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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[emdee]

the signature does not embed.

example the yellow user

any ideas why?

[ForumUser210]

It's not working! Gaaa!!!

YouTube links aren't being converted to Video.

Does it work with 3.8.4?

[Saviour]

Not sure if I'll get a response to this, since this mod appears to be un-supported, but will anyway...just in case.

Anyway, I use this mod...and it's great. I've run into one small issue, though. I have another mod installed that allows a person to list their PC Specs in a drop-down box...however, this dropdown menu is hidden by the player in a post.

Now...I know I can edit the <object> tag in order to fix this, but for the life of me can't find where to edit it.

Does anyone know how to resolve this...or can they point me in the right direction? I certainly would appreciate it.

[oddmud]

It works with 3.8.4 patch level 1, i followed the instructions and it works.

[Kr33p3r]

Originally Posted by The Geek

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.

Not into the feed, I think I have the same question.

I have an RSS plugin that will watch a feed, then create a post in a thread automatically.

The subsequent post isn't parsed by AME because it gets posted by a job that runs every 30 minutes.

If I edit then save the post, its parsed correctly.

Any thoughts to a workaround?

[elroger]

When I put a link like: [url] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBiGrHc0Xy4 [/ url]
works and it embeds the video, but when I put it this way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBiGrHc0Xy4 not working

How do I fix?, (I have disabled the url's in the forum) and I want the url off, it continues to detect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBiGrHc0Xy4 but not using [url]. .. [/ url].

Greetings and thanks

[Nadeemjp]

hey will you be considering to upgrade for vb4? cause i dont wanna loose this mod

[inciarco]

I've Tried Uninstalling and Re-installing, (and Re-Uploading the Files, of course), and the same Error Occurs, when I Click "Preview Post" the Link "Automatically embed media" to Activate/Deactivate the Media Embedding (located below the "Automatically parse links in text") Dissapears, Leaving the Option Activated.

How can I Correct this?

Where should I look to Leave the Option Visible Always to be able to Activate/Deactivate it?

My Best Regards.

Originally Posted by inciarco

Possible Bug?

When I Create a Thread, or a New Post, or Edit a Thread, or Edit a New Post, (and go to the "Go Advanced" Editor, of course), on the First Displayed Page (newthread.php, newreply.php, editpost.php) the Option "Automatically embed media (requires automatic parsing of links in text to be on)." appears, but when I Click the "Preview Changes" Button the Option Dissapears, leaving only the other ones and unabling me to Unselect it for the URLs not to be Converted to Embedded Videos.

I'm Trying this Mod on my vB373 PL1 Test Forum.

Is Somebody Experiencing this Error Too, (on vB38x and vB37x)?

If so, what can I do to Correct it? What Should I Check and Change?

On the Version 2.2 this Error doesn't Happen, it Happened only on the Update to Verson 2.5.

My Best Regards.

[MasterofWorlds]

Is there any chance to get version 2.5.4 back? v2.5.5 just will not code any of the ame tag links anymore.

[ForumUser210]

I need help!

I have -- vBulletin 3.8.4.

In my definitions, I have only YouTube. When I post a YouTube link, it does not convert to video embed.

I have cache set to on. But, when I look in /amecache/ameinfo.php and findonly.php, it still has Amazon codes (which I deleted in definitions, but they still appear here)! And, these files don't show any YouTube code! What is the deal?

How do I get this working?


Did I upload files to the right categories? Yes.
Did I chmod folder /amecache/? Yes.
Is the path to /amecache/ correct? Yes.
Are usergroup settings for AME set to Yes? Yes.
Is Setting 'Disable New Items' turned to No? Yes.
Is the definition for YouTube active? Yes.
What is the regex for your YouTube definition?

[http://]*[a-z]*?[\.]?youtube\.[a-z]*?/watch\?v=([A-Z0-9._%-]*)[&\w;=\+_\-]*

Never mind! I got it. It seems though my folder was chmoded 777, I had to also chmod ameinfo.php and findinfo.php to 777 also.

Cheers!