directory Remixed installed and it pulls the YT name with no issues.

hummmmm

[The Geek]

Are you using the default definition? You can PM me temp admincp details and Ill take a look.

[BBR-APBT]

Does this work on 4.0?? I have ame bbcode tags everywhere and have no way to remove them. I was a dummy and forgot to remove the tags before a upgrade.

I am not rushing the coder to upgrade or anything just asking if this works on 4.0 it doesn't seem to have templates so it might still work. I am just worried to install it messing up the tables or some crap.

So this question is to anyone that has tried to use it on 4.0

[The Geek]

No this doesn't work on 4.0

A 4.0 version will be coming, but it won't use AME tags. Your best bet is to try and run the ame cp->tools->rebuild tools to remove AME tags from posts. Then uninstall.

[BBR-APBT]

Originally Posted by The Geek

No this doesn't work on 4.0

A 4.0 version will be coming, but it won't use AME tags. Your best bet is to try and run the ame cp->tools->rebuild tools to remove AME tags from posts. Then uninstall.

Thanks for the feed back I will remember to do that when I do the actual live upgrade.
I been doing test upgrades. Its nice to know this for the real deal.

Thanks again look forward for the 4.0 version.