Show Thread Enhancements - AME - Auto Media Embedding (youtube, Amazon, google, myspace, etc...)

From the inventors of Swiss Cheese and the Egg comes AME - The Automatic Media Embedding System.

Note that Version 2.0.0 can be found here

AME is derived from GAL 6 base code but instead of linking keywords, it converts URLs that users paste or enter in their posts into inline embedded video streams.

Big credit goes out to mfyvie for the original concept that jazzed me up enough to lift code that I have been working on to radically improve his fresh idea. Though the same goal, I have taken a totally different approach to his initial release. This mod is 100% steaming fresh code straight from the Geeks oven of love.

First... the overview

AME scans new and edited posts for pre-defined patterns of URLs (i.e. youtube's). If it finds a match, it swaps the url tag for an ame tag.
When a post get parsed for bbcode and an ame tag is found, instead of hammering away at the post with umpteen bbcodes, AME quietly figures out which pre-defined embedding should be placed there and... viola', you have a pretty little embedded video like this:

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This is significantly faster, has much lower overhead and is much easier to manage than loads of bbcodes or a than scanning every single post as the user views it to see if there are any conversions that need to be made.

Now for the bells and whistles

AME:

• is lightweight as it does all of her chores without the overhead of having 1 bbcode per pattern or trying to parse a post every single time it gets displayed with a bunch of patterns. This radically reduces overhead and speeds up the processing. The only time ame will kick in is after creating a new post or after editing an existing one (or if an ame tag is found in a post)
• is extensible. She allows you to add, edit, delete, import and export patterns. That way you can decide which services to support, how they should look and then share them with others!
• can extract the title (requires your server to allow url wrappers with fetch_contents)
• can extract embed code from sites whose URLs do not contain sufficient information to embed the video
• can rebuild your old posts to convert your 'other' mediaish tags into URL tags.
• can rebuild your old posts to convert URL tags into ame tags where needed
• can convert her codes BACK to url codes so you're not stuffed with a bunch of dead tags if you uninstall!
• won't uglify your site by having videos appear in quotes, php, code or html blocks (blech!)
• can be globally disabled
• can be excluded from forums
• can exclude usergroups
• can be toggled on/off per post
• would cook dinner for you if she had arms
• can wrap the output in a 'container' with original URL
• has a super comprehensive admincp help system. Yes, I actually took the time to add all the info you need into vB's admincp help system. If you ask a silly question in this thread that is addressed in the help system, you will be taunted.
• is fully phrased
• has hooks around integral operations so you can extend it

Add ons

AME comes configured with YouTube, Myspacetv, Google Video, Bolt, iFilm, Yahoo, Dailymotion, Amazon and MetaCafe Support built in. Since the amount of providers are always changing and most sites will only need a particular amount, AME has been designed with an import and export system to allow members to easily share formats with one another. In fact, the second post of this thread is updated periodically to relflect those add ons. Currently there are over 12 more additional formats contributed by AME users. Click here to see them.

Installation

• Upload the contents of the forums folder into your forums directory and import the product.xml file into your product manager.
• 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.

Troubleshooting

See this post on troubleshooting

A note about support and such

I have my plate pretty full with taking care of my commercial mods and the support that comes with them. Saying that, I will help when I can - but to be honest, I have ensured that there should be little to no support needed on this mod as it is very much self contained.
Please do not PM or post asking me to give you regexp's to support additional media streams. I built the system so that you can add your own providers as well as the ability to import and export them. If you still need a pattern but are not great with regular expressions (who is?) then I suggest getting RegExpBuddy. Although I am not expert at regular expressions, I did a quick start tutorial on AME regexps here if you want to check it out. I don't mind you guys asking amongst each other for these things, but just note that I will most likely not respond to the requests.

I will reserve the first couple of posts in this thread to periodically add user contributed patterns to import and for additional information (I hate mega long first post's in the release section). So check there for up to date information.

nJoy

[Dannyloski]

Originally Posted by loonytune15

OK I have a huge problem.

I installed the photopost add-on re ran the convert posts and now all my posts are gone.

Every post has disappeared...

Help???

