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

[Gladhatter]

Ok you are saying if I am reading correctly you are seeing this at some point working in preview???? I have NEVER seen one show up in preview.

However you can see from the attached that your url works perfectly:

[tekguru]

Originally Posted by The Geek

can you PM me a temporary (and restrited) admincp account so I can see this in action (it works fine here). I just need to see AME's settings, an example URL and be able to review usergroup permissions.

Thanks

PM sent

[tekguru]

And yes for me it works in preview every time.

[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by tekguru

And yes for me it works in preview every time.

Maybe a setting that my coder has coded out or yours coded in to see the preveiws.

[ArnyVee]

Geek/Tekguru, please let us know if/when it's fixed because it seems like it's the same issues that I'm having with my site.

[Gladhatter]

It will not be if but be when for sure. This is going to be resolved and you can count on it. Sorry that my coder has went AWOL for a time on me or I would be tempted to hire a solution myself but am sure that Geek can resolve it best anyways.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by tekguru

PM sent

What looks to be happening is that there is some other hack already transforming the URLs before AME can get to them (or after which is messing them up). If you look at the URLs, they arent normal vB urls, they call a javascript function to track all outbound links:

pageTracker._trackPageview ('/outgoing/http_www_youtube_com_watch_v_uk0xWm8PMGQ');

It then changes the URL to

http://www.4winmobile.com/forums/redirect-to/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv %3Duk0xWm8PMGQ

Which won't get matched by AME as it isn't a valid AME URL. I have glanced through your addons, but nothing specifically stands out. It may be a vbseo function to track outbound links, but i'm not too sure (I use vBSEO and mine doesnt do that).

Do you know what it is?

[high6]

It doesn't seem to find youtube videos.

[ArnyVee]

There is obviously some conflict. First one to find it, please post it! :up:

[Lone Gunman]

it worked great for me but was getting blank pages trying to open pms while this was enabled. uninstalled for now, but would like to reinstall after all the conflicts are worked out. Very cool mod and thanks for your hard work!