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

[Capper5016]

Installed and all seem to be working fine, except ESPN videos, whicxh are not displaying.

Video from ESPN:
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=3913950

Result: (My actual forum page)
http://forum.masdebaters.com/showthread.php?t=8&page=2

[epoc fitness]

the size is different when I upgraded then it was in the previous version. If anyone knows how to put it back to the regular size could they please PM me and tell me how.

[TOMC28]

Is there any known issues with this hack interfering with things like vBulletin 3.8.1, vbSEO or vBAdvanced?

[demoniavbh]

Originally Posted by Howell

There is nothing meant to be in there other than index.html as it's a folder AME uses for storing cached files for later use!

Ummm... I recieved this error:

Warning: include([path]/amecache/findonly.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 74

So I asumed that there was missing the file findonly.php...
And as I have all the other files correctly uploaded I don't know what else the problem could be.

[JoyceBabu]

Automatic detection of url did not work for me. But when I use [ame] tag, it works fine. Does the automatic detection require any option change?

Also, is it possible to change the code from [ame] to [embed] ?

Thanks

[goxy63]

Hi
Nominated, rated, installed....will install on my live one as soon as I check out things

Just installed on my test forums...it looks awesome but how to include old urls !?

Also upon upload files I did not overwrite 'Thumbs.db' within 'image files' as I do not know how this would affect other stuff!?

Any suggestions

Thanks

[Kaldes]

Ok installed fine, but doesnt seem to pick up the youtube link as well. I tried put it in [ame] tags and got it to preview, but when submitted it returned to a youtube link.

I'm sure I have the require options on and all permissions are set.

[DontWannaName]

For some reason in the tools area it wont make rebuild an option. When I try to use convert codes it says There are no results. All of the links in my board were converted in Impex so they are just plain text at the moment. When I edit the posts and click save without changing anything, it works perfectly. So a little confused here... everything is verified uploaded.

[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by DontWannaName

For some reason in the tools area it wont make rebuild an option. When I try to use convert codes it says There are no results. All of the links in my board were converted in Impex so they are just plain text at the moment. When I edit the posts and click save without changing anything, it works perfectly. So a little confused here... everything is verified uploaded.

Let not your heart be troubled. If you have a definition for the link in the AME and you used impex to import, then a simple edit and save will make them all functional.

If you have a gazillion links to convert, I am going to advise you find a competent coder that can run a sql query from your admin panel that will address the non links to links, or a direct data based conversion through other, preferabley programically means. I am also sure a compentent coder can find another and likely a more suitable solution for you. Much depends really if you have more time and inclination or money. Maybe a bunch of members that wish to devide and conquer.

Good luck.

[kylek]

Everything works fine except for signatures, checked usergroup permissions and all, just get text link. Is there anything special needed to get these to show? Any site demos that have videos in their sig areas running so we can take a look?