AME 2.0 is the next version of the "Mod of the Month" winning media embedder that:
Allows user to simply 'paste' in a URL (i.e. a youtube link) without needing to know any special tags. However instead of displaying just the URL, it will show the media within the post
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. AME radically reduces overhead and speeds up 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)
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! At time of typing this, there are over 150 media sites that have been contributed by vBulletin.org members
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, blogs, comments, visitor and social group messages 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, blog, comment, visitor and social group message
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 bloody 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
Supports embedding in vbBlog, Visitor Messages and Social Groups.
Can be disabled in one or more of the following sections: Posts, vbBlog, Visitor Messages and/or Social Groups
Apart from the additional areas of support around vbBlog, Visitor Messages and Social Groups, little has changed about AME since version 1.0 released over a year ago. I cleaned up a few minor bugs, trimmed and updated the default definitions.
Which sites are supported?
At time of counting this, there are about 170 sites supported. But I have only included a few common standards as default (yahoo, youtube, myspace, google and Amazon). Why only these? AME was designed with its own import and export system that enables users to create or modify definitions and share them with the community. This keeps the system lightweight, customisable and saves us all from having to upgrade every time a media site changes their URL structure or if I add another site.
Check out the 'add ons' section of this post below to see availible add-ons.
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.
Big thanks goes out to all those in the community that have supported this mod. Especially Digital Jedi Who has created about 155 definitions for this system alone!
Change Log
2.0.2 - fixed added slashes in quote blocks (DoH!), vm advanced error and incrimented product version. You need to replace include/ame_bb_code.php and re-import the product-ame.xml to upgrade
2.0.1 - fixed missing backslashes in code blocks
2.5 Pre-Release information
Attached to this post is pre-release of version 2.5
2.5 is a pretty major upgrade from the 2.0 series and adds the following functionality to 2.0:
New in Beta 3 - Validation ability. This will help prevent media being embedded that can not be embedded (i.e. youtube videos that the author has stipulated can not be shown off of youtube). This option requires the extraction option to be turned on and a valid validation regexp. I have included one in the default youtube version. When a video on you tube gets embedded, but the author doesnt allow embedding, a link (with icon) is shown instead.
Ability to prevent non authorised usergroups from viewing (see Readme file in zip for more info)
Usergroup permissions (edit usergroup to adjust edit/view permissions)
Template driven system - uses templates now instead of 1 master replacement (see Readme file in zip for more info)
Signatures supported
Different sizes and template configurations for each supported zone (posts, blogs, groups, visitor messages and signatures)
A couple new hooks (Mainly to support a future add on for AME media in profiles)
Notfication system (similar to vB's to check for errors)
Definition keys for easier updating of definitions and to use in templates
File caching system which radically reduces processing
And more that I cant think of off the top of my head!
Note that while previous definitions will work with the new system, they will not be sizeable by zone. Since DJ helped with the private beta testing, I am sure he will be releasing 2.5 versions of his definitions soon.
Please note that 2.5 is a pre-release so there will be issues. If you want more stability, use 2.x until this version becomes gold FWIW: The only items currently outstanding are to add some missing admincp help. The rest is working as intended as far as I can tell
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The problem is, the post CSS for links is overriding the CSS for the tcat category. So if post links and the tcat background happen to be similar in color or the same color, you can't read the title. I've tried changing the container HTML from everything to font tags to inline styles and nothing works. Is there anyway to fool the cat into displaying the desired CSS?
When you create a post with video link and preview it then in the preview mode only the link will appear, when you post it the it gets embedded. Is not that series but when you create a news post you always preview before you actually post it.
Is this a known issue?
This is the same problem I have with AME 2.5 RC1. If you create a new thread and preview it, you will only see a link without the automatic embedding. The embedding option checkbox vanishes as well. This might lead to users thinking it does not work or not being authorized to post videos.
If you edit or reply, the preview works without any problems.
Other than that it works great. Much easier than using any developer api.
brilliant mod!! only wish facebook videos were viewable too.
Unless FaceBook provide embed capability, which I've not been able to find, there won't be one. However, it's difficult to find FaceBook videos, so I've not been able to tell if they do globally or on a case by case basis. They don't list them anywhere, and none of my friends have any uploaded.
It's really a matter of practicality. I've considered doing a definition for Photobucket and ImageShack, but most of the time users are going to use embed code as a matter of habit, so that could create conflicts when they post their code. Any definitions would have to be created for specific sites. Essentially, it would likely not be practical.
Regex is one thing I've never come close to comprehending, so I may be talking out my wazoo here.
But I thought the photobucket video embed code they provide for forums always has the action=view parameter.
When comparing it to the HTML link they provide to render the video player, I wouldn't think there wouldn't be conflicts when the users post the embed code as long as the replacement only happened if the action=view was present in the code
But like I already said, regex mind as well be talking Greek to me, so any chance of me figuring out how to write a replacement to test the theory is out the window.
When comparing it to the HTML link they provide to render the video player, I wouldn't think there wouldn't be conflicts when the users post the embed code as long as the replacement only happened if the action=view was present in the code
But like I already said, regex mind as well be talking Greek to me, so any chance of me figuring out how to write a replacement to test the theory is out the window.
The conflict I was referring to, (if there is a conflict, admitedly, I haven't had a chance to test this yet) would come, not from the video, but from the image embed code. You had asked if we could use this to embed images. The problem I see is people grabbing the image forum code with the [img]https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/[/img] tags and either getting an image with the IMG tags on either side, or no picture at all. Like I said, though, I will have to test this to be sure.
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Originally Posted by MonkYZ
Still no fullscreen definition update for YouTube ? We really miss that...
You know, I kind of forgot. They changed the fullscreen code, didn't they? I'll have to do some research on this to get in the next definition update I do.
Quote:
Originally Posted by xoclanes
this work with the new widescreen youtube and the option for high dif in youtube?
I was only recently turned me on to this, so it will be part of the next definition update, but you'll have to get that from one of my Add-On threads.
Thx Digital Jedi ! I can hardly wait for the updated fullscreen/widescreen/highdef youtube code. I've noticed over 95% videos inserted into my forums are using youtube
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11-22-2008, 12:35 AM
