BB Code Enhancements - AME3 - Auto Media Embeding and Video Extender

From the makers of Smooth and Jazz comes the singing sensation my mom has been waiting months for:

AME3. Bigger. Badder. Bestest.

NOTE ABOUT vB4.0.3: ------------------------------------------------------------

vBulletin 4.0.3 has changed the way video codes are handled and in the process, inadvertently broke AME3. I have submitted a bug report and believe that the issue will be quickly resolved. There is a manual fix you can apply for 4.0.3 here in the interim.
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AME3 is the sequel to the multi award winning AME 1x and AME 2x systems. AME3. This time, its different.

Vote for AME3 as MotM!

If you like AME3, you'll love AME'fy for your profiles!

AME3 does 3 things:

• It allows users to simply paste URLs into their message without having to use the video bbcode or video popup box.
• It allows you to add, edit and customise the video definitions that ship with vB4
• It allows you to import community created definitions to extend the system in ways you otherwise couldn't.

Now you can use AME anywhere you can use video bbcode: posts, blogs, visitor messages, the CMS, etc...

Note that I am releasing this early for beta testing and general feedback. There is currently a bug in RC2, RC4 and 4.0.0 that will prevent AME from working however there is a workaround posted below.

I have written a pretty comprehensive readme and attached it seperatly to this post. I suspect both this post and the readme will get updated as AME3 becomes finalised.

[twhiting9275]

Originally Posted by flypaper

Aww man, another one run off by the staff or community.

Or the company. All we can do is speculate on why the user has chosen to leave, though.
It is, however, quite sad to see developers run off like this, for whatever reason, especially people who've backed vB with their code for years

[Shadow09]

Does it work on vB 4.0.5 ?

[Weetabix]

Doh, wrong thread. Tabbed browsing is too much for my poor little brain to handle.

[VonDoom]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Hey peeps.

Got a concerned email about concerns over the reusability of AME codebase and what my "plans" were for it. So i just wanted to make a quick note to clarify that I am no longer developing AME (or anything else for vB). I hope the community can (and will) make use of the various versions of AME to keep it alive. Please do me a favour and keep relevant credits where they are due - but otherwise run with it and keep the project alive.

I won't go into the reasons for my walk away from vB - it doesn't after all take a genius to put it all together.

Best of luck all. Thanks for the fish

nJoy

Ugh say it isnt so.. Another one bites the Dust.. But with that said i do totally understand... Just wrote a long post about these things on my own forum.. My reasons to stick with vB are diminishing by the day...

[schlottkej]

Im going to guess that the reason he stopped is because vbulletin's new video system pretty much does exactly what AME does.

What vB needs to do now is make it easy to add additional definitions like AME does.

[Videx]

Originally Posted by schlottkej

Im going to guess that the reason he stopped is because vbulletin's new video system pretty much does exactly what AME does.

Is that true? I've never thought to turn off AME to see. If someone pastes in a youtube url vb405 actually embeds it automatically?

[thisgeek]

Originally Posted by Videx

Is that true? I've never thought to turn off AME to see. If someone pastes in a youtube url vb405 actually embeds it automatically?

No, vb405 definitely does not do automatic embedding.

[schlottkej]

no.. the link doesn't turn into a video, but if you click the video button and put the link in it does... essentially the same thing.. and it provides service to the same seven or so services too.

I think they both have their place, but if AME is going to wither up and die hopefully vBulletin can expand on their's to include everything AME does.

[Videx]

One embeds automatically and one doesn't. How can you define that as "essentially the same thing"? The whole point of AME has always been that it embeds automatically, with no user input required.

As for making it easy to add new definitions, AME has never been known for that. One guy seemed to have figured it out before, and he made his list available for download, but there was never any easy way to make your own.

[markwein]

Originally Posted by Shadow09

Does it work on vB 4.0.5 ?

I installed 4.0.5 yesterday and it stopped embedding new videos. I was hoping there would be a new update but it looks like thats not happening.