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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[creativepart]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

The definitions that come with AME are outdated. You can pick up an updated one in my thread, linked in the first post as one of the Add-Ons.

I'm not sure what "thread" you are referring to. Could you please point me to the post you are speaking of?

I'm only asking because I spent a good while looking into your mods/threads and the first posts of same looking for what might be a link to "one of the add-ons" and just didn't find anything that seemed to be what you are describing.

I sure appreciate it.

Thanks

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by creativepart

I'm not sure what "thread" you are referring to. Could you please point me to the post you are speaking of?

I'm only asking because I spent a good while looking into your mods/threads and the first posts of same looking for what might be a link to "one of the add-ons" and just didn't find anything that seemed to be what you are describing.

I sure appreciate it.

Thanks

It's in the first post of this thread, where the Add-Ons are listed. DJ's AMEs (Auto Media Embedding) Definitions (Delta).

[creativepart]

Oh, I get it. You are saying I need to use your definition mod to get the correct definition.

Thanks

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by creativepart

Oh, I get it. You are saying I need to use your definition mod to get the correct definition.

Thanks

It's where all the community made definitions have been collected, and where I keep them updated. AME was made so you could create and import definitions as needed. Since it got messy trying to keep track of who made what in this thread, one separate mod thread was started to keep them all together.

[Tyran1]

pdf, gif, jpg, png ???

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Tyran1

pdf, gif, jpg, png ???

We've made a few over the years that host images, but since definitions have to be specific to a particular website (maybe one or two, depending on the domain names) there is no general definition created to handle all images from everywhere. Just from certain, specific websites. Since AME is based on making matches in posts, anything too generic would try to parse the image, even in a post like the one you just made above. (It sees that you posted the phrase jpg, and thinks all your text before it is the URL of the image. Whoops!)

I've been working with RegExes for sometime now, and I still think, for images, BBCode is better. This is mainly for videos and things BBCode can't handle without getting complicated.

[beekay]

Any chance of twitter being added to this?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by beekay

Any chance of twitter being added to this?

The definitions for this are linked in the Add-On section in the first post. I added Twitter in the last update.

[beekay]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

The definitions for this are linked in the Add-On section in the first post. I added Twitter in the last update.

Thanks :up:

[MaXimus]

this plugin sucks!

I installed it and rebuilt my cache and URLs and all my previous YouTube links still show as links with no videos

uninstalling this right away