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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[sevkotr]

can i change width and height of a vimeo video on any post?

such as: www.vimeo.com/videonumber width=600 height=200

[mickknutson]

Originally Posted by mickknutson

I have RSS Feeds being posted to to:
http://www.blincmagazine.com/forum/news-feeds/

from many sources, like YouTube. When the RSS feed posts the initial thread, the video is NOT parsed like this one IS:
http://www.blincmagazine.com/forum/n...uman-bird.html

The URL is just blank.

Right now, I have 2 work-around's:

1. Edit the Posting in Advanced mode, then save the the post is parsed.

2. Run the AME tools to re-parse all my threads.

Neither of these solutions are good for me as I have many dozen postings every day, and can not manually keep up.

So, is there a way to automate this in my one News RSS forum?

Any help setting up the embed post tool as a CRON????

/forum/admincp/automediaembed_admin.php?do=rebuild&zone=post

But I need the next page to actually POST.

[AfterWorldForum]

After seeing some of my internal links messed up, I disabled those from the definitions.

What would be the proper procedure to have only those disabled definitions reverted back to their old format? I tried removing all tags, which had a nasty side-effect in that suddenly everything, including the youtube videos posted by my members was reverted back to plain links.

And no matter what I tried, I could not get them back into embedded mode again. The posts contained a properly formatted tag with the following format:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDID]Title of the video on Youtube[/URL]


The only way I found I could fix it was by manually editing the posts, and replacing "title of the video on Youtube" with the url again.

Surely there must be a faster way to accomplish this?

Anyone?

Thanks in advance

[mmiddleton]

I uploaded AME, as instructed, and imported (via the VME CP) only the definitions that I want (Youtube, Vimeo) as well as a the .wmv and .mov definitions for locally hosted videos, and made the modifications, as indicated.

When I post the url for the video, it simply shows up as a link. HOWEVER, if I type in the code [ame]with the url[/ame] it works for vimeo and youtube, but not for locally hosted videos.

I've checked and rechecked each of the files in the forums directory, and can't find any errors. Any suggestions?

[mmiddleton]

Update: Locally hosted .wmv's are now working when the tags are manually added, as long as the link includes the http:// in the url. It's still not automatically converting the defined url's, though. Still looking for a possible cause, if anybody has an answer.

Michael

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by mmiddleton

I uploaded AME, as instructed, and imported (via the VME CP) only the definitions that I want (Youtube, Vimeo) as well as a the .wmv and .mov definitions for locally hosted videos, and made the modifications, as indicated.

When I post the url for the video, it simply shows up as a link. HOWEVER, if I type in the code [ame]with the url[/ame] it works for vimeo and youtube, but not for locally hosted videos.

I've checked and rechecked each of the files in the forums directory, and can't find any errors. Any suggestions?

With non default AME definitions, you need to speak to the person who wrote the definition. If youtube links are not showing up, it is most likely a validation problem. Make sure the video you are linking to allows external embedding.

As per the read me and troubleshooting, its best to post examples, but please only post examples of default definition problems in this thread to keep things nice n tidy

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by mmiddleton

Update: Locally hosted .wmv's are now working when the tags are manually added, as long as the link includes the http:// in the url. It's still not automatically converting the defined url's, though. Still looking for a possible cause, if anybody has an answer.

Michael

Aha, well, thats a problem with the custom definition. Please post in DJ's thread

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by AfterWorldForum

What would be the proper procedure to have only those disabled definitions reverted back to their old format? I tried removing all tags, which had a nasty side-effect in that suddenly everything, including the youtube videos posted by my members was reverted back to plain links. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDID]Title of the video on Youtube[/URL]

If you delete or disable a definition but still have AME installed, the old definitions should default to URLs. The only time you should need to revert AME to URL tags is if you are totally uninstalling the product.

HTHs

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by sevkotr

can i change width and height of a vimeo video on any post?

such as: www.vimeo.com/videonumber width=600 height=200

In this version you could write a template conditional i.e. <if condition="$ameinfo[key]=='vimeo'>blahblahblha

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by mickknutson

Any help setting up the embed post tool as a CRON????

/forum/admincp/automediaembed_admin.php?do=rebuild&zone=post

But I need the next page to actually POST.

If I understand correctly, you're trying to insert AME's into RSS feeds. You should be able to add a couple hooks for this, if you PM me a couple of RSS links, ill see if I can look into it when I get home next week.