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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[nascartr]

Nah, that's just the default ad location template first post start and sig.

[nascartr]

I just went back to the default settings and replacements and now it works!

[|Jordan|]

I dont know what happened, i uninstalled, reinstalled. Links still didnt embed, i ran post tool a few times, links still didnt embed. Then a few minutes later they imbeded.

[iardon]

Hi,

Can this mod work in conjunction with vb's youtube bbcode...

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=199304

Thanks.

[The Geek]

This is really designed to replace that way of embedding. With AME, users only have to paste the URL into the message, not 'part' of the url between youtube tags. This can even convert your old youtube tags into normal URLs again (which can then be turned into AME tags)

[iardon]

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. The reason I asked is some of my users might be used to the old vb way and still use it with your mod. Would that cause any issues?

[JVSP]

Originally Posted by 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?

Same exact problem here.

[Bisha]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Check the FAQ and readme. It wont automatically embed old urls unless you rebuild them through the amecp. Do new/edited posts work?

On new/edited it work!

[Forensic]

Probably a simple question but the answer escapes me.

How can I change the title text color? Previous version was super easy, this one not so much for me.

Here is an example of what I mean. The text in the header row of the table is black. I just want to make it white.
http://www.riverdavesplace.com/forum...ad.php?t=15399

[LockeAG]

I have a BUG , I don't know if its only in my board , But when I try to EDIT(AJAX) any POST with the AMO Plugin Active I get stuck and nothing happen only keeps loading...

By the way this plugin , even with their small issues is a great WORK.. thanks..