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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[Crazihorse2]

Very nice, thank you so much!

[eJM]

Originally Posted by BirdOPrey5

Can someone please post a URL of an "https" youtube link you are trying to embed? I can't find any.

I think that may be a "feature" of a particular browser. I set this up for a client yesterday and he complained that his videos weren't showing. As he was explaining, he said he was using Chrome and the sites he visited were all https://. His main concern was Vimeo. I use FF, so when I clicked an https:// link he sent me in an email, I found that the page was NOT https:// in my browser.

However, I did add that s* code you provided in the regex box and it works fine. Thanks for that.

Jim

[BirdOPrey5]

Jim, I know there is an "https everywhere" extension for Chrome that tries to use https wherever possible, that might be it.

[JoshPet]

If I run the ultility to regnerate the embed codes, I do see embeded Youtube codes. If I make a new post, with a Youtube link, it doesn't show as embedded.

I've got Extract destination data set to Yes
and Disable New Items set to No.

[J4CKT]

Hi guys,

I have an issue where if a regular user posts a youtube link it will not embed and just show the link as it normally would.

But once an admin comes in and clicks edit then save on that post the video shows like it should.

Has anyone had this happen on their site?

[eJM]

Yes, I have. But a simple edit and save without actually editing the link doesn't work for me. I find that the user has posted a link to a full-screen video, which is a different URL. I have to find the You Tube page the standard video is on and copy the address that appears when you click the Share button.

Jim

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by J4CKT

Hi guys,

I have an issue where if a regular user posts a youtube link it will not embed and just show the link as it normally would.

But once an admin comes in and clicks edit then save on that post the video shows like it should.

Has anyone had this happen on their site?

It depends how the user is posting the link- if they are using a mobile app like forum runner or tapatalk this may be expected because the proper hooks are not being run when the message is submitted. The "Zoints Anonymous Posting" and "VB Network" mods cause the same problem when posts are made through them again because of no hooks being called.

[testerv]

Does this only support videos?

Does it also transform other media, like links to .jpgs and .wav?

Thanks.

[al2thero]

i like it

thank u

[BirdOPrey5]

Originally Posted by testerv

Does this only support videos?

Does it also transform other media, like links to .jpgs and .wav?

Thanks.

It will support anything you create a definition for. Videos are the most popular but anything that has embed code is usually possible.