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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[|Jordan|]

I had the previous version of AME installed on my 3.7.4 forum it worked fine. Then i upgraded to 3.8.1 and updated to this AME. YouTube video's do not embed and they do not contain ame tags.

[Magnumutz]

Ok, here's what i did so that it's all ok now.
I first removed the ame tags and then rebuild posts.
It's as simple as that

[Gladhatter]

I can only hope this is helpful.

We started Vbulliten a short while back. I think it was ver 3.74 then went to 3.80 and then to 3.81.

I do not know much about UTube other than my 22 month old son enjoys some TV commercials like the babies on etrade and such but my wife looks them up so I really do not use it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ_50VrLUBo is the first UTube video I came to when I just done a UTube from Google. I am not familar with the content of it.

I did create a test post and pasted the url in and saved it and the video worked perfectly and flawlessly.

I hope this helps.

If anyone wants any public file I can extract copy, paste, send, screen shot or what have you or this will help just say it clearly.

Charlie

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by 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.

In the rebuild options, there is an option to remove ame tags. Dont turn on that option when you rebuild

Originally Posted by |Jordan|

I had the previous version of AME installed on my 3.7.4 forum it worked fine. Then i upgraded to 3.8.1 and updated to this AME. YouTube video's do not embed and they do not contain ame tags.

Double check your definitions (i.e. you dont have duplicates) and as always, post at least a URL of a video that isnt embedding.

[Magnumutz]

I turned that option on dude when i rebuilt, and then i did it without that turned on.
In the end, it got fixed.

[|Jordan|]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Double check your definitions (i.e. you dont have duplicates) and as always, post at least a URL of a video that isnt embedding.

I dont have duplicates (just the default included definitions are installed).

Here's the url of a video that doesnt embed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08AAL2hE92M

[Dream]

I'm still using 1.2.0, if I upgrade will my forum explode?

Also, does this new version support big HD YouTube?

[Gladhatter]

Geek this one embeds but a bit strange of a title that may explain to the learned what his/her problem is:

[|Jordan|]

The same thing happens with all other video's too for instance http://youtube.com/watch?v=mY5qJHZCz2I

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by |Jordan|

I dont have duplicates (just the default included definitions are installed).

Here's the url of a video that doesnt embed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08AAL2hE92M

Embeds perfectly for me on a default installation.

Originally Posted by Dream

I'm still using 1.2.0, if I upgrade will my forum explode?

Also, does this new version support big HD YouTube?

Of course! All my upgrades are designed to spontaniously combust forums on a whim
I believe it does support big HD youtube (if not by default than be a definition). Post me a link and ill let you know

Originally Posted by |Jordan|

The same thing happens with all other video's too for instance http://youtube.com/watch?v=mY5qJHZCz2I

Embeded perfectly for me on default installation. Maybe you arent using the default definitions?