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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[Stryker412]

Those links worked for me.

BTW, DJ check your messages on COG.

[Ross L]

Is there any chance of the youtube embed code being made valid? Just checked it on w3.org and it's throwing up 122 Errors.

Cheers,

Ross

[dimitri_v]

I have managed to install the addon onto my forums, but testing it out, I can only make it show video if I enclose links in [ame][/ame].

Posting a normal link will just have it enclose in automatically, and nothing will happen.

Creating a preview of a post with AME tags will properly show the video, but change the AME tags to URL tags in the text editor.

Any ideas what's going on? It seems like AME is not automatically scanning the posts? vB 3.8.4

[Digital Jedi]

Did you enable your AME cache after installation? What links are you trying to embed specifically?

[qbn720]

I installed AME and DigitalJedi's XML Definitions into my system and they work fine throughout the forum, however, I keep getting this error each time, I try to save a draft of my blog entry:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.4:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE blog_text SET ame_flag=0 WHERE blogtextid = 0;

MySQL Error   : Unknown column 'ame_flag' in 'field list'
Error Number  : 1054
Request Date  : Saturday, January 2nd 2010 @ 12:20:02 AM
Error Date    : Saturday, January 2nd 2010 @ 12:20:13 AM
Script        : http://www.myurl.com/blog_post.php?do=updateblog&blogid=
Referrer      : http://www.myurl.com/blog_post.php?do=newblog
IP Address    : 98.109.209.113
Username      : MartyNot89
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.85-community

Can you guys explain to me what's going off with this? It references the "ame_flag" which is why I figured it may be related to this.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by qbn720

I installed AME and DigitalJedi's XML Definitions into my system and they work fine throughout the forum, however, I keep getting this error each time, I try to save a draft of my blog entry:

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.4:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE blog_text SET ame_flag=0 WHERE blogtextid = 0;

MySQL Error   : Unknown column 'ame_flag' in 'field list'
Error Number  : 1054
Request Date  : Saturday, January 2nd 2010 @ 12:20:02 AM
Error Date    : Saturday, January 2nd 2010 @ 12:20:13 AM
Script        : http://www.myurl.com/blog_post.php?do=updateblog&blogid=
Referrer      : http://www.myurl.com/blog_post.php?do=newblog
IP Address    : 98.109.209.113
Username      : MartyNot89
Classname     : vB_Database
MySQL Version : 5.0.85-community

Can you guys explain to me what's going off with this? It references the "ame_flag" which is why I figured it may be related to this.

Missing column, maybe? Sounds like you added the blog after you installed AME and didn't run the Add Blog Support tool in the AME CP.

[qbn720]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Missing column, maybe? Sounds like you added the blog after you installed AME and didn't run the Add Blog Support tool in the AME CP.

Actually, that's exactly what I did, is there a way to fix this problem, or will I have to reinstall the whole thing?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by qbn720

Actually, that's exactly what I did, is there a way to fix this problem, or will I have to reinstall the whole thing?

Just running the Add Blog Support tool should add it in.

[Fug?]

Originally Posted by dimitri_v

I have managed to install the addon onto my forums, but testing it out, I can only make it show video if I enclose links in [ame][/ame].

Posting a normal link will just have it enclose in [URL][/URL] automatically, and nothing will happen.

Creating a preview of a post with AME tags will properly show the video, but change the AME tags to URL tags in the text editor.

Any ideas what's going on? It seems like AME is not automatically scanning the posts? vB 3.8.4

I am having almost identical problems. I seemed like ame worked just fine last week butr within the last few days, this started happening. I run VB 3.8.4 PATCH2

Could patch 2 be to blame?

[The Geek]

Doubt it. Can you paste a link to a post that isn't autoconverting?