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

[smnet]

Is there any way this could support the BBC iPlayer?

Here is an example link:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...tal_Maternity/

I hope this is possible.

Thanks for any help.

Rob

[minty_fresh]

Originally Posted by LWS

installed and seems to work perfect! thanks for a great mod


Are you sure you upload all files? as your error seems to suggest a missing file

Well i'll try again now but yeah from what i can everything is uploaded :S odd huh..

[Tom Kagan]

I spotted two problems:

1. The post conversion tools cannot take a timeout of zero. It will countdown to negative maxint. The javascript which controls needs a tweak.

2. If you enter a url into the quickpost box, then click "advanced", the preview of the post does not show the parsed output. Clicking "preview" from the advanced editor will parse the url.

[Dave Hybrid]

I now have a w3 compliant xml file, but re-importing does not change anything so it must need the db tables deleting and reimporting. Let me know if you know what tables to delete and where. I will trade the w3 valid xml in return. Thanks.

[GoTTi]

any idea why this is making the vbgoogle members map not work?

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=123148

when both of these mods are installed and the AME is active, the locations for the members wont show on the map. when AME is disabled, the google map works fine. what would be causing these to conflict with eachother?

[DobieGillis?]

strange, reinstalling and I have two php files in amecache not in the lastest download, one is ameinfo.php, the other is findonly.php. Amyone know what they are? Left overs from an earlier version?

[ArnyVee]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Arny, have you tried disabling all other mods and then reposting the link? I suspect there may be some conflict with something you may have recently installed. Let me know asap

Geek (or anyone else),

I've tried everything from reinstalling the AME 2.0, to upgrading back to AME 2.5 to reinstalling the latest definitions from DJ's mod and disabling every mod that I have and still nothing is working with AME.

Is there anyone that can give me some suggestions for me to try and get this working?

When I'm posting a youtube link (for example, this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caJZZmbUVLE ), I'm getting the following link....

http://www.waltdisneyboards.com/redirect-to/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2F%3Cdiv+style%3D%22display%3A+none%3B%22+id%3D%22ame_noshow_post_1237161099_3%22%3E%3Cbr+%2F%3E%3Ca%20href=%22%22%20title=%22YouTube%22%20target=%22_blank%22%3EYouTube%3C/a%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cdiv%20style=%22display:%20inline;%22%20id=%22ame_doshow_post_1237161099_3%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cdiv%20align=%22center%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctable%20class=%22tborder%22%20cellpadding=%226%22%20cellspacing=%221%22%20width=%22425%22%20style=%22margin:10px%200%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cthead%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctd%20class=%22tcat%22%20colspan=%222%22%20style=%22text-align:center%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ca%20href=%22%22%20title=%22YouTube%22%20target=%22_blank%22%3EYouTube%3C/a%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/td%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/tr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/thead%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctbody%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Ctd%20class=%22panelsurround%22%20align=%22center%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cobject%20width=%22425%22%20height=%22350%22%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cparam%20name=%27%27movie%27%27%20value=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/caJZZmbUVLE&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cparam%20name=%22allowFullScreen%22%20value=%22true%22%3E%3C/param%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3Cembed%20src=%22http://www.youtube.com/v/caJZZmbUVLE&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1%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%3C/td%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/tr%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/tbody%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/table%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/div%3E

.....but, if I post the link with the [ame] tags, I get this .....

<div style="display: none;" id="ame_noshow_post_1237161099_4">
<a href="" title="You Tube" target="_blank">You Tube</a>
</div>
<div style="display: inline;" id="ame_doshow_post_1237161099_4">
<div align="center">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" width="425" style="margin:10px 0">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2" style="text-align:center">
<a href="" title="You Tube" target="_blank">You Tube</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/caJZZmbUVLE&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/caJZZmbUVLE&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div>
</div>

........so, neither is working. I've had these issues for many weeks and I've been trying to fix it on my own. But, it's not working. Can anyone offer any suggestions on what I should do to get this working? I appreciate any suggestions that can lead me to the answer!

[Gladhatter]

I would like to suggest you go to the paid section and spend 5-10 dollars and hire a coder to fix this for you in about 5 minutes.

[ArnyVee]

Gladhatter, I don't mind spending some money to have it fixed, it's just getting someone that is familiar and able to get in and help me with it.

I'll post on the paid request side soon and see if someone might be able to help. Thanks for the suggestion.

[citizenkane]

thanks man