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

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Blacura

In blogs there is a database error even though i have this installed. please help me out with this one folks

As per the readme - if you install blogs after this product, you need to run the option in AME admincp tools menu

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by smokin1337

Is there anyway to make this parse links on FORUMHOME ? I want to put a video on my FORUMHOME and not sure how to do it, i will be changing the video regularly.

Not specifically. Why not just use HTML there?

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by Miss Chatterbox

I've just installed this and it's stopped my private messages from working! I get a notification of a PM and who it's from but when I click on the link to read the PM in comes up with a blank page. Any idea why this has happened? I tried uninstalling it and I could read my PM's fine again.

Please help!

Cant really understand how that could happen unless its a conflict with another mod. Saying that, this is one of the most installed 3.8 mods and I havent heard of this before. Check your servers error logs

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by jdougher

Lately, when posted, all YouTube videos are showing up twice, with the some code in-between, as in

" title="YouTube - Sen. Barack Obama's Full Speech to the DNC" target="_blank">YouTube - Sen. Barack Obama's Full Speech to the DNC

As per the readme - you have duplicate definitions. Delete one

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by papabear99

We are in need of the functionality of the vbGoogleMap add-on and I tried installing a few times and finding some work-arounds but, at the end of the day, it does NOT work with AME installed.

Has this issue been addressed before I uninstall it and buy Passive Video???

Cheers

Papa Bear

I havent heard of any issues before and not sure why this would cause a problem, but I suppose its plausible

If I get time I will look into it when I get back, but that wont be for at least a week.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by kris1351

Trying to use the product, but keep running into mod_sec errors. Any ideas on bypassing or what its using that is triggering?

[Fri Oct 09 12:25:56 2009] [error] [client xxxx] ModSecurity: Access denied with code 403 (phase 2). Match of "beginsWith http://%{SERVER_NAME}/" against "MATCHED_VAR" required. [file "/usr/local/apache/conf/modsec_rules/10_asl_rules.conf"] [line "689"] [id "340162"] [rev "160"] [msg "Remote File Injection attempt in ARGS (AE)"] [data ""] [severity "CRITICAL"] [hostname "www.xxxx.com"] [uri "/forum/admincp/automediaembed_admin.php"] [unique_id "Ss9yJEESeAIAAENJMkoAAAAG"]

Looks like some kind of custom security rule you have. Not sure why, but contact your host.

Originally Posted by kf4eok

Where can I find these definitions for download? I want see pdf files on my forum along with the other, Do I have to manualy add New Media Definition myself, if so how do i do that?
DOC (.DOC Extentions)
DOCX (.DOCX Extentions)
Thanks,
kf4eok

Try DJ's add on thread. But not sure what kind of auto embed you can do for word documents?

[mmiddleton]

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

Far be it from me to disagree since you're the author, but it seems to me like that indicates that it's a problem with the actual mod, rather than with the definition, since it's not automatically converting the url to ame.

Youtube, Vimeo and local definitions are showing up, but ONLY if I manually add the [ame] tags around the url. In other words, it's not doing this:

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.

I appreciate your feedback, and my apologies if I'm misunderstanding the process of how the mods and definitions interact.

[ericgtr]

For some reason this has stopped working on my board, not sure why but it will either just show up as a URL or it looks like this in the post:

test2

: PoliticalGroove Forums http://www.politicalgroove.com/showthread.php?p=xxx
<div align="center">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" width="425" style="margin:10px 0">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2" style="text-align:center">
<a href="" title="YouTube" target="_blank">YouTube</a>
</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<object width="425" height="350">
<param name=''movie'' value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-oj_PXJ5aXE&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-oj_PXJ5aXE&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div>
</div>" target="_blank">http://<div style="display: none;" i...<br /> </div>

I have also reinstalled just to be sure, any ideas? It's almost like youtube changed their code.

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by mmiddleton

Far be it from me to disagree since you're the author, but it seems to me like that indicates that it's a problem with the actual mod, rather than with the definition, since it's not automatically converting the url to ame.

Youtube, Vimeo and local definitions are showing up, but ONLY if I manually add the [ame] tags around the url. In other words, it's not doing this:
I appreciate your feedback, and my apologies if I'm misunderstanding the process of how the mods and definitions interact.

Again, AME doesnt do .wmv's, vimeo, etc... out of the box. If you are having an issue with those definitions, go ask the author in the add on post.

I posted the potential problem with youtube, it sounds like the validation is failing. As per the readme and troubleshooting, it sure helps to have examples of the video and screenshots of the result.

[The Geek]

Are you sure you don't have duplicate definitions? Can you post an example URL?

Originally Posted by ericgtr

For some reason this has stopped working on my board, not sure why but it will either just show up as a URL or it looks like this in the post:

test2

: PoliticalGroove Forums http://www.politicalgroove.com/showthread.php?p=xxx
<div align="center">
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="1" width="425" style="margin:10px 0">
<thead>
<tr>
<td class="tcat" colspan="2" style="text-align:center">
<a href="" title="YouTube" target="_blank">YouTube</a>
</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td class="panelsurround" align="center">
<object width="425" height="350">
<param name=''movie'' value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-oj_PXJ5aXE&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-oj_PXJ5aXE&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table></div>
</div>" target="_blank">http://<div style="display: none;" i...<br /> </div>

I have also reinstalled just to be sure, any ideas? It's almost like youtube changed their code.