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]

Originally Posted by GoTTi

jedi can you help me with my issue please....all my videos in the threads arent showing, but when i click edit, the video link shows...but not in the thread.

What was the trouble you had with your site to begin with? You said something about your host. Did you try the basic troubleshooting methods, like resyncing your file cache and making sure your amecache folder is still 777?

[barbe]

Hi folks,

I have run a test on my forum to convert URLs!

Would it be a problem, that somethings linke this is the result?

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyD3H4cnwvA"]Link[/ame]

ANSWEAR: It is not a problem at all! The script works perfect with this!

-Sebastian

[Digital Jedi]

That is what the conversion is supposed to do. Convert video URLs to use the AME tags.

[GoTTi]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

What was the trouble you had with your site to begin with? You said something about your host. Did you try the basic troubleshooting methods, like resyncing your file cache and making sure your amecache folder is still 777?

i just resynched the file cache, and i checked the file permission...moved a new server, and it was 755 so i put it to 777 then resynce. then there is 2 new files in that folder amecache, but no videos showing up in threads still... ;(

[GoTTi]

does this work with twitvid?

[Digital Jedi]

And when you moved servers, you made sure the path to the new amecache folder was still set right, correct? And everything else is correct, AME is active and extraction is turned on and all that jazz. Maybe you just need to reinstall AME as if you were doing an upgrade.

As for twitvid, I'd have to look at it. You can make a request at the link in my Add On thread.

[kronnos]

When upgrading to latest version and after importing the product, i get the following screen for a LONG time. Did it properly import or did I have to wait longer for a complete message?

.........
Importing Product, Please Wait...

[:]
Adding index to post table. Please standy by.... this bit can take a few...
Adding index to Blog and Social Groups (if needed). This could take a sec... hang on!
Adding index to Visitor Messages (if needed). This could take a sec... hang on!
....................

No Done/Complete or Next message after that....

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by kronnos

When upgrading to latest version and after importing the product, i get the following screen for a LONG time. Did it properly import or did I have to wait longer for a complete message?

.........
Importing Product, Please Wait...

[:]
Adding index to post table. Please standy by.... this bit can take a few...
Adding index to Blog and Social Groups (if needed). This could take a sec... hang on!
Adding index to Visitor Messages (if needed). This could take a sec... hang on!
....................

No Done/Complete or Next message after that....

It can take a while in some cases, but it should stop and refresh eventually.

[kronnos]

Hmm.. I guess ill have to try it again. What could have happened if I didn't wait for it to refresh and just went to another page?

[naz7]

Nice mod! installed!