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

[The Geek]

Ok, think I got everybody!

BTW, Thanks for voting for us as Mod of the Month

[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by The Geek

The only part that will slow down is when the post is created or edited and you have extraction enabled. This is because with this option set, AME will extract the destination HTML to get some information (i.e. page title). If your sever has a naff connection to these sites, and/or you have a lot of videos in a post, it will slow it down. Once that information has been extracted though, it really takes no longer than normal to display the page.

Remember, you can disable this funationality, though some sites do require it.

My slow down is nothing to do with AME then as I have 10 local songs hosted and it is slow all the time recently pitifully slow and not when posting a song or such.

I am sure the problem will be found on my server in time by a 3rd level tech and will have nothing to do with Vbulliten or AmE.

[The Geek]

All AME does is replace [ame]url[/ame] with <embed> HTML. That isnt time consuming and certainly not very resource intensive. The only time AME itself will slow things down is IF it is told to go to the destination web page and extract details from it (i.e. the title). In those instances, the additional time is spent in your server downloading the destination web page and parsing it for the details it needs. If your server and/or its connection is pants and/or the destination site is slow or offline, this will cause a noticeable slowdown. However, as mentioned, the only time ame will actually do this is when a post gets saved. Otherwise, AME is about as slow as using a smilie.

The rest is down to what you are embedding. Say for example its a movie from youtube... if the user is on a 14.4k modem, it may take a minute for the youtube video to appear, but that has nothing to0 do with ame or your site, it is actually youtube that the user is waiting on.

[Gladhatter]

I think my biggest problem will be solved when I learn to use and migrate to Red Hat Fedora and get 16 gigs of memory and a quad 6 core processor set up.

[|Jordan|]

Does this work with 3.8.1 ? I installed it and my youtube links arent embeding (i ran Tools->Rebuild Posts several times)

[Magnumutz]

I've got the same problem as |Jordan|...

[The Geek]

can you provide an example?

[cooltechie]

First all the videos are there. Then when you rebuild post cache, the videos disappear. If you click on edit post, all the links are there, but not displayed in the post. Anyone else having this problem?

[The Geek]

There is an option in the rebuild setting to REMOVE ame code. This is so that you could revert back to normal URLs if you ever needed to.

More than likely, you have it set to remove them.

HTHs

[cooltechie]

PostsTurning to 'yes' will enable AME to parse posts in threads. = yes
Disable New itemsTurning to 'yes' will prevent new URLs from being converted = no
Enable File Cache = yes
Extract destination data = yes

We edit the post, click save and the video reappeared. Click on rebuild post cache, video disappeared.