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

[lowlight]

Shit.

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.0:

Invalid SQL:

		SELECT  post.pagetext AS preview,
			thread.threadid, thread.title AS threadtitle, thread.forumid, pollid, open, postusername, postuserid, thread.iconid AS threadiconid,
			thread.dateline, notes, thread.visible, sticky, votetotal, thread.attach, thread.lastpost, thread.lastposter, thread.lastpostid, thread.replycount, IF(thread.views<=thread.replycount, thread.replycount+1, thread.views) AS views,
			thread.prefixid, thread.taglist, hiddencount, deletedcount
			
			, deletionlog.userid AS del_userid, deletionlog.username AS del_username, deletionlog.reason AS del_reason
			
			, threadredirect.expires
			
		FROM thread AS thread
			LEFT JOIN deletionlog AS deletionlog ON(thread.threadid = deletionlog.primaryid AND deletionlog.type = 'thread')
			
			
			LEFT JOIN post AS post ON(post.postid = thread.firstpostid)
			
			LEFT JOIN threadredirect AS threadredirect ON(thread.open = 10 AND thread.threadid = threadredirect.threadid)
			
		WHERE thread.threadid IN (0,561526,561494,561489,561003,561397,559250,515169,561119,561538,561570,561304,561585,561569,561537,558188,558844,454901,252422,561428,561353,561307,404513,561440,561346,560992,561305,540074,561373,560259,561361,561272,520470,544968,560070,559741,560750,560187,560238,561162,559411,342583,490038) 
		ORDER BY sticky DESC, lastpost DESC;

MySQL Error   : Can't open file: 'post.MYI' (errno: 144)
Error Number  : 1016
Referrer      : 
MySQL Version : 4.1.20

[lowlight]

I ran a database table repair from the VB admin, it seems to be working now.

Anyway to check to make sure?

[tintructo]

@lowlight

if you can actually browse your topics, the repair worked fine. your table got messed up before.

@The Geek

any news on the ksort problem with the XML with all the sites ?

[lowlight]

The table is totally messed up. Trying to repair it now with myisamchk

[lowlight]

Wow, many tables are messed up. Our database is huge, this is going to take hours.

What does the plugin attempt to do when you install it? Whatever it was, it was pretty serious.

[thunderclap82]

Out of curiosity, what is the legality of embedding video clips from sites such as Hulu or The WB (CW?)?

[Digital Jedi]

Well, I can't speak to the CW, but if there was a legal problem with embedding videos from Hulu, then I doubt they'd put that Embed link beside every video that takes you to a block that says Copy this code to your website or blog which then gives you explicit directions on how to adjust the start and end time to your liking.

[thunderclap82]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Well, I can't speak to the CW, but if there was a legal problem with embedding videos from Hulu, then I doubt they'd put that Embed link beside every video that takes you to a block that says Copy this code to your website or blog which then gives you explicit directions on how to adjust the start and end time to your liking.

Ah. I hadn't looked that closely at Hulu yet.

One other question: how does one create definition for a site you'd like to embed videos from?

[TCB]

hi Geek! Great to see you back (y)

Thanks for this fantastic mod. How's gars and gal going currently?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by thunderclap82

Ah. I hadn't looked that closely at Hulu yet.

One other question: how does one create definition for a site you'd like to embed videos from?

You can find out here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....05&postcount=5