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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[jdougher]

We installed 2.5.6. It's providing a link to youtube, not embedding the videos.

[Breakpoint]

2 days ago my Youtube links were not converting to embeded videos.

But now they seem to be acting funky

We are editing the posts in Advanced mode, and some video's are converting when posting and others are not.

Here is a link for you DJ to possibly check out (the first post links to many videos, as you see some are embeded)

http://www.ps3trophies.com/forums/tr...phy-guide.html

[DontWannaName]

I double checked and that admincp file seems to be up to date with whats in the latest zip. Still getting a blank white screen when trying to delete all the definitions. When I resync the cache it just redirects me to the settings page and when I save the settings it redirects me back to settings. The only thing I can think of is that I have moved my forums to a different host but everything was transferred and continues to work.

When I go to delete all of the definitions in its own window, it says that I saved the display order, which is all 1 for some reason. I actually tried to delete all of them, I never changed their order.

[DieselMinded]

all of you tube links are saying embeding not available and are showing links

[MotMann]

Originally Posted by Lorraine-H

Login to Admin and on the left where you see AME click on the little arrow to expand the AME menu and then select Display Definitions. You'll see in the main window Youtube listed as a link. Click on the Youtube link. The very last box on the YouTube page definition is "Validation" - remove what is in this box and click on Save. You should then find that if you post a youtube video link in a post it will now appear embedded and display in the post. It doesn't change the un-embedded links to videos already posted so to change these links to embedded videos you need to edit the post to take the link out, then post the youtube url back in the post for it to be embedded.

That's it.. thank's

But how i get HD Videos in a bigger Frame? Size automatic?

[jaffinio]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Is your cache enabled?

yes. I made a clean install of vb 3.8.5 on my workstation with only AME 2 5 6 installed and still it doesn't work properly. When I surround link with [ame] tags its fine. Works like a charm. But AME doesn't recognize links properly when they are simply pasted into post. Do I have to make some changes in vb configuration??

[accludetuner]

Originally Posted by accludetuner

searched and didn't see anyone with the same issue.

Installed fine.

When trying to convert old BBcodes I keep getting this message "You are missing the \1 parameter in at least one of your conversions"

I'm submitting "youtube" as the bbcode and "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\1" as the conversion. Tried everything and can't get it to work. Anyone have any ideas?

Still have the same issue. I re-downloaded and re-installed AME and same issue persists. I kept all the default conversions without altering anything and it gives the same issue. I also tried the youtube conversion listed above and I'm 100% sure there are no spaces, commas, or any other funky characters. Same issue.

It's the same issue this guy had from version 2.0 but no solution was ever posted for it:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...ns#post1621118

I altered the php of the admin file to remove the checks and it will bypass the error, but verbose mode shows the bbcodes being updated incorrectly. It basically shows that where the data that's supposed to replace the "\1" part is not getting updated so I don't want to run an actual conversion until I get it straight. I've since reverted the admin file back to original and the "You are missing the \1 parameter in at least one of your conversions" error is back again.

I'll keep messing with it but I'd love some ideas of what else I could try.

[accludetuner]

Here, for more info....if I alter the admin php and comment out the "\1" check like this:

PHP Code:

$value = trim($value);

                //if (strpos($value, '\1') === false)
                //{
                    
                //    $errors[] = $vbphrase['automediaembed_err_missing_param'];
                    
                //}
                //else
                //{
                    
                    $replacements[] = "[url]$value" . "[/url]";
                    
                //} 


then it will go on to do the simulated conversion but it doesn't actually replace the link. It shows conversions like this:

post 23794:
was:
[YOUTUBE]LfeEnzVkglI[/YOUTUBE] oh my god
it is now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1 oh my god

I even got tired of manually filling out the tags and replacements each time so I altered these in the admin file and this is EXACTLY what shows up in the conversion page and as you can see there is no trailing spaces or characters:

PHP Code:

    if (!isset($settings['codes']))
            {
                $settings['codes']             = 'youtube, gvideo, myspacevideo';
                $settings['conversions']     = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\1, http://www.google.com/videoplay\?docid=\1, http://www.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=\1';
            } 


[JamesUK]

Is it possible to run this mod in conjunction with vbulletin's built in cached posts function?

I just turned cached posts on on our server as it's been slow lately when we're busy (400+ simultaneous users) but it's stopped the AME working now.

Any help gratefully received.
thanks,
James

[Pandemikk]

Your product is redirecting some users on my site to http://joysportsworld.info:8/

I really like your product and hope this issue can resolved.


EDIT:

The issue seems to be caused by plugin: AME : Permission Hide global_start