Show Thread Enhancements - AME - Auto Media Embedding (youtube, Amazon, google, myspace, etc...)

From the inventors of Swiss Cheese and the Egg comes AME - The Automatic Media Embedding System.

Note that Version 2.0.0 can be found here

AME is derived from GAL 6 base code but instead of linking keywords, it converts URLs that users paste or enter in their posts into inline embedded video streams.

Big credit goes out to mfyvie for the original concept that jazzed me up enough to lift code that I have been working on to radically improve his fresh idea. Though the same goal, I have taken a totally different approach to his initial release. This mod is 100% steaming fresh code straight from the Geeks oven of love.

First... the overview

AME scans new and edited posts for pre-defined patterns of URLs (i.e. youtube's). If it finds a match, it swaps the url tag for an ame tag.
When a post get parsed for bbcode and an ame tag is found, instead of hammering away at the post with umpteen bbcodes, AME quietly figures out which pre-defined embedding should be placed there and... viola', you have a pretty little embedded video like this:

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This is significantly faster, has much lower overhead and is much easier to manage than loads of bbcodes or a than scanning every single post as the user views it to see if there are any conversions that need to be made.

Now for the bells and whistles

AME:

• is lightweight as it does all of her chores without the overhead of having 1 bbcode per pattern or trying to parse a post every single time it gets displayed with a bunch of patterns. This radically reduces overhead and speeds up the processing. The only time ame will kick in is after creating a new post or after editing an existing one (or if an ame tag is found in a post)
• is extensible. She allows you to add, edit, delete, import and export patterns. That way you can decide which services to support, how they should look and then share them with others!
• can extract the title (requires your server to allow url wrappers with fetch_contents)
• can extract embed code from sites whose URLs do not contain sufficient information to embed the video
• can rebuild your old posts to convert your 'other' mediaish tags into URL tags.
• can rebuild your old posts to convert URL tags into ame tags where needed
• can convert her codes BACK to url codes so you're not stuffed with a bunch of dead tags if you uninstall!
• won't uglify your site by having videos appear in quotes, php, code or html blocks (blech!)
• can be globally disabled
• can be excluded from forums
• can exclude usergroups
• can be toggled on/off per post
• would cook dinner for you if she had arms
• can wrap the output in a 'container' with original URL
• has a super comprehensive admincp help system. Yes, I actually took the time to add all the info you need into vB's admincp help system. If you ask a silly question in this thread that is addressed in the help system, you will be taunted.
• is fully phrased
• has hooks around integral operations so you can extend it

Add ons

AME comes configured with YouTube, Myspacetv, Google Video, Bolt, iFilm, Yahoo, Dailymotion, Amazon and MetaCafe Support built in. Since the amount of providers are always changing and most sites will only need a particular amount, AME has been designed with an import and export system to allow members to easily share formats with one another. In fact, the second post of this thread is updated periodically to relflect those add ons. Currently there are over 12 more additional formats contributed by AME users. Click here to see them.

Installation

• Upload the contents of the forums folder into your forums directory and import the product.xml file into your product manager.
• 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.

Troubleshooting

See this post on troubleshooting

A note about support and such

I have my plate pretty full with taking care of my commercial mods and the support that comes with them. Saying that, I will help when I can - but to be honest, I have ensured that there should be little to no support needed on this mod as it is very much self contained.
Please do not PM or post asking me to give you regexp's to support additional media streams. I built the system so that you can add your own providers as well as the ability to import and export them. If you still need a pattern but are not great with regular expressions (who is?) then I suggest getting RegExpBuddy. Although I am not expert at regular expressions, I did a quick start tutorial on AME regexps here if you want to check it out. I don't mind you guys asking amongst each other for these things, but just note that I will most likely not respond to the requests.

I will reserve the first couple of posts in this thread to periodically add user contributed patterns to import and for additional information (I hate mega long first post's in the release section). So check there for up to date information.

nJoy

[TrIn@dOr]

Sorry for this noob question, but how can i add this others formats?, going where?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....77&postcount=3

I downloaded all.

