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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[The Geek]

Originally Posted by ski diva

No, no other signature modifications. When I disable AME, the problem goes away,

I can't reproduce this. Do you have any custom definitions installed that could be causing the problem?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Bonee70

Hello, I really love this piece of software but it is not really working for the EA-Sports links.

I run a EA-Madden-League and members post their Game-Highlights as links on the EA-Sports site.

The posted links to the Videos can look like this:

1) http://www.easportsworld.com/en_US/video/8157415

and is automatically converted into

2) http://beta.easports.com/media/play/video/8157415

When posting the first link on my board, AME converts the link into the container, showing a nice EA-Logo and the link on top of the container is directing the user to the correct EA site, but the video won't start. Instead I get the triangle with a exclamation mark in it.

When people post the converted link (#2) it just shows up unconverted (without the container) as a simple link.

I have made an example on my board to show the problem. May anyone give me a hint what to change in the EA-Sports definition so that the replay videos can be played within the post on my board when either #1 or #2 link gets posted? Thank you very much!

Here is the example how the EA links (#1 and #2) show up within a post on my board:

http://www.maddenliga.de/forum/showt...2271#post12271

SOunds like a problem with the custom definition that you are using. Sadly I can't really offer direct support in this thread for custom definitions, but if you post in DJs thread (assuming thats where you got it from) with example URLs then I will see if I can set some time aside to investigate it for you.

[Bonee70]

Thanks for the reply Geek, I have put my post into DJs thread (post #740).

[quasan]

@the developer:
edited. i am sorry . I should have checked that it was an extension to your mod

sorry for the mess

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by quasan

@the developer:

you should cleary state that you add your referal id to the amazon links. I am really annoyed that hundreds of amazonlinks on my board now have your amazon-referral id on it before i noticed it

Look. I really like your mod and have nothing against that you earn some bucks with this mod, but be transparent please.

#fail

Huh? I don't have a referral id nor have I ever been part of their (or any) network. Are you sure you are using only the default version? Maybe you imported a custom definition? I have just checked the source code and the default definition does not contain an affiliate code (at least one that I can see)

[ski diva]

Originally Posted by The Geek

I can't reproduce this. Do you have any custom definitions installed that could be causing the problem?

Nope.

[tkam]

Originally Posted by quasan

@the developer:

you should cleary state that you add your referal id to the amazon links. I am really annoyed that hundreds of amazonlinks on my board now have your amazon-referral id on it before i noticed it

Look. I really like your mod and have nothing against that you earn some bucks with this mod, but be transparent please.

#fail

Don't blame AME this is not a part of the default install, it's from DJ's AME definitions: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=195884. You can edit out the referral id, it's in like 5 or 6 spots I think.

[quasan]

i updated my post. i am really sorry for the mixup

[nick-harper]

How can I make it so that guests do not get a link but an error message saying "Please Register to View the Video"?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by nick-harper

How can I make it so that guests do not get a link but an error message saying "Please Register to View the Video"?

set usergroup permissions so they don't get the video, then edit the ame_templates to show your registration link instead of the URL.

HTHs!