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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[Super-six]

I have been told that this player can be resized and skinned for custom
appearances? Is this correct? Looking for an end result just a bit different
from the standard clunky box in the middle of the post.
Thanks :erm:

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by RedHotChili

I double checked and, no, it apparently wasn't fully CHMODed. So I manually set the permissions to 777, and now I'm not getting the error or warning message.

So this means that "User" and "Group" and "World" have Read, Write, & Execute permissions when set to 777, is this how it should be?

If so, I'm good to go, apparently. Please confirm if this is how I should have it set up.

Yes, it has to have all of those permissions to work right.

Originally Posted by Super-six

I have been told that this player can be resized and skinned for custom
appearances? Is this correct? Looking for an end result just a bit different
from the standard clunky box in the middle of the post.
Thanks :erm:

Set the Container to No for no for no box around the video, or just edit the container template with whatever code you want. Videos are sized globally, or you can set them per definition.

[RedHotChili]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Yes, it has to have all of those permissions to work right.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Set the Container to No for no for no box around the video, or just edit the container template with whatever code you want. Videos are sized globally, or you can set them per definition.

Just for grins I removed the container on my test forum to see how it looks without. The first thing I noticed is that the embedded video is no longer centered horizontally, but left justified.

Is it a simple matter to edit the template to get centered alignment without the container? I'm sure it is. I would just need to study the code to see where to make the edits.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by RedHotChili

Thanks.


Just for grins I removed the container on my test forum to see how it looks without. The first thing I noticed is that the embedded video is no longer centered horizontally, but left justified.

Is it a simple matter to edit the template to get centered alignment without the container? I'm sure it is. I would just need to study the code to see where to make the edits.

Relatively simple. What you can do is go into the template and just remove all the class names, or replace them with class names of your own and put your custom CSS in your vBulletin CSS Manager. It would probably take a little trial and error either way.

[RedHotChili]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Relatively simple. What you can do is go into the template and just remove all the class names, or replace them with class names of your own and put your custom CSS in your vBulletin CSS Manager. It would probably take a little trial and error either way.

For now what I did is I removed the thead section that contains the td class ="tcat"

I removed this:

<thead>
        <tr>
                <td class="tcat" colspan="2" style="text-align:center">
                        <a href="$ameinfo[url]" title="$ameinfo[title]" target="_blank">$ameinfo[title]</a>
                </td>
        </tr>
</thead>

And it looks good for now. I like the td class="panelsurround" look so I kept it because it has the center align properties which gives me what I was looking for in terms of centering the display. But the "tcat" for my custom style is too overpowering and it really stands out (it's a red color). I realize I lose the title="$ameinfo[title]" descriptive title, but I think I can live with that. But if I happen to decide to keep title information, I may just create a new td class with a different look.

But now I know where to do my tweaking.

Thanks again for your help, Mark, I really appreciate it.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by RedHotChili

For now what I did is I removed the thead section that contains the td class ="tcat"

I removed this:

<thead>
        <tr>
                <td class="tcat" colspan="2" style="text-align:center">
                        <a href="$ameinfo[url]" title="$ameinfo[title]" target="_blank">$ameinfo[title]</a>
                </td>
        </tr>
</thead>

And it looks good for now. I like the td class="panelsurround" look so I kept it because it has the center align properties which gives me what I was looking for in terms of centering the display. But the "tcat" for my custom style is too overpowering and it really stands out (it's a red color). I realize I lose the title="$ameinfo[title]" descriptive title, but I think I can live with that. But if I happen to decide to keep title information, I may just create a new td class with a different look.

But now I know where to do my tweaking.

Thanks again for your help, Mark, I really appreciate it.

On one forum I was troubleshooting, we replaced his class="tcat" with class="thead", which worked out better for his style. You might look into that if you decide you want a title header back.

[GoTTi]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

I offered to take a look at it your Admin CP for you if you give me temp access. I've tried everything else from this end.

ah sorry bout that i didnt see that thread on here...ive sent you a PM with info. thanks!

[superagent]

How do you get this to work with profile fields???

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by superagent

How do you get this to work with profile fields???

That's only available in an AME 3 add-on for vB 4.

[superagent]

Originally Posted by superagent

How do you get this to work with profile fields???

Oh... anyone interested in a freelance job to make it work on here?