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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[Alan_SP]

Excellent.

But, I read you said that AME tags must be removed before upgrade. I understood (I may be wrong) that AME puts it's tags in moment of posting, and after that, it's in the post, you don't need to remove AME tags. So, old tags in my opinion should work fine, just new ones need to be put in place.

Well, should we remove AME tags before upgrade? And recreate after?

[jkcerda]

metacafe is not flying for some reason

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Alan_SP

Excellent.

But, I read you said that AME tags must be removed before upgrade. I understood (I may be wrong) that AME puts it's tags in moment of posting, and after that, it's in the post, you don't need to remove AME tags. So, old tags in my opinion should work fine, just new ones need to be put in place.

Well, should we remove AME tags before upgrade? And recreate after?

Because in vb4, AME uses vbs new [video] tag, the old [ame] tags will become redundant. Because of this and many internal changes, the upgrade path will actually look like:

1- uninstall AME2.x but leave the [ame] tags intact
2- install AME3
3- Run conversion tool which will convert ame tags into video tags.

If a video definition doesn't exist for the [ame] tag you are converting, it will be turned into a link.

Just like previous versions of AME, AME3 allows you to add, edit, delete, export and import definitions however pre AME3 definitions will not be compatible because of the way AME integrates with vB's video processor.

Originally Posted by jkcerda

metacafe is not flying for some reason

By default, AME doesn't come with metacafe, you need to let the author of the definition know.

[MikeF]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Because in vb4, AME uses vbs new [video] tag, the old [ame] tags will become redundant. Because of this and many internal changes, the upgrade path will actually look like:

1- uninstall AME2.x but leave the [ame] tags intact
2- install AME3
3- Run conversion tool which will convert ame tags into video tags.

If a video definition doesn't exist for the [ame] tag you are converting, it will be turned into a link.

Just like previous versions of AME, AME3 allows you to add, edit, delete, export and import definitions however pre AME3 definitions will not be compatible because of the way AME integrates with vB's video processor.



By default, AME doesn't come with metacafe, you need to let the author of the definition know.

Any update on the status? Not to rush you but I even tried to use BBcode to convert the AME links to [video], but no luck. We need AME for v4!!

[way2xtreme]

Hi there,
I have been using AME on mysite to auto embed special external flash files with prameters to each file (NOT flash videos). Is there a way for those to continue working in vb4?
Many, many thanks for the great plug in and I wish you a great holiday season.
W

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by MikeF

Any update on the status? Not to rush you but I even tried to use BBcode to convert the AME links to [video], but no luck. We need AME for v4!!

As I said about 4 posts up... vb4 introed a bug in beta 5 that hasnt been fixed yet. This bug is why AME isn't out yet. AME3 should be out within a day after next vb4 release (pending bug fix and no new bugs that affect the system)

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by way2xtreme

Hi there,
I have been using AME on mysite to auto embed special external flash files with prameters to each file (NOT flash videos). Is there a way for those to continue working in vb4?
Many, many thanks for the great plug in and I wish you a great holiday season.
W

Not with AME3 as it stands. Reason being that its actually vB that is handling the parameters now and it only allows for 1 parameter. I believe that someone mentioned that an earlier version of AME works so you can check that out. I am also looking at some 'other' applications for ame so Ill keep this in mind

Also, please click install if you have installed

Thanks

[The Geek]

FYI: AME3 beta released here -> https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=230707

Note the NOTE for vB4 RC4 users.

[greenflag]

when i converted 12/9 release and ran ame - it broke ALL my amazon links. thumbnail still show but links all show as:

http://www.amazon.com/exe/c/obidos/

(no product or affiliate code)

and see attached screenshot of post errors. can u help?

i had to remove all ame tags until i can fix this!

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by greenflag

when i converted 12/9 release and ran ame - it broke ALL my amazon links. thumbnail still show but links all show as:

http://www.amazon.com/exe/c/obidos/

(no product or affiliate code)

and see attached screenshot of post errors. can u help?

i had to remove all ame tags until i can fix this!

When you upgrade AME, it reinstalls the two default definitions. One of them is Amazon, which doesn't include the affiliate link or thumbnail. That's why you were getting a thumbnail and regular link overlapping each other, because both the default and the one in my set of definitions are active. You need to delete the other definition.