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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[daFish]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Bracket should be fine. In fact, just tested it on default install and it embeds fine. Have you tried it?

Here is the result: http://www.soundtrack-board.de/11647...tml#post153185

[The Geek]

Like I said, it works on a default install. My guess would be that another mod is conflicting or a sloppy paste job. Am assuming you are using the default youtube definition.

HTHs

[barcena]

Hi The Geek or anyone else that knows, is this correctly set?

See screenshot please.

This is what I'm getting, a kind of little linked dot.

Example

[Ryloth]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Provide some example youtube urls for me to check out. It could be that the validation is failing because of some other error. You can try editing the definition and clearing out the validation regexp which will prevent AME from trying to validate the media.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrQIA-0C9WY


hehe sorry my thought process at the time i made the post.


If I throw it in AME tags, it works fine.

[markuswarren]

Originally Posted by The Geek

That could cause a problem. Please post some example URLs though that are having a problem.

Ok, here you go:

URL from YouTube that AME parses correctly when put in a post:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKJO-aWyOww

URL from embed link that AME is not parsing (shows an icon followed by the link to the video)

http://www.youtube.com/v/VKJO-aWyOww

[Ryloth]

^^ by your above logic that means my post should have been parsed correctly and it is not. see my post above yours for the link.

[newsoftw]

Originally Posted by newsoftw

[B]
when i Upgrade vb vbulletin version 3.8.2 into 3.8.3....after that , the youtube video is working stop and also some other videos means only show links in forum...

http://www.newsoftworld.com/forums/f...wc-2009-a.html

plz any idea about that and solve urgently this problem.

please any body help me urgently............please.....the videos are not display in the forum and all user start the complaints......

thanks in ADVNS

Originally Posted by The Geek

I dont fully follow you, but it could be related to the post above. Can you provide some URLs that are not working?

when any body post any new youtube links in forum but not show videos and display only youtube links...

please check that links...

youtube
01. http://www.newsoftworld.com/forums/f...scary-rat.html

02. http://www.newsoftworld.com/forums/f...-nail-gun.html

03. http://www.newsoftworld.com/forums/f...wc-2009-a.html

metacefa
04. http://www.newsoftworld.com/forums/e...html#post11462



please help on that problem.
Thanks in ADVNS

[The Geek]

Bug notice where URLs are only showing instead of the media (or showing oddly) in vB3.8.3:

It looks like there is a bug with the latest WYSIWYG editor. I have only done initial tests and have only just posted a bug in the vB bug tracker so it could be a little early yet to pin point, however: It appears that when using the WYSIWYG editor in IE on vb3.8.3, the editor will include color tags within the URL tags. This doesnt appear to happen with FF or earlier versions of vB. It appears that if indeed this is the reason, that AME is choking on the HTML/BBcode that is chucked in with the URL.

I am sure I can insert some tests to strip these out if needed, but in the meantime the only workaround I can find is to either post in FF or toggle to the normal text editor.

I am going out of town tomorrow so I may not get a fix posted until next week.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Ryloth

URL from embed link that AME is not parsing (shows an icon followed by the link to the video)

http://www.youtube.com/v/VKJO-aWyOww

The above isn't a valid URL. Its a direct link to the actual flash object and one that wouldnt appear in the address bar when browsing youtube. AME needs a valid URL (though a custom definition could possibly be created)

[markuswarren]

Originally Posted by The Geek

The above isn't a valid URL. Its a direct link to the actual flash object and one that wouldnt appear in the address bar when browsing youtube. AME needs a valid URL (though a custom definition could possibly be created)

Ah, well that would probably explain the issue I'm seeing then. So, basically, I should ensure that if someone is going to post a url from youtube they make sure it's a proper url, by this I mean it's copied from the youtube page it's being viewed from and has the "watch" portion included.