Major Additions - DJ's AME :: The Ultimate Automatic Media Embedder :: 2.5.7

From the team who brought you the blockbuster film "Yahtzee!", comes the next major motion picture about incredibly bad and arbitrary puns:

AME 2.5.7: Electric Boogaloo

AME automatically embeds media in posts without the need for pesky BBCode cluttering up your editor toolbar. It's also lightweight, and saves resources that BBCode would ordinarily consume. Your users don't even have to know you have AME installed. If they share a link from YouTube, Dailymotion, Amazon, Metacafe or Vimeo, AME automatically embeds the content for them. No special code to learn. No instructions for newbies to understand.

In addition, AME allows you to create, import and export support for individual websites in the form of media definitions. These XML files expand your AME to support a limitless number of websites from around the net and let you share them with the community. We currently have around 200 media definitions collected at this repository thread. If you want additional support for website not listed, please ask for it there. Odds are, we might already have one. (TIP: Be sure to check the Add-Ons section below for stuff you might miss out on, otherwise.)


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CREDITS

This modification was originally built by [name]The Geek[/name], who is no longer coding for vBulletin. We miss him. But he gave permission for someone to continue to build upon his work. All I've done is modify the code a little to support additional functionality and to provide a place to continue to support the product. The product didn't need too much tweaking, but I did manage to add some new features I think you will enjoy, which I'll lay out in the feature list below.

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RECOMMENDATIONS

It is HIGHLY recommended that you read the READ ME.html file included in the ZIP file before you upgrade or install. You don't want to be blind-sided, now do you?


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NEW INSTALLATIONS

1. Download and Unzip the contents of the ZIP file.
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2. Upload the contents of the "UPLOAD to Forum Root" folder to your forum's root directory. (This is the directory where your vBulletin is physically installed.) Also, if you've renamed your Admin CP folder, be sure to move the admincp folder's contents to your renamed directory.
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3. CHMOD your amecache folder to 777.
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4. Go to your Admin CP ?? Plugins & Products ?? Manage Products ?? Add/Import Products and import the product-djs_AME-2.5.7.xml file.
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5. Your Admin CP should automatically refresh and you should now see the AME CP somewhere below your vBulletin Options menu.

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TO UPGRADE

If you are upgrading from AME 2.5.6.

1. Delete custom definitions specifically for Amazon, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Vimeo and YouTube. (Key names: amazon, dailymotion, metacafe, vimeo and youtube) Theses five definitions are now hard coded into the product and will be updated along with the product if need be. You can back these up if you need to, but keep in mind if you use any custom defs for these sites, they will be duplicated every time you upgrade AME. So don't ask my why your videos are doubled up, or I'll throw rocks at you.
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2. Upload the contents of the "UPLOAD to Forum Root" folder to your forum's root directory, overwriting previous versions of the files.
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3. Ensure that your amecache directory is still CHMOD'd to 777.
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4. Import the product-djs_AME-2.5.7.xml file into your Product Manager, making sure to set the option to Allow Overwrite to Yes.
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5. If you are using the file cache, it is strongly recommended that you re-sync your cache using the Tools menu.

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WHAT ELSE?

The following five posts will include:

• Additional Screenshots
• Full Features List
• FAQ
• Resources to develop your own custom definitions
• AME History/Changelog

[suko22]

Hi everybody, I have AME working in vbulletin 3.8.4 forum for years whit no problems.

Now we have changed our url to https (SSL) and AME doesn´t work, it shows a blank space instead of videos.

Any help please?

[JohnSilver]

Hello guys

Running vB 3.8.7 with around 30M posts.

We disabled passiveVid and successfully installed this plugin.

The plugin is working well but old post (prior installing AME) isn't parse the video, unless if reedit respective posts. What should i do? Have i missed something here? The old passiveVid plugin bbode is [url[/url]. How can i execute a command to parse a video in all existing posts ?

Anyone could help?

[MarkFL]

Did passiveVid use the same BBCode tags?

[JohnSilver]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

Did passiveVid use the same BBCode tags?

Yes, [url[/url]

AME use same bbcode as well

[MarkFL]

Yeah, as far as I know, when you create a new BBCode that uses the same tags as a previous BBCode, old posts will have to be reparsed to use the new replacement HTML, and the only way I know to do that without some custom script is to edit them.

[JohnSilver]

Originally Posted by MarkFL

Yeah, as far as I know, when you create a new BBCode that uses the same tags as a previous BBCode, old posts will have to be reparsed to use the new replacement HTML, and the only way I know to do that without some custom script is to edit them.

Somehow i noticed actually AME does using [ame][/ame] code, it doesn't appear in newreply but actually it containing ame code in table post. It could only be fixed when all posts require to edit which is definitely i don't know how am i able to this coz we have more than 20M of posts, unless someone has custom script to execute these. The default tools in AME plugin to convert code is not working plus it freezing the forum page due to huge table post.

If anyone woule be able to help of offer some service kindly PM me & i would be much appreciated.

[webexit]

Originally Posted by suko22

Hi everybody, I have AME working in vbulletin 3.8.4 forum for years whit no problems.

Now we have changed our url to https (SSL) and AME doesn?t work, it shows a blank space instead of videos.

Any help please?

In AME CP > Display > Definitions YouTube > Replacement HTML

Replace http with https

[JohnSilver]

Originally Posted by VBFguy

Yes....Your Youtube replacement HTML should look like this:

<iframe width="$ameinfo[width]" height="$ameinfo[height]" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/$p1?start=$p2" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

You want to add &amp;rel=0 to that output URL. (rel is the parameter for related, 0 means off).

I added that after the $p2, so it ends up being this:

<iframe width="$ameinfo[width]" height="$ameinfo[height]" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/$p1?start=$p2&amp;rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>


Make the same change to the Youtube short URL definition.

It's not working for me anyway. Your post was too old and maybe youtube has changed the code. Can share latest code changes?

[Gabe505]

Anyone have an updated Definition for Worldstarhiphop.com? They've recently changed the embed code.

[durham]

Originally Posted by suko22

Hi everybody, I have AME working in vbulletin 3.8.4 forum for years whit no problems.

Now we have changed our url to https (SSL) and AME doesn?t work, it shows a blank space instead of videos.

Any help please?

I have the same issue - adding rel=0 didnt fix for me. This must be a serious issue for lots of forums now https is being pushed so hard by Google.

Any fix please?