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

[developpez.com]

I have a problem. When I activate the "Extract destination data" setting (required to make dailymotion to work), if the title has accentued letters in it, it will be shows in utf-8 encoded form. The mods lacks a utf8_decode() call somewhere.

Example :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIBGpG1Gy2g

Gives as title :
YouTube - BANDE SON -- Les sous doués passent le Bac

where it should have been
YouTube - BANDE SON -- Les sous dou?s passent le Bac

Fixed by adding utf8_decode() at the two returns in the ame_fetch_www_page function in includes/ame_bbcode.php

[Gamelobby]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Love this Mod, but i recently installed a mod called "Garage" and was wondering how to go about getting Photobucket (or any videos) to work in it.?

Garage Mod - https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=216529

I'm wondering if it is their mod that is stopping it, or this mod that needs to be adapted to work in that section.

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

It depends on what URL strings the modification uses, but I can look into it.

Any luck..?
Or any questions or info i can give to help with your research.?

Also they have another mod called "Clubs" that would be cool to be able to add videos to also.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Gamelobby

Any luck..?
Or any questions or info i can give to help with your research.?

Also they have another mod called "Clubs" that would be cool to be able to add videos to also.

I'm still trying to catch up on a few other things.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by The Geek

I can't claim to know all about mobile phone browsers, however if you look at the js file, it is one function that toggles the hiding/unhiding of the media based on usergroup permissons. Simply edit the ame_output template of your mobile style to be:

<a href="$ameinfo[url]" />$ameinfo[title]</a>

And there will be nothing for the js to do. If you do that, I would edit the mobiles ame_container template and delete all the HTML in it (so its an empty template)

That should do you fine.

I went ahead and made a mod thread with the template edits and marked it as an add-on to this thrad, since this question does come up a lot: AME Templates for Mobile Skin

[P.Jackson]

When we post a link we don't actually get a video, its just a link to the video. any ideas?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by P.Jackson

When we post a link we don't actually get a video, its just a link to the video. any ideas?

Post an example of where that's happening.

[rladner]

When I view a post in IE6 through IE8 the video doesnt show at all, any recommendations?

Here is an example - http://www.40by20.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33

They all play fine except in IE6,7,8

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by rladner

When I view a post in IE6 through IE8 the video doesnt show at all, any recommendations?

Here is an example - http://www.40by20.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33

They all play fine except in IE6,7,8

Are you actually using AME 2.5, because it looks to me like your height and width parameters are being stripped out? Your source code shows the height and width for your videos blank. That would only happen if you were using a 2.0- version of AME and the definitions for 2.5.

[rladner]

Yes, I'm using 2.5. Heres what it shows on my installed products

AME - The Automatic Media Embeder 2.5.5 Automatically embeds media URLs with posts


Here's what Im using for the youtube definitions:

regular expression:

http://[\w]+\.youtube\.[\w]+/watch\?v=([\w-]+)[\w&;=]*[\#t=]*([\d]*)s?

replacement:

<object width="$ameinfo[width]" height="$ameinfo[height]">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/$p1&start=$p2"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/$p1&start=$p2" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="$ameinfo[width]" height="$ameinfo[height]" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Are you actually using AME 2.5, because it looks to me like your height and width parameters are being stripped out? Your source code shows the height and width for your videos blank. That would only happen if you were using a 2.0- version of AME and the definitions for 2.5.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by rladner

Yes, I'm using 2.5. Heres what it shows on my installed products

AME - The Automatic Media Embeder 2.5.5 Automatically embeds media URLs with posts


Here's what Im using for the youtube definitions:

regular expression:

http://[\w]+\.youtube\.[\w]+/watch\?v=([\w-]+)[\w&;=]*[\#t=]*([\d]*)s?

replacement:

<object width="$ameinfo[width]" height="$ameinfo[height]">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/$p1&start=$p2"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/$p1&start=$p2" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="$ameinfo[width]" height="$ameinfo[height]" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>

Only thing I can think of is to check your Height and Width global settings in the AME CP and make sure they aren't blank. Then resave your posts and see if the settings stick. If that doesn't work, then go into your media definition and in the Replacement HTML put brackets around each instance of the size variables. Remember that you'll probably have more than two each definition:

width="{$ameinfo[width]}" height="{$ameinfo[height]}"

Then resave the posts and see if that helps.