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

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by buileminh

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

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

Super and informative. FWIW I like a system where I don't have to type BBcodes in. No more than other users like to wrap URLs in tags. Copy + Paste FTW. Not to mention bbcode tags like the above are VERY inefficient if you have multiple providers.

Anyhoo, thanks for sharing

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Schnee

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.

Thanks, Ill check it out

[Del_Boy]

Hi there,

I am trying to install this for the first time but when i try to import the "Djs Master XML (Delta)" it says invaild file specified.

What am i doing wrong?

Do i have the correct file or have i missed a step?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Del_Boy

Hi there,

I am trying to install this for the first time but when i try to import the "Djs Master XML (Delta)" it says invaild file specified.

What am i doing wrong?

Do i have the correct file or have i missed a step?

Hi. First off, make sure you click install on this mod please
Second, Make sure you are importing the definitions using AME's import system (not vBulletin's product importer)
Otherwise, you need to ask in the thread you downloaded the definition from.

HTHs!

[entertain]

Marked as installed and nominated for motm
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Signs in the title will still not be shown exactly.

[sensimilla]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Sens: You have 2 youtube definitions.

Originally Posted by The Geek

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

Thanks alot for your time and reply The Geek, I will use the opportunity to say I just love your comments in the installation process!
Take care,

[Yellow Slider]

Originally Posted by The Geek

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)

when I'm installing it all of the board footer disappear, there are some problems with the member.php page too and with the PM (You have 2 unread messages) I can't press on that part.

when I'm uninstalling it, everything is back to normal.

what can it be?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Yellow Slider

when I'm installing it all of the board footer disappear, there are some problems with the member.php page too and with the PM (You have 2 unread messages) I can't press on that part.

when I'm uninstalling it, everything is back to normal.

what can it be?

Only thing I can think of is some sort of mod conflict. This system isnt even invoked on member.php

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by sensimilla

Thanks alot for your time and reply The Geek, I will use the opportunity to say I just love your comments in the installation process!
Take care,

Thanks

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by entertain

Marked as installed and nominated for motm
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Signs in the title will still not be shown exactly.

Get me the URL of the video and Ill look into it