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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[Digital Jedi]

Okay, the first major thing I'm running into is, the non-embeddable videos are indeed converting to links, but the link doesn't go a valid URL. It seems to be using the title instead of the URL.

Example
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZcG0...eature=related
Converts: YouTube - Boyz II Men - End Of The Road

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsd0pKGr2Os
Converts: YouTube - The Jets - The Same Love


Also, the source code in the default YouTube definition is no longer used by YouTube, so not all videos will load in that case.

[The Geek]

Hmmm. I made a couple tweaks to includes/ame_bbcode.php and repackaged. Replace that file and all should be tickity boo

[Digital Jedi]

That did the trick. Want to take odds on which thread will get the most people asking why the video didn't convert and is showing a little icon?

I do have one question, real quick. How does the validation tool know to look in the Embed Code box for a pattern? I'm curious how this will work for a site that keeps the embed code stored differently, or that put their embed code inside the flash player.

[The Geek]

All it is doing is looking for a match to that pattern in the destinations source code. I suppose if the embed code is being shown in a flash player, you would still be able to view it from the page source as a parameter for the object (unless of course the flash player is fetching it at run time). In that case, I don't really have a suggestion

[Gcox]

I am running vBulletin version 3.6.8. I have not been able to get the embedded youtube to work in either version AME 2.0.2 or 2.5.3.

With AME 2.0.2 - it will display the normal youtube controls and video image, but when I click the play button it blanks out the image except for circle in the middle screen which just spins forever. So I decided to upgrade to 2.5.3, and now when I post a youtube link in a message I do not see anything, not even the the link.

I have tried it with the extraction turned on and off.
I am sure it isn’t the video because I got it to play using BB code.
I do get other video file types to work using AME such as wmv.
I just don't know what to test anymore and was hoping for some suggestions.
I would go back to 2.0.2 if that would be easier to resolve.

[The Geek]

Still sounds to me like an outdated version of Flash. Drop a couple URLs of ones you are having problems with.

Remember that if the embed code is there.... AME has done its job. Everything else is down to connections, etc...

On an aside... have you tried posting the embed code from one of the problematic you tube pages into a post (you'll need to be able to post in HTML)?

Try this:
1- Temporarily give yourself ability to post HTML
2- Make a thread with the link to a problematic youtube page and save it (let ame do its thang). Refresh that page, then view the page source.
3- disable ame
4- reply to the post above by pasting in the embed html from the problematic youtube page. Refresh and view source.

Both sources for the youtube should be damn near identical and should perform the same.

[RedDevil]

Going to upgrade to new version very nice add on this.


I have one question, I run a radio channel via a shoutcast server, streamed mp3, is it possible to have a definition to play these, i would have a bash but my codings way below this.

Basically the stream would be www.yourshoutcastaddy.comort/listen.pls

http://217.114.215.203:8018/listen.pls this is my stream address as an example.

Most use winamp maybe a winamp *.pls xml


thanks for your great work makes the forum awesome

[Digital Jedi]

Geek, I have one more question for you and then I'll leave you alone for a couple of hours at least. AME doesn't seem to like single quotes (') in a RegEx. I always get an error, but sometimes I really need the apostrophe to make matches to get ID numbers using extraction. I've tried the ampersand commands or just escaping them, but none of that has worked so far. Is there someway around this?

[redlabour]

Can you please send out a Update-Mail at the next Time you are uploading Updates? Thank you.

[The Geek]

If they are major updates I do.

DJ, PM me an example