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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[contramontanum]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

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.

That would be the url from the browser address bar.

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

What code do you have in your AME Definition in your Validation box? Consider removing it and trying again.

Where would I find this validation box? I go to to CP > AME CP > Display Definitions, and see no such options.

In case I wanted to try your unofficial definitions, should I just delete all the original definitions and import your your .xml File?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by contramontanum

That would be the url from the browser address bar.

Where would I find this validation box? I go to to CP > AME CP > Display Definitions, and see no such options.

In case I wanted to try your unofficial definitions, should I just delete all the original definitions and import your your .xml File?

In AME definitions, viewing the definition of the youtube code, the last box on the screen should say "Validation." Are you using AME 2.5 for vBulletin 3.8?

No you wouldn't delete all the definitions, just import mine, there is no existing youtube "short" URL so it won't replace an old one, just add the new one.

[contramontanum]

I'm using AME 2.5.6 for 3.8. There is no Validation box. The available options are Display Order, Active, Contain, Extract Info and Delete.

I also imported DJ's AME (Auto Media Embedding) XML Media Definitions for AME 2.5 (Delta) via the AME CP.

[contramontanum]

I think I may have found the problem. There was a duplicate YouTube def. Once disabled it seems to embed as it should. Thanks for your help!

[BirdOPrey5]

That's great. But FYI this was the screen I was talking about- you should have it.

[contramontanum]

Ah, that explains it. I was looking in the wrong place. Thanks again!

[leftie]

Uninstalled. Doesn't work for me, i just get the url text.

[Eryeal]

Originally Posted by leftie

Uninstalled. Doesn't work for me, i just get the url text.

Same here.

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by leftie

Uninstalled. Doesn't work for me, i just get the url text.

Originally Posted by Eryeal

Same here.

Did you guys install the definitions file by digital jedi? There are really 2 parts to this mod coded by 2 different people.

This thread is the mod itself which is obviously necessary...

And then there are the Definitions - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=195884 - maintained by Digital Jedi without which this is pretty much useless unless you can write your own definitions.

Further complicating things youtube recently changed their "Share" URL... so if you paste in a video with a link to youtu.be instead of youtube.com it also will not work without another a new definition for youtube.

[jca2112]

Originally Posted by jca2112

Thanks for getting back to me about this. This problem appears in all YouTube titles and it looks like YouTube made a change to their video title format -- a few other sites have mentioned this same issue, including:

http://www.vbseo.com/f77/automatic-l...hem-now-44713/

Wonder if there is a way to fix this? Anyone know what the character entities translate to that YouTube is putting in their titles?

‪ and ‬‎ are what is being added to the beginning and end of every YouTube video title.

It looks like this same character entity problem in YouTube titles has returned -- I assume it was a change on YouTube's end because it went away on it's own last time. Does anyone know anything about this?