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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[legatw]

on forum add a lot of youtube videos is to use this mod, or make better use of bbсode?

[BirdOPrey5]

I couldn't imagine there would be much of a difference between this mod and a bb code- both are using search and replace algorithms.

[legatw]

BirdOPrey5, thanks

[thompson]

does this work with 4.08 ?

[BirdOPrey5]

No, there was a 4.0 version released by someone else but I think I read it stopped working several 4.0.x versions back.

[thompson]

thanks. this is not good for me. :-(

[Black Tiger]

Can you help me too please?

I've got a problem with youtube.
I suddenly only see an icon with the link behind it, but film won't embed.

When I try to embed this link for example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGtk1dHLSKM

It will look like:
[icon here] YouTube - Johnny Winter playing Red House in 1991

When I put my mouse over it, it says:
External Embedding not Available.

How can I fix this? I already tried reinstalling the product and also deleting all definitions and importing new ones.
And the Validation Regex box is empty!
When I disable extraction globally and edit/save a post, the video's become embedded double with some strange text between them. When enabling extracting globally, only icons with links remain. This goes for ALL youtube video's.

I'm using VBulletin 3.8.5. and Ame 2.5.

This question is also in the DJ's AME definitions thread, but I think it should be here in this thread, correct?

[MjrNuT]

My own question regarding self hosted video (i.e., wmv) on what folks may be doing here in conjunction with AME.

Currently, I have a /videos directory for which I upload such files. Then use the AME internal linking to present. Recommendations on implementing access to non-admins? Just create an FTP account for that folder only? Is there a hack (e.g., downloadsII) that could be mated in combination for a non-admin (general ugroup)?

Thanks for any ideas, recommendations, and direction!

[IRANCITY]

sry when it come for vb 4.0.8 ?

[y2krazy]

Is there a way to "cutoff" the container title text after, let's say 50 characters?

If it is longer than 60 characters on my style, it goes to a 2nd line and due to my images used, they are not multiple line friendly. Please let me know if there's a way to "cutoff" text and add something like "..." to the end to show there is more to the title. Thanks!

EDIT: Examples attached. One with a "normal" title. One with a "2-line" title.