Whoa, first time I heard of this one ... Please tell me you have a Backup of your Database ... If you do then just upload it ... If not, try disabling the Photopost Add-on and see if the post come back ... Do you have a link to your site I can see? Also, do you have a link to the Photopost Add-on?

Originally Posted by tim330i

Is there a way to work around the censor filter? We have HTML on and then censored out a ton of potentially troublesome tags, including the embed tag. Installed this hack and it doesn't seem to work around the censor, but this other hack does -

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=150761

Anyway to make it work the way the other hack does?

Tim

You'll have to wait for The Geek to help you out with this one ...

Originally Posted by AdmiralGeek

I have a few favours to pull, and this is a very promising hack. so I will get a few fellow geeks to work on a FLV, SWF, MP3-WAV- and all relative image formats for auto embedding. If all goes well they may be able to add a DIVx compatibility. the DIVx all depends on how annoying the auto plugin procedures will be for the users.

They may need to re-author your code in some ways, so with your permission can this go forward?

You'll need to wait for The Geek to come back and grant you permission, but to tell you the truth, they dont really need to do anything (as far as changing the Hack's Code) The way this hack is made it allows for users to add support to sites/content using the Import System and uploading an .xml file with the correct RegEx's ... I have already added support for DivX (link here) ... As far as FLV, SWF, MP3, WAV, etc ... I am working on something to see if it'll work ...

Originally Posted by iogames

Great job Danny!

Have not seen 'Team Work' like this since I started using vB... :up:

No problem, just glad I'm able to help ...

[Dannyloski]

Okay guys, small problem ... I was using RegExBuddy Trial Version to add support for AME, but well the trial version ended today. So I wont be able to add anymore RegEx/Support for AME unless someone is willing to buy the license for it, which is $39.95 USD (www.regexbuddy.com) ... I quite frankly am not gonna spend any money on buying it, so sorry guys ... I was working on a MP3, WAV, SWF, FLV RegEx, but I cannot finish it without this software ...

[DieselMinded]

Ill Buy you the software if you Add the ability to my site for Members to Buy Each other Gift Subscriptions

DM

[Dannyloski]

^ Im not experienced enough to do that code, sorry ...

[Finster]

How do I take the player from the standard 4:3 and make my 16:9 videos render as widescreen with this player?

Conversely, if I do that, what will happen to the majority of videos from others that are 4:3?

Thanks guys!

[loonytune15]

Originally Posted by Dannyloski

Whoa, first time I heard of this one ... Please tell me you have a Backup of your Database ... If you do then just upload it ... If not, try disabling the Photopost Add-on and see if the post come back ... Do you have a link to your site I can see? Also, do you have a link to the Photopost Add-on?

I have disabled the photobucket add-on. The link for it is in the 3rd post of this thread.

My site is in my sig.

and no I didn't have a back-up, as this was the second forum i installed this on and the first ran perfect. I haven;t installed the add-on for the other forum as yet..

[Hornstar]

Updated without any problems so far ^^ I should check my inbox on that account more often ^^

[Hornstar]

Originally Posted by Dannyloski

Okay guys, small problem ... I was using RegExBuddy Trial Version to add support for AME, but well the trial version ended today. So I wont be able to add anymore RegEx/Support for AME unless someone is willing to buy the license for it, which is $39.95 USD (www.regexbuddy.com) ... I quite frankly am not gonna spend any money on buying it, so sorry guys ... I was working on a MP3, WAV, SWF, FLV RegEx, but I cannot finish it without this software ...

I have sent you a pm, with the full version

[jasculs]

Originally Posted by loonytune15

There is nothing there at all.

It has post reply then the bar with thread tools etc..

then the post reply button again..

I had a similar problem like this one also....revert your postbit template and see what happens. That worked for me.

[loonytune15]

***edit***

I have sourced the problem and its not with this hack.

I forgot i did an update with the moods hack at the same time i was doing the add-on for this hack as previously mentioned. After turning off all products, the posts reapeared, and when i diabled this hack the problem remained.

After turning off every hack one by one, I finally found the problem. Always the bottom hack in the list..

So I will be reinstalling this hack and hopefully I can find out the problem in the other hack's thread.

Thanks for your help..