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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[wheezyb]

Originally Posted by wheezyb

any ideas about this guys?

Starting yesterday I've had issues with the viewing forum statistics (for a lack of a better term).

For example, I'll have 30 people online (and only have two forums and 99% of the traffic is in one forum), but in the forums home it will only show that 2-3 people are viewing the forum (when it is obviously not the case, multiple people are posting during this time).

When I click on currently active users, most users are from unknown locations. Underneath it reads: /clientscript/ame.js

I have the AME plugin installed, but I've had it installed for over a month with no such issues. Haven't made any CPanel modifications in a while either. Even still, I don't know why that plugin would have any effect on this issue (I don't even know that ame.js has anything to do with the AME plugin, just figured it did.)

I attached a screenshot of the currently active users to show what I'm talking about.

so it was definitely an AME issue, I uninstalled it and the forum viewing stats went back to normal.

kinda scared to reinstall now :-/

[metalguy639]

Originally Posted by metalguy639

Will this show up in a vbadvanced CMPS page? I have it set inside a news module and the videos are not showing up. What should I do to make them appear? I'm using vb 3.8.4 & CMPS 3.2.1.

What I did was make a custom module to display my custom news module copy (copied the news module to a new module). In this news module I want to show the parts of the post & the actual video, but all I get is the posts and not the video I embedded into that post. It works fine inside the forum where I posted the link, but it just does not show in vbadvanced CMPS. Any help would be great! Thanks.

Nevermind I found the answer on the vbadvanced forum. all you need to do to make it show up in vb cmps is increase the character limit for words in the mod setting.

[anthony_m]

I love the idea of this mod.... however, I am having somewhat of what seems to be an issue. (Mind you, I've only gone through about 20 of the 50 pages in this thread).

It appears to have installed just fine, I can access the cp and the settings. However, when I post a link to a youtube video, google video, or photobucket video (Only ones ive tried so far), it tells me that "External embedding not available". I read that this is supposed to happen with content that is set to not embed, but I made sure none of the content I tried had that setting.

I also installed the masterxml (Delta) def file successfuly...


Anyideas?

Here's a link to what I mean...
http://www.matsuvalleyohv.com/vbforu...sted=1#post526

Edit: "Direct link" works for photobucket... but still nothing else.

Edit: I also just noticed that this mod is for 3.8.0, and I have 3.8.3. Could this be my issue?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by anthony_m

I love the idea of this mod.... however, I am having somewhat of what seems to be an issue. (Mind you, I've only gone through about 20 of the 50 pages in this thread).

It appears to have installed just fine, I can access the cp and the settings. However, when I post a link to a youtube video, google video, or photobucket video (Only ones ive tried so far), it tells me that "External embedding not available". I read that this is supposed to happen with content that is set to not embed, but I made sure none of the content I tried had that setting.

I also installed the masterxml (Delta) def file successfuly...


Anyideas?

Here's a link to what I mean...
http://www.matsuvalleyohv.com/vbforu...sted=1#post526

Edit: "Direct link" works for photobucket... but still nothing else.

Edit: I also just noticed that this mod is for 3.8.0, and I have 3.8.3. Could this be my issue?

Looks like your server doesnt allow extraction and so the youtube entry is failing to validate. Turn off extraction and/or delete anything in the validation field of your youtube entry.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by wheezyb

so it was definitely an AME issue, I uninstalled it and the forum viewing stats went back to normal.

kinda scared to reinstall now :-/

Really not sure how that is related. If you look at the file, it is only 1 small function that simply toggles AME media on or off depending on the usergroups setting (unless the server and file have been compromised). I would double check the contents of your js file against a fresh copy.

[meeja]

This is a great mod, and I've been a fan (as my users have been) of the ability to embed Youtube videos. I've decided to try similar with Amazon - but it just won't work.

Neither links nor thumbnails options for Amazon will work right. No idea why.

Any insights? I've attached screenshots of both.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by meeja

This is a great mod, and I've been a fan (as my users have been) of the ability to embed Youtube videos. I've decided to try similar with Amazon - but it just won't work.

Neither links nor thumbnails options for Amazon will work right. No idea why.

Any insights? I've attached screenshots of both.

You appear to have more than one Amazon definition active, so they're doubling up.

[anthony_m]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Looks like your server doesnt allow extraction and so the youtube entry is failing to validate. Turn off extraction and/or delete anything in the validation field of your youtube entry.

Thanks for the response. I did as instructed, but still it will not embed. Any other ideas? Again, the Photobucket direct link will embed, dont nkow if that matters.

Thanks again for your help on this, great mod (If I can get it to work)

[meeja]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

You appear to have more than one Amazon definition active, so they're doubling up.

No, I make sure only one amazon definition is active each time, so when I screengrabbed (and posted amazon link) it was the only definition active.

[anthony_m]

uh.. please disregard any issues I was having. For whatever reason, it seems to all work now. The test area on my site was restricted, so even if it did work (Which it appears it did), it wouldn't have shown to work.

Thanks again, this is a great mod

Installed