Show Thread Enhancements - AME - Auto Media Embedding (youtube, Amazon, google, myspace, etc...)

From the inventors of Swiss Cheese and the Egg comes AME - The Automatic Media Embedding System.

Note that Version 2.0.0 can be found here

AME is derived from GAL 6 base code but instead of linking keywords, it converts URLs that users paste or enter in their posts into inline embedded video streams.

Big credit goes out to mfyvie for the original concept that jazzed me up enough to lift code that I have been working on to radically improve his fresh idea. Though the same goal, I have taken a totally different approach to his initial release. This mod is 100% steaming fresh code straight from the Geeks oven of love.

First... the overview

AME scans new and edited posts for pre-defined patterns of URLs (i.e. youtube's). If it finds a match, it swaps the url tag for an ame tag.
When a post get parsed for bbcode and an ame tag is found, instead of hammering away at the post with umpteen bbcodes, AME quietly figures out which pre-defined embedding should be placed there and... viola', you have a pretty little embedded video like this:

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This is significantly faster, has much lower overhead and is much easier to manage than loads of bbcodes or a than scanning every single post as the user views it to see if there are any conversions that need to be made.

Now for the bells and whistles

AME:

• is lightweight as it does all of her chores without the overhead of having 1 bbcode per pattern or trying to parse a post every single time it gets displayed with a bunch of patterns. This radically reduces overhead and speeds up the processing. The only time ame will kick in is after creating a new post or after editing an existing one (or if an ame tag is found in a post)
• is extensible. She allows you to add, edit, delete, import and export patterns. That way you can decide which services to support, how they should look and then share them with others!
• can extract the title (requires your server to allow url wrappers with fetch_contents)
• can extract embed code from sites whose URLs do not contain sufficient information to embed the video
• can rebuild your old posts to convert your 'other' mediaish tags into URL tags.
• can rebuild your old posts to convert URL tags into ame tags where needed
• can convert her codes BACK to url codes so you're not stuffed with a bunch of dead tags if you uninstall!
• won't uglify your site by having videos appear in quotes, php, code or html blocks (blech!)
• can be globally disabled
• can be excluded from forums
• can exclude usergroups
• can be toggled on/off per post
• would cook dinner for you if she had arms
• can wrap the output in a 'container' with original URL
• has a super comprehensive admincp help system. Yes, I actually took the time to add all the info you need into vB's admincp help system. If you ask a silly question in this thread that is addressed in the help system, you will be taunted.
• is fully phrased
• has hooks around integral operations so you can extend it

Add ons

AME comes configured with YouTube, Myspacetv, Google Video, Bolt, iFilm, Yahoo, Dailymotion, Amazon and MetaCafe Support built in. Since the amount of providers are always changing and most sites will only need a particular amount, AME has been designed with an import and export system to allow members to easily share formats with one another. In fact, the second post of this thread is updated periodically to relflect those add ons. Currently there are over 12 more additional formats contributed by AME users. Click here to see them.

Installation

• Upload the contents of the forums folder into your forums directory and import the product.xml file into your product manager.
• 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.

Troubleshooting

See this post on troubleshooting

A note about support and such

I have my plate pretty full with taking care of my commercial mods and the support that comes with them. Saying that, I will help when I can - but to be honest, I have ensured that there should be little to no support needed on this mod as it is very much self contained.
Please do not PM or post asking me to give you regexp's to support additional media streams. I built the system so that you can add your own providers as well as the ability to import and export them. If you still need a pattern but are not great with regular expressions (who is?) then I suggest getting RegExpBuddy. Although I am not expert at regular expressions, I did a quick start tutorial on AME regexps here if you want to check it out. I don't mind you guys asking amongst each other for these things, but just note that I will most likely not respond to the requests.

I will reserve the first couple of posts in this thread to periodically add user contributed patterns to import and for additional information (I hate mega long first post's in the release section). So check there for up to date information.

nJoy

[mezcal33]

I'm having a problem. If someone posts a link to any of the supported video sites the link is converted to url tags but the player isn't showing in the posts. I can edit a post or make a new post and surround it with ame tags and the player shows up fine. Any thoughts?

Edit: also on the rebuild post page, it seems to go through the post listing post numbers but the "About XXX pages left" number isn't changing.

[deepak7]

How can I make this work for vbulletin blog also?

Cause it isnt :/

[Dagoor]

Thank you so much for this hack and the xml files that people upload for various video streaming site is just too cool

One thing i realize is that some links, if you dont put the www in the beginning it wont work. since it is not defined in the codes. so for those who paste the url and dont see the video, some site have their url like this http://sitename.com rather than http://www.sitename.com. just add the www to the link or edit the imported xml files manually.

The one site i had problems with was VIMEO. their site like i said dont start with www. so you have to add it in the beginning when you paste.

i thought this might help some

[Tom_S]

Is anyone having an issue with Youtube not working? Anyone who is posting a Youtube video is getting an error on it stating "We're sorry, this video is no longer available." but in fact it is available.

Is there something I missed here? This just started. Everything was working fine.

[Ville]

Some of my users were wondering the same today ("We're sorry, this video is no longer available.") Perhaps YouTube changed something, or perhaps they're having some technical problems.. It doesn't seem to happen with all videos, just some, and not all the time.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Tom_S

Is anyone having an issue with Youtube not working? Anyone who is posting a Youtube video is getting an error on it stating "We're sorry, this video is no longer available." but in fact it is available.

Is there something I missed here? This just started. Everything was working fine.

I'm been seeing that "Video is not available" message on several embedded videos across the web. The player I created for my MySpace page did the same thing, and all my videos were still there. This is more then likely having nothing to do with the mod, but a YouTube issue.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by NashChristian

Can anyone help me to get this to work with GodTube.com?

Here is a direct URL for a video:
http://www.godtube.com/view_video?vi...f61ae7edb98288

Here is the embed code for the same video:


So far all that I'm able to produce on my forum post is a hyperlink for the video, which then opens in a new window. I tried the tests for utube and meta cafe, which both work as intended, this hack apparently just needs to be configured to work with GodTube.com for my videos to work.

Here is a demo of the problem which I'm encountering on my forums.

Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!
Jeff

Yes, each website you want to use has to be created or imported via the Admin CP. GodTube is available for import in the XML releases by hotwheels: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=157109

[lazytown]

Gread mod -- Still seems to be working fine for me (though I am running 3.6.5).

I am a little worried that this continue to be supported long-term since it made changes to thousands of existing forum posts. I'm sure "The Geek" would never abandon us.

-vissa

[tormodg]

Originally Posted by vissa

Gread mod -- Still seems to be working fine for me (though I am running 3.6.5).

I am a little worried that this continue to be supported long-term since it made changes to thousands of existing forum posts. I'm sure "The Geek" would never abandon us.

-vissa

He has recently stopped supporting any of his mods. I doubt he will work on this one anymore when he bailed out on GARS.

[Digital Jedi]

He states in this mod description that he worked on AME so that it wouldn't need a lot of support.