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

[newsoftw]

i fresh re-install this mod but still not working on my forum ( vb 8.3.2 ) mean when i post the youtube link it show only link and not show video...

plz i need urgent help.....

[wolfstream]

Originally Posted by newsoftw

i fresh re-install this mod but still not working on my forum ( vb 8.3.2 ) mean when i post the youtube link it show only link and not show video...

plz i need urgent help.....

I had (have) the same problem. There are a few links that will, and a few that won't on youtube.
If the link won't show up, make sure it's embeddable, because youtube allows their uploaders to disallow embedding.

This product needs something that tells people "this link is not embeddable" or something simillar.

[newsoftw]

Originally Posted by wolfstream

I had (have) the same problem. There are a few links that will, and a few that won't on youtube.
If the link won't show up, make sure it's embeddable, because youtube allows their uploaders to disallow embedding.

This product needs something that tells people "this link is not embeddable" or something simillar.

thanks 4 helping and video links working start but now all old post show links and now how to all links convert into video....

[ncangler]

I have installed on vBulletin 3.8.2 site and am trying to convert the existing posts. When I run the test/verbose mode I get errors like this:

post 61132:
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

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '[path]/amecache/findonly.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 74

I have confirmed that all the files were uploaded to the correct locations. Any other ideas why I would be seeing this? It appears to be a path problem but I don't see anywhere that I need to set the path.

[soundbarrierpro]

Can anybody confirm if veoh or dailymotion works? Everything I've tried works but those two. I know they changed their URLS a couple months ago. Please answer.

[newsoftw]

in my forum some you tube video is some message and video is not show like...

1. This video is not available in your country.
2. This video is not available, copyright is claim by third party.

plz any body urgent help me....

[soundbarrierpro]

Ok, gave up on waiting for anybody to answer. I installed a new custom bbcode instead.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by soundbarrierpro

Ok, gave up on waiting for anybody to answer. I installed a new custom bbcode instead.

Best of luck, those custom bbcodes are winners. This modification is clearly marked as unsupported and even if it was fully supported, I would suggest paying someone to support your needs on free modifications if you can't hold your horses

Originally Posted by newsoftw

in my forum some you tube video is some message and video is not show like...

1. This video is not available in your country.
2. This video is not available, copyright is claim by third party.


plz any body urgent help me....

If the video can't be embeded from the external site, not much AME can do about it. If the video isnt available in your country, chances are it will be availible in other countries for your other users in other countries. If the video is unavailible for embedding at all, well... AME can't convince it be otherwise. Thankfully AME does provide fallover for this situation by posting at least the link and icon instead of other systems that will show a broken embeded video.

Originally Posted by ncangler

I have installed on vBulletin 3.8.2 site and am trying to convert the existing posts. When I run the test/verbose mode I get errors like this:

post 61132:
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

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening '[path]/amecache/findonly.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in [path]/includes/ame_bbcode.php on line 74

I have confirmed that all the files were uploaded to the correct locations. Any other ideas why I would be seeing this? It appears to be a path problem but I don't see anywhere that I need to set the path.

It means that AME is being told to use your file cache, but the file cache isn't there (or isnt readable). Check your chmod for the folder and try resaving your definitions. If that fails, disable file caching. File caching improves performance, but mainly with a garantuan amount of definitions and/or posts with embeded media.

Originally Posted by newsoftw

thanks 4 helping and video links working start but now all old post show links and now how to all links convert into video....

Check out the readme. AME doesnt translate your posts at runtime, it translates when the post is saved. Therefore old posts wont show the media untial they have been edited or you have used the rebuild tool.

Originally Posted by wolfstream

I had (have) the same problem. There are a few links that will, and a few that won't on youtube.
If the link won't show up, make sure it's embeddable, because youtube allows their uploaders to disallow embedding.

This product needs something that tells people "this link is not embeddable" or something simillar.

It does. You can display embed code for non embeded media. The problem is that when a user plays the media, youtube gives says 'this video is no longer availible'. That is incorrect, rather 'it isnt availible offsite any longer'. So AME actually goes the extra mile to prevent this problem. A definition can double check the destination page to see if mebedding is disabled. If it is, AME will elequently fall over by producing a link to the video with an icon that indicates it is an offsite media destination (instead of the 'broken' media that you would have gotten otherwise).

Warnings and such seemed excessive and overall more confusing to the user than the icon solution but less than a broken media embedded in your post. You can edit the AME templates to provide another indication to your users if you need to.

I think thats all outstanding items, just a friendly reminder that I haven't come accross an issue with this mod where the answer isn't either located in this thread or the mods readme (hence the reason this mod needs little to no support and why it hanst needed to be updated for so long). If you are having problems, check the readme and the thread for your answers. If the problem is with an add on definition that doesnt come with AME by default, you will need to take the matter to them.

nJoy all

[soundbarrierpro]

Umm, I was hoping my question would be open to "Anybody" responding. I wasn't asking for special priviliges.

I was communicating with Digital Jedi for sometime about switching from "a different similar" mod.

I switched because I was told every site I need supported by this mod is supported.

Veoh and Dailymotion obviously are not, hence the reason to implement stand alone BBCodes.

It's a very nice mod, but if something like these two particular video sites aren't going to automatically embed when using the script. Why advertise them as such? Remove them from the list of unsupported AME mod sites.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by soundbarrierpro

Umm, I was hoping my question would be open to "Anybody" responding. I wasn't asking for special priviliges.

I was communicating with Digital Jedi for sometime about switching from "a different similar" mod.

I switched because I was told every site I need supported by this mod is supported.

Veoh and Dailymotion obviously are not, hence the reason to implement stand alone BBCodes.

It's a very nice mod, but if something like these two particular video sites aren't going to automatically embed when using the script. Why advertise them as such? Remove them from the list of unsupported AME mod sites.

Where have I ever stated that those sites are supported? Repeatedly I have stated that if you have a problem with a custom definition, take it to the author!

AME was designed so that other users could create, update and share definitions at their own whim without the need for the actual mod to change every time a media site was changed or added. Think of AME as a framework that comes with a couple of definitions that satisfy most users requirements right out of the box. For those it doesn't, you can easily create your own custom definitions, or upload someone else's. There are several contributors that have done this, DJ being a major one.

In the end, I don't think its fair to criticise AME if you have a problem with a definition that was created by another user or if there isn't a definition out there that you need. If there isn't a solution out there, release one. If whats out there doesnt work as you need it to, make one that does. Just don't get upset if someone doesn't do it for you in a 12 hour time span.

Or just use bbcode