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

[General Ray]

<font face="courier new">This thing is amazing! I don't know how I didn't come across it earlier.
Thanks a lot man!</font>

[Itchy Nips]

hey, after upgrading to 2.5.6 all YouTube videos are not displaying right. The video will display twice and in between the 2 videos is some HTML code.

Doesnt matter which youtube video I try, they all do the same thing. I'm going to test some of the other sites to see if its more than just youtube

I've re-uploaded all the files and re-imported the xml file, too....same problem.

ideas?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Itchy Nips

hey, after upgrading to 2.5.6 all YouTube videos are not displaying right. The video will display twice and in between the 2 videos is some HTML code.

Doesnt matter which youtube video I try, they all do the same thing. I'm going to test some of the other sites to see if its more than just youtube

I've re-uploaded all the files and re-imported the xml file, too....same problem.

ideas?

2 YouTube videos means you have two YouTube definitions. When you upgrade AME, the default definitions are reinstated, YouTube and Amazon, which are different from the YouTube and Amazon definitions that come with my add-on, which I assume you have imported.

[Itchy Nips]

aha! i didnt see those 2 extra def's. thanks for that!

[dcputernut]

Originally Posted by The Geek

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.

Hi, I am having the same issue. it's a new forum, but on a server with other forums (and AME works great on those)

I have checked the setting in AMECD>settings and in the youtube settings....but when we post a youtube video it pull the "YouTube- Broadcast Yourself. " with an icon next to it that indicates "external embedding not available" on all the youtube links

I tried deleting all the definations and re-adding them, I am using DJ's Master XML (Delta) that didn't work either. Help

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by dcputernut

Hi, I am having the same issue. it's a new forum, but on a server with other forums (and AME works great on those)

I have checked the setting in AMECD>settings and in the youtube settings....but when we post a youtube video it pull the "YouTube- Broadcast Yourself. " with an icon next to it that indicates "external embedding not available" on all the youtube links

I tried deleting all the definations and re-adding them, I am using DJ's Master XML (Delta) that didn't work either. Help

You will only get the external embedding not availible message if the definition has a value for the 'validation' setting and the page doesn't validate. 2.5.6 should have removed your validation from your youtube setting, however if you are using the file cache, you will need to rebuild. I am not sure if DJ's youtube stuff uses validation.

So... follow these steps:
1- Make sure you are on 2.5.6
2- Edit your youtube definition to make sure the 'validation' setting is empty
3- Save the definition anyway (that will rebuild your cache)
4- Edit and save one of the posts you were having problems with

That should sort it.

Regarding the page name not appearing, that indicates that your server isn't able to make remote calls or that the settings are disabled. Check with your host,

HTHs

[dcputernut]

Originally Posted by The Geek

You will only get the external embedding not availible message if the definition has a value for the 'validation' setting and the page doesn't validate. 2.5.6 should have removed your validation from your youtube setting, however if you are using the file cache, you will need to rebuild. I am not sure if DJ's youtube stuff uses validation.

So... follow these steps:
1- Make sure you are on 2.5.6
2- Edit your youtube definition to make sure the 'validation' setting is empty
3- Save the definition anyway (that will rebuild your cache)
4- Edit and save one of the posts you were having problems with

That should sort it.

Regarding the page name not appearing, that indicates that your server isn't able to make remote calls or that the settings are disabled. Check with your host,

HTHs

Thanks a bunch for the quick reply!!!

it was this one..
2- Edit your youtube definition to make sure the 'validation' setting is empty

mine wasn't empty....now it is..and all is well!!! Thanks Again!

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by The Geek

You will only get the external embedding not availible message if the definition has a value for the 'validation' setting and the page doesn't validate. 2.5.6 should have removed your validation from your youtube setting, however if you are using the file cache, you will need to rebuild. I am not sure if DJ's youtube stuff uses validation.

I honestly don't remember adding it, but I've been wrangling with my YouTube definitions for so long trying to get the HD to work in a practical way, I may have forgotten.

[InTeNsE-HuMoR]

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.

Do you have a rough ETA of AME for version 4.0? (Not wanting to rush you).

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by InTeNsE-HuMoR

Do you have a rough ETA of AME for version 4.0? (Not wanting to rush you).

Its pretty much done however a bug was introduced into vb4 after Beta 5 that stops the whole system dead in its tracks. I believe it is sorted for next release though. Once I can verify that, I should have AME3 up in about 24 hours.