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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[DontWannaName]

I think the rebuild button is suppose to exactly this but its just black text, its not a link

[alsultan88]

i try it on 3.8.1 the linck is not converted and no embed appear the link still as its
any helppppp

[JeffLessnau]

Ok. I am very new to this so be kind.
I imported the product-ame xml file into my "product manager" that went well.

I could not figure out were my "forums directory" was to be able and download the contents of the forum folder.
Were is my forums directory?
(also, why does the "read me" file say to download it into my "forum root file"?)

"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)."

[Gladhatter]

Originally Posted by JeffLessnau

Ok. I am very new to this so be kind.
I imported the product-ame xml file into my "product manager" that went well.

I could not figure out were my "forums directory" was to be able and download the contents of the forum folder.
Were is my forums directory?
(also, why does the "read me" file say to download it into my "forum root file"?)



"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)."

Jeff I wish to guide you to the paid services section and realize that competent coders there will be grateful for the business and install this and do more for you for 5-10 USD. Not saying you cannot ever get this but from where you are now to getting to where you need to be is going to be a journey that I do not think folks on here will take the time to try to type it all out for you. I hope you the best however.

[DobieGillis?]

Originally Posted by Teresa

I just upgraded to 3.8.1. Then added this addon. Then installed the latest vb-Blog 2.0.1 Patch Level 1.

In blog post this happened:

Major trouble: Invalid SQL. UPDATE vb3_blog_text set ame_flag=0 Where ....
Unknown column 'ame_flag' ...
error 1054.

Then the forum really started acting up.

Had to de-activate AME and forum went back to normal.

same issues here. Had to disable AME

edit: just reinstalled AME 2.54 and all is well.

[sensimilla]

Hmmm.. does the cnn videos work for anyone ?

[wowway1]

this conflicts with vbulletin's blog add-on.. How can i correct this error that is displayed whena new entry is posted to a blog

nvalid SQL:
UPDATE blog_text SET ame_flag=0 WHERE blogtextid = 0;

MySQL Error : Unknown column 'ame_flag' in 'field list'
Error Number : 1054
Request Date : Wednesday, February 25th 2009 @ 01:09:32 PM
Error Date : Wednesday, February 25th 2009 @ 01:09:32 PM

[morrow]

As mentioned quite a few times, this is not working in IE7 / vb3.8 but no problem in firefox.

www.njflyfishing.com

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by goxy63

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

Check out the rebuild options under the tools menu.

Originally Posted by 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.

Please provide the link. If the destination video can not be embeded, AME will show the text with an icon.

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.

The problem is that ame will hunt out [url] tags for conversion. If all your posts are just text, it wont find any matches

Originally Posted by 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?

Please check that the videos you are embedding can actually be embedded. If not, AME will only provide a link instead of a broken video.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by morrow

As mentioned quite a few times, this is not working in IE7 / vb3.8 but no problem in firefox.

www.njflyfishing.com

Update your flash.