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]

Originally Posted by gsmlover4u

not working 3.8.6
nothing to display

Did you import the definitions from my add-on first. The default ones that come with AME are outdated. What links did you use? Post them and an example of where it's not converting.

[gsmlover4u]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Did you import the definitions from my add-on first. The default ones that come with AME are outdated. What links did you use? Post them and an example of where it's not converting.

thanks sir
now i done it but no one mention in installation about your definitions

[ehd]

Is there a way to display German umlauts with Amazon thumbnails correctly?

R?sle 16684 K?sem?hle: Amazon.de: K?che & Haushalt

is shown as:

Rösle 16684 Käsemühle: Amazon.de: Küche & Haushalt

Thx for your help!

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by ehd

Is there a way to display German umlauts with Amazon thumbnails correctly?

R?sle 16684 K?sem?hle: Amazon.de: K?che & Haushalt

is shown as:

Rösle 16684 Käsemühle: Amazon.de: Küche & Haushalt

Thx for your help!

It requires editing one of the AME files. If you don't mind reading posts backwards, I had a previous interaction with someone trying to get the characters to display in Russian. Our conversation ended here, and you can use those little quote links to back track: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthrea...55#post1966255

[ehd]

Originally Posted by Nook_Neformat

to make it shure:
i need in includes/ame_bbcode.php
find

PHP Code:

$title = unhtmlspecialchars($title); 


and replace it with

PHP Code:

$title = unhtmlspecialchars(mb_convert_encoding ($title, 'ISO-8859-2', 'UTF-8' )); 


right?

Thx for the help.

I've tried this, but it has no effect...

Tried to replace ISO-8859-2 with

ISO-8859-1
and ISO-8859-15

but still getting the scrambled titles. Target language is German.

Hm...

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by ehd

Thx for the help.

I've tried this, but it has no effect...

Tried to replace ISO-8859-2 with

ISO-8859-1
and ISO-8859-15

but still getting the scrambled titles. Target language is German.

Hm...

German should be ISO 8859-16. I think you need to still re-edit the post to check to see if works, too.

[ehd]

Changed it to 16 an nothing

And I also tried it with new posts and editing old ones.

[Dave84311]

Originally Posted by gnosisprod

How do you disable videos from automatically playing? I'm embedding wmv files and I haven't found an option to disable autoplay.

Thats the issue I'm having with YouTube videos. Some users on my site are using autoplay=true on my site and it has been annoying our members.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Dave84311

Thats the issue I'm having with YouTube videos. Some users on my site are using autoplay=true on my site and it has been annoying our members.

Users can't control the auto play feature using the YouTube or any other definition. It's determined in the embed code, and even the up to date definitions in my thread don't have it set to auto play, so I don't see how they could be setting anything.

[Jennifer Marx]

HELP! I messed something up badly. I uploaded the product via the Product Manager, got the "Adding index to post table. Please standy by.... this bit can take a few..." and then nothing happened. And now my entire message board is down with a database error. I am running 3.8. Ugh, I need to undo what I did! Someone please help, anyone. I'm desperate.