Auto Embed You Tube Videos Help?

[Dpunkz]

How do i do this in my forums so i just got to post the url to the video and it will embed in my forums? I tryed to figure it out and could not, could some one explain pretty specifically, thanks!

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anyone?

[Videx]

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[Digital Jedi]

I'd more formally recommend AME - Auto Media Embedding . More supported video sites when used with the add-on definitions.

[Videx]

I dunno. The reason I didn't go with AME is because it alters the links, modifying the posts. That works, as long as the mod is installed and working. But after that, you're left with an archive full of useless links.

It just seems like a better idea not to alter posts. None of my other mods do, why should I allow AME to do it when it isn't necessary?

[Digital Jedi]

Alter links? AME doesn't alter links unless you decide to use the option to rebuild old BBCode you where using to embed media. Other then that, it doesn't do anything to the posts actual content. If you uninstall it, your left with a link to the original video, and a Titled link at that.

[Videx]

That's sure not what it says, to wit:

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, ...

[Digital Jedi]

Right, AME scans for a URL and swaps the URL --

Example:

 
<a href="http://www.videolink.com">www.videolink.com</a>)

-- for AME's predefined tags, meaning the embed code --

Example:

 
<object object width="424" height="337"> 
    <param name="movie"/>
    <param src="movieurl" />
    <embed src="movie="url"></embed>
</object>)

-- for a certain site.

When a post gets parsed for BBCode (i.e. URL tags) and it recognizes one of the predefined definitions for a certain site, it switches the BBCode HTML out for the embed code. In fact, the whole thinking behind AME is to eliminate the need for special media BBCode, as this is much less of a strain on the forum.

But your URL tags don't go anywhere. In fact, you can turn off specific sites, and those embedded videos will just be the original links (in fact they'll look a bit neater), or you can disable the whole product and all your embedded media will become links.

The only time you use the [AME][/AME] tags, which is what your probably thinking of, is when you want to rebuild old BBCode media tags you may have used. AME can go though your forum and replace them for older posts. But that's entirely optional, and not neccesary for new posts.