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

nJoy

[j-bo]

Can anyone answer my dumb question please?

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by j-bo

Thanks for the reply and sorry for the next dumb question.

If I overwrite the forums folder, what happens to all the other files in that folder? I'm assuming nothing as there isn't anything to replace, but don't want to blow up the board for my mistake.

Files in the sever directory that aren't going to be replaced by new files in your upload will be unaffected.

[j-bo]

Thanks a bunch! BirdOPrey5..

I now have the AME CP and get no errors on any of the pages.

However, now it just shows the URL link and no player. I need to read a bit more to see what I'm doing wrong.

[j-bo]

I got it now. Had to disable the bb code for youtube.

Is there anything for youtube direct HD links ?

In tapatalk, it shows a link and titled "302 found". What is that and/or why is it 302 found and not the title or whatever is supposed to be there.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by j-bo

I got it now. Had to disable the bb code for youtube.

Is there anything for youtube direct HD links ?

In tapatalk, it shows a link and titled "302 found". What is that and/or why is it 302 found and not the title or whatever is supposed to be there.

A while back I stopped doing separate definitions for HD links, since it seemed more logical to let the users decide if they wanted (or could handle) HD video load times. Barring any recent changes that YouTube has made in the last few days (I don't think they changed anything, but with these guys, you never know), HD videos URLs should still embed as a regular video, with the usually option to switch as part of the default player anyway.

As for Tapatalk, I don't know, as I don't have a way of troubleshooting that app, specifically. Hopefully, since they did saw they were supporting AME embeds, they can help you in their modification thread. If it helps at all, 302 Found is supposed to be a way to manage redirects. It's possible Tapatalk doesn't yet support videos that link to redirects, such as YouTube's short (youtu.be) links. Though I wouldn't think that should be a problem, you never know.

[Digital Jedi]

This is all assuming you're using the most up-to-date definitions in my Add-On thread, of course.

[j-bo]

Thanks again Digital Jedi.

[K4GAP]

Can this mod be used if I am running the "8WayRun.Com - Media Library"?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by GaryT

Can this mod be used if I am running the "8WayRun.Com - Media Library"?

I would presume so, since they don't really have anything to do with each other on a functional level. Only thing is, Media Library is for 4.x, and this version of AME will not successfully run on a 4.x forum

[DaveMN]

I installed this today everything went fine files uploaded xml uploaded, But when I goto start a new thread all I get is a blank page. If I turn it off everything works fine.
Any ideas?
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