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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[Keesa]

Just FYi, getting this error when importing individual XML files for imeem, etc.,

I get this error when importing a new definition?

Warning: ksort() expects parameter 1 to be array, null given in [path]/admincp/automediaembed_admin.php on line 2515

But if I click the "import" button, it seems to work just fine.

[buileminh]

I prefer a mod that create a BB code like this:

[BBCODE=YouTuBe/GoogleVideo/.....]Video ID[/BBCODE]

[sensimilla]

imeem does not work for me.. it just a link in my post, any ideas ?

[Yellow Slider]

after reinstalling it, the footer disappeared (nothing seems to help)
do you use any special PHP functions with this Modification that I need to apply in my server?

I've installed version 2.5.1 and in the Installed Products section the AME version is 2.5.0, what should I do?

p.s - The modification works, but I can't get my footer back.

[talkncaasports]

Originally Posted by sensimilla

imeem does not work for me.. it just a link in my post, any ideas ?

Works for me. But my list of definitions that doesn't is ever growing. I will be creating a list so maybe DJ could help me out maybe. For example, ESPN does not work for me.

[sensimilla]

after upgrade youtube gets parsed twice with an error...

[The Geek]

Sens: You have 2 youtube definitions.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by talkncaasports

Works for me. But my list of definitions that doesn't is ever growing. I will be creating a list so maybe DJ could help me out maybe. For example, ESPN does not work for me.

Keep in mind, many media sites change their formats frequently. Also, many definitions will need updating for this version.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Yellow Slider

after reinstalling it, the footer disappeared (nothing seems to help)
do you use any special PHP functions with this Modification that I need to apply in my server?

I've installed version 2.5.1 and in the Installed Products section the AME version is 2.5.0, what should I do?

p.s - The modification works, but I can't get my footer back.

What footer? Your page footer? I couldnt imagine this mod affecting the vB footer?

You don't need special functions for this to work. If your site runs vB, this will be fine

If you installed 2.5.1, it will be fine. Looks like I just didn't update the internal version number (will do for next update)

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by sensimilla

imeem does not work for me.. it just a link in my post, any ideas ?

It is most likely that the definition needs updating (imeem isnt a default definition)