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

[mc2w]

Originally Posted by barcena

Update

I just disable passiveVid (Automaticlly turns video links like youtube, myspace videos, google vidoes into the video players) and I have no two Youtube videos anymore BUT I'm not seeing the Google videos anymore, just the link. I do have the AME working bc of the way the Youtube video shows (see attachment) but now nothing else is showing, just the link.

By default, AME only comes with definitions for Youtube and Amazon. Try importing this: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=195884

[barcena]

Thanks MC2, I was thinking on that this afternoon and for some reason I get lost w/ so many AME's but now you just redirected me to the right track, i'm downloading and installing the product, fingers crossed.

Thanks.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by mc2w

http://wiflba.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11

For some threads it doesn't happen, but it's happening in this one (which you can see if you try to quote it) (I'll unlock the post so you can try if you'd like)

Edit: Here's an update on the problem: The problem only occurs if there's a link that cannot be parsed (e.g. one in a code tag or one with embedding disabled)

I can't duplicate this, can you provide screen shots or a test account for your site?

Originally Posted by popular

ive tried reinstalling , taking out youtube before i added it again so it isn't duplicate but same thing happens heres the full code i get whenever i try to post youtube it just pastes this in my post instead, any idea why? i just checked it and happens with other sites too , is my forum not allowing bbcode or something?

I have come across this only once before and it took hours for me to find the problem. If indeed it is the same anomoly It is some kind of variable caching that is causing AME's processes to get mixed up. TO resolve it, try this and let me know (note that you will need to do this for future upgrades unless I can find a way around it)

Both changes are to the includes/ame_bbcode.php file.

Change 1:

around line 45 Find:

PHP Code:

    if ($refresh)
    {
        
        $inied = false;
        
    } 


replace with:

PHP Code:

    if ($refresh)
    {
        
        $inied = false;
        $ameinfo = array();
        
    } 


around line 296 find:

PHP Code:

$ameinfo = fetch_full_ameinfo(true); 


replace with:

PHP Code:

$ameinfo = fetch_full_ameinfo(true, true); 


HTHs

[mc2w]

The first screenshot is me added a link in a code box to show people how you only have to link to it.

The second is screenshot is what I get after I save and reopen the post in the editor. You'll see that the line break(s) that seperated the unembedded url (in the code box) to the "Vimeo" have been removed.

[popular]

Hey Geeks, that was the solution! thanks for the help and thanks for responding =))) marked as installed

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by mc2w

The first screenshot is me added a link in a code box to show people how you only have to link to it.

The second is screenshot is what I get after I save and reopen the post in the editor. You'll see that the line break(s) that seperated the unembedded url (in the code box) to the "Vimeo" have been removed.

Not sure what to make of that, as far as I can tell, the only difference between the two is that there is a missing line break after the code block in the second picture. AME does some limited processing of code blocks (to prevent AME from enbedding in quotes and such) but not sure how this would cause what you are saying. Anyhoo, i'll look into it, but am busy trying to put together a new version that supports a testbed and overridable options.

Thanks

[egyptsons]

Thanks for the update

[38modify]

This by far is very awesome. I am wondering though, how I can take my own videos that are on my server and have it do this for FLV and SWF files. Is this possible? Because this would be very needed since youtube videos are capped at 10 minutes and I would like to play my 45 min interviews. thanks in advance.

[The Geek]

Thanks. Think there is a defintion for this in DJ's thread, but I'm not 100% sure if its updated or not.

PLease click install if you intalled

[Reycer]

ok I have tried SEVERAL times, uninstalling and reinstalling, but all I am ever getting on any video is something similar to this when it posts.

[fox_news]http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=7069951&maven_re ferralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/[/fox_news]

No video. On anything. Any thoughts as to why?