Other question: how can i rebuild old URLs??, going where?

[Dannyloski]

Originally Posted by InTeNsE-HuMoR

Some gametrailers movies don't work.

For example:

gametrailers.com/player/20932.html?type=flv

and

gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/929.html

Is it possible to make a fix?

Delete the old GameTrailers .XML that you Imported from your AME CP and install this one (see attachment). It should work now, sorry about that.

Originally Posted by 4x4 Mecca

Is there a way to use the ebay affiliate program with this? I'm not sure how the coding works, can someone here post how it works? Is it just "&pid=XXXXXXXXXXXX" on the end of any link going to ebay?

Originally Posted by ckeins

I aksed myself the same question. I just need to extract the auction number. The problem may be, that there are different URLs for the same ebay auction (short, long,...)

It may be difficult to extract the ebay auction number out of ebay links like this:

http://cgi.ebay.de/HONDA-ACCORD-CC9-BLINKER-RECHTS_W0QQitemZ220032053920QQihZ012QQcategoryZ65121QQcmdZViewItem

because the text before this auction number is different from auction to auction.

Could either of you two explain a little more on how the entire eBay Affiliate Program works, etc. Maybe provide a link where I can get some more info and see if this can be integrated or not ...

Originally Posted by TrIn@dOr

Sorry for this noob question, but how can i add this others formats?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showp...77&postcount=3

I downloaded all.

AdminCP > AME CP > Import > Browse ... Do that, its pretty simnple and straightforward ...

[QUOTE]Cant get this to work as expected. If I post a new thread or reply it just shows the link (I have vbseo, so it shows the link with title etc). If however I edit a post and strip out the [url= etc. BBcode it works as expected.

I've searched and read this thread through, but I'm still no clear if this is vbseo causing this, and if there's a combination of settings to use as a workaround?

Could someone help?

Thanks.[/QUOTE]
My guess is that its vBSEO that's conflicting, since it changes and makes it show the title ... But I'm not 100% sure, you would have to get confirmation from The Geek once he gets back from vacation ...

[InTeNsE-HuMoR]

@Mini2

Did you preview the thread before posting it? If you preview a thread with a link, VB automaticaly adds the url tags which prevent it being converted by AME to video.

[Dannyloski]

Hmmm, try disabling vBSEO completely and seeing if it works ... Then you can see if its that, if its not then we can Rule that out and continue on with the other Hacks you have installed ...

[Lizard King]

The youtube links donow work when they have "-" or "_" characters inside the url. Is there a way to fix this.

[Dannyloski]

Lizard King, please post an example link that did not work for YouTube ... Make sure that the "Automatically parse links in text" option under Additional Options when you "Reply" is NOT checked.

mini2, okay, then its not vBSEO ... What other Hacks do you have installed on your site?

[jasculs]

Originally Posted by Lizard King

The youtube links donow work when they have "-" or "_" characters inside the url. Is there a way to fix this.

It works fine for me when the have those characters

[lowey]

Now, this is an awesome hack, it's a really huge time saver and beautifully executed! BUT, how can I prevent AME from processing an URL in case I simply wanted to have the standard link shown?

Sometimes this is quite useful in situations where download versions of higher definition are directly linked with a videofile.

BTW, is it possible that the administrator could post videos anywhere, no matter which forums are open for AM embedding?

Thanks!

[Dannyloski]

lowey, If you desire that the Link is not parsed into a Video Player you simply unselect/uncheck the "Automatically embed media (requires automatic parsing of links in text to be on)." option that is located under "Additional Options" when you create a New Reply/Thread (by default it is checked for the user) ...

BTW, is it possible that the administrator could post videos anywhere, no matter which forums are open for AME embedding?

As of now, this option is not available, but it is something that can be added easily (I believe) by The Geek ... You would have to wait for him to come back from Vacation and see if he wishes to add this option to the AME Hack ...

[Southernphuk]

Installed and working like its supposed to. Thanks.