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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[The Geek]

That link works with a default installation. Check which definitions youre using as the one that comes with AME seems to be working fine with the link you provided.

[jellybeanz]

I managed to fix my issue with the youtube links. After disabling all my other hacks I was able to narrow down the issue to vboptimize. Once I did a complete reinstall of ame all my youtube links worked fine.

Hope this helps.

[mattysheff]

I've tried with both.

Obviously something is wrong somewhere. As so many people are having the same problem.

[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by mattysheff

I've tried with both.

Obviously something is wrong somewhere. As so many people are having the same problem.

I have to agree with you it is obvious that several of the users are not configuring thier system correctly or else have a conflicting hack or such.

Most obvious is that while a handful have the problem, 1000's of others do not.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by mattysheff

I've tried with both.

Obviously something is wrong somewhere. As so many people are having the same problem.

All I can do is test posted URLs on default vB and AME installations. If they work, not sure what else I can do. FWIW, this and 2.0 have over 1,500 installs and its only a couple people that have reported a problem. Those that have generally find its another mod or a configuration error.

In the end, if I can't reproduce the problem, I can't solve it.

[Bisha]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Yup, thats by design. You will need to use the admincp->ame cp->tools->rebuild options to convert old posts.

HTHs

And why for some youtube link doesn't work but it shows the small icon?

[shadowedsoul]

First off, great mod it's working really well.

The only problem I'm having with it is this, on new posts it's not auto adding the ame tags, am I missing a setting somewhere?

I've done some searching on this but havn't found anything.

thanks for the great work!

[ArnyVee]

I am having issues (just started this morning) where I cannot have a YouTube (or other) video embedded correctly. I'm currently running 3.7.4, if I upgrade to 2.5 will it help with this issue?

I changed the "URL" to "AME" as someone had mentioned in the 2.0 thread (and possibly here on this thread), but it simply displays the following code on the post....

<div style="display: none;" id="ame_noshow_post_1234038437_3">
<a href="" title="YouTube" target="_blank">YouTube</a>
</div>
<div style="display: inline;" id="ame_doshow_post_1234038437_3">
<div align="center">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" 425 style="margin:10px 0">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2" style="text-align:center">
<a href="" title="YouTube" target="_blank">YouTube</a>
</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<object width="425" height="350">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dZZfuCJ970w"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dZZfuCJ970w" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div>
</div>

....any thoughts?

[ArnyVee]

Okay, upgraded to 2.5 (2.5.4 current file) and it's still not working. Here's the 'link' that shows once I add the URL to a post.....

http://www.waltdisneyboards.com/redirect-to/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2F%3Cdiv+style%3D%22display%3A+none%3B%22+id%3D%22ame_noshow_post_1234041561_3%22%3E%3Cbr+%2F%3E%0A%3Ca%20href=%22%22%20title=%22YouTube%22%20target=%22_blank%22%3EYouTube%3C/a%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3C/div%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3Cdiv%20style=%22display:%20inline;%22%20id=%22ame_doshow_post_1234041561_3%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3Cdiv%20align=%22center%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3Ctable%20class=%22tborder%22%20cellpadding=%226%22%20cellspacing=%221%22%20width=%22425%22%20style=%22margin:10px%200%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3Cthead%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3Ctr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3Ctd%20class=%22tcat%22%20colspan=%222%22%20style=%22text-align:center%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3Ca%20href=%22%22%20title=%22YouTube%22%20target=%22_blank%22%3EYouTube%3C/a%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3C/td%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3C/tr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3C/thead%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3Ctbody%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3Ctr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3Ctd%20class=%22panelsurround%22%20align=%22center%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3Cobject%20width=%22425%22%20height=%22350%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3Cparam%20name=%22movie%22%20value=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/dZZfuCJ970w%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3Cparam%20name=%22allowFullScreen%22%20value=%22true%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3Cembed%20src=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/dZZfuCJ970w%22%20type=%22application/x-shockwave-flash%22%20allowfullscreen=%22true%22%20width=%22425%22%20height=%22350%22%20wmode=%22transparent%22%3E%3C/embed%3E%3C/object%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3C/td%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3C/tr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3C/tbody%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3C/table%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%0A%3C/div%3E

[ArnyVee]

This is so strange. It's working on my other forums which do not have vBSEO. So, could it be an issue with that?

I have the most up to date mod and definitions and the videos are just not posting for me.