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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[BirdOPrey5]

Do you have VBSEO installed?

[viper357]

No, just the sitemap generator.

[BirdOPrey5]

I don't suppose you have a test site with the same issue?

[joeychgo]

IM having a problem with the shortened url definition where what happens is, it cuts off everything below the last post. The quick reply box, footer, everything.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by joeychgo

IM having a problem with the shortened url definition where what happens is, it cuts off everything below the last post. The quick reply box, footer, everything.

Which shorted url definition are you using?

[viper357]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

I don't suppose you have a test site with the same issue?

No I don't, I could have a whack at trying to set one up, probably a good idea anyway.

[Nook_Neformat]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

I don't know... here's that link on my forum:
http://www.juot.net/forums/showthrea...28#post1015228

It worked fine. But I think I see what might be the issue... The period in youtu.be I didn't 'escape' - that is it should be youtu\.be in the code. Some versions of php might require this while others don't.

I made this change and this is the updated definition. Delete the old one.

doesnt work for me(

[ITQalam]

can u tell me from this mod how can i allow embeded code in a specific section of my forum..?

[contramontanum]

When I first installed this hack everything worked perfectly. YouTube must have changed something since the, because the only way I can get anything to embed is by enclosing the ending code of the url in youtube tags, as such [YOUTUBE]5mV_HHL-h6g[/YOUTUBE].

Also the sig embedding displays at full size no matter what numbers i put in.

I have installed the latest upgrade and definitions as per instructions to the best of my knowledge, but to no avail. I have not read every single post in this thread as 100+ pages is just too much. Any suggestions as to what I might be doing wrong? Forgive me if I'm asking a stupid question.

Here's a link to an example of how it behaves.

[BirdOPrey5]

YouTube changed their "share" URLs recently and an official definition update hasn't been released yet. I believe a couple of options were posted earlier (recently) in this thread- either try an unofficial definition or copy a youtube url from the browser address bar, note a share url.

Looking at your link the first video you posted shows the YouTube video icon next to it, so it did attempt to embed but for some reason it believes that video is not allowed to be embedded. What code do you have in your AME Definition in your Validation box? Consider removing it and trying again.