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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[The Geek]

Its vbSEO, you have it set to track all outbound links which changes links so that AME cant match them. To use AME you will need to disable vbSEO's tracking of all outbound links.

HTHs

[The Geek]

Originally Posted by cad2go

Anyone managed to achieve anything like this?

Sure, just edit the AME templates for that style so that it only includes the link

[cad2go]

Originally Posted by The Geek

Sure, just edit the AME templates for that style so that it only includes the link

Wow! This mod just gets better and better:up:

So replace in ame_output template

<div style="display: none;" id="ame_noshow_$ameinfo[id_tag]">
        <a href="$ameinfo[url]" title="$ameinfo[title]" target="_blank">$ameinfo[title]</a>
</div>
<div style="display: inline;" id="ame_doshow_$ameinfo[id_tag]">
$ame_results
</div>

with something like

<a href="$ameinfo[url]" title="$ameinfo[title]" target="_blank">$ameinfo[title]</a>

Basically! I'll give it a go! Cheers

PERFECT!

[DontWannaName]

When people paste filefront links to files, it thinks they are videos and just makes a huge empty space.

[dtommy79]

Does megavideo work for anyone?

[chick]

Currently if you BLOG THIS post with a video from a forum post... it goes over properly to vblog... BUT if you just 'create a blog' on your own and try to insert a video, it does not convert, just shows the link.... so

Will AME allow in to convert to an actual video when creating a vblog?

[Multani]

Can I align the video to the left of the post instead of center so it doesn't overlap with my ads?

- It's done.

[KevinL]

Originally Posted by Multani

Can I align the video to the left of the post instead of center so it doesn't overlap with my ads?

- It's done.

How did you do it? I tried, and for some reason it didn't take...

[Dollarsign]

I have managed to get this working, however how do I get it to display widescreen youtube videos, high definition videos and hq videos?

I just see a 4:3 box with a shrunken widescreen video inside it, is there anyway to display the widescreen videos?

I tried adding &fmt=22 to the end of the URL but it didn't do anything, thanks for the mod and any help is appreciated!

[ghostpt]

Originally Posted by Dollarsign

I have managed to get this working, however how do I get it to display widescreen youtube videos, high definition videos and hq videos?

I just see a 4:3 box with a shrunken widescreen video inside it, is there anyway to display the widescreen videos?

I tried adding &fmt=22 to the end of the URL but it didn't do anything, thanks for the mod and any help is appreciated!

You have to change the Default Width and Height on AdminCP > AME CP > Settings. I use 858x508, works fine for me.

I really can't remember if I change my Youtube definitions (Admin CP > AME CP > DisplayDefinitions > Youtube) so here it goes:

<object width="$ameinfo[width]" height="$ameinfo[height]">
<param name=''movie'' value="http://www.youtube.com/v/$p1&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1"></param>
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/$p1&ap=%2526fmt%3D18&fs=1&hl=pt-br&fs=1&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="$ameinfo[width]" height="$ameinfo[height]" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>

I'm getting HQ Widescreen on all videos. Hope it helps.