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

[Digital Jedi]

Geek, is this something going on on AME's part or just a website quirk? For some reason this particular URL string puts this error messages as the title: http://www.cogonline.net/forums/show...945#post372945

[way2xtreme]

Originally Posted by The Geek

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

There is only ONE parameter in the flash url for embedding I have, so....

Would the new AME 3.0 work with the current Media Definitions I have? (with customized display sizes)

Is there a way to "turn off" vB4 video feature so I can stick with AME which has been working well for me?

Thanks again....

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Geek, is this something going on on AME's part or just a website quirk? For some reason this particular URL string puts this error messages as the title: http://www.cogonline.net/forums/show...945#post372945

Can you export the definition and give me an example url?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by way2xtreme

There is only ONE parameter in the flash url for embedding I have, so....

Would the new AME 3.0 work with the current Media Definitions I have? (with customized display sizes)

Is there a way to "turn off" vB4 video feature so I can stick with AME which has been working well for me?

Thanks again....

If there is only 1 parameter than AME3 should work fine but no way to know until its looked at. AFAIK you cannot turn off the video bbcode, nor would I suggest to the new vB code is somewhat limiting, but thats not really bad. Its more tightly written and has a tighter scope. It doesn't lend itself to large amounts of definitions as easily, but its also only the first iteration of the system.

Your old definitions will not work in AME3 because they won't work in vb4. The good news is that its pretty easy to convert them and you should be able to convert the ones you need in no time flat. There will be the odd ones that wont convert because they need multiple parameters, but that is the exception rather than the rule.

HTHs

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Can you export the definition and give me an example url?

Sure thing:
http://crackle.com/c/Married_with_Ch...arried/2317474
http://crackle.com/c/Diffrent_Stroke..._Date/2181973/
http://crackle.com/c/The_Big_Guy_and...ode_5/2478743/
http://crackle.com/c/He_Man_Minisode...Quest/2371682/
http://crackle.com/c/VIP/VIP_-_Seaso...ode_8/2463649/
http://crackle.com/c/SI_Swimsuit_Min...exico/2446781/

[The Geek]

DJ - none of those are valid URLs? Every one I click on takes me to an unavailible page

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by The Geek

DJ - none of those are valid URLs? Every one I click on takes me to an unavailible page

Really? I don't know what to tell ya. They're working fine when I click on them.

[Digital Jedi]

Maybe try them unparsed?

http://crackle.com/c/Married_with_Children/Married_with_Children_Just_Married/2317474
http://crackle.com/c/Diffrent_Strokes_Minisode/Diffrent_Strokes_Double_Date/2181973/
http://crackle.com/c/The_Big_Guy_and_Rusty_the_Boy_Robot/Episode_5/2478743/
http://crackle.com/c/He_Man_Minisode/He-Man_Teelas_Quest/2371682/
http://crackle.com/c/VIP/VIP_-_Season_3_Episode_8/2463649/
http://crackle.com/c/SI_Swimsuit_Minisode/Yamila_Diaz-Rahi_Bridget_Hall_-_Mexico/2446781/

[The Geek]

redirects me to http://crackle.com/c/Unavailable

You sure this isn't a site where you have to be logged in? If so, AME won't be able to extract any info from there.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by The Geek

redirects me to http://crackle.com/c/Unavailable

You sure this isn't a site where you have to be logged in? If so, AME won't be able to extract any info from there.

Nope, I'm not logged in. I don't know why it's doing that. I'm getting the videos to embed just fine. The only odd thing is the title becomes that error message. Maybe they're related somehow. Hrm...