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

[MikesSite]

Hello. Great hack, thank you for it. I've been having some issue lately though. Most videos are being created as links, rather then embedding. To fix the issue I edit the post, highlight the video url, and remove the link. Hoping to get this resolved.

Thanks.

[Rafa-el]

Yeah, but if you have a lot of users posting videos daily? That is not a good option if this is the case.

Any idea on how to perform this fix?

Thanks for help.

[shri]

FYI - Youtube has stopped working today.

[Yellow Slider]

how do I set individual width \ height for megavideo's (or anyother video site) embed code? I see forums that has different size for movies from megavideo, here is a link for a topic that has 3 megavideo's embed codes in it, all of them are in different size.
http://www.dacho.co.il/showthread.ph...%D7%9D-1-10%29

scroll all the way down and you'll see.

Thanks.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by shri

FYI - Youtube has stopped working today.

Uncheck validation.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Yellow Slider

how do I set individual width \ height for megavideo's (or anyother video site) embed code? I see forums that has different size for movies from megavideo, here is a link for a topic that has 3 megavideo's embed codes in it, all of them are in different size.
http://www.dacho.co.il/showthread.ph...%D7%9D-1-10%29

scroll all the way down and you'll see.

Thanks.

Sizing is controlled globally in the AME CP.

[Yellow Slider]

I'm getting a DB error when posting more then 5 megaupload links.

the thread is created with the urls as links, but I get a db error when creating it (when entering the forum I can see my thread although I got the error - but with regular links)

Database error in vBulletin 3.8.4:

Invalid SQL:
UPDATE post SET pagetext ='[ame=\"http://www.megavideo.com/?v=qohi4af5\"]MEGAVIDEO - I\'m watching it@@AMEPARAM@@value%3D%22http%3A%2F%....megavideo.com/?v=qohi4af5\"]MEGAVIDEO - I\'m watching it@@AMEPARAM@@value%3D%22http%3A%2F%....megavideo.com/?v=qohi4af5\"]MEGAVIDEO - I\'m watching it@@AMEPARAM@@value%3D%22http%3A%2F%....megavideo.com/?v=qohi4af5\"]MEGAVIDEO - I\'m watching it@@AMEPARAM@@value%3D%22http%3A%2F%....megavideo.com/?v=qohi4af5\"]MEGAVIDEO - I\'m watching it@@AMEPARAM@@value%3D%22http%3A%2F%....megavideo.com/?v=qohi4af5\"]MEGAVIDEO - I\'m watching it@@AMEPARAM@@value%3D%22http%3A%2F%....megavideo.com/?v=qohi4af5\"]MEGAVIDEO - I\'m watching it@@AMEPARAM@@value%3D%22http%3A%2F%....megavideo.com/?v=qohi4af5\"]MEGAVIDEO - I\'m watching it@@AMEPARAM@@value%3D%22http%3A%2F%....megavideo.com/?v=qohi4af5\"]MEGAVIDEO - I\'m watching it@@AMEPARAM@@value%3D%22http%3A%2F%...egavide o.com%2Fv%2Fqohi4af567fc8340de3afb3245338690fb5daf09@@A MEPARAM@@qohi4af567fc8340de3afb3245338690fb5daf09[/ame]', ame_flag=1 WHERE postid=5577239;

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away
Error Number : 2006
Request Date : Thursday, April 1st 2010 @ 08:33:40 PM
Error Date : Thursday, April 1st 2010 @ 08:33:58 PM
Script : http://www.iatraf.co.il/newthread.ph...stthread&f=347
Referrer : http://www.iatraf.co.il/newthread.ph...ewthread&f=347
IP Address : 79.181.20.54
Username : אור
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

[Digital Jedi]

That's not an AME error, but an issue with your database:

MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away

When that goes away, action you would have taken would have put up a similar message.

[Rafa-el]

And what about this issue? https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1257

Can you help me?

Thanks.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Rafa-el

And what about this issue? https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....postcount=1257

Can you help me?

Thanks.

As I said, I don't know what to do in this case. Uninstall one or the other and start over again from scratch is the only thing I can suggest.