BB Code Enhancements - AME3 - Auto Media Embeding and Video Extender

From the makers of Smooth and Jazz comes the singing sensation my mom has been waiting months for:

AME3. Bigger. Badder. Bestest.

NOTE ABOUT vB4.0.3: ------------------------------------------------------------

vBulletin 4.0.3 has changed the way video codes are handled and in the process, inadvertently broke AME3. I have submitted a bug report and believe that the issue will be quickly resolved. There is a manual fix you can apply for 4.0.3 here in the interim.
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AME3 is the sequel to the multi award winning AME 1x and AME 2x systems. AME3. This time, its different.

Vote for AME3 as MotM!

If you like AME3, you'll love AME'fy for your profiles!

AME3 does 3 things:

• It allows users to simply paste URLs into their message without having to use the video bbcode or video popup box.
• It allows you to add, edit and customise the video definitions that ship with vB4
• It allows you to import community created definitions to extend the system in ways you otherwise couldn't.

Now you can use AME anywhere you can use video bbcode: posts, blogs, visitor messages, the CMS, etc...

Note that I am releasing this early for beta testing and general feedback. There is currently a bug in RC2, RC4 and 4.0.0 that will prevent AME from working however there is a workaround posted below.

I have written a pretty comprehensive readme and attached it seperatly to this post. I suspect both this post and the readme will get updated as AME3 becomes finalised.

[sticky]

Originally Posted by steveyos666

Does this work with 4.1.0?

Same question.

Pretty lame of this developer to just abandon this product after getting tons of admins hooked on it. A shame his morality only covers what corporations are doing.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by sticky

Same question.

Pretty lame of this developer to just abandon this product after getting tons of admins hooked on it. A shame his morality only covers what corporations are doing.

That's pretty judgmental. He dropped development of all vBulletin products to develop for another forum script, as is his right to do so. Any project on vBulletin.org could be dropped at a moment's notice. We use this stuff at our own risk.

[RobbieZ]

Originally Posted by sticky

Same question.

Pretty lame of this developer to just abandon this product after getting tons of admins hooked on it. A shame his morality only covers what corporations are doing.

a) I agree with DJ's comment above and would like to add 'not supported' has been ticked,

b) read the coder's original comment on why he is not supporting it here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=775

c) if members want to carry on with this project and fix it in this thread then The Geek has done the decency to leave it available for download and you yourself as a community to keep it alive.

[Sushubh]

I have personally switched to http://api.embed.ly/tools/script

It's not the same thing but works very nicely. Without breaking ANYTHING.

[sticky]

Originally Posted by RobbieZ

a) I agree with DJ's comment above and would like to add 'not supported' has been ticked,

b) read the coder's original comment on why he is not supporting it here: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....&postcount=775

c) if members want to carry on with this project and fix it in this thread then The Geek has done the decency to leave it available for download and you yourself as a community to keep it alive.

a) not supported after being supported is a bit irresponsible and leaves MANY people hanging.

b. I read his comments, he abandons everyone, great.

c. I'm glad we have people willing to pick up where he dropped the ball.

[sticky]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

That's pretty judgmental. He dropped development of all vBulletin products to develop for another forum script, as is his right to do so. Any project on vBulletin.org could be dropped at a moment's notice. We use this stuff at our own risk.

Absolutely, but I don't see why I can't provide my opinion when he has clearly shown his regarding Vb. With the way he dropped everyone I say good riddance and I thank you for picking up the slack.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by sticky

a) not supported after being supported is a bit irresponsible and leaves MANY people hanging.

b. I read his comments, he abandons everyone, great.

c. I'm glad we have people willing to pick up where he dropped the ball.

Actually, neither this, nor the early versions of AME were ever supported. I remember when the first one was posted and he would help out a little with new releases, making sure any initial bugs were worked out, but he had designed it then so that it didn't need to be. vB 4 kind of nerfed his ability to do it that way again. Problems just kept coming up. For a long time on vB3, it seemed supported, but that was just me answering newbie question and trying to pimp my definitions thread. (Did I just say that out loud?)

Originally Posted by sticky

Absolutely, but I don't see why I can't provide my opinion when he has clearly shown his regarding Vb. With the way he dropped everyone I say good riddance and I thank you for picking up the slack.

Actually, it was a very gradual process. Took several years before he ever fully dropped developing for vB. He turned over his paid hacks to Calorie several years ago, and did some free releases since then, like AME. AME was just the last one to go. The last straw in a lot of ways.

I'm not saying you can't voice your opinion. I'm just saying, given all the facts, it's not really a fair assessment. I actually defend his decision to leave, even though, it makes it harder for me to develop the massive definitions set I had been working on. But his decision to leave has forced me to try and take over development of AME if no one else beats me to the punch, forcing me to look into the beast of PHP that I'd been avoiding or putting off.

[Digital Jedi]

And yes, I know I say "actually" a lot. I'm working on it.

[doobiefillin]

are there any good alternatives to AME?

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by doobiefillin

are there any good alternatives to AME?

Not in my opinion. Though I'm admittedly biased, it's not that I don't think the other media embedders provide good service, it's that it doesn't have the "user end" support that AME does. Meaning, you only get the site the dev feels needed to be added to the modification, and if for some reason the dev has to take some time off, no one can offer ancillary additions.

For instance, someone over at the AME 2.5 section wanted me to add support for PlostoPleer. It was going to be a while before I got to it, so he figured it out and made one himself, then released it to the community.