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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[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by odln018

Is there a method where the video can be placed on the left/right/center?

Do you mean in a straight line next to each other, or do you just want to change the alignment? TO change the alignment you just edit the ame_container template.

Originally Posted by odln018

I've just run into an issue where AME somehow breaks internal linking.

Here's another person who's run into the problem: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=298020

I've confirmed this by disabling AME on my forum, and all internal links start to work.

The Internal Linking definition needs to be updated, and I haven't got around to it yet. The Geek posted on in my thread if you want to try his. Just do a search for his posts in the that thread and it should be the most recent one.

[padfoot007]

great app! thankss

[abode]

i have a huge post # over 1000000000
and that may gave me a huge problem to add an index !

[Chadi]

I'm currently using Goldbrick's media mod.

I'd like to install this but have a question:

- can videos be given custom sizes? sometimes I'd like the full HD experience to be displayed

Feature Request:

Jquery implementation (lightbox)
http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/...ightbox-clone/

Thanks.

[Digital Jedi]

Originally Posted by Chadi

I'm currently using Goldbrick's media mod.

I'd like to install this but have a question:

- can videos be given custom sizes? sometimes I'd like the full HD experience to be displayed

Feature Request:

Jquery implementation (lightbox)
http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/...ightbox-clone/

Thanks.

Sizes are set globally, but individual definitions can be edited in the ACP to use their own set size. Definitions, however, are site specific, and that seldom means you can, let's just say for example, have a separate definition for YouTube and YouTube HD. It depends on the site, but in most cases, you'll have standard size for videos from a given site.

[odln018]

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

Do you mean in a straight line next to each other, or do you just want to change the alignment? TO change the alignment you just edit the ame_container template.



The Internal Linking definition needs to be updated, and I haven't got around to it yet. The Geek posted on in my thread if you want to try his. Just do a search for his posts in the that thread and it should be the most recent one.

Ideally, to be able to either left, right or center justify, but I'll look into that template edit.

Thanks for the hint about the IL problem, I'll check that out.

[Big-Pete]

Just lately i've been getting some of the youtube urls change from showing the player to showing the youtube video description, when you go into edit the post the youtube link has the [URL] tag, what would cause this??

[fly]

Originally Posted by flypaper

Actually, it looks like I can delete and modify all definitions from approximately A-C in the list. After that, I can't delete anything. As a test, I turned off the file cache. It did not seem to help.


edit: Just for fun, I turned off file cache, deleted the files in it, and turned the cache back on. It did create new files in there, but it still doesn't work. BTW, I'm using DJ's definitions. When I attempt to delete ALL of them, this is the error I get - apparently these are the only defs that AME "sees".

If anyone cares, this turned out to be a suhosin issue. I'm new to it and missed the required changes for vB

suhosin.post.max_vars = 2048
suhosin.request.max_vars = 2048

[MasterofWorlds]

having problems update my version and now all my new youtube post are not being converted. the link shows only and when i hover over it, i get "External Embedding Not Available"

Any ideas what is going on there?

